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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.
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.
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.
Exhibits
Please stop by Wells E460 to see what we have prepared!
Showalter Fountain: The Venus of Indiana University (Archives reception area)
Located at the center of Indiana University’s Fine Arts Plaza, thousands pass Showalter Fountain on a daily basis, perhaps pausing on a hot summer day to enjoy the cool mist blowing in the breeze. The central focus of the fountain is a sculpture created by Robert Laurent – IU Professor of Sculpture from 1942 until his retirement in 1960 – representing the mythological story of the Birth of Venus. In understanding Laurent and his work, one of his main objectives was to create interaction between people and his sculptures, here creating a certain sense of lightness and humor.
This exhibit draws from the extensive collection of the Indiana University Archives, including early concept drawings for the fountain as a whole by the architects Eggers and Higgins showing a vastly different fountain from what we know today, preparatory drawings by Robert Laurent for the Birth of Venus sculpture itself, as wells as numerous photographs, pamphlets and correspondence relating to the project and its benefactor Grace Showalter.
This exhibit is in collaboration with the Indiana University Art Museum exhibit The Great American Sketchbook: Drawings from the August L. and L. Tommie Freundlich Collection (running from March 27 – May 30, 2010) which also includes a Robert Laurent preparatory drawing for the Birth of Venus.
Curated by intern Bethany Fiechter.
Together with the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, the Archives has created a web site highlighting the tradition of the Old Oaken Bucket!
Digital and Special Projects
IU Bicentennial Oral History Project: Cooperative project with the Office of the President and the Center for the Study of History and Memory to capture oral histories from alumni hailing from all campuses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
