Those interested in film and video will be pleased to learn that electronic access is now available to the Journal of Film and Video through WKU Libraries’ Project Muse Collection Standard Collection. This publication “focuses on scholarship in the fields of film and video production, history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics. Article features include film and related media, problems of education in these fields, and the function of film and video in society. The Journal does not ascribe to any specific method but expects articles to shed light on the views and teaching of the production and study of film and video.”
Coverage covers Vol. 60 (2008)-current issue.
A Log Cabin (Pineapple variation) quilt attributed to Emily Genevieve Marks Clay (1841-1923) of Nicholas County is currently featured in the exhibit, Log Cabins & Lincoln, at the 
Magical healings, ghostly encounters and alternative perceptions of reality have been a part of the history and culture of America since the settlement. Providing historical research to support personal narratives and field interviews, WKU Associate Professor and Librarian Jack Montgomery takes the reader into a largely hidden community that has its ancient roots in the African, German and Celtic cultures and is still active today despite the presence of our modern post-industrial society.
A rare Kentucky Library & Museum photograph of an 1872 Victoria Woodhull presidential campaign button is included in an exhibit entitled “Votes for Women” at the Brooklyn [NY] Museum. Victoria Woodhull is credited as being the first woman to run for the office of U.S. President. The exhibit curator was unable to locate an original of the button in any of the nation’s major political memorabilia collections. The exhibit is sponsored by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, which is associated with the Brooklyn Museum. The photograph comes from the Emanie (Nahm) Sachs Arling Phillips Manuscript Collection. Ms. Phillips authored a biography of Woodhull in 1928 entitled /The Terrible Siren/. The exhibit will run from February 16 to November 30, 2008.
Western Kentucky University Libraries is proud to announce the acquisition of the Historic Los Angeles Times database, which offers full-text content and images from every issue of the newspaper from Dec. 4, 1881-Dec. 31, 1986.