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Over 120 artists, students, and admirers turned out Sunday, January 21st for the opening reception of Side by Side: VSA arts 2007. The result of a partnership between Kentucky Library & Museum and VSA arts of Kentucky, Side by Side includes eighty-five pieces of art by professional artists, students’ work from VSA arts classes, and collaborative pieces between the professional artists and students.

Photos from opening.

WKU Libraries offers several new electronic journal packages that allow access to impressive numbers of titles for existing or fewer dollars.

Just activated are the following: (1) ACM Digital Library, accessed through ACM Portal. A collection of 19 journals and magazines, 26 transactions, over 85 conference proceedings, SIG newsletters, and the ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature; (2) IEEE Computer Society Magazine Package, providing access to 14 journals (whereas previously we subscribed to 7) and backfiles to 1988. This is a subset of the IEEE Digital Library; and (3) SpringerLink consortial arrangement through ESIG (EPSCoR Scientific Information Group) that gives users access to over 1,200 Springer titles and subsidiary companies, but we pay only for our current titles. 33 titles = 1,200+ titles. Not bad! and many disciplines are covered, such as economics, marketing, psychology, educational leadership, sociology, mathematics.

Additionally, we are adding individual online titles for public health and nursing. Check with your library liaison for more information; search TOPCAT for titles and links or TDNet, our online e-journal management system.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
January 25, 2007

The Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners’ annual One Book-One Campus-One Community project kicked off in the leisure room of the Helm Library on the afternoon of January 25, 2007. Mike Binder, Dean of the Libraries, opened the event and English Professor Marya Waters introduced The Memory Keepers Daughter, the book selected for reading as well as its award-winning author Kim Edwards. Free books were distributed to attendees of the event.

If you happened to have missed the event, you may revisit it through this photo album and listen to the mp3 recording or subscribe to the podcast to listen on the go from the Libraries’ Podcast web site.

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Kick-offs:
January 25 - Helm 100 at 2:00
January 25 - BGPL at 6:00
January 26 - Barnes and Noble at 7:00 p.m.

Discussion:
February 22 - BGPL at 6:00 p.m.

Meet Kim Edwards:
March 1 - Helm 100 at 2:00
March 1 - BGPL 6:00
March 2 - Barnes and Noble at 10:00 a.m.

Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners have chosen the novel, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter for the 2007 One Book project. Written by Kim Edwards, the book has spent months on the New York Times and USA Today best seller lists. Over 1.8 million copies are now in print.

The kick off will take place at 2:00 p.m. on January 25, 2007 at Helm Library, Room 100.
Free coffee will be provided by Java City and free books will be distributed while supplies last.