YES! The Vonnegut Memorial Library has announced their hours: Fridays and Saturdays 12-5 p.m. (started on November 26th), and regular hours will begin January 29th, Thursday through Tuesday (closed Wednesdays) from 12-5 p.m.
If you're interested in volunteering (I know I am), contact Volunteer Coordinator Kyle Hopkins via e-mail at kyle@vonnegutlibrary.org. Or donate here. The library will even include a shop, where you can buy your Vonnegut-obsessed friends some holiday gifts. In the meantime, check out this wonderful bibliography, featured on the Vonnegut Library site!
This probably isn't news to many people in the Indianapolis area, but there will be a Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library opening up in downtown Indy, in November. Not only will this library feature the many contributions of the renowned author (and apparently some rejection letters and his typewriter), it will serve as an educational/cultural resource with a reading room, museum, and art gallery. There are even plans to involve local high schools in some educational activities, the first of which will be Shortridge High School (where Vonnegut studied). You can visit the library's website, and 'like' their Facebook page to get updates.
The most recent post of theirs featured a link to a short blog entry on the NYT ArtsBeat. I'm glad that this amazing resource is getting some publicity, and that it will bring more people and positive attention to Indianapolis. I did some poking around, and it seems there is quite the buzz around the library's opening. I found articles in the Huffington Post, Guardian, and Associated Press.
My husband and I were talking about Vonnegut the other day, and he thought it would be amazing to get Vonnegut's signature as a tattoo-I agree! And here is a video I watched recently of a lecture Vonnegut gave entitled, "How to get a job like mine" (the rest is also on YouTube).
Suffice it to say I am ridiculously excited for this library to open, and will be there. YES.
I took this at the Indiana State Library, part of a display on well-known people from the state.
