Author Archives: Connie Foster

by | October 13, 2006 · 9:11 am

Journey through north-eastern Texas

Is this a national travel opportunity? No, “Account of a journey through north-eastern Texas, undertaken in 1849 …” is one of 2,879 bibliographic records that have just been added to TOPCAT. These records will help faculty and students research special microform collections in the Kentucky Library. The two sets of collections are The Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library and Travels in the West and Southwest.With increased title, and subject access, we hope that information access will be greatly enhanced and open up materials from 1835-1863 and from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s. Biographies, journals, campaign literature, sermons, traveler observations, and much more–what an exciting way to take a trip!

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
October 12, 2006

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by | · 9:10 am

Feminist Teacher now online

Feminist Teacher is now available online with volumes 15 and 16 currently posted. Future issues will be archived as they are published. Additional back issues will be added in the future. This title can be accessed through TOPCAT with a link or through TDNet, our electronic journal management system which has over 28,000 titles.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
October 11, 2006

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by | September 6, 2006 · 3:27 pm

Library Acquires Videos from Online Media Library in Academic Technology

Over the summer the WKU Libraries acquired all of the videos from Academic Technology in Tate Page Hall (referred to as Online Media Library, or way back as Third District Film Library). We are in the process of adding these titles to our collection. The videotapes are frequently requested, and we have made arrangements for additional staffing to expedite assimilating the titles into the Main Library collection.

If you need one that is not currently available via TOPCAT through normal check-out procedures at the Circulation Desk, we would appreciate having at least 48 hours’ notice so that we can process the video and any supporting materials for class use. We can locate with the identification number used by Academic Technology to speed the process and make these media readily available. We know that many titles are heavily used and that faculty depend on these for enhancing classroom instruction.

The Circulation Desk can take the requested video number and we will work with them to process it for you.

Thanks for your understanding and help in this transition.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
September 6, 2006

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by | February 7, 2006 · 2:01 pm

Electronic Resources: How They Do Grow!

We are adding access to an increasing number of electronic resources each day for many disciplines. Our primary management is through TDNet, but don’t forget TOPCAT for links also. “Check out” Learning through History, Environment and Planning (A and B), Geocarto International, limited online articles for Liberal Education and Peer Review (ASCU publications), Families in Society, Affilia, Journal of School Nursing, and Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. A new database is Family & Society Studies Worldwide, which absorbed Family Index recently. . .and more on the way!
In TOPCAT alone, we have over 12,000 bibliographic records with links to electronic journals (thanks to WKU’s participation in a pilot project) and in TDNet, access to full text or citation/abstract level to over 26,000 titles! So whatever your major, whatever your research project or short paper, you should find relevant information through WKU Libraries!
We also have print copies of many of these titles, so come to Helm 2 or link from your computer. Either way, library resources are at your fingertips!

Just added: online access to International Abstracts of Human Resources. This is also a print index and continues the title: Personnel Management Abstracts. Covers management, human resources, and personnel topics.

Connie Foster, Head
Dept. of Library Technical Services
Submitted 7 February 2006

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by | December 14, 2005 · 3:20 pm

New to Us; Older Cave Materials

A recent gift from the National Speological Society landed us several cave-related titles for the library collections. Although scattered issues, here are titles worth further exploration: Capital area cavers bulletin, Southeast caver, newsletter of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies (which we had tried unsuccessfully to obtain a few years ago), SERA cave carnival, and, closer to home, some annual reports of the Cave Research Foundation.

Just check TOPCAT for location and exact holdings information. WKU’s renowned Hoffman Institute was definitely a factor in NSS sending these gifts to us.

Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
December 12, 2005

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