After almost 4 years with WKU Libraries as Facilities Specialist for DLPS, Matt Bogard will be leaving us April 6th to take a Market Research position with Enrollment Management in Academic Affairs.
While we will miss Matt and greatly appreciate his outstanding work, we want to wish him the best of success in his new position.
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Want Conversations with Wendell Berry or need to check on the Mammals of Kentucky or Bees in America? Check out these titles and more by Kentucky authors or about Kentucky. Perhaps you need to know more about fiddles or dulcimers. How about Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford and Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance and Folklore in West Virginia. Speaking of folklore, tryLynwood Montell’s Tales from Kentucky Doctors. Maybe you need to focus on women in Kentucky. Try Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist or Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal, or Sue Mundy: A Novel of the Civil War. Still not finding your niche? Move on to Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology, The WPA Guide to Kentucky, or work by Frank X Walker,When Winter Come, or the prolific David Dick.
These are available in the main library. Check us out!
Connie Foster
April 4, 2008
Western Kentucky University annually recognizes outstanding contributions by faculty members in the areas of Teaching, Research/Creativity, Public Service, and Student Advisement.
From University Libraries, Connie Foster, Head of Department of Library Technology Services, and Haiwang Yuan, Web Site & Virtual Library Coordinator, won the college-level awards for Public Services and Research/Creativity respectively. They are also the finalists for the university-wide awards.
A number of their colleagues went to their reception at the Student Success Center in DUC to congratulate them.
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Bowling Green alternate rock band Technology vs. Horse performed at noon, April 1, 2008 at Java City in Helm Library, WKU.
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A Log Cabin (Pineapple variation) quilt attributed to Emily Genevieve Marks Clay (1841-1923) of Nicholas County is currently featured in the exhibit, Log Cabins & Lincoln, at the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society in Paducah. The exhibit runs from February 8 through April 9. Photo courtesy of MAQS.
Five hundred art lovers turned out on Saturday, March 1 for the opening of the 2008 US Bank “Celebration of the Arts†Open Art Exhibition. The show featured nearly 400 works submitted by two hundred area artists. Juror Joseph H. Molinaro, Ceramics chair at Eastern Kentucky University, awarded prizes in seven categories – painting, watercolor works on paper, ceramics, photography, fiber arts and sculpture – to entrants in the professional and amateur divisions.
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Participate in Bowling Green’s first annual Gallery Hop! A unique collaboration between the city’s independent Galleries, Non-Profit Galleries and Studio Centers to provide Bowling Green with great artistic opportunities.
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To Celebrate Leap Year at the Kentucky Museum Store… present this coupon:
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50% off* one regular priced item
offer good Feb.25th-29th
*(no other discount allowed)
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hours: Monday-Saturday: 9-4; Sunday: 1-4
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At a quilting workshop on Saturday, February 16, participants made a small wallhanging and in the process learned two techniques used by quilt makers – how to paper piece and how to make three dimensional flowers. Both techniques also can be used to accent clothing, home accessories and other sewing projects.
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On the afternoon of February 8, seventeen third graders from St. Joseph’s School in Bowling Green visited the Kentucky Library & Museum to search though our approximately 12,000 photographs. Their mission included looking for pictures of “jobs, transportation, schools and churches” that they could use in preparing a “scrapbook†of pictures depicting the history of Bowling Green.
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