Author Archives: Haiwang Yuan

Nancy Richey, Associate Professor of WKU Libraries’ Department of Library Special Collections, spoke at WKU’s Owensboro Regional Campus on the evening of Monday, October 17, 2016 on her new book  Mose Rager: Kentucky’s Incomparable Guitarist, which she had coauthored with the late retired WKU history professor Carlton Jackson. Mose Rager was a guitarist famed for his unique thumbing style.

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The faculty of WKU Libraries’ Department of Library Public Services had its first meeting of the fall semester 2015 at the Barren River State Resort Park, Kentucky on August 18. Retired professors joined their lunch. Together they had a group photo made against the beautiful setting of the tree-shadowed lake.

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Brent Fisk, a circulation and information assistant from WKU’s Visual and Performing Arts Library and his wife Holly Hedden, a former library assisant of the WKU Libraries’ Educational Resources Center and now reference and technical services manager from the Warren County Public Library in Bowling Green, KY have made a trip to several of the significant cities in Italy including Rome, Florence, and Naples. On the morning of Tuesday, March 24, 2015, he shared their trip with his colleagues of the WKU Libraries in Cravens 111. His presentation was part of the Libraries’ “We’ve Been Everywhere” speaker series designed for library employees to share their world trip experiences with their peers in line with the university’s goal of building it into one of international reach.

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Sean Kinder gives a presentation on his book about actress Una Merkel.

Sean Kinder, Associate Professor and Humanities Librarian from the Department of Library Public Services of WKU, gave a presentation on his to-be-published book Una Merkel: Actress with Saucy Wit and Southern Charm to his colleagues in Helm 100 on the morning of April 29, 2014. This was part of the WKU Libraries’ “We’ve Been Everywhere” program featuring its faculty and staff traveling outside Bowling Green, KY to do their research.

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WKU Libraries’ professor and web coordinator Haiwang Yuan received WKU’s 2012 RCAP grant and fall 2013 sabbatical, with which he embarked on a research trip to Tibet, the so-called “Roof of the World” for his book project Tibet Folktales in May 2013.

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, he shared his adventurous trip with his library colleagues. His presentation drew a large crowd. The audience savored the Tibetan butter tea, tsampa (a kind of bread), and meat pie he had fixed. His book is going to be published in the spring of 2014 by ABC-CLIO. The book not only contains an overview of Tibetan history and culture, but also tells more than two dozen beautiful Tibetan folktales. It also has the recipes of the food and drink he had shared during his presentation.

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Brian E. Coutts, professor and head of the Department of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, has been awarded the 2014 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award. Congratulations!

For details, please read the news release from American Library Association.

August 5, 2013, Wiesbaden, Germany – HARRASSOWITZ, international booksellers and subscription agents, is pleased to award the 2013 Charleston Conference Scholarship to Laura DeLancey, Electronic Resources Librarian at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. Ms. DeLancey was awarded the $1,000 scholarship to attend the Conference, which takes place November 6 – 9 in Charleston, South Carolina.

In support of the 2013 conference theme of “Too Much Is Not Enough!”, applicants for this year’s scholarship were asked to submit a short essay on the topic “What does ‘Too Much Is Not Enough’ mean to libraries and vendors?”

In her winning essay, Ms. DeLancey notes that “patrons don’t want to be overwhelmed by information choices. They want just ‘enough’”, and concludes that

“… librarians are ideally positioned to get direct feedback on our users’ search experiences, and vendors are ideally positioned to respond to this feedback.  We already provide “enough”: the information equivalent of a glass slipper, but we need to ensure it is not obscured by a sea of irrelevant results, passwords, incompatible devices, and deeply nested webpages. If our users are confused and overwhelmed, we have failed our mission.”

Judging the submissions were: Clint Chamberlain, Coordinator for Information Resources, University of Texas at Arlington; Lynda Fuller Clendenning, Head of the Acquisitions Division at Indiana University in Bloomington; and Tina Feick, HARRASSOWITZ’s Director of Sales and Marketing for North America.

“Again this year the objective was to provide this travel scholarship to someone who has never been to the Charleston Conference”, Tina Feick said. “The judges were impressed with Ms. DeLancey’s well-researched essay and congratulate her on her achievement. We hope she finds the Charleston Conference to be a rewarding experience.”

The complete essay can be viewed here.

For more information on the Charleston Conference, registration and this year’s program, please visit the conference website.

WKU Libraries and the Department of Music, WKU presented “Jazz; International Sweethearts of Rhythm” with Dr. Marshall Scott on the evening of April 23, 2013 at the Choir Rehearsal Room in the Music Hall on campus.

The presentation is one of the “America’s Music” series sponsored by Tribeca Film Institute, American Libraries Association, and other institutions.

The last of the series named “Latin Music USA; Fro Mambo to Hip-Hop: A South Bronx Tale” will be presented on Tuesday, April 30 at the same location. It’s also a free and swipeable event.

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