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by | August 29, 2013 · 7:47 pm

New Faculty Orientation & Information Fair

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Faculty Orientation Agenda 2013

The faculty and staff of University Libraries participated in this year’s 2013 New Faculty Orientation on Friday, August 16.  Jack Montgomery, John Gottfried, and Jennifer Wilson answered questions at the lunch time Information Fair.

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(From Left to Right) John Gottfried, Jennifer Wilson, and Jack Montgomery at the Information Fair.

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John Gottfried and Jack Montgomery answering questions from new faculty members.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The afternoon presentation included a welcome from Dean Connie Foster and then presentations on reference services, LibGuides and databases from John 2013-08-28 16_07_17-New Faculty Orientation & Information Fair _ WKU Libraries BlogGottfried, catalogs and TopScholar from Deana Groves and Research Instruction from Bryan Carson.  Jack Montgomery explained collection development and our desire to partner with teaching faculty.  He also introduced our new Patron Driven Acquisition program which will launch this fall.  A collection of selected resources will be added to our TOPCAT online catalog and become part of our permanent collection the second time they are selected by patrons.  Katie King introduced the libraries’ social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Blog and our newest Pinterest).  The latter features pages on 2013-08-29 11_01_42-Greenshot capture formprograms and recent library acquisitions.  Brian Coutts talked about this year’s Literary Outreach programs including the Faraway Places and Kentucky Live series, the Kentucky Writer’s Conference, the Southern Kentucky Bookfest, One Book One Community reads program and Faraway Flix, a new series of foreign film nights.  He also discussed STACKMAP our new newest technical application which allows patrons to click on MAPIT in the public catalog to determine exact locations of circulating materials. Timothy Mullin talked about Library Specials Collections.  The New faculty received a copy of the libraries’ Centennial History.

 

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Link to the New Faculty Orientation Powerpoint:

New Faculty Orientation PowerPoint

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by | June 26, 2013 · 5:00 pm

Charles Smith recently returned from a conference in Bournemouth, England, where he was an invited speaker at the ‘Unremitting Passion for the Beauty and Mystery of the Natural World—Alfred Russel Wallace Centenary’ event held on 7 June at the University of Bournemouth.  The sponsoring organizations were the Linnean Society of London, the Society for the History of Natural History, and the University of Bournemouth.  Dr. Smith spoke on the subject ‘Wallace on Natural Selection: What Did He Really Have in Mind?’  The following day he and other attendees were bused out to the site of Wallace’s grave, and were entertained by a nature walk nearby.

Dr. Smith speaking at the conference

Dr. Smith speaking at the conference

Dinner at Bournemouth

Dinner after the conference for invited speakers.

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Wallace’s gravesite, with marker consisting of a petrified tree trunk.

 

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by | June 25, 2013 · 6:13 pm

Renovations are underway at Cravens Library

cravens_construction_insets_finConstruction workers are making great improvements to the rooftop area of Cravens Library. Work began May 13 to fix the wall around the roof and the roof. To ensure a safe environment, the exterior of the building has been fenced off to patrons; however, the building is open and accessible through the ground and 4th floor entrances as well as the Helm Java City entrance. All entrances are expected to be open at the beginning of the Fall semester in August.

According to Daniel Peach, Library Facilities Coordinator, the renovation was definitely needed. “The roof has been in disrepair for some time now, most recently leading to massive leaking on the 7th, 8th, and 9th floors of Cravens,” said Peach.

The roof repairs are scheduled to continue through October 11, but will not limit access to the building in any way.

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by | May 6, 2013 · 4:54 pm

WKU Libraries & University Expreience Undergraduate Research Award Ceremony

WKU Libraries & University Expreience Undergraduate Research Award winners

WKU Libraries and the University Experience program presented awards honoring the winners of the 2013 WKU Libraries & University Experience Undergraduate Research Award.

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by | April 22, 2013 · 9:03 pm

Cookbook Authors at the 15th Southern Kentucky Bookfest, April 20, 2013

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KY and Southern cookbook authors at the 2013 Southern Kentucky Bookfest. (From left to right) Paul & Angela Knipple, Maggie Green, and Bobbie Smith Bryant.

The 9:00 a.m. session at this year’s Southern Kentucky Bookfest featured Kentucky and Southern cookbook authors.

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Author Bobbie Smith Bryant displaying a family heirloom, a handmade quilt.

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by | March 13, 2013 · 2:48 pm

Dr. Charles Smith lectures in Mexico City

Charles Smith has just returned from a three-day conference in Mexico City at which he gave an invited lecture on the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.  The host institution was UNAM, the most prominent Mexican university.  Smith will also be speaking at three other international conferences later this year, one in New York, and two in England.

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Main Library at UNAM

 

 

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by | September 18, 2012 · 7:06 pm

Vogue Archive at WKU Libraries

Western Kentucky University Libraries have recently added the complete archives of Vogue magazine to our electronic resource collection. As the publisher describes this useful database:

“The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. In addition to the editorial content, all covers, advertisements and pictorial features have been captured as separate documents to allow for searching and discovery. You can also limit your search by journal editor, to find items published during the editorship of, say, Diana Vreeland (1963-71) or Anna Wintour (1988-present).”

This database will be a highly valuable resource across many disciplines, including:
• Textiles and dress
• Fashion history
• Popular culture
• Gender studies
• Photography and graphic design
• Marketing and advertising

This resource if available both on- and off-campus (off-campus users will log in with their NetID and password). We are delighted to be able to offer the Vogue Archive, and we invite all our library users to try it out soon!

Need help? Call Library Reference at 270-745-6176, or ask us online.

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by | June 12, 2012 · 4:53 pm

Spectrum Quilt on View at Shelburne Museum

Quilts on exhibit at the Shelburne Museum

George Yarrall Spectrum Quilt (L) and quilts by Albert Small (R) and Charles Pratt (B.) Photo courtesy of the Shelburne Museum.

 

 

Composed of more than 66,000 pieces, the unique Spectrum Quilt can be seen through October 28 as part of an exhibit, Man-Made Quilts: the Civil War to the Present, at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. Its maker, George Yarrall, was an immigrant from New Zealand who worked as an engraver at Morris Jewelry in Bowling Green, KY.  Yarrall not only kept the colored paper template used in designing the textile, he also recorded in a handwritten note that the quilt was started on July 2, 1933 and finished two years later on December 30, 1935. The Spectrum Quilt is one of four quilts in the Kentucky Museum collection of nearly 200 quilts that are attributed to men.

 

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by | May 14, 2012 · 1:28 pm

Kentucky Museum Quilts on Exhibit at National Quilt Museum

Kentucky Museum quilts at the National Quilt Museum

Kentucky Museum quilts on view at the National Quilt Museum

Two basket pattern quilts from the Kentucky Museum are featured in the “New Quilts from an Old Favorite 2012: Baskets & Antique Basket Quilts” exhibit at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah. On view through July 10, the exhibit explores the relationship between traditional and contemporary interpretations of the basket pattern. Learn more about the exhibit.

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by | April 20, 2012 · 6:20 pm

Matthew Lyon: A Lion For Free Speech

 A broadside found in the Moore House at 801 State Street in Bowling Green reveals resolutions supporting Matthew Lyon and his bid for the election of 1802. Lyon was born in Ireland in 1749 but immigrated to Connecticut in 1764. He served with the Green Mountain Boys and lived in Vermont before moving to Kentucky. He served four terms as the Congressional Representative from the Western District of Kentucky and was first elected in the fall of 1802.  Lyon was the first person to be put to trial for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts and criticizing President John Adams thus becoming a defender of free speech rights. The broadside entitled, Resolutions of the Corresponding Society was produced in Russellville, KY and condemns the criticisms of Lyon. For more information about this and other Special Collections library materials see our search engine, KenCAT.

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