To commemorate the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the JFK Memory Project at WKU is collecting remembrances of Kennedy’s visit to Bowling Green on October 8, 1960 as a presidential candidate and or/memories of his assassination on November 22, 1963.
For more information about submitting a JFK remembrance, click here. Search TopSCHOLAR for WKU collections that contain information about JFK.
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Western Kentucky University Libraries has selected Same Sun Here, written by Silas House and Neela Vaswani, as the winner of the seventh Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award. The national award was created to honor the memory of former WKU librarian Evelyn Thurman, who made significant contributions to children’s librarianship and literacy during her 25 years of service to the university and community. Books eligible for the award must be written or illustrated by a Kentucky author or illustrator or have a significant Kentucky-related connection.
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We’ve Been Everywhere speaker series featured Technical Services Librarian Jack Montgomery on Tuesday, September 24 with his program “Remembering Grandma’s Hoodoo: The Current Revivial of Folk Spirituality and Magic.” Approximately 30 faculty and staff attended the program and were intrigued with Montgomery’s topic of discussion.
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The Gulf: The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East
by Michael Cairo
Transylvania University political scientist Michael Cairo is the opening speaker in this year’s Far Away Places series. He’ll be speaking on Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore (1680 Campbell Lane) about his new book The Gulf: The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East published recently by the University Press of Kentucky and about recent events in the Middle East. A book signing will follow.
Michael Cairo
Cairo is a native of Clifton Park near Saratoga, New York. Growing up he had ambitions to save the world but shifted these to focus on a career in International Relations. After an MA and PhD in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, he’s taught political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, Southern Illinois University, the University of Kentucky and Georgetown College. In 2010 he joined the faculty of Transylvania University as an Associate Professor.
His interest in the Middle East stems from his interest in building understanding across cultures and he has visited Israel and Palestine most recently in July 2012 and May 2013. His newest project is a second book focusing on U.S.- Israeli Relations.
Far Away Places Event Flyer
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From Left to Right: Keiko Fujii, Connie Foster, and Dr. Brian Coutts
This friendly email from Keiko Fujii, Project Manager for Cultural & International Exchanges for the City of Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, announces the continuation of this three decades old Sister City Exchange Program which dates from 1995. The exchange has involved visits of municipal officials to Japan including former Bowling Green Mayor Elaine Walker and Warren County Judge Executive Mike Buchanan and visits of the Mayor of Kawanishi and Japanese business officials to Bowling Green. It has also brought Japanese students to Bowling Green for two week school experiences and stays with host families.
Dr. Brian Coutts and Keiko Fujii
Book given as a gift from the City of Kawanishi to WKU Libraries
WKU Libraries have exchanged library materials including books, magazines, CD’s and DVD’s with the City of Kawanishi and their public library. This year’s gift included 27 books and videos on Japanese language and conversation. Ms Fujii accompanied students to Bowing Green this August and was a lunchtime guest of Dean of Libraries Connie Foster and Department of Library Public Services Head Brian Coutts on August 23. She also toured the new Augenstein Alumni Center. The exchange was featured in the Bowling Green Daily News on Tuesday, August 27.
View of WKU campus from the Augenstein Alumni Center
Keiko Fujii with Big Red
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Dr. Coutts with speaker Mike Veach at the book signing of
Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage
At 7:00 p.m. last Thursday, September 12, Mike Veach, the Associate Curator of Special Collections at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, KY discussed his latest book at Barnes & Noble about the the real story of Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey.
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The Southern Kentucky Book Fest partnership (Barnes & Noble, WKU Libraries, and Warren County Public Library) had over 60 books donated by author Maureen Wright. Ms. Wright had to cancel her visit to last year’s Book Fest at the last minute due to a family emergency, and rather than have the books returned to her, she asked the partnership to find a good home for them. Jennifer Wilson, Marketing Coordinator for WKU Libraries, took those books as well as other children’s books that were contributed by a host of authors and gave them to Dr. Mark Lowry and his staff in the pediatrics department at Graves Gilbert Clinic. Over 60% of Dr. Lowry’s patient base is comprised of children who are either uninsured or on Medicaid, and he did his pediatric residency in a clinic that distributed free books to children during their well child visits. Dr. Lowry is excited about the opportunity to assist the Book Fest partnership fulfill its mission to encourage reading and a love of books, and to be a positive force for promoting literacy in the area.
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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.
(From Left to Right) John Gottfried, Jennifer Wilson, and Jack Montgomery at the Information Fair.
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 
Gottfried, 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 
programs 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.
Link to the New Faculty Orientation Powerpoint:
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Last Wednesday, WKU Libraries faculty and staff assembled in Helm 100 for the annual employee kick off led by Dean Connie Foster. The group welcomed Huda Melky, Equal Opportunity Director and ADA Coordinator for WKU, who gave a presentation focusing on disability issues and Corie Martin, Manager of WKU Creative Web Services for Public Affairs, who discussed Marketing, Social Media and topics relevant to promotion for the library. Connie gave a brief overview of the year and introduced new faculty and staff for the Libraries.
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