About
The Lilly Library
The exhibit was on view at the Lilly Library on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington from September 15 through December 18, 2014. This online version of the exhibit went public in June 2015.
Founded in 1960, the Lilly Library is the rare books, manuscripts, and special collections library of the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. Its holdings as of 2014 include approximately 400,000 books and more than 7.5 million manuscripts.
The Lilly Library invites applications for visiting fellowships for research in residence in its collections.
Exhibit Booklet
Download the 28-page booklet available at the exhibit on view at the Lilly Library. The exhibit was presented in 18 thematic display cases of books and maps.
Exhibit Curator
Konstantin Dierks is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University. In 2009 he published In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America with the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently working on a book about the globalization of the United States between the American Revolution and the American Civil War.
Public Lectures
“A Connecting World? Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861”
Thursday, October 9, 2014, at the Lilly Library on the campus of Indiana University
“Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861”
Monday, November 10, 2014, at the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, Indiana
“Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861”
Tuesday, March 9, 2015, at the Lawrence County Museum of History in New Bedford, Indiana
Funding Support
The exhibit was partially funded by the Office of the Vice Provost of Research at Indiana University-Bloomington through the Collaborative Research and Creative Activity Funding Award.
Essential support for the exhibit came from the Lilly Library and from the Wells Library Digital Collection Services.
Project Team
Collaborators
- Konstantin Dierks, Associate Professor of History, principal investigator and exhibit curator
- Michelle Dalmau, Head, Digital Collections Services, Wells Library, Indiana University Libraries
- Erika Dowell, Associate Director and Head of Public Services, Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries
Development and Design
- Laura Pence, Director of Creative Strategy, Media School, Indiana University
- Will Cowan, Head, Software Development, Library Technologies, Indiana University Libraries
- Shaun Akhtar, Metadata Librarian, Dartmouth College Library
- Lynn Carlson, GIS/Systems Manager, Geological Sciences, Brown University
- Bryan Brown, Geospatial Web Developer for Digital Collections Services, Indiana University Libraries
Software Investigation
- Brianna Marshall, Digital Library Research Assistant for Digital Collections Services, Indiana University Libraries
- Shayna Pekala, Graduate Assistant for Digital Collections Services, Indiana University Libraries
- Siobhain Rivera, Graduate Assistant for Digital Collections Services, Indiana University Libraries
Digitization and Metadata
- Zachary Downey, Public Services Assistant, Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries
- Kara Alexander, Digital Media Specialist for Digital Collections Services, Indiana University Libraries
- Caitlyn Smallwood, Digital Imaging Specialist for Digital Collections Services, Indiana University Libraries
- Peggy Griesinger, Graduate Assistant for Digitization, Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries
- Carson Day, Photographer, Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries
Acknowledgements
Konstantin Dierks would like to acknowledge the advice and/or assistance of:
- Scott Weingart, Digital Humanities Specialist, Carnegie Mellon University
- Andrew Cayton, Department of History, Miami University of Ohio
- Max Edelson, Department of History, University of Virginia
- Anna Radue, GIS/Database Specialist, Research Analytics Group, UITS Research Technologies, Indiana University
- Elijah Meeks, Digital Humanities Developer, Stanford University Library
- Jordon Zook, Team Lead, IU Webmaster Support Center
- Daniel Story, graduate student in urban history, Indiana University
- Alexander Montgomery, Team Support Tier 2, IU Webmaster Support Center
Michelle Dalmau would like to acknowledge the advice of:
- Theresa Quill, Social Sciences Data and GIS Librarian, Government Information, Maps and Microform Services, Indiana University Libraries
- Wayne Graham, Head, Research and Development, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library
- David McClure, Web Applications Developer, Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia Library
Globalization of the United States, 1789-1861 by Konstantin Dierks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.