Cravens Library will close at 5:00 pm Thursday, Nov. 4, and reopen at 7:00 pm due to a cellular equipment helicopter airlift to the top of that building. All pedestrian traffic will be prohibited around Cravens during that time and the street closures adjacent to the building will be extended temporarily in both directions. Helm Library will remain open during this event, but the Helm/IEB parking lot may be closed temporarily.
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Lauren Cunningham wows crowd at Java City
Well-known local song-stylist, Lauren Cunningham thrilled the crowd today in Java City with her unique voice and musical arrangements. Coming next week, The Steven Baker Band on Wednesday, November 10th. Thanks to our sponsor Independence Bank.
When is a Music Program Not Just a Music Program?
- Iolanthe Program
When it is the program for Gilbert & Sullivan operatta Iolanthe performed at WKU March 29, 1927. This program is chock full of ads for Bowling Green businesses. Some ads tell us where the business was located, especially in the downtown area. It is also a record of how much support the citizens of Bowling Green have given to WKU throughout the years.
And, of course, it is a program of the performance, giving a list of the principle actors, members of the band, orchestra and chorus as well as the officers of the Strahm Music club. Quite the bang for the printing buck for six page program.
This and many other music programs are available to researchers in the Harrison-Baird Reading Room of the Kentucky Library & Museum, 9 – 4 Monday through Saturday. The entire program is available on TopScholar: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/82/
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WKU Libraries on the Cover of C&RL News
We’re pleased to announce that a painting by Granville Mitchell from the Kentucky African American Art Collection in the Raymond Cravens Library is featured on the front cover of the nation’s leading college and university libraries trade journal. With more than 12,000 personal and institutional subscribers and an international readership many times that number, College & Research Libraries News showcases the work of the Association of College and Research Libraries and its member institutions. Mitchell, who studied commercial art at WKU, works on paper with pen and ink, acrylic, oil, and some airbrush. In his works he seeks to capture movement, the dynamic of life.
“Main Street” is one of two Granville Mitchell paintings in our collection.
Mitchell’s art was showcased in Kentucky Live! Southern Culture At Its Best, an annual series of public talks sponsored by the WKU Libraries, now in its eighth season. He also depicted the Historic Freedom Riders in a collaborative mural honoring the life of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Kentucky Library and Museum.
This marks the third time WKU Libraries has been featured on the front cover of C&RL News.
Click here for a large version of Granville Mitchell’s Main Street.
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Kentucky Live presents Nancy Richey
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Dr. Gordon Emslie speaks on the importance of research in honor of International Open Access Week
Tyranny and Democracy of Knowledge
Gordon Baylis, VP for Research, speaking at the 2nd annual
Open Access Week, Oct. 21, 2010
Dr. Baylis stated that research is essential to teaching. He then traced historical components of teaching formed by content (corpus) and the 7 skill sets of the Trivium and Quadrivium in fascinating highlights of the development of knowledge from breakthroughs of hypertext and connectivity (with LOL being the very first letters ever transmitted) to the fact that data is now stored in exabytes. He characterized the initial corpus of knowledge as that which has been balkanized and sub-balkanized over the decades, if not centuries. The amount of data we are faced with leads to a tyranny of access, as in Wikipedia. That site is openly accessible and highly democratic, but questionable in content at times, particularly during election seasons. Google indexes .04% of available content. As educators, we can focus on 4 elements of knowledge: the body of knowledge (corpus); production of knowledge; assessment; and application (how it bears on society’s issues). Peer review takes care of the assessment; beyond that we have to teach people how to assess. His conclusion paved the way for challenging questions and future conversations.
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Open Acces Week Event coming up at Helm
Join us for the second annual celebration of Open Access Week, an international week that recognizes the value of research with the theme: “Learn. Share. Advance.” Open Access is the principle that research should be accessible online, for free, immediately after publication and at any time. TopSCHOLAR® offers such a platform for publications and other content. WKU Libraries invites everyone to attend the key event at 2:00 Thursday, Oct. 21, in Helm 100 and to hear Dr. Gordon Baylis speak about the value of research. Reception follows.
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WKU duo “Sixteen” entertains at Java City yesterday
Java City rang today with the alt-rock sounds of Sixteen. Sixteen is a duo consisting of WKU sophomores Wyatt Dunning and Justin Swindle from Simpson County.
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New Website Documents Work of Ruth Hines Temple
Ruth Hines Temple
The life and career of Ruth Hines Temple, long-time Head of the Art Department at Western Kentucky University, is documented in a new website created and maintained by the Kentucky Library & Museum. Born in Warren County in 1899, Temple lived to be 101. At an early age, she exhibited a penchant for art. After graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, she taught for one year at Leitchfield, Kentucky. Afterwards, she worked in her father’s store, the Busy Bee at 136 Main Street in Bowling Green, and did freelance graphic work.
After her father died in 1929, Temple and her mother operated the family store for five years prior to selling it as the Great Depression deepened. With money from the sale, Ruth completed her Master’s degree at Peabody College in Nashville. She also spent a summer at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and traveled throughout the American South on a fellowship from Peabody.
In 1942, Temple accepted a position as art supervisor for the Western Kentucky State Teachers College training school. In 1946, she was promoted to head of the college’s art department and retained that position until her retirement in 1966. In 1999, Temple began donating her personal papers and artifacts to the Kentucky Library & Museum. The website features fifty of her cartoons, numerous novelty items and small art-on-paper pieces created by Temple, and photographs of the Temple family. The majority of these pieces are housed in the Temple Family Papers; a finding aid for this collection can also be accessed via the website. To view the website click here.
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