This past year, our librarians updated our research guide to games and gaming, added several new titles in tabletop role-playing games, and cataloged our Magic: The Gathering research collection. Games Studies Though IU has no program solely dedicated to games studies, this interdisciplinary field welcomes research from computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, historians, and more. […]

These days research libraries collect all sorts of things you might be surprised to find in a library. If you think that its all scholarly books, journals, and online databases, you are missing some of the most fascinating things the library has gathered for you. To wit, a collection of Chicano Movement Political Pin Buttons […]

Heather Sloan, DMA, MLS, Public Services and Outreach Archivist, Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) As with other collections that are jewels in IU Libraries’ crown, awareness of the Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) can be surprisingly spotty. An archive of international renown, it is nonetheless fairly common upon mentioning the ATM, its contents, and its […]

Area Studies librarians—those of us who work not in specific academic subjects, but with an interdisciplinary focus on a particular world region—are burdened with questions of capacity and choice, inclusion and omission, and the idea that we have to create a microcosm of our area (itself a contested notion) to exist in a completely different […]

New books provide LGBT information about Turkish culture and society, which are of interest to academic disciplines such as gender studies, sociology, anthropology, and more.

Monique Threatt, Head of IUB Libraries Media Services, invited guest blogger Oliver Brafield—a passionate enthusiast of Hindi Cinema—to share his insights in this blog post. The private collection of renowned author and documentary film-maker Nasreen Munni Kabir is now available for IU Bloomington faculty, staff, and students to view online in a resource called Hindi […]