Views around the building

Presidents Hall is set up for an event:

Sometimes it is a reading room. Sometimes there are lectures there. Sometimes they have meals and other sort of events. Up on the wall there are oil paintings of each of IU’s presidents. It’s a neat space.

Oh, thank goodness someone thought to post a sign:

I walked by one of the student archival projects the other day. An April 3rd, 1939 edition of the New York World Telegram was about to go in the scanner. Al Capone, the TVA and the war dominated the front page. (Roy Howard’s byline is why this paper was being scanned.)

The Roy Howard archive is at IU, and that’s what this effort is all about. Here’s the next story in her To Scan pile:

Tonight:

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