Throughout October, the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries will celebrate their fifth annual “Archives and Special Collections Month” as a means of highlighting the many ways that archives and special collections enrich our lives. This year’s theme focuses on IU’s College of Arts and Sciences Themester celebration, “Sustainability: Thriving on a Small Planet.”

To highlight the Libraries’ sustainability efforts, the IUB special collection units have organized a series of presentations that will describe various projects designed to preserve digital content in a variety of formats. Included are sessions outlining efforts to preserve:

• born digital records created by government and universities;
• more than half a million audio, video, and film recordings on the IUB campus;
• digital output of IU’s faculty; and
• countless communications created on social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, newspaper comment forums, etc.

In addition, the celebration will include a session on preserving home videos and film, a tour of the state-of- the-art Auxiliary Library Facility (ALF), and four exhibits at campus special collections exploring issues relating to sustainability in different contexts.

For more info, go to the Archives and Special Collections Month page.