Fall 2011 Hours
Architecture Library
Mon.Thurs.
7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.
Friday
7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday
1-10 p.m.
Visual Resources
Collection (VRC)
Mon.-Fri.
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sat.-Sun.
Closed
Drawings + Documents
Archive
Mon.Thurs.
9 a.m.-12 p.m.
1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Friday
By appointment
Sat.-Sun.
Closed
Volume 7, Issue 1
November 2011
News from the Library / News from the Archive
This has been another busy semester
here in the Architecture Library. As always,
there are many instruction sessions for
students in the fall (see below), we continue
to receive new materials all the time (see
page 2), and the VRC hosted another
round of Materials Talks at Lunch with
representatives from manufacturers of
sustainable or innovative materials.
If you have requests or ideas about
new materials, instruction sessions, the
materials talks, or any of our other
endeavors please feel free to drop by or
contact us. We are planning for spring
semester and welcome your
input!
The Drawings and Documents Archive
doesn’t usually make it into the 5 o’clock news
broadcast, but it did get a mention this past
month over the demolition of a building for
which we have the drawings in our collection.
You can find the full story on the back page of
this newsletter or at our blog, http://
ddarchive.blogspot.com/. An event like this
underscores the need to preserve our
architectural historical documents, as well as
inform and encourage our students–who will
be our future architects, landscape architects,
preservationists, and planners–to utilize
archival architectural resources available to
them. They may not need
them right now, but they
likely will in the future.
Library Staff
Architecture Library Featured in Library Insider
Amy Trendler
Architecture Librarian
AETrendler@bsu.edu
765-285-5858
The Architecture Library was front
page news in the October issue of the
University Libraries newsletter, Library
Insider. The article, “Architecture Library
Instruction Sessions Tailored to Classes,
Projects” focused on the variety of
instruction sessions designed for students at
all levels, from first year to graduate
students, and in all the fields of study
supported by the library: architecture,
landscape architecture, urban planning and
historic preservation. Read the full article
online at: http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/
virtualpress/libinsider/libinsiderv9i10.pdf
Helen Ulrich
Architecture Library
Coordinator
HUlrich@bsu.edu
765-285-5857
Cindy Turner
Visual Resources Curator
01LKTurner@bsu.edu
765-285-5865
Archive Staff
Carol Street
Archivist for
Architectural Records
CAStreet@bsu.edu
765-285-8441
If you would like to arrange a library
instruction session for a course, contact
Architecture Librarian Amy Trendler,
AETrendler@bsu.edu.
Banner image credit: Arc de Triomphe, Paris, photo by David R. Hermansen. Architecture Images
Collection in the DMR, http://libx.bsu.edu.
New in the Architecture Library
Question: What’s new in the Architecture Library?
Answer: We’re getting new items all the time!
Dozens of new books, videos, and
periodical issues arrive in the
Architecture Library each month
and there are several options for
discovering them. Visit the library
and you’ll find our new items on
display. Visit the Architecture
Library’s subject guides online (see
below) and you’ll find databases
and links to online periodicals and
other electronic resources.
Another option: Watch your inboxes for the monthly
email featuring the “New in the Architecture Library” list,
which offers more details on the books and videos that have
arrived in the last month. There’s also a link to each item in
CardCat, making it is easy to check and see if the item is
available and place a hold on it.
The “New in the Architecture Library List” is also available
on these library subject guides:
Architecture
http://bsu.libguides.com/arch
Landscape Architecture
http://bsu.libguides.com/la
Urban Planning
http://bsu.libguides.com/plan
Historic Preservation
http://bsu.libguides.com/hpres
Resource Spotlight on: BuildingGreen.com
 High-performance building case studies
 Environmental Building News
 GreenSpec directory of building products
For full access to the site, access BuildingGreen.com using
the links from a library website such as:
 Architecture library subject guide,
on the Find Articles tab
http://bsu.libguides.com/arch
 Landscape Architecture library subject guide,
on the Find Articles tab
http://bsu.libguides.com/la
 University Libraries Articles & Databases page
Architecture Library / Drawings + Documents Archive
Archival Drawings Identify
Historic Tennis Shelter
By Carol Street, Archivist for Architectural Records
In an effort to
beautify the city, the
Indianapolis Parks
Department recently
demolished the
Modernist tennis
shelter at Tarkington
Park, citing that they
had no idea who built
it. Without the
Tarkington Tennis Shelter architectural
drawing in our
rendering, 1957, photographic negative,
collection that
Drawings + Documents Archive, Archives
and Special Collections, Ball State University identifies it as an
Edward PierreLibraries.
designed structure
built in 1957, very few residents would have known its history
and felt compelled to speak out against its demolition. News
outlets have picked up on the story and it also garnered a
mention in the latest mayoral debates. The debate as to
whether it should have been torn down in the first place
continues to gather momentum.
Currently, some architects and residents are calling for a
rebuild of the structure and they plan to utilize the Archive’s
drawing in the proposal to the city. There is now a Rebuild the
Tarkington Park Tennis Shelter Facebook page dedicated to
this grass-roots effort to rebuild.
Indianapolis Parks claim they had no idea of the building’s
heritage, although the drawing has been digitized and is easily
available online in the University Libraries’ Digital Media
Repository. Basic,
rudimentary
research skills
would have
uncovered this
archived drawing.
This
unfortunate and
avoidable event is Tarkington Tennis Shelter, 2011.
a teaching
Photograph courtesy of Vess von Ruhtenberg.
opportunity to tell
your students about the archives and encourage them to visit, if
only to see what kinds of primary resource materials are
available to them in an archive. To schedule a class visit,
contact Carol Street, archivist for architectural records, at
CAStreet@bsu.edu or 5-8441.
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