Seventeen year old, Nashville singing sensation, Avery Hovey accompanied by Nashville veteran musician and producer Jerry Webb performed country and rock standards as well as their original songs in Java City. Ms Hovey was warmly received by the crowd in Java City and will certainly be asked back for a repeat performance.
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Nashville Artists Performing at Java City
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Yuan Led U.S. Delegation to China
Haiwang Yuan of WKU Libraries led a Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) delegation to China as a member of the Association’s Board of Directors. The delegation included James Rettig, President of the American Library Association; Robert Fernekes from the Zach S. Henderson Library of Georgia Southern University; Liana Hong Zhou, Director of the Kinsey Institute Library, Indiana University; Xueming Bao from the Seton Hall University Library; and Hong Miao from the Marywood University Library. James Rettig’s wife Monica Rettig was also among the delegates.
The event, named “The 2008 Sino-U.S. Forum on Library Practices,†was part of CALA’s 21st Century Librarian Seminar Series started in 2006. From July 11-13, this year’s forum took place at the Yunnan Dianchi Lake and Hot Spring Hotel in Kunming. The Forum was co-sponsored by CALA and the Yunnan Province Library Work Commission and was organized by the Yunnan University of Science and Technology Library.
About 200 librarians from over 50 institutions in China attended the Forum, including Beijing University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Tongji University, East China University of Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan Normal University, and Yunnan University.
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Museum Education Booth at BG International Festival
For the seventh year, the Education Unit of the Kentucky Museum set up a booth promoting its programs and activities and did a free activity for children and adults. This year’s photographic community map was a huge success with festival participants. Christy and Lynne were assisted by WKU students.
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Aby Laby Land Performed at Java City
On September 30, 2008, alt-rock folk band Aby Laby Land shared their unique music with the lunch crowd on the patio of Java City outside the Helm Library.
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Retirement Party for Debra Day
University Libraries celebrated the retirement of Interlibrary Loan Specialist Debra Day Friday, September 26, 2008. Debra began working at Western in 1984 and joined University Libraries in 1996. Department head Brian Coutts spoke, and Debra and her colleagues shared cake and other refreshments. We wish her well in this new chapter of her life.
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WKU Celebrates Banned Book Week
This is the WKU Libraries exhibit in honor of Banned Books Week, September 27th -October 4th in the main circulation area. Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW’s 27th anniversary (September 27 through October 4). BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.
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Don Thomason Performed at Java City Patio
Modern Country singer-songwriter Don Thomason from Dunbar, KY brought his unique sound to the patio of Java City for a very appreciative lunch crowd. This is Don’s third appearance at Java City and he always receives rave reviews from those who attend.
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WKU Student Performed at Java City
Leamj, WKU student, Louisville native and successful rap artist, performed his unique musical style for the lunch crowd at the Java City patio on September 23, 2008.
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Faraway Places: Panama
Aristófanes Cedeño, Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of the Panamanian Studies Program and Academic Dean of the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program at the University of Louisville, talked about Panama in the Faraway Places Series on Thursday, September 18th at Barnes & Noble.
Born and raised in Panama, Dr. Cedeño earned a law degree at the University of Panama before moving to the U.S. and obtaining his Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Michigan State University. Recently he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Humanities Council, and was named one of the twenty-five most influential Hispanics in Louisville because of his contributions to education in Kentucky and to the Latino Legal Clinics organized by the Louisville Bar Association.
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Kentucky Live: Lonesome Cowgirls
WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! presented Kristine McCusker who spoke about her new book “Lonesome Cowgirls & Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio,” at Barnes and Noble on September 11 2008.
Popular between the two world wars, American barn dance radio evoked comforting images of a nostalgic and stable past for listeners beset by economic problems at home and worried about totalitarian governments abroad. Sentimental images such as the mountain mother and the chaste everybody’s-little-sister “girl singer” helped to sell a new consumer culture and move commercial country music from regional fare to national treasure. Kristine M. McCusker examines the gendered politics of these images through the lives and careers of six women performers.
Kristine M. McCusker is an associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. She is coeditor of A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music.
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