Indiana University unveiled its new shelving facility and book preservation laboratory with a dedication and naming ceremony on Thursday, October 3 at 4 p.m. Designed to hold more than 2.7 million overflow volumes of the IU Bloomington Libraries, the Auxiliary Library Facility is named for Ruth Lilly, whose early gift of $1 million permitted planning of the facility to go forward.

The new state-of-the-art preservation laboratory, the first of its kind for the IU Bloomington Libraries, provides space and equipment to conserve and protect library collections. Named for an IU Librarian of more than 35 years who made a generous bequest to the IU Libraries, the E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory offers the first-ever opportunity to perform sophisticated preservation treatments on the Libraries’ irreplaceable collections.