Donnie Love's Autograph Book
Miss Donnie Love, a native of Horse Cave, Kentucky attended Southern Normal School about 1890. She received a teaching certificate and began teaching in Edmonson County by the age of 16. Her autograph book is now in University Archives and has been scanned for viewing online. There are 53 pages of autographs including this notation by Donnie Love herself inviting friends to write in her book.
The book is available online through TopScholar.
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Helm-Cravens Library will open at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, January 31.
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On Sunday, January 17th, over 100 art students, parents, and professional artists attended the “2010 Side By Side VSA arts” exhibit opening at the Kentucky Library & Museum. The art exhibit, which is in the Garden Gallery, includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, and ceramics. VSA arts of Kentucky is a statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting arts, education and creative expression for all, with an emphasis on persons with disabilities.The work will be on exhibit thorough March 31st.
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The Kentucky Library & Museum and VSA arts of Kentucky have partnered to produce an exhibition of artwork created during VSA arts workshops held at the KYLM. The exhibit features artwork of students with disabilities, area artists, and the artwork they have created collaboratively. The exhibit kicks off with a reception on Sunday, January 17th, at 2:00 p.m. (CDT) and is free to the public.
VSA arts of Kentucky is a statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting arts, education and creative expression for all, with an emphasis on persons with disabilities.
Jack Montgomery, his wife Lesley, and Elizabeth Hayes performed at the Warren County Public Library Thursday, December 10 to a crowd of over 80 adults and children. Jack also read “Twas the Night before Christmas” to the kids.
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On December 10, 2009, WKU Libraries celebrated its annual holiday as a tradition in the beautiful Kentucky Building with a band and good food. As part of the tradition, Dean Binder and Department Heads gave out the Margie Helm Awards to those excelled in the past year.
This year’s Faculty Award goes to Sandy Staebell; Staff Award to Jennifer Wilson; Team Award to the Java City Entertainment Committee consisting of Jack Montgomery, Dan Forrest, Michael Franklin, Jeannie Butler, Glenda White, Jennifer Wilson, and Mike Binder; and the Student Award to student assistants Matthew Mattingly from the Department of Library Special Collections, Jennifer Earheart from the Department of Library Technical Services, Megan Derr and Danie Peach from the Department of Library Public Services, and Kelly Lafferty from the Dean’s Office.
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On the afternoon of December 9th, 2009, WKU Libraries welcomed Second Secretary Liu Jiangyi and Attache Liu Xiao from the Education Office of the Embassy of People’s Republic of China at Washington DC. They were on an inspection tour on behalf of the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) in Beijing as WKU is one of the applicants for hosting a Confucius Institute. If the application were approved, Hanban would donate 3,000 items of Chinese materials in the form of journals, monographs and videos to be housed on the first floor of the Helm Library adjacent to Java City.
The Chinese officials were taken to the Libraries by Amy Eckhardt, Director of the Office of Scholar Development, and Liping Chen, Director of Flagship Chinese Program, Honors College. Receiving the Chinese guests were Mike Binder, Dean of Libaries; Brian Coutts, Head of Department of Library Public Services; Connie Foster, Head of Library Technical Services; Haiwang Yuan, Special Assistant to the Dean for Web & Emerging Technologies; Bryan Carson, Special Assistant to the Dean for Grants & Projects; Jack Montgomery, Collection Services Coordinator; Jennifer Wilson, Coordinator of Marketing; and Doug Wiles, Library Security Officer. The party then went to the Faculty House for an reception.
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Professor Haiwang Yuan’s book, Princess Peacock: Tales from the Other Peoples of China (Libraries Unlimited, 2008), has been selected as one of the American Folklore Society Children’s Section 2009 Aesop Accolade Award recipients. Yuan serves as WKU Libraries Professor and Special Assistant to the Dean for Web & Emerging Technologies.
“This well-organized and richly documented volume is designed to give the American reader a fair view of China as a multi-ethic nation of diverse cultures…The contents of Princess Peacock provide extremely valuable material for the families of the many Chinese children adopted by Americans by introducing and reinforcing knowledge of their ethnic origins,” said the 2009 Aesop Award Committee.
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More than 1,200 people participated in this year’s Christmas in Kentucky event hosted at the Kentucky Library & Museum this past Saturday, December 5. Children visited with Santa and Mrs. Claus in the Kentucky Room while others watched Mr. Magic in the Western Room. Big Red floated throughout the building greeting families while the Western Kentucky men’s vocal ensemble, The Red Shirts, sang in several locations. Other activities included ornament making, a scavenger hunt, a cake walk, theatre presentations, and talks with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln.
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