The “Recommended by Duncan Hines” exhibit opens at the Kentucky Library & Museum on August 3rd and 4th with activities held in conjunction with the Duncan Hines Festival. They include:
• Duncan Hines Festival Recipe Contest, August 3, 4pm
• Festival Art Awards and Silent Auction, August 3, 5pm
• 1950s Theme Party, with antique cars, 50s rock ‘n roll and cocktails, August 3, 7pm
• Country Breakfast with presentation by Jonathan Jeffrey, August 4, 9am
• Duncan Hines Festival Children’s Pageant, August 4, 10am
• “Adventures in Good Eating: A Taste of Duncan Hines,†a presentation of the Kentucky Historical Society, written and performed by Mike Thomas, August 4, 3pm
Category Archives: New Stuff
Food, fun and more at Duncan Hines opening!
Google Scholar Displays WKU Link!
Researchers can now “FindFullText@WKU” for Google Scholar hits when WKU has the cited work, thanks to TDNet and Google Scholar linking software. The usual restrictions apply in that only WKU users can access the full-text based on IP range. An example from a search in JAMA is:
Trends in alternative medicine use in the United States, 1990–1997
Find Fulltext @ WKU
– all 5 versions »
DM Eisenberg, RB Davis, SL Ettner, S Appel, S … – JAMA, 1998 – Am Med Assoc
JAMA & ARCHIVES Select Journal or Resource, … Ronald C. Kessler,
PhD. JAMA. 1998;280:1569-1575. Context.— A prior …
Cited by 748 – Related Articles – Web Search
We know you will find this additional access useful in identifying WKU-held resources. We encourage you also to use TOPCAT and TDNet, along with our many other online resources, books, and other print holdings to support research and lifelong learning.
Connie Foster, Head
Dept. of Library Technical Services
July 5, 2007
Database Added: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
We are pleased to add Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 as our newest database and our first from Alexander Street Press. As stated by the publisher, “this database brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies that document the multiplicity of women’s activism in American public life. Thousands of pages of materials provide scholars and students with in-depth access to the published histories and records of women’s organizations throughout the United States. It also has documented projects on a broad range of topics of interest to today’s students, each including footnotes to introductory material, annotations of primary documents, a bibliography, and a list of related Web links. This database has a powerful full-text search engine that provides in-depth access to its content.” Link to it today! Search TOPCAT for the linked resource or our database pages.
The database should prove valuable to many disciplines and researchers. Let us know!
Connie Foster
Head, Library Technical Services
July 2007
From Hollywood to Bollywood, Dvds Are a Hit!
University Libraries’ DVD collection has become one of our most dynamic, growing in size and popularity from 
the moment we began collecting them. From timeless classics to the latest cutting-edge independents and from the finest international films to acclaimed documentaries, a look at our top ten list confirms that we have something for everyone. Here are the most popular (highest cumulative circulation) titles:
- Eye of the Beholder (1995) A thriller starring Ashley Judd and Ewan MacGregor.
- Mulholland Dr. (2001) A moody mystery from director David Lynch.
- Eyes on the Prize (1987) Landmark documentary on the Civil Rights Movement.
- Pride and Prejudice (1995) A&E miniseries of the classic Jane Austen novel.
- Monster’s Ball (2001) Halle Barry won an Oscar for her performance in this intense drama.
- Happenstance (2000) French comedy/drama starring Audrey Tautou.
- Frida (2002) Salma Hayek stars as the artist Frida Kahlo in this biopic.
- All About My Mother (1999) This film from Spanish director Pedro Almadovar won the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2000.
- Breaking the Waves (1996) Dane Lars Von Trier directed this drama.
- Run Lola Run (1998) This fast-paced thriller hails from Germany.
Dan Forrest
Coordinator of Access
Expanding Links in the E-serials Chain
This week TDNet, WKU Libraries’ e-journal management system, will add 1,744 journal links from EBSCO’s EJS database. Users will enjoy additional linking options for titles available on EJS and now linked through TDNet. For example, Library Journal or Research in Social Work Practice will have an EBSCO EJS link as another option for full-text access. From the WKU home page, go to Libraries and click on TDNet on the left side of the menu for complete e-journal access, or go directly to http://www.wku.edu/library/ejrnloff.htm. You can still go to the EJS database and enter that way.
Don’t forget the functionality for group profiles in TDNet when special projects come along and you want classes to track articles on specific topics throughout the semester or for your own personal e-alerts from favorite journals. TDNet is a powerful tool that does not require safety glasses!
Connie Foster, Head
Department of Library Technical Services
April 2, 2007
New Collections Available For Research
The Kentucky Library & Museum’s Manuscripts and Folklife Archives have processed and opened several new collections to researchers during the past two months. The collections include:
MSS 141 Bowling Green Ministerial Association – records keps from 1919 to 1953 including minute books, and project records.
SC 1462 Banks, Edgar James – scraps of a report signed by Banks in which he verifieds the authenticity of some Babylonian tablets.
SC 1468 Warren County Court Records – Typescript of selected entries, 1797-1820, from Warren County Circuit Court records copied by John B. Rodes.
SC 1465 Drake, William R. – 1826 deed to property in Edmonson County.
SC 1451 Hess, Nelson Irvin – 1856 Slavery obligation bond issued to N.I. Hess and L.B. Gilchrist in Gibson County, Tennessee.
SC 1466 Dulaney Family – 1855 letter written by Annie Elziabeth Dulaney Barclay in which she describes her daily life while at school; 1909 letter written by Edward Ludlow Hines outlining the Civil War experiences of Hiram W. Dulaney.
SC 1467 Greenwood & Massey’s Mill Turnpike Co. – Minute book for the Warren County company dating from 1886 to 1909. Last 2 pages contain a plat and records for the Plano Cemetery.
SC 1455 Adams, Daisy – Autograph album kept from 1886 to 1888 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
SC 1461 Peyton, Richard E. – 1904 marriage license issued in Hopkins County, Kentucky, to Peyton. He married Leaman F. Dunbar.
SC 1456 Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church – Monroe County court case involving factions of the Church, 1936.
SC 1464 Skaggs, Linda – Reminiscence about Skaggs’ grandfather, James Henderson Gross, and the Kyrock community in Edmonson County. Includes photographs of the Kyrock plant and the company’s baseball team.
SC 1463 Orr, S.H. – Report card from a school in Grayson County, Texas illustrated with leaves filled with quotations, 1875.
SC 1454 Cherry, Thomas Crittenden – Bowling Green superitendent’s report on Margaret Calvert, 190?
MSS 161 Cox Family Collection – consists of letters written to John H. Cox, Sr. of Hart County, Kentucky. The letters were written chiefly by his children. The letters exhibit the effects of World War II on a rural family, 1919-1945.
MSS 162 Beasley, Robert, Sr. – Correspondence between Beasley and his wife Louise (Buckles) Beasley during World War II. Beasley served in Germany and his wife was in Caneyville, Kentucky.
MSS 163 Schenck, Martin B. – records, photos, training materials, etc. related to the military career of Schenck who served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, 1934-2001.
MSS 164 Love Family Papers – Chiefly correspondence of the George Matthew and Nora (Sullivan) Love family, including their children Ruel, Margaret, and George Marshall Love, Sr., 1894-1959.
A Blast from the Past, 1639-1820
You can search TOPCAT by series title “Early American Imprints, First Series” and get all 36,305 or, if you know a specific title or want to limit to a subject category, you can also search in that way and limit to microform. Below is an example of one title now in TOPCAT.
Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
February 1, 2007
Less Is More, Electronically Speaking
WKU Libraries offers several new electronic journal packages that allow access to impressive numbers of titles for existing or fewer dollars.
Just activated are the following: (1) ACM Digital Library, accessed through ACM Portal. A collection of 19 journals and magazines, 26 transactions, over 85 conference proceedings, SIG newsletters, and the ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature; (2) IEEE Computer Society Magazine Package, providing access to 14 journals (whereas previously we subscribed to 7) and backfiles to 1988. This is a subset of the IEEE Digital Library; and (3) SpringerLink consortial arrangement through ESIG (EPSCoR Scientific Information Group) that gives users access to over 1,200 Springer titles and subsidiary companies, but we pay only for our current titles. 33 titles = 1,200+ titles. Not bad! and many disciplines are covered, such as economics, marketing, psychology, educational leadership, sociology, mathematics.
Additionally, we are adding individual online titles for public health and nursing. Check with your library liaison for more information; search TOPCAT for titles and links or TDNet, our online e-journal management system.
Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
January 25, 2007
History E-books Expand
WKU Libraries has 1,311 e-books available through the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) E-book project. From African History to Science and Technology, these books offer wonderfully rich research material for classes and projects. Recently, 138 new bibliographic records were added. Click on databases and ACLS for a complete title listing. Select a title and watch history unfold electronically; do a word or phrase search through a book with the powerful functionality of this database.
From its web site: “The ACLS History E-Book Project is a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. The Project is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers. The ACLS History E-Book Project was initially funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.”
If you would like to recommend a book of high quality and lasting merit in the field of history for this Project, please e-mail info@hebook.org with the title, author, publisher, and publication date, as well as your name, position, and affiliation. All recommendations will be added to our list for the next round of review.
Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
October 25, 2006
Journey through north-eastern Texas
Is this a national travel opportunity? No, “Account of a journey through north-eastern Texas, undertaken in 1849 …” is one of 2,879 bibliographic records that have just been added to TOPCAT. These records will help faculty and students research special microform collections in the Kentucky Library. The two sets of collections are The Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library and Travels in the West and Southwest.With increased title, and subject access, we hope that information access will be greatly enhanced and open up materials from 1835-1863 and from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s. Biographies, journals, campaign literature, sermons, traveler observations, and much more–what an exciting way to take a trip!
Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
October 12, 2006