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Celebrating the Present, Looking Toward the Future University Libraries 2013 olio fall f Celebrating the present, looking toward the future Libraries are unique entities on college campuses. They are charged to serve the entire campus community, but have no alumni. I’m happy to report that even though we may not have graduates connected directly to us, Ohio State’s libraries have been blessed with thousands of supporters. Their generosity enables us to build one of the best academic library systems in the country. Last month, our Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) moved into its beautiful new home in the renovated Sullivant Hall. Thanks to the support of our donors, BICLM is now in a facility worthy of the world’s largest collection of cartoon art and comics material. We look forward to welcoming many new visitors to this dynamic place, located in the university’s arts district. We are deeply appreciative of a gift from the late alumna Ann La Fontaine. Ann, a member of the class of 1937, left the libraries a gift of more than $1.6 million—a legacy that will be a continuing benefit to University Libraries and the students and faculty we serve. Ohio State Women & Philanthropy recently honored the Libraries with a $25,000 grant in support of new technologies for enhancing graduate research. The grant will support our work in creating the university’s first research commons—an initiative you will learn more about in the months ahead. On a personal note, I am honored to be serving the university in an expanded capacity, with an additional appointment as vice provost added to my role as director of libraries. I look forward to applying my experiences to administrative functions in the Office of Academic Affairs. I’m also looking forward to assuming the presidency of the The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library Association of Research Libraries (ARL) this October. ARL is a & Museum (Renderings by George Acock) nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries at comprehensive, research-intensive institutions in the U.S. and Canada that share similar research missions, aspirations, and achievements. I’ll be welcoming my colleagues to the ARL annual meeting we will be hosting at Ohio State in the spring of 2014. My thanks for all you do to support the success of University Libraries. I’m looking forward to sharing more successes with you as we continue implementing our strategic plan. Carol Pitts Diedrichs Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Cartoon Library Opens in Renovated Sullivant Hall The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) has reopened in its beautiful new home in Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High Street. The “Library” portion of BICLM opened for business on September 16. The “Museum” portion of the operation, including the three exhibit galleries, will open during the Grand Opening Festival of Cartoon Art, November 14-17. Established in 1977 with a founding gift of the Milton Caniff Collection, BICLM Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Entrance was originally housed in two converted classrooms in Ohio State’s Journalism Building. Now the world’s largest collection of cartoon art and comics material, BICLM includes more than 30,000 square feet of space, housing new exhibition galleries that will allow more of the Library’s massive collection to be displayed and made accessible to the public. Art Galleries’ Lobby BICLM Curator Jenny Robb was enthusiastic about the opportunities the new location offered. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum “The new facility will increase our visibility, cartoons.osu.edu 2 help us engage new audiences and allow 614-292-0538 us to expand our programming,” Robb 1813 N. High St. said. “We are also pleased we are able Columbus, OH 43210 to offer extended hours so the public has Lucy Shelton Caswell Reading Room more opportunity to see and study the collection.” BICLM will now be open on Sundays from 1 - 5 p.m., in addition to weekday hours of Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Arts District The new space includes: • A new reading room offering researchers and students access to Cartoon’s rare and Sullivant Hall and unique materials. • A classroom with state-of-the-art audio The College of Arts and Sciences is in the midst of a comprehensive plan to visual equipment for innovative invigorate the arts on campus by making significant improvements to its arts workshops, seminars, presentations, and facilities. A vibrant Arts District is emerging near 15th Avenue and High Street, other educational programming. positioning the arts as the “front door” to the university, and its public face. This • Larger spaces for collection processing, endeavor integrates the arts, bringing artists, dancers, musicians, designers, digital imaging and collection storage. and multi-media artists together, creating unprecedented opportunities for col- • A museum with three galleries designed laboration and interdisciplinary artistic energy. There also are major renovations for exhibiting cartoon and comic art. underway to arts facilities in this area of campus. The Cartoon Library & Museum now One of the most visible is the major transformation of Sullivant Hall –the corner- houses more than 300,000 original stone of the Arts District. The three-story Neo Classical Revival building, which cartoons, 45,000 books, 67,000 serials, dates back to 1912, is being completely reconstructed and refigured through a 3,000 linear feet of manuscript materials, two-year project that is creating more visibility and better spaces for students. and 2.5 million comic strip clippings and newspaper pages. Outstanding new spaces are being created in Sullivant Hall for Ohio State’s highly rated Department of Dance; Department of Arts Administration, Educa- Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Carol tion and Policy; Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD); Pitts Diedrichs thanked the many donors the new Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise; who stepped forward in support of the the Barnett Theatre; and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. project over the past several years. The east and west entrances of Sullivant Hall have been re-graded to street “The generosity of our donors to fund the level, creating a more open, inviting and accessible presence. new home for the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum enables us to provide Construction will be completed this fall, and all departments and centers will be outstanding research opportunities for moved in by early 2014, according to Mark Shanda, divisional dean, Arts and scholars and students for decades to Humanities. come,” Diedrichs said. BICLM opening exhibits, Billy Ireland on display beginning The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Mu- seum is named after the man declared the November 16 “First Citizen of Columbus” in 1928. Billy Ireland was born in Chillicothe, Ohio Treasures from the Collections of the on January 8, 1880. The self-taught artist graduated from high school and came to Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Columbus in 1898. He was hired as a car- The Treasures Gallery features a permanent exhibit toonist for the Columbus Dispatch, where of art and artifacts that celebrates the breadth and he drew editorial cartoons and spot draw- diversity of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. ings. The Dispatch was purchased in 1905 Original artwork for Dick Tracy, Peanuts, Calvin and by Robert F. and Harry P. Wolfe, and the Hobbes, Bone and other favorites is shown as well as young cartoonist became close personal editorial cartoons, magazine cartoons, comic books, friends with the two. animation and a variety of published materials. Visitors are invited to open drawers to discover a sketchbook Newspaper cartoonists at the turn of the by British artist James Gillray or a Little Orphan Annie 20th century were expected to draw decoder badge from the 1930s. The Treasures Gallery everything from reportorial courtroom has something for everyone to enjoy. drawings to illustrations for theatre and dance reviews. Ireland drew several car- Materials in the Gallery will be changed for toons about current events in Columbus preservation reasons. Occasionally items are lent to and grouped them under the title “The other institutions for exhibition. If you wish to be sure Passing Show.” The first full-page drawing Jim Borgman. Cradle of Comic Strips. Ohio Magazine, using this title was published on that a particular item is on display, please check in September 1994. Jim Borgman Collection. advance. February 9, 1908. Ireland continued drawing “The Passing Show”--in addition to as many as seven editorial cartoons per Substance and Shadow: The Art of the Cartoon week—until his untimely death from heart (through March 2, 2014) disease on May 29, 1935. A cartoon is a unique combination of “The Passing Show” can best be under- words and pictures that can tell a story, stood as an illustrated column in which state an opinion or make people laugh. Ireland covered whatever caught his fancy. “Substance and Shadow,” John Leech’s He drew about subjects from bob haircuts famous Cartoon No. 1 published in Punch to Anna Pavlova dancing at the Southern magazine on July 15, 1843, is widely Theatre—to more serious topics such as considered to be the first modern use flood control, school bond issues and of the term. Cartoonists have mastered city governance. The power of Ireland’s an almost limitless vocabulary of graphic 3 work was rooted in his identification with expression to entertain and enlighten and understanding of the ordinary. He their audiences but the creative process never lost his pleasure of everyday events is still a mystery to most readers. This shared with everyday people. He endorsed exhibition will showcase original art from local causes, was an early supporter of the collection of the Billy Ireland Cartoon women’s suffrage and was passionate Library and Museum which dramatically about environmental causes.
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