The winners of the Library Open House and Duck Drop are below. Congratulations! Winners can come to the Irwin Library Circulation Desk to retrieve their prizes. Thanks again to all who participated in the Open House and Duck Drop – we had 739 people walk through our doors on Saturday to participate in the festivities!
Circulation Gift Basket: Brian Brennan
Info Commons Gift Basket: Melanie Shronts
Duck Drop Grand Prize Barnes & Noble Nook: Keiffer Williams
Duck Drop 2nd Prize Gift Basket: Paxton Schowe
Butler Libraries 2012 Open House and Duck Drop was a success! Thanks, students, for doing the Duck Drop!
The Theta of Indiana Butler PBK Chapter initiated thirty-six seniors/juniors on Saturday, April 14 at Irwin Library. Distinguished alumni Mark Kurlansky, ’71 was also initiated into the Chapter. Congratulations to Butler’s new PBK members!
This Saturday, the Theta of Indiana Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be initiating the 2012 PBK class and alumni. The event will be held in Irwin Library’s Collaborative Learning Space. Coffee and pastries will be available beginning at 9:00 am with the ceremony starting at 10:00 am. Here is a listing of this year’s honorees:
Alumni
Mark Kurlansky ’70, journalist/writer
Students
Carla Black
Allison Brave
Kristin Briscoe
Stephanie Cheuvront
Melanie Clark
Rachel Colby
Meg Cychosz
Maddie Eckrich
Elizabeth Erb
Joshua Ferguson
Christine Fisher
Dan French
Kala Ghooray
Brian Gross
Katie Hammitt
Lauren Hodge
Connor Hofmeister
Brittany Jordan
Jordan Kirkegaard
Laura Kirkham
Dan Kroupa
Emily Lazar
Toni Maraldo
Angela Miller
Matt Miller
Ashley Neiweem
Sara Pruzin
Mary Sekela
Avery Stearman
Hannah Sutton
Christy Tatara
Patrick Thevenow
Shelbe Tillman
Ben Trefilek
Emily Welter
Hannah Wysong
For more information about Theta of Indiana, visit the Butler PBK website: http://www.butler.edu/phi-beta-kappa/.
Under the leadership of Sheridan Stormes, Music & Fine Arts Librarian, and Scott Pfitzinger, Information Commons and Technology Librarian, Butler Libraries is participating in the Sheet Music Consortium Project. The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.
The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Harvested metadata about sheet music in participating collections is hosted by UCLA Digital Library Program, which provides an access service via this metadata to sheet music records at the host libraries. Data providers have chosen to catalog their sheet music in different ways, but a large proportion of the original sheets in participating collections has been digitized, allowing users direct access to the music itself and in many cases covers and advertisements that offer evidence of the cultural context in which the songs were published. (Sheet Music Consortium, About page)
Librarians Stormes and Pfitzinger supervise and direct Student Information Commons Assistants/Associates in organizing and delineating the sheet music identification data. For the Information Commons students, this work helps students understand the nomenclature and categorizing of music materials and introduces them to the value of metadata in searching.
Visit the Sheet Music Consortium Project to find more information about this initiative.
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