The Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners collected donated books at Diddle Arena on the evening of Tuesday, November 7. Those who donated books got free tickets for the women’s basketball game that night. Books collected will be given to local schools or sold at the coming Macy’s Used Book Sale. Procedes from the sale will benefit the Book Fest events.
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Books & Basket Event in Diddle Arena
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On the Same Page Kicked Off in Bowling Green Public Library
On the Same Page, the children’s version of One Campus-One Community-One Book program, kicked off in Bowling Green Public Library. If you missed out the event, you may still experience it virtually by viewing an album of selected photos from the One Campus-One Community-One Book Blog.
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Halloween Party at University Libraries
On Novermber 1, 2006, faculty, staff, and student assistants of WKU Libraries gathered in Cravens 111 to celebrate Halloween. Besides good food brought by the faculty and staff members, there were also prizes given to the best costumes and lucky winners. Thanks go to the staff in the Dean’s Office who organized this annual event. If you missed out, you may view the snapshots of the celebration.
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Concert at Java City Today
Celtic/Folk band Shadow Dancer performed at Java City on November 1. If you missed out, you may view the snapshots of the event.
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Trippin’ at the Museum
More than 600 area school children took part in field trips at the Kentucky Library and Museum over the past few weeks. During their visit they engaged in a variety of hands-on activities in conjunction with the exhibits.
Photos from recent visits.
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Artfully engaged
The week of October 9-13, participants in the fall art camp at the Kentucky Library and Museum took part in a variety of art activities including block printing, weaving, dyeing, marbleizing, and fabric collage. They also toured the Kentucky Museum exhibits and found time to enjoy the fall weather in the Museum courtyard.
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Quilt Stories!
On Saturday, September 30th, a Quilt Show & Tell at the Kentucky Library and Museum offered area residents an opportunity to display their quilts, share stories with other participants and learn several quiltmaking techniques.
More photos.
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Quilt Workshop at Kentucky Library and Museum
On Saturday, October 14, art quilter extraordinaire Juanita Yeager led a round flower quilt workshop.
Photo gallery of images from the workshop.
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Archeology Camp
Archeology basics where campers learned about prehistoric Kentucky was the theme during Archeology Week. Campers experienced a mock dig, identified prehistoric artifacts, painted on a simulated rock shelter, and made pottery in prehistoric Kentucky style. These were just some of the fun activities campers practiced while studying Kentucky’s past.
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SOKY Bookfest Partners Kicked off 1Read
On the evening of October 19, the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners kicked off the first 1Read event at the Bowling Green Public Libraries. Present was Pamela Walker, author of the book Kung Fu Princess. She signed her books at the end of the event.
1Read is a partnership project of Western Kentucky University Libraries, Bowling Green Public Library, Barnes and Noble Booksellers and WKYU to encourage teens to read. The adults’ and children’s versions of book reading events are One Book-One Campus-One Community and On the Same Page respectively.
If you missed out, you may see the pictures of the kickoff.
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