The poster exhibit, sponsored by University Libraries and the WKU Political Engagement Project celebrates those activists and ideas that have made changes in the areas of civil rights and world peace. Dr. Saundra Ardrey was interviewed by Amy Bingham DeCesare, Coordinator/Broadcast Services, WKU Office of Media Relations on the poster exhibit and the events surrounding “Debate Watch.” for WBKO’s “View From The Hill” program which will air on Thursday October 9th.
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Exhibit of Activism in Helm Library
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Nashville Artists Performing at Java City
Seventeen year old, Nashville singing sensation, Avery Hovey accompanied by Nashville veteran musician and producer Jerry Webb performed country and rock standards as well as their original songs in Java City. Ms Hovey was warmly received by the crowd in Java City and will certainly be asked back for a repeat performance.
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Political Activism Exhibit from the KY Museum
To add to Saundra’s e-mail about “Get on the Bus,” I would like to especially bring your attention to the new permanent online exhibit, “Get on the Bus: Forty Years of Political Activism, 1968-2008.”
Suellyn Lathrop, University Archivist and Records Manager of WKU, aided by many others from the Kentucky Library & Museum, worked many hours to create this unique product that reveals a glimpse of forty years of political activism at WKU emphasizing the political activism of our students, faculty, staff and administration on campus and beyond.
In this extraordinary online exhibit, major categories of the university’s political engagement are noted, including:
- Civil Rights/Busing/Racial Equality
- Gay Rights/AIDS
- Politics
- Women’s Rights/Abortion
- War/Peace
- Timeline – 1968-1987
- Timeline – 1988-2008 (up to tonights’ debate, John McCain v. Barack Obama)
Check it out at http://www.wku.edu/Library/dlsc/ua/bus.htm.
Michael B. Binder, Dean of Libraries
Western Kentucky University
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Yuan Led U.S. Delegation to China
Haiwang Yuan of WKU Libraries led a Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) delegation to China as a member of the Association’s Board of Directors. The delegation included James Rettig, President of the American Library Association; Robert Fernekes from the Zach S. Henderson Library of Georgia Southern University; Liana Hong Zhou, Director of the Kinsey Institute Library, Indiana University; Xueming Bao from the Seton Hall University Library; and Hong Miao from the Marywood University Library. James Rettig’s wife Monica Rettig was also among the delegates.
The event, named “The 2008 Sino-U.S. Forum on Library Practices,†was part of CALA’s 21st Century Librarian Seminar Series started in 2006. From July 11-13, this year’s forum took place at the Yunnan Dianchi Lake and Hot Spring Hotel in Kunming. The Forum was co-sponsored by CALA and the Yunnan Province Library Work Commission and was organized by the Yunnan University of Science and Technology Library.
About 200 librarians from over 50 institutions in China attended the Forum, including Beijing University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Tongji University, East China University of Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan Normal University, and Yunnan University.
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