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Construction of a new Indiana State Archives building on Ohio Street across from the State Library will begin in August 2023. Construction will last approximately 2.5 years and will affect street parking. During this time, please park in the Senate Avenue parking garage directly across from the library and bring your ticket in for validation.
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Access state agency publications past and present online, December 26, 2024
The Indiana State Library continues to collect publications created by state agencies. Whether born-digital or digitized from historical copies, there are ways to access them. The Indiana State Library uses Archive-It to preserve copies of born-digital publications that are hosted on the websites of Indiana State Government departments and agencies.
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New prizes coming to the Indiana Library Passport in 2025 as the State Library celebrates 200 years, December 13, 2024
As the Indiana State Library prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025, the Indiana Library Passport is offering new prizes and activities for the new year as part of the festivities. A brand new limited-edition bicentennial celebration mug and a special year-end prize drawing are included in the offerings.
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Save the date! What’s Up Wednesday schedule for 2025, December 12, 2024
The Indiana State Library’s Professional Development Office is excited to tell you about the upcoming What’s Up Wednesday webinar schedule for 2025. We are still finalizing details for some of the webinars but we wanted to share what we do have.
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Interested in pre-made escape room kits starring primary sources? Let us know! June 17, 2024
The Indiana Young Readers Center at the Indiana State Library has been hard at work developing six circulating escape room kits for Indiana librarians and teachers to check out and use with their patrons and students. The kits are not yet ready, but the IYRC is looking for Indiana librarians and teachers who might be interested in testing the kits while they are still in beta form. We are also interested in knowing how many librarians and teachers might be interested in checking out the kits once they are completed in early 2025.
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From the Statehouse to a building of its own - January 26, 2024
The bicentennial of the 1825 legislation, “An Act to establish a State Library,” that created the Indiana State Library will be observed in 2025. Since its beginnings as the office library of the Secretary of State to being housed in rooms within successive statehouses to moving to a temporary location during Statehouse construction to finally becoming its own standalone edifice, the State Library has continued collecting materials, providing information services, adapting to technology and supporting library services for Hoosiers. Prior to the state’s 2016 bicentennial year, I took a brief research dive into “The Hidden History of the Indiana State Library” to find out more about the library’s temporary quarters while Indiana’s statehouse was under construction from 1878 until 1888. Since that dive, more online resources to browse have become available.
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