This year, the Kentucky Writers Conference and the SOKY Book Fest Children’s Day coordinators teamed up to bring you the Children’s Writers Conference on Friday, April 20, 2012. Authors offered three presentations on writing and illustrating topics to students during the day.
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The Southern Kentucky Book Fest was a two-day community event. Day 1 was Children’s Day which was held Friday, April 20. It was devoted to school children in grades K-12, librarians, and educators. Students had the opportunity to meet and hear from their favorite authors, participate in dramatic and musical performances, and exercise their creativity in the make and do area. It was lots of fun for teachers and parents, too!
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Faculty members had their monthly meeting in the Glasgow Regional Campus Library and celebrated National Library Week on April 18, 2012. Interim Dean Connie Foster joined them at the reception, where a delicious cake was served with other light refreshments. Door prized were given out at the conclusion of the reception.
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Today a large crowd gathered to hear celebrated song-stylist and WKU Residence Hall Director Lauren Cunningham perform her musical magic which ranged from soulful jazz to blues to the Beatles. Ms. Cunningham was accompanied by guitarist James Michael Meece and guest performer Ashley Coulter took the stage to add her own musical enchantment.
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Good news! Google Scholar confirms that all Digital Commons sites, including TopSCHOLAR, are ” fully optimized for Google Scholar crawlers.” Bepress continues to work with Google Scholar to facilitate crawling and thus indexing the content in Digital Commons repositories.
If you want to learn more about this indexing and access, there are forthcoming webinars:
Webcast: Indexing Repository Content in Google Scholar
Presenter: Darcy Dapra – Partner Manager, Google Scholar
Date: Tuesday, June 19th, 11am Pacific
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/883942882
Webcast: Optimizing Repository Content for Google and Google Scholar
Presenter: bepress
Date: Wednesday, July 11th, 9am Pacific (for U.S., Canada, and Europe)
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/177667794
Date: Wednesday, July 11th, 5pm Pacific (Thursday, July 12th, 10am Eastern Australia)
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/704157826
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Good news! WKU Libraries continues to fund the BioOne database with the following new titles added for 2012:
Not only that, but there is exciting news we are very pleased to share with you: The mobile site of BioOne has been launched, available at www.bioone.org. When you with a supported device direct your browser to the URL, you will be automatically directed to the mobile site. The supported devices include:
BioOne contains full-text research journals in the biosciences. Most of its titles are published by small societies or non-commercial publishers and have not been previously available in electronic format. For more information, please read BioOne’s announcement at http://www.bioone.org/page/resources/mobile or contact Amy Slowik at amy.slowik@wku.edu
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This month’s WKU Libraries’ “We’ve Been Everywhere” literary outreach program featured Dr. Charles Smith, science librarian at WKU, who gave a talk on his research trip to London, Britain and Brazil. His research focused on Alfred Russel Wallace, an early evolutionary biologist.
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The Kentucky Museum welcomed its newest exhibition, The Richardson Quilt Gallery, on Friday, February 24 with a Chamber Ribbon Cutting and reception for about 75 quilt enthusiasts, friends of the Kentucky Museum, and family of Elizabeth Richardson–the woman responsible for acquiring the significant collection of quilts and textiles samples her daughter June McGuyer donated to the Kentucky Museum.
The program opened with remarks from the Chamber, followed by Kentucky Museum Director Timothy Mullin and ended with June McGuyer talking about her mother’s lifelong interest and affection for quilts. McGuyer donated the quilts in honor of her mother for preservation purposes and in hopes that others will be able to study and enjoy them as well.
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More than 400 artists, family members and friends showed up Friday, February 24 for the US Bank Celebration of the Arts award ceremony and reception kicking off the largest art exhibition in the region. About 190 artists displayed more than 350 works of art in categories of Painting, Watercolor, Ceramics and Glass, Sculpture, Fiber Arts, Works on Paper, and Photography.
Interim Dean Connie Foster welcomed the group and US Bank representative Greg Wassom shared a few words on behalf of US Bank. Kentucky Museum Director Timothy Mullin announced the winners in each of the categories for both amateur and professional levels with Foster and Wassom assisting in award distribution.
Best of Show was awarded to Steve Clay with his sketching of Down the Drain and Jacqui Lubbers received the Purchase Award for her fiber arts A Come Apart.
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Master musician from Nashville, Dave Isaacs, performed in this installment of our noon Concert series at the Java City in Helm Library on February 21, 2012.
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