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by Sandra Staebell | March 22, 2011 · 8:58 am

Snell Collection Icons on Exhibit in Owensboro

Three Saints icon

From now through May 31, artwork from the Kentucky Library & Museum is on view at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art as part of “The Divine in Art” exhibit, a major survey of art in a religious genre collected or produced in this region in the past century. Two Russian icons, “Christ Pantocrator” and “Three Saints,” from the C. Perry Snell Collection are featured in the exhibit which consists of more than 150 works that date from the 15th century to the present.

For more information about the exhibit, contact the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art at 270-685-3181.

Images of other artworks in the Snell Collection are available online in KenCat.

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by Daniel Peach | March 12, 2011 · 10:17 pm

Far Away Places Presents John All

On the evening of March 17 at Barnes & Noble, the WKU Libraries’ “Far Away Places” international talk series featured Professor John All from WKU’s Department of Geography & Geology. While studying climate change in the Himalayas in 2010 as part of the Fulbright Scholar program, he scaled the treacherous northeast ridge and reached the summit of Mount Everest, at 29,035 ft. the world’s highest mountain on May 23rd.

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by Sandy McAllister | March 10, 2011 · 5:48 pm

Cravens Library to remain closed Friday

It appears the power may not be restored until later Friday afternoon, so Cravens Library will remain CLOSED tomorrow and will reopen on Saturday from 10am-2pm and resume regular hours on Sunday.

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by Sandy McAllister | March 4, 2011 · 9:22 am

Cravens closed March 7-10

Due to planned power upgrade, Cravens library will be closed next week.
Helm library will remain open and the following changes will apply:
• A circulation desk will be setup at the JAVA CITY entrance in HELM for book checkout and returns.
• The Interlibrary Loan office in Helm 107 will be used for library obligations (i.e. fines, etc.) or if a book needs to be retrieved from Cravens Library for patrons.
Work will be going on in Helm so please exercise caution. Cravens library is tentatively scheduled to re-open Friday at 8am. Please call the reference desk with questions 745-6125.

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by Daniel Peach | February 28, 2011 · 1:35 am

Kentucky Live! presents Matthew Schoenbachler

This Thursday, March 3 at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, University of North Alabama historian Matthew Schoenbachler talked about Kentucky’s most famous murder case. After his talk, Schoenbachler signed his new book Murder & Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy.

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by Connie Foster | February 24, 2011 · 11:51 am

TopSCHOLAR® Downloads Exceed 200,000

With 5,446 items in WKU’s Research and Creative Activity Database, TopSCHOLAR® attained 201,219 full-text downloads to date and 121,999 downloads in the past year. Check out digitalcommons.wku.edu and contact connie.foster@wku.edu for more information on how your efforts can be accessed globally! TopSCHOLAR® allows for hosting conference sessions, publishing journals, and extending other intellectual efforts to the world.

Connie Foster, Head

Department of Library Technical Services

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by | February 17, 2011 · 2:31 pm

Biographies, Biographies, Biographies!

WKU Libraries now subscribes to Biography Reference Bank online!

Biography Reference Bank contains biographies or obituaries for over 660,000 individuals, along with over 35,000 images. Many of the biographies are enhanced with feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, obituaries, and biographical content from other Wilson databases. Biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, date of death, and keyword. The database contains selected full text of the articles from more than 100 reference books, plus the full text of the following titles published by H. W. Wilson:

· American Reformers

· Composers series

· Current Biography

· Greek and Latin Authors Series

· Junior Authors & Illustrators

· Nobel Prize Winners

· World Artists

· World Author Series

· World Film Directors

· World Musicians

Biography Reference Bank also contains the complete Biography Index, which indexes biographies published in books, magazines, and journals. Abstracts and full text are included if available. You can access Biography Reference Bank from our Database Page or directly here: Biography Reference Bank.

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by Daniel Peach | February 14, 2011 · 11:55 am

Far Away Places Presented Haiwang Yuan

On the evening of February 17, 2011, Professor Yuan gave a presentation at Barnes & Noble as part of WKU Libraries’ “Far Away Places” international talk series. He talked about the changes taking place in China over the history, particularly after it opened it up and went through the economic reform in the late 1970’s. He looked at China through the window of Tianjin, a large city he knows best because he grew up there and has frequented it almost every year since 2000.

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by Daniel Peach | February 8, 2011 · 2:24 pm

Kentucky Live! presents Antonio Thompson

Some 371,000 German prisoners of war were held in the United States between 1941 and 1947 including 9,000 in Kentucky. On the evening of February 10, 2011, Professor Antonio Thompson, a historian from Austin Peay University, who recently taught at West Point, talked about how they came to be here, what they did during the war, the problems involved in managing POW camps and their eventual return to Europe after the war at Barnes & Noble in Bowling Green Kentucky. His talk was part of the WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! talk series.