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Three WKU Databases Benefit from “Value Promise” Initiative

GaleCengage now allows unlimited user access to Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) and Times Digital Archives at no additional cost. This initiative means no turnaways when trying to access these databases that previously were limited to 1-3 users. Usually when a library increases user access, the publisher pricing model increases significantly, especially for unlimited access–the most costly access configuration.
This move is a response to tight economic times for libraries and publishers. WKU also has the Testing & Education Reference Center, already with unlimited users.

Connie Foster, Head

Library Technical Services

December 8, 2009

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Kentucky Library & Museum toys & cards now on exhibit at Historic Riverview

Christmas tree with toys A selection of toys, games and fringed holiday cards are now on loan to Historic Riverview at Hobson Grove as part of its Victorian Holiday tour. During the tour which runs from now until the Friday before Christmas, visitors to Riverview are transported back in time to Christmas 1890 in the setting of Atwood and Julia Hobson’s three-story Italianate home, including a parlor outfitted with the 19th century holiday rage: the quaint and breath-taking Christmas tree, complete with antique decorations and toys.

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Gift Ideas Galore

2009 squirrel ornamentNeed the perfect gift? Do all your holiday shopping during the Holiday Open House in the Museum Store at the Kentucky Library & Museum. The Museum Store is stocked with a wide array of Kentucky-crafted items including jewelry, pottery and glassware as well holiday themed gifts such as ornaments. The gourmet on your gift list will appreciate the many specialty food items available at this time of year, and book lovers can choose among numerous titles about Kentucky.

Open house hours are 9 to 4 on December 9 & 10. All shoppers will enjoy 10% OFF STOREWIDE. WKU faculty, staff and students, including WKU retirees, receive an additional 10% off for a total of 20% off!

For more information, call 270-745-6080.

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WKU Students Decorate Holiday Trees

Holiday trees at Kentucky Library & MuseumThe Kentucky Library & Museum hosted the first annual WKU Student Organizations Holiday Ornament Competition. Each organization was given a bag of basic ornament making supplies and a tree to decorate. A tree decorating reception was held November 17th with celebrity judge Romanza Johnson and everyone’s favorite Hilltopper, Big Red. Trees will be on display in the Kentucky Room through January 4, 2010.

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Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule at Kentucky Library & Museum

Thanksgiving greeting graphicLooking for a place to entertain the relatives over the Thanksgiving holiday? Come to the Kentucky Library & Museum. Featuring more than 500 pieces of furniture, paintings and other decorative art items that date from as early as 1300 B.C. to the mid-twentieth century, the Snell-Franklin Decorative Arts Gallery at the Kentucky Library & Museum offers an alternative to the usual post-Thanksgiving activities. The Civil War enthusiasts will enjoy viewing, “A Star in Each Flag: Conflict in Kentucky.” Nostalgia buffs may want to wander down memory lane in “Recommended by Duncan Hines,” an exhibit about Bowling Green’s most famous food icon.

The Kentucky Museum exhibits are open every day this week but Thanksgiving Day. The Harrison-Baird Reading Room is closed throughout the entire holiday period.

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Peruvian Artist Oscar Pajares Ruiz Performed at Java City-Helm Library

Peruvian folk rock artist Oscar Pajares Ruiz is performing in Java City-Helm Library, WKUOn Thursday, November 19, Peruvian Folk Rock Artist Oscar Pajares Ruiz performed Peruvian folk music and dance to an enthusiastic audience of faculty and students at Java City-Helm Library.

This was part of the Java City-Helm Library concert series sponsored by the Independence Bank.

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Cinderella with a Multi-cultural Twist

Cinderella performersThe WKU Theatre Department performed “Cinderella: The World’s Favorite Fairy Tale” for school audiences at the Kentucky Library & Museum. The story of Cinderella as she is known in China, Russian and by Native Americans as told by Cinderella herself.

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Donate a Book to Get a Free Ticket to WKU Lady Toppers

Books & Baskets

Books & Baskets

Donate a book

Saturday, November 14 and

receive a FREE reserved seat ticket to

WKU Lady Toppers

vs. Eastern Kentucky University

Diddle Arena at 7 pm

sponsored by

Charles M. Moore Insurance and

the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners

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Far Away Places: “The Baker’s Boy” by Barry Kitterman

Barry KittermanBarry Kitterman was this month’s featured speaker in our Far Away Places series. He talked about his experiences in 1970s Belize as well as about his novel and creative writing on Thursday, November 19 at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Bowling Green, KY. A book signing followed.

His first novel, The Baker’s Boy, was published by Southern Methodist University Press in 2008 and in 2009 won the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. He drew inspiration from his work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Belize in the 1970s.

Set in Central American and Middle Tennessee it tells the story of a former Peace Corps worker at a boys’ training school in Belize near the Guatemalan border who thirty years later is toiling as a baker while still haunted by his earlier experience. Kitterman spent almost a decade writing the novel which has drawn praise from critics everywhere.

Kitterman coordinates the creative writing program and visiting writers series at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN where he’s been a member of the faculty since 1994.

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Sarah Elizabeth Performed at Java City

Sarah Elizabeth Performs at Java CityBorn in Kevil, Kentucky, 29-year old  Sarah Elizabeth Burkey, Singer-Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Actress, has performed all over the US and toured in 18 countries. Today at Java City she performed her original compositions as well as her arrangements of well-known traditional songs to a very appreciative crowd on the patio outside the Java City in Helm Library on November 10, 2009.

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