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John M. Lawrence '73 Library

The John M. Page dedicated to fostering community interest about USI's Lawrence Library located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center (0119).

Lawrence '73 Library is home to a global collection holding medieval manuscripts & artifacts and manuscripts from many periods in these languages/cultures: Arabic, English, Europe, French, German, Japanese, Latin, Persia, Sanskrit, and Tibet.

11/29/2022

The Lawrence Library is open today until 4pm and Thursday 1 to 4 pm. Help us eat all our Halloween candy before Christmas!!!

11/10/2022

Not just for Halloween! Come enjoy Federico Castellon's Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy by Edgar Allan Poe.

The Lawrence Library is located on the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center, Room 0119. Open Tuesdays & Thursdays 1-4 pm.

10/31/2022

Celebrate Halloween with Edgar Allan Poe!!!

03/04/2022

How do you protect the treasures of your country in the midst of horrific bombardment by missile strikes? What decisions do you make to save art when your employees and your loved ones are unsafe?

(Know that throughout this article, human life is prioritized over cultural objects, please do not think otherwise.)

The war has curators across Ukraine scrambling in ways familiar to people who managed collections in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.

02/24/2022

Devout & Disciplined: Harmonists in New Harmony, 1814-1824 will be presented in the McCutchan Exhibition Space located in the Wright Administration Building on the campus of the University of Southern Indiana from February 15 through July 15, 2022, between 9 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday, except for Memorial Day and 4th of July.

Address

Liberal Arts Center Rm 0119, University Of Southern Indiana, 8600 University Boulevard
Evansville, IN
47712

Opening Hours

Tuesday	1pm - 4am
Thursday	1pm - 4am

Website

http://www.usi.edu/liberalarts/lawrence-library/

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Our Story

The concept for the Lawrence Library sprang from the friendship of Patricia (Patty) Aakhus and John M. Lawrence. The Library is named for Lawrence, a graduate of USI’s class of 1973 and an international expert and collector of medieval manuscripts, for his generous support of the College of Liberal Arts. John Lawrence donated many items to the Library, including a collection of medieval manuscripts as well as other artifacts, for use as a study collection for students. Patty Aakhus was an associate professor of English and served as the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and program director in International Studies. Aakhus also published three novels based on medieval texts that she studied and translated.

Patricia Aakhus served as the first caretaker of the Lawrence Library. Since her death in 2012, the College of Liberal Arts oversaw the Library until 2018 when Susan Colaricci Sauls, Art Collection Registrar officially took over the management of the space and the collection.

The Lawrence Library prides itself on the student leadership of the space. Each semester there is a Senior Student Archivist and one to two Student Archivists that curate exhibitions, research manuscripts and artifacts, and participate in collections management and care.