WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live featured Kenny and Beverly Mattingly on the evening of November 11, 2010 at Barnes & Noble, Bowling Green, KY. Kenny, owner of the Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese, told us the story of his family tradition and allowed us to sample some of the sumptuous cheeses he and his wife brought. If you missed the cheese, you can still listen to his talk and view the pictures of the event.
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Kentucky Live! It’s All About the Cheese!
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WKU Libraries on the Cover of C&RL News
We’re pleased to announce that a painting by Granville Mitchell from the Kentucky African American Art Collection in the Raymond Cravens Library is featured on the front cover of the nation’s leading college and university libraries trade journal. With more than 12,000 personal and institutional subscribers and an international readership many times that number, College & Research Libraries News showcases the work of the Association of College and Research Libraries and its member institutions. Mitchell, who studied commercial art at WKU, works on paper with pen and ink, acrylic, oil, and some airbrush. In his works he seeks to capture movement, the dynamic of life.
“Main Street” is one of two Granville Mitchell paintings in our collection.
Mitchell’s art was showcased in Kentucky Live! Southern Culture At Its Best, an annual series of public talks sponsored by the WKU Libraries, now in its eighth season. He also depicted the Historic Freedom Riders in a collaborative mural honoring the life of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Kentucky Library and Museum.
This marks the third time WKU Libraries has been featured on the front cover of C&RL News.
Click here for a large version of Granville Mitchell’s Main Street.
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Kentucky Live presents Nancy Richey
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Far Away Places presents John Hale
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Kentucky Live! presents Chef Albert Schmid
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American Association of Petroleum Geologists
WKU alum William Drost has generously donated to WKU Libraries perpetual use of the databases of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Users can search the following subcollections:
| AAPG Bulletin | |
| AAPG Special Volumes | |
| Canada Group | |
| Eastern USA | |
| Gulf Coast Group (USA) | |
| Journal of Petroleum Geology | |
| Journal of Sedimentary Research | |
| Midcontinent Group (USA) | |
| Pacific & Asia Group | |
| Rocky Mountain Group (USA) | |
| Search and Discovery | |
| South & Central America | |
| Southwestern Group (USA) | |
| The Society for Organic Petrology | |
| West Coast Group (USA) |
The collection can be accessed directly or through our databases page. If off campus, be sure to log in through our databases page.
Thank you, William Drost, for making this resource available to the WKU community.
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American Founding Era Collection
WKU Libraries is happy to announce the acquisition of the new online resource the American Founding Era Collection. This collection features thousands of digital primary documents about key figures in America’s beginnings. The collection includes:
· The Adams Papers Digital Edition
· The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
· The Dolley Madison Digital Edition
· The Papers of James Madison Digital Edition
· The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
The collection can be accessed on campus directly from here, or off campus by logging into our proxy server from our databases page.
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Java City Noon concerts continue with the return of Dewveall
Alt-country, folk duo from Texas via Nashville returns to WKU on October 6 at noon. Come out to Java City in Helm for a little afternoon music. It’s beautiful Fall day for some music before heading off on Fall Break. Thanks to Independence Bank for their sponsorship.
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“Set the Night on Fire” – Art by Tom Poole
One of the most popular recent art additions in the Helm-Cravens Library is “Set the Night on Fire,” a tribute to Jim Morrison of the rock group, The Doors. Born James Douglas Morrison in Melbourne, Florida in 1943, Morrison was a singer-composer-poet whose band became an icon of the late 1960s with hits like “Light My Fire” which in 1967 became the number one song of the “summer of love.” After completing his seventh album, a documentary film, three collections of poetry and a screenplay Morrison was discovered dead in his Paris apartment on July 4, 1971. He’s buried at Paris’s Pere Lachaise cemetery near the graves of Moliere, Balzac, Edith Piaf, Chopin and Oscar Wilde. See Jerry Hopkins entry in American National Biography Online, a WKU e-book.
Poole is an award winning Kentucky artist who paints with watercolors, acrylics, oils, pastels and mixed media. His work has appeared in many state, regional and national exhibitions. He’s a signature member of the Louisiana and Kentucky Watercolor Societies and the International Society of Acrylic Painters. Tom was a huge fan of The Doors and Jim and viewed his death at 27 as a great tragedy. His poem below is used with permission:
Dance with the Shaman
Can’t you reach a little higher?
Take a trip to hide the pain
Don’t you know
Cocaine is just another chain?
Spin and swirl
Dance with the Shaman
You are approaching your tortured destruction
Death is doing His best seduction
Reach out…your friend is here but The End is coming
C’mon…break on through…Transcend!
Spin and swirl
Dance with the Shaman
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