Today Grand Rapids Michigan Native Liz Snavely aka LVNMUZIQ played her lyrical, thoughtful brand of modern urban folk music. Her voice reminiscent of Natalie Merchant, Liz wove a complex melodic enchantment over the crowd at Java City to the delight of everyone.
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Keith Hurt and Paul Hatchett, musicians from Glasgow, KY thrilled the audience at Java City with their original music and their unique arrangements of familiar rock tunes.
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Thanks to Ken Foushee and his team, the first installment of the new library lecture series “We’ve Been Everywhere” kicked off on the morning of October 12, 2011 in Helm 100. The first lecture entitled “Impressions from Beijing” featured Lynne Ferguson, Artist-in-Residence at the Kentucky Museum & Library, Eric Fisher, Libraries Facilities Coordinator, and Haiwang Yuan, Special Assistant to the Dean for Web & Emerging Technologies.
They went to Beijing the past summer with 40 other WKU employees and students from the Confucius Institute at WKU. They talked about their life and studies at the North China Electric Power University in Beijing that partnered with WKU’s Confucius Institute in sponsoring the trip. While Lynne focused on her learning experience, Eric took the audience to the Great Wall as well as the Imperial and Summer Palaces in China’s capital. Before the lecture concluded, Haiwang answered many interesting and insightful questions about Chinese culture and history related to their trip.
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Dr. Sandra Hughes discussed 19th-Century gothic novels including Alcott’s little-known thrillers Behind a Mask: or A Woman’s Power and A Long and Fatal Love Chase at the Western Room in the Kentucky Building on the evening of September 27, 2011. This presentation was part of the SOKY Read! program co-sponsored by the SOKY Book partners consisting of WKU Libraries, Warren County Public Library, and Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
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Last Thursday the folks attending the University Libraries Noontime Concert Series at Java City were given a unique musical experience. Originally from Gatlinburg, TN, Tuatha Dea first began with a group of close friends gathering together once a week to drum for fun in 2009. Soon after the band began to write original music and playing at local social gatherings. As they began to build a small local fan base it was decided to try their hands at taking the show out into the public eye. They eclectically mix Scotts Irish, new age, traditional and modern rock standards like “White Rabbit” and the Cranberries’ “Zombie.” On Thursday, they engaged the crowd in a collective drumming experience celebrating Native American songs and chants. The concert was co-sponsored by the Downing University Center.
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Dr. Jennifer Montgomery’s Literacy 420 class visited the ERC to learn about booktalks and selecting children’s literature across the curriculum. Groups of students “booktalked” children’s fiction and nonfiction books about fossils, holidays, dogs, and Thanksgiving, utilizing a variety of books, multimedia, and educational manipulatives in their presentations.
Dr. Montgomery’s students also participated in the ERC’s Banned Books Week celebration!
As part of the many commemorative events in September, literacy students viewed the ERC’s “America Rebuilds” exhibit of 9/11 personal remembrances and titles from the ERC collection about 9/11.
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On August 24, WKU Libraries kicked off the 2011 fall semester in Helm Library 100. Interim Dean Connie Foster briefed on the Libraries faculty and staff university policies regarding travel and talked about some house-clearing issues before a group photo was taken in the Java City by University Photographer Clinton Lewis. After a luncheon in the Cravens Library, library employees went back to Helm 100, where invited guest speaker Jason Griffey, Head of Library Information Technology of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, gave a presentation named The Future Is Here. He gave an overview of where information technology will be in the future and how that is related to the services of the libraries and their needed changes to adapt to the technological development.
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Big Red has been exploring different countries in the WKU Libraries. In-coming students were invited to an adventure, as part of WKU’s Masterplan program, to search for Big Red. The countries where Big Red has been to include China, Italy, Mexico, and the United States, respectively in the areas where the Confucius Institute Chinese Learning Center, Periodical Reference, Visual & Performing Art Library, and the Reference Desk are located. The students had great fun including origami, China experience from touch-screen TV’s, Italian masks, Mexican dance, and free samples of food from those countries. Prizes were given at the conclusion of the event.
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We appreciate your forbearance during the past two very hot and humid days without air conditioning. A transformer that controls the water pump has broken. While it was hoped that the replacement part might arrive and be installed today it appears that the part may not arrive until tomorrow at the earliest leaving the building with no air conditioning until Wednesday.
We are therefore closing the Cravens Library effective at 1:00pm today and plan to reopen at 8:00AM on Wednesday.
I will continue to check on the progress of the arrival of the part and the installation, so please continue to check your email for updates in the event it is repaired earlier or it is delayed longer.
If you have any further questions please email eric.fisher@wku.edu
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“Led by traditional Chinese Lion Dancers to summon luck and fortune, several hundred people entered Helm Library on Friday afternoon to participate in the new Confucius Institute Chinese Learning Center at WKU…” reported WKU News. Visit WKU’s Blog to read more of the news.
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