Charles Napier is pictured here as Captain Striker in 1984, click on the image to visit the official Charles Napier website, which includes images of his watercolor paintings.
Charles Napier, a Scottsville native and WKU alumnus, is the tough military officer/ cop/cowboy that was the bad guy on everything you saw in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The list of his acting credits is extensive and much too long to include, here, but please check it out on imdb.com. Continue reading
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Happy New Year! Here is a glimpse back as we continue to speed forward through the 21st century. For more, visit TopScholar and choose a year from the drop down box. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/
25 Years Ago – Talisman 1990
50 Years Ago – 1965 Talisman
75 Years Ago – 1940 Talisman
100 Years Ago – 1915 Vista
Post written by WKU Archives Assistant April McCauley.
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Board of Regents Meeting 12/1939
College Heights Herald 12/1954
Commencement 12/2014
Elevator 12/1914
Hill Talk 3/1984
Home Economics Video, 1972
Modern Languages, Administration File Collection Inventory
Unidentified Students, help us identify students
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This year the WKU Archives Elves have been quite good. We have digitized over 3500 images, scrapbooks, audiotapes, videotapes, posters, student newspapers, newsletters, programs, and other types of documents and described over 400 record groups and answered over 400 reference requests.
And all we want for Christmas (in addition to our two front teeth) is:
So Santa, baby, hurry down the chimney and leave us some goodies for the collections.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
XOXO
WKU Archives Elves
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This is just one of the many 2-inch quadruplex videotapes housed in WKU Archives. These tapes were first created for use in television production in 1956. Quads were phased out in the early-1980s and replaced by smaller videotapes. WKU no longer owns playback equipment for these tapes.
WKYU-TV recorded many programs using quad tapes that are being digitized through a $7500.00 WKU Libraries grant. In September 59 quad tapes were shipped to Transfer Media in Indianapolis for digitization to DVD. The first shipment of DVDs arrived at the Kentucky Building this week.
Theses titles are now available to researchers, some are available on TopScholar and on the WKU Library Special Collections YouTube channel.
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Leo Burmester “steals the show” with a belly dance in South Pacific, 1966/1967
This photo from 1957-1958 shows women looking at a Western Players scrapbook, now in our collections, that was already 23 years old. It is now 80 years old.
These fifty newly conserved and processed scrapbooks document theatre productions and other activities of Russell H. Miller and the Western Players from 1934 to 1969 and the Summer Players from 1956 to 1968. These scrapbooks include newspaper clippings, programs, tickets, greeting cards, correspondence, and many, many photographs.
Corky McCormick shows off his guns in Picnic, 1959-1960
The intended topics of the scrapbooks include the Players as a student organization, the players as students and actors, theatre productions, Bowling Green Community Theatre, oratorical and speech contests, debate team competitions (Miller was their coach for several years), regional theatre productions, and similar activities. However, the scrapbooks are also informative on changing fashions, costuming, perceptions of minorities (Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, French, the aged, and the disabled), set design, gender roles, and a variety of other topics. Continue reading
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In honor of Archives Month all of this month’s items relate to agriculture
Ag Outlook Optimistic for Kentucky
Agricultural Exposition Center
Agriculture Collection Inventory
College Heights Herald 2/17/1983
Memo Re: Agriculture Department
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There are days in the archives that I feel like Dug the talking Dog from the movie Up. I’m sitting at my desk working and all of a sudden . . . SQUIRREL!
It’s not that I’m easily distracted. It is the nature of archival work that processing a collection of departmental papers may lead to the identification of a photograph. Once I open that file cabinet to get the folder of photographs, I see there are 4 or 5 folders for that particular department and I am all of a sudden processing photographs. Which in turn may lead to the prep work to have the unidentified images digitized. Continue reading
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Open Access
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition coordinates the annual International Open Access Week. This year’s theme is Generation Open, that is to say the focus is upon student and early career researchers. In keeping with the theme, WKU Libraries is focusing upon our student researchers past and present.
We make access to student research projects and creative activities available by posting them on TopSHOLAR which went live in 2007. Since that time works by students have been downloaded over 487,000 times. Continue reading
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