Comments Off on BU Founder’s Day event in Irwin Library, Feb. 7

By sneal, January 29, 2013 3:00 pm

Butler University’s Founder’s Day festivities on Feb. 7 will include the unveiling of an archival pigmented print of LINCOLN 200 YEARS, the Abraham Lincoln portrait that hangs in the History Department.

The unveiling ceremony will take place from 12:15-12:45 p.m. in the Irwin Library. It is open to the Butler community.

The event will include remarks by Greg Silver, who donated the original painting in honor of his father, David Silver ‘37, a longtime Butler University professor of history and government, and Melina Fox, the niece five generations removed of Butler University founder Ovid Butler.

Indiana artist James Wille Faust, who painted LINCOLN 200 YEARS in 2010, also will be on hand, and there will be a cake to celebrate the anniversary of Ovid Butler’s birthday.

Greg Silver commissioned Faust to paint a portrait of Lincoln because of the similarities between Ovid Butler and the 16^th president.

-Both were well known as abolitionists – Butler at the state level and Lincoln at the national levei.

-Both were born into families whose religion believed in abolition.

-Both were lawyers, and both came from families that moved to Indiana within a year of each other (Lincoln in 1816, Butler in 1817).

Silver presented LINCOLN 200 YEARS to Butler University on Sept. 23, 2010.

The archival pigmented print—a high-quality computer print used for fine arts printing—will hang in the Irwin Library. It was made so more people would see Faust’s work.

Comments Off on Butler Libraries Present Children’s Book Illustrator Michele Wood

By sneal, January 28, 2013 2:15 pm

Butler Libraries present “I Lay My Stitches Down: An Evening with Children’s Book Illustrator Michele Wood” from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in Irwin Library at Butler University.

Admission is free and open to the public. Call (317) 940-9227 for more information.

Wood, a children’s book author based in Indianapolis, will discuss her recent most work, I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery. Written by Cynthia Grady, the book uses the American folk tradition of quilting as a structural framework. In her illustrations, Wood employs African and American textile patterns and folk art motifs to create a moving witness and beautiful complement to the poetry.

The book has been selected for the New York Public Library’s “Children’s Books 2012: 100 Books for Reading and Sharing” list.

Following the presentation, Wood will sign books, which will be available for sale at the event. Light refreshments will be served.

A painter, illustrator, designer, and writer specializing in rich African symbols, Wood received the American Book Award for her first book, Going Back Home, and the American Library Association’s Coretta Scott King Award for her 1999 work i see the rhythm.

She resides in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood. More information about Wood is available at http://www.michelewood.com/websplash.html.

Comments Off on Butler Librarians work with Shortridge Seniors

By sneal, January 17, 2013 1:30 pm

Butler Librarians are helping Shortridge High School Seniors conduct research for a college-level research paper that is an outgrowth of a service learning project.  For details about the collaboration, visit the Butler Newsroom.

Comments Off on Library Hours for MLK Day, Jan. 19-21

By Laina Ridenour, January 17, 2013 11:38 am

Butler University Libraries will observe modified hours Saturday – Monday, January 19-21 due to the Martin Luther King, Jr.  Holiday.  Regular semester hours will resume on Tuesday, January 22.  For a full listing of upcoming breaks and holdidays, click here: Library Hours

Comments Off on Library Hours for Winter Break

By Laina Ridenour, December 18, 2012 9:33 am

Butler University Libraries will observe the following hours for Winter Break, Dec. 17- Jan.13.   See the library website for a full listing of Spring Semester hours.