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The Office of Archives and Records Management at Indiana University Bloomington is a department within the IU Library system. As an archives, the primary mission is to collect, organize, make accessible and preserve records documenting Indiana University's origins and development and the activities and achievements of its officers, faculty, students, alumni and benefactors. The IU Bloomington Archives is the largest and most comprehensive source of information on the history and culture of Indiana University. As the records management office for IU Bloomington offices, schools and departments, and for administrative offices on the IUB campus that have system-wide responsibilities, the primary goal is to provide overall direction for developing and implementing a records management strategy that will effectively and systematically manage records throughout their entire life cycle.
Collections
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!
From Seminary Square to Spanker's Branch and Beyond: Campus Landscape Design at Indiana University
At the 1918 Commencement, featured speaker Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said, "I want to say at the outset that I don't think I have ever been at a more beautiful university commencement than this. I shall always keep in mind this scene here in the open by the University buildings, a university which, in what we are apt to think of as a new nation, is approaching its centenary, here under these great trees, these maples and beeches, that have survived over from the primeval forest...it is a sight I shall never forget; it will always be with me..." While the campus as we know it today looks quite different from what it did in 1918, much of the natural beauty of the campus landscape has been retained over the decades through the ever evolving collaborative effort of numerous creative minds. The vision began in October 1883, when the campus Building Committee walked the grounds of the new campus to select the site for the first classroom building, and in the following decades included the plans of designers such as George E. Kessler of Kansas City, the Olmsted Brothers firm of Brookline, Massachusetts, and others. Most recently, in February 2009 the Board of Trustees approved a 20-year development plan for the university submitted by SmithGroup/JJR based out of Washington D.C. Drawn from the collections of the Indiana University Archives, this exhibit includes architectural plans, correspondence, and photographs.
Together with the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, the Archives has a new web site highlighting the tradition of the Old Oaken Bucket!
Digital Projects
Bloomington Faculty Council Minutes: Cooperative project with the Digital Library Program and Faculty Council Office to provide full-text searchable web access to a growing number of meeting minutes and circulars of the BFC, which is responsible for faculty governance on the Bloomington campus.
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.
