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From Indiana University Bloomington:

When a prominent collector of Sherlock Holmes memorabilia was asked to consider Indiana Universitys Lilly Library as a location for his latest exhibition, Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects, the answer was elementary.

The Lilly Library already had a relationship with the collector, Glen Miranker, through a prior Holmes exhibition. The library has its own collection of Holmes artifacts, and it makes its various collections available to the public.

There are natural places for intellectual fervor and curiosity, the presence and respect and appreciation of the written intellectual history of man, Miranker said. Its institutions like IU. Its just a natural place.

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The Lilly Library has a first edition of the first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887; it is one of 23 known surviving copies. Also in its collection are a copy of the first appearance of Holmes in The Strand Magazine; the original, handwritten manuscript for The Adventure of the Red Circle; and first editions of other novels and story collections.

The library is the repository of the archives of the Baker Street Irregulars, also known as the BSI the first literary society to study and honor Holmes and the archives of the Mystery Writers of America, the association for professional crime writers in the U.S.

Also in the Lilly Librarys collection are examples of other Victorian and Edwardian detective characters, Victorian fiction and the London underworld.

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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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