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Circulation Services will begin operations in the Helm Reference Room tomorrow, Wednesday 9/26. Ceiling tiles are already disappearing from 4^th floor Cravens. The renovation has begun. Most furniture has been removed.

Leisure Reading Books are in Helm 100; audio books are permanently located in VPAL, Cravens 2^nd floor.

There will be limited access to the 4^th floor lobby for the ATM but as construction progresses that entrance may not always be available. Please check our blog and website for updates.

The VPAL second floor entrance is accessible for that floor.

Access to Cravens 5-9 will be through Helm 2^nd floor to Cravens 5^th floor elevators. Some access will be available from Reference to 4^th floor elevator unless flooring is involved.

Please check signs or ask! Thank you for your patience.

Patrons needing accommodation for mobility issues, please call 270-745-3951 for assistance.

Connie Foster, Interim Dean
WKU Libraries

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A crowd of WKU students, faculty, staff and administration attended an open house and reception honoring WKU art students who created two separate art display projects housed in Helm and Cravens Libraries. Interim Dean Connie Foster gave opening remarks thanking art faculty member Kristina Arnold and her students for their vision and innovation to enhance WKU Libraries. Kristina Arnold, Associate Professor of Art and coordinator of the project, gave special insight into the Art Installation class and the students who worked more than 400 hours to bring the works of art to completion.

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WKU Libraries is transforming spaces and trading places on the fourth floor of Cravens to develop a new Information Commons area for its students, faculty, and staff. Effective Friday, September 28 at 4:30 pm to January 2, 2013, the entrance to Cravens 4^th floor will be closed and individuals needing library services will use the Java City/Helm entrance.

“Patrons may have already noticed books, tables, chairs, and other items disappearing from the floor,” said Connie Foster, Interim Dean of WKU Libraries.

The newly redesigned floor will have varied and flexible seating, collaborative areas for study, 28 computers, two email stations, four laptop charging stations, and a fresh updated look.

Access to Cravens’ floors 5-9 will be available from the 2^nd floor of Helm. Beginning Wednesday, September 26, Circulation Services will be relocated to Helm 1^st floor next to the Reference Desk. In addition, The Writing Center will also be moved to the same area in Helm. Any student needing disability accommodations can call 745-3951 for assistance.

“We apologize for this interruption during the semester but our goal is to open by January and realize a very inviting, functional, and updated library environment for the future,” said Foster.

Patrons can check out the library’s website for updates at wku.edu/library.

Students and community members met in the basement lounge area of Java City Wednesday, September 12 for a book discussion over author Neil White’s memoir In the Sanctuary of Outcasts. White’s book was this year’s book selection for the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners’ SOKY Reads community read program. In an effort to encourage reading in the community, SOKY Book Fest partners gave away more than 500 books, provided book discussions, offered free writing workshops, and brought in the author of the book for presentations to various groups throughout the community.

SOKY Reads program sponsored by the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners featured Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts on September 6, 2012 in the WCPL Main Library and the Knicely Conference Center, Bowling Green, KY.

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The WKU group was in the overflow room next to the crowded auditorium.

At the invitation of the University of Kentucky Libraries, a group of WKU Libraries’ faculty and staff attended the UK Libraries’ special program: Works Progress Administration on September, 5, 2012 at the William T. Young Library on the UK campus in Lexington, KY.

The University of Kentucky Libraries was celebrating the completion of a three-year leadership grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL). This grant had assisted the UK Libraries in acquiring, preserving, and providing access to historical records and publications produced by the U. S. Works Progress Administration (WPA). Because of these efforts, the UK library is now recognized as a Center of Excellence among southeastern research libraries for its WPA collection.

The celebratory event, “Putting America Back to Work during the Great Depression: Preserving and Improving Access to the Works Progress Administration Records for the Future,” was held in the William T. Young Library. Keynote speaker was David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States. A panel discussion and reception followed.

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The WKU Staff Council, Human Resources and Continuing Education announced the 2012-2013 class of the Staff Leadership Institute, which included one of our own: Senior Catalog Assistant Crystal Bowling. Congratulations!