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IU Finding Aids: Finding aids are guides and inventories to collections held in archives that provide detailed descriptions of manuscript collections, their intellectual organization and, at varying levels of analysis, of individual items in the collections.

Records and Papers of Herman B Wells: Collections from one of Indiana University's most memorable administrators, Herman B Wells.

Exhibits
Our new location in the Herman B Wells Library affords us exhibit space! Please stop by Wells E460 to see what we have prepared! 

Current exhibits:
"Thomas Hart Benton's Murals Come to Indiana University," Reception area, April 21 through July 31, 2008
As part of the campus-wide anniversary celebration, the Archives will be mounting an exhibit on the historical and controversial Thomas Hart Benton murals acquired by the university during the presidency of Herman B Wells. Further information on the murals and anniversary events can be found at http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/special_exhibitions/benton/index.html.

"Cabinet of Curiosities," Reception area, through May 2008
Come see the peace pipe seniors and juniors smoked at the closing of the school year, the beanies and pods donned by students to mark their affiliations with various groups or dorms, and the Butternut Badges worn by the university's Southern sympathizers during the U.S. Civil War!

"Talk Amongst Ourselves: Literary Societies," Reading room, through May 2008
An IU student of the early to mid-1800s had limited choices in how to spend his free time. As public speaking was considered an essential ingredient to becoming a successful adult, clubs called literary societies sprang up that gave students the opportunity to practice oratory and debate. Stop in to see a selection of the minute books, exhibition programs, and photographs of some of the most popular societies at IU and in town!


Digital Projects 
 Archives of Institutional Memory: AIM is a digital repository for disseminating and preserving official Indiana University records with long-term, indefinite administrative, legal, fiscal or historical value. AIM manages and distributes digital items and allows for indexing and searching of the files and associated metadata to locate and retrieve the items.

IU Board of Trustees Minutes: Cooperative project with the Board of Trustees Office and the Digital Library Program to provide access to a growing number of meeting minutes on the web.

Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection: Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.

Indiana University Web Sites on Archive-It.org: The Indiana University Web Sites collection is an extension of the holdings of the University Archives which is responsible for the appraisal, acquisition, preservation and use of University records of permanent value and the private records of individuals and organizations associated with Indiana University.