WKU Libraries’ Educational Resources Center (ERC) has moved out of the Tate Page Hall to the newly completed Gary A. Ransdell Hall across the MMTH on State Street. You are welcome to visit and use it. If you haven’t been there, here’re some photos of the beautiful new ERC for your preview.
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Welcome to the New ERC
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Noon Concerts return to Java City
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New Art in the Java City Café
Above: “About to Explode”
University Libraries has recently acquired seven paintings by Phoenix Latino artist Julio Cesar Rodarte. These are on display in the café’s lower level. New furnishings have also been acquired with support from the SGA.
The oldest of four children, Rodarte was born in Fresnillo, Zacatecas in 1984. Three years later the family immigrated to the United States. He took his first art classes in high school in Arizona after his psychologist and school counselor encouraged him to take a drawing class after a failed suicide attempt.
Above: Julio Cesar Rodarte in front of his painting, “Constructed Chaos”
At the age of 19 he enrolled at Glendale Community College where he discovered his talent for painting. Since then he’s developed his unique style in which he first develops a sculptural form and then paints on the shapes with colorful repetitive patterns, geometric shapes, forms, silhouettes, and numbers. In 2008 he began showing his art in group shows in Phoenix and had his first solo exhibition “Over and Over” at Arizona State University’s Downtown Campus in Phoenix in 2009. Since then the 26 year old painter has continued to have solo and group shows such as “Shapes”, a March 2010 solo exhibition and “Arte Latino en la Ciudad”, a May 2010 group show at the Phoenix Center for the Arts.
His art has been collected by corporations and private collectors. He says he continues “to paint with determination” in his studio in Phoenix.
Brian Coutts
Above, left to right: “Is This Real, What Do You Feel?,” “Sound Waves,” “Constructed Chaos”
Above, left to right: “Sound Waves,” “The Superhero of Color,” “Is This Real, What Do You Feel?”
Above: “About to Explode,” “Upside Down”
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Salem Health Online at WKU Libraries
Four Salem Health reference encyclopedias are now freely available online on or off campus at WKU. These award-winning titles (Magill’s Medical Guide, Salem Health: Cancer, Salem Health: Psychology & Mental Health, and Salem Health: Genetics & Inherited Diseases) are also in WKU Libraries’ print reference collection.
To search online, go to TOPCAT (http://topcat2000.wku.edu/), enter the title, then “search;” select “Linked Resources.”
If you are off campus, first click “Off Campus Login;” then login with NetID/password.
Many thanks to Salem Health for WKU’s complimentary online access.
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Haiwang Led Honor College Winter Trip to China
Haiwang has just returned from China. From December 29, 2010 to January 20, 2011 he led 11 students from the Honor College Flagship Chinese Pilot Program on a study abroad tour. It was designed as a colloquium titled “Road to Modern China.” The purpose of this colloquium was to expose the students to Chinese culture and history while reinforcing their Chinese language skills.
The trip started from Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It then moved from Guangzhou to Wuhan, and from Wuhan to Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Beijing.
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BUWKY
Editor-in-Chief & business manager Lawrence Stone launched the BUKY in March 1936. The publication statement indicates that it was to be a student magazine published monthly “during the college year except for July and August in the interests of the students of the Bowling Green Business University and Western Kentucky Teachers College.” It cost $.75 for a year’s subscription and $.10 per single issue.
The next extant issue May 1936 indicates a change in the title to BUWKY due to a misunderstanding in the pronunciation. Although published at the BU, there were more Western students on the rolls of reporters in the early issues each with pseudonyms such as Rusty Rhythm and Norothy Nix. The magazine covers WKU sporting events, alumni of both schools, and highlights BU students and faculty. The ads are also an interesting component highlighting local businesses of the period as well as national trends.
The University Archives does not hold a full run of the magazine. Those that are extant 1936 and 1938-1943 have been digitized and are now available on TopScholar. They are a wonderful view into student life at both schools. Please contact the University Archivist at archives@wku.edu if you have more issues of this publication to donate. Also, check out the University Archives wish list.
These magazines and other records regarding the Bowling Green Business University are available to researchers in the Harrison-Baird Reading Room of the Kentucky Library & Museum Monday – Saturday, 9 – 4.
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T ‘n’ T
The Bowling Green Business University split off in 1906 as WKU was formed. It functioned as an independent business college until 1963 when it merged into WKU and formed the basis of what is now the Gordon Ford College of Business. In 1948 the students of the BU as it was known, created a monthly student magazine named Towers and Toppers or T ‘n’ T. Student reporters highlighted faculty and students, tracked alumni whereabouts, dished the latest gossip and talked WKU sports.
The University Archives holds several issues of the magazine for the 1948-1951 period and these have been indexed, digitized and posted on TopScholar. Originals are available in University Archives. We are interested in finding additional issues to make our holdings complete. Please contact the University Archivist at archives@wku.edu if you have these or other items to donate.
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Unpacking the ERC
Books and materials have been packed, carted across the street to Gary Ransdell Hall and are being unpacked as WKU Libraries Faculty and Staff move in to the new ERC. They have hundreds of boxes to go through as they prepare for the Spring semester.
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SGA Records
SGA Elections 1968
The Student Advisory Council of 1956 was the first incarnation of WKU’s Student Government Association. A constitution was written in 1963 and a student council was active in February and of March 1965. In 1966 things finally got underway with a newly written constitution and approval of the Kelly Thompson administration. Since then the group has been active on campus taking on the issues of the day from discrimination to tuition hikes, ice machines to visitation policies.
University Archives holds the existing records of the SGA and these are being digitized. The constitution and amendments; meeting minutes 1969; 1976-1979; 1986-1990; 1994-1999; 2002-2003 and 2005-2007 ; legislation and documents are now available for researchers on TopScholar. These records are also available to researchers in the Kentucky Building’s Harrison-Baird Reading Room, Monday – Saturday 9 – 4.
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Picturing Kentucky and Beyond
Come learn how to research images you can use in your classrooms, publications and work using the KenCat online system and the resources of the Kentucky Library & Museum. Presented by Nancy Richey and Suellyn Lathrop
Date: Jan. 27, 2010
Time: 1:00 – 2:00
Place: VPAL, 2nd Floor Cravens Library
To register: call 745-4793 or email suellyn.lathrop@wku.edu
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