Daily Archives: October 6, 2010

American Association of Petroleum Geologists

WKU alum William Drost has generously donated to WKU Libraries perpetual use of the databases of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Users can search the following subcollections:

  AAPG Bulletin
  AAPG Special Volumes
  Canada Group
  Eastern USA
  Gulf Coast Group (USA)
  Journal of Petroleum Geology
  Journal of Sedimentary Research
  Midcontinent Group (USA)
  Pacific & Asia Group
  Rocky Mountain Group (USA)
  Search and Discovery
  South & Central America
  Southwestern Group (USA)
  The Society for Organic Petrology
  West Coast Group (USA)

The collection can be accessed directly or through our databases page. If off campus, be sure to log in through our databases page.

Thank you, William Drost, for making this resource available to the WKU community.

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American Founding Era Collection

WKU Libraries is happy to announce the acquisition of the new online resource the American Founding Era Collection. This collection features thousands of digital primary documents about key figures in America’s beginnings. The collection includes:

The collection can be accessed on campus directly from here, or off campus by logging into our proxy server from our databases page.

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Scrapbooks in Special Collections (Kentucky Library)

Today, scrapbooking is a popular pastime but fortunately for historians and genealogists, this activity is not new. Many early scrap bookers were also genealogists and through their scrapbooking activities, they preserved not only a part of their life, but left a legacy of their family’s history. Many of the scrapbooks in our collections contain such diverse items as photographs, correspondence, telegrams, tickets, obituaries, booklets, programs, correspondence and newspaper photographs and clippings, certificates, telegrams, narratives, bills of undertakers, promotional notices, grade and postcards.
One scrapbook donated by Mary Vogel contained a hand written 1851 genealogical chart for Johannes Volpert who was born in Germany in 1795. Though the chart is written in German, there is a note on the chart in English “this was given me by the Priest in my mother’s home, I was in the house where she was born, in the church where my grandparents were married…”
These wonderful time capsules show that with care and consideration genealogy and family history can very easily incorporated into today’s scrapbooking to create lasting legacies.Johannes Volpert Genealogical Chart

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Java City Noon concerts continue with the return of Dewveall

dewvall

Alt-country, folk duo from Texas via Nashville returns to WKU on October 6 at noon.  Come out to Java City in Helm for a little afternoon music. It’s  beautiful Fall day for some music before heading off on Fall Break.  Thanks to Independence Bank for their sponsorship.

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BG rock band Liberation performed at Java City

Liberation at Java City

A happy crowd enjoyed the sounds of BG band Liberation last Tuesday on the patio outside Java City.  Though billed as Bowling Green’s premier nightclub rock band, they demonstrated they were alot more than that.  Thanks to Independence Bank for their continued sponsorship.

More Liberation photos

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