Brian E. Coutts, professor and head of the Department of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, has been awarded the 2014 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award. Congratulations!
For details, please read the news release from American Library Association.
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Folk Studies Professor Ann Ferrell discussed “Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century” in our Kentucky Live Series on Thursday, February 13 at Barnes & Noble Bookstore.
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The annual minutes of Drake’s Creek Baptist Association have been recently acquired by the WKU Special Collections Library. There are scattered issues of the minutes from 1847 – 1962. The associational meetings were held in Allen, Simpson, Barren or Warren counties in Kentucky and a few Tennessee counties like Gallatin, Robertson, and Sumner as well.
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Liberator
The anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, has been recently acquired by the WKU Special Collections Library. William Lloyd Garrison was the editor and J. B. Yerrinton & Son were the printers. These newspapers were published from 1831-1865 from the Anti-slavery office in Boston. The motto of the newspaper, “Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind” can be seen below the front page, pictorial depiction of slavery. The Special Collections Library now features 14 original print copies of various issues from 1853-1864 of this anti-slavery newspaper to add to the SCL newspaper collection. Special thanks to Jonathan Jeffrey for noticing these important newspapers in a Texas store, while on the holiday break.
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January 27, 2014 · 4:01 pmDue to inclement weather, WKU Libraries will be closing early today, December, 6th. The Education Resource Center will close at 4:30 pm, the Visual and Performing Arts Library will close at 5:00pm, and the Helm-Cravens library will close at 8:00pm.
Thank you for understanding. Please be cautious if you must travel.
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Award-winning author Neela Vaswani was eagerly welcomed by more than one hundred students and educators at Moss Middle School on Friday, November 22. Vaswani traveled from New York City to be recognized with co-author Silas House for their book, Same Sun Here. The two authors attended a luncheon later that day to receive the 2013 Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award.
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Evelyn Thurman Award recipients for Fall 2013 are Silas House & Neela Vaswani for their co-written book Same Sun Here.
On November 22, 2013, WKU Libraries hosted an awards luncheon in the Kentucky Building to honor the two winners of the Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award for 2013: Silas House and Neela Vashwani, co-authors of Same Sun Here, a novel for middle graders made up of letters exchanged between an Indian immigrant girl in New York City and a rural Kentucky coal miner’s son.
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Several faculty, staff, and students showed their campus spirit by donning book character costumes and walking the WKU Homecoming Parade last Friday night. Krystin Avakian, graphic designer and student worker for the Dean’s Office, said the parade was a lot of fun. “We had a great time,” said Avakian. “I went as Sherlock Holmes and carried my magnifying glass and pipe.”
Crystal Bowling, organizer of the parade, credits a great team of people that contributed to the evening’s success. “It was a great turnout and I have to thank everyone who was involved,” said Bowling. “A special thanks goes out to Amanda Hardin and Paula Bowles for rallying student assistants and allowing them to participate.”
The parade began in the middle of WKU campus and continued down State Street to Fountain Square Park.
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JFK riding in the Bowling Green motorcade, 1960. Donated by Gerald Givens.
Over the past two months approximately 100 people have submitted remembrances of John F. Kennedy’s (JFK) visit to Bowling Green in October 1960 or of his 1963 assassination in Dallas to the JFK Memory Project at WKU. Many of them have been quite touching. Eventually all the remembrances will be archived for posterity in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives of the Special Collections Library. Besides remembrances, people have also donated memorabilia and photographs such as the one featured here that was given by Gerald Givens. Because of the good response, the deadline for remembrances to be submitted has been extended until Presidents Day, Monday, February 17, 2014.
Here are two brief, but memorable, local remembrances:
“The next day, I traveled to Bowling Green with my Dad and Granddad to see Western play Murray in the last regular season game of the year. Many games were cancelled across the country. Western was undefeated and went on to win that cold day….but what I remember most was that a lone bugler stuck his bugle out a window from the old fieldhouse….and in total silence the crowd stood while he played “Taps” in memory of the President.” Bill Edwards, Bowling Green
“As I recall the autumn of 1963 was dry but towards the last of November a change in the weather was expected. My raincoat needed replacing so on November 22 I met my mother for lunch at the Dixie Café and then went to Norman’s to shop. Just as I was trying on a coat, a distraught Ruby Norman approached us to say the President had been shot. The three of us stood together, a trio of agonized disbelief. Soon I bought the coat and went in search of more news. As many others did, I saw and heard Walter Cronkite’s announcing Kennedy’s death. And the world was forever changed. As for the raincoat, I never wore it.” Ann Dickey, Bowling Green
To see more about the JFK Memory Project at WKU click here. To send a remembrance, simply type your thoughts in an e-mail to mssfa@wku.edu or send it as an attachment to the message.
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Wes Berry, Associate Professor & Graduate Adviser, Dept. of English, WKU
Wes Berry spoke about Kentucky Barbecue in an encore presentation of our Kentucky Live series on Thursday, November 7. A reception sponsored by WKU-Glasgow followed.
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