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The Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award winners visited several elementary schools during their visit to Bowling Green. Illustrator Lynne Avril talked to students at Plano, Alvaton, and Dishman-McGinnis elementary schools and asked them to assist with drawing one of the characters from the winning book. Author George Ella Lyon visited Lost River Elementary School and told the children how reading and writing played a role in her  life growing up and how her experiences impacted her career. Both ladies completed their visit with a luncheon in their honor.

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On November 16, 2012, WKU Libraries honored this year’s winners of “Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Book Award” George Ella Lyon and Lynne Avril, author and illustrator respectively of the book The Pirate of Kindergarten, with a reception at the Kentucky Building. One of the highlights of the reception was a speech in honor of Thurman given by Linda, a student of hers from Tennessee. The reception concluded with a book-signing ceremony.

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Reward Poster for Stolen Mule

Recently while cleaning and organizing Commonwealth Court Cases in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives unit of the Special Collections Library, workers came across an 1876 indictment from the Warren County Grand Jury in which Burwell Jackson was accused of “unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously” stealing a mule, the property of Frank W. Jackson.  Included with the file is a carefully worded, but terse, broadside describing the mule.  Jackson presents the animal’s appearance in great detail, providing color, age, height, and other defining features:  “low carriage, heavy head, quick motioned, and marked by the harness; barefooted, and main (mane) and tail considerably grown out.”

The animal was apparently taken right from Jackson’s own stable, ten miles west of Bowling Green on the Gasper River.  Jackson proffered $25 for return of the animal and an additional $25 for “capture and conviction of the thief or thieves.”  To insure that all passersby would see the broadside, Jackson had the printer place at the bottom of the piece:  “Please post in a conspicuous place.” 

In testimony included in the jury’s deliberations, William Tisdale said that he did see “an advertisement of [a] stolen mule” and recognized the description as  being one held by Burrell Jackson of Logan County.  Mr. Jackson was indicted and charged with grand larceny.  Whether he was tried and convicted is still a mystery.  To see other court records held by the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, search TopSCHOLAR

On November 5, WKU Libraries’ Leadership Council, in addition to related personnel from the Special Collections Library and the Kentucky Museum, was given a tour of the Augenstein Alumni Center Building under construction on campus. Within the facility, there will be space for displaying special collections and museum objects. There will also be opportunities for the Libraries to use the spaces therein for marketing purposes.

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Rick Redman, VP for Corporate Communication for Hillerich & Bradsby was our guest. He talked about the history of the “Louisville Slugger” the iconic bat used by a majority of today’s major league baseball players as well as players in countless baseball, fastball and softball leagues around the country. This was part of WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! talk series taking place monthly at Barnes & Noble. Attending the event tonight were WKU Provost Gordon Emslie and Inerim Dean of WKU Libraries Connie Foster.
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Thank you all for your continued patience with the renovation of Cravens 4^th floor. Please express acknowledgement to the students too as you are able.  I wanted to provide a monthly update and let you know that everything is still on schedule for reopening in January. We’ve put banners on the walkway to Cravens and renderings inside Helm and Cravens to give you a glimpse of the transformation.

• Ceiling clouds are being hung to define Circulation Services, the laptop counter and the Single Service Point (Research, Technology, and Writing). Ceiling tiles and light panels are being installed. The grids have been painted to give a fresh look to the ceiling.
• November brings painting to be mostly completed, the carpentry to be finished, paneling to be installed, as well as carpeting and tile to be installed.
• Certain areas of the 4^th floor will be closed at different points through the month while the carpet and tile is being laid. During the week of November 12^th the main area will be carpeted and tiled. For the couple of days that the breezeway is being tiled/carpeted we will have to lock it and close it off. The lobby area will be getting tiled on the week of November 19^th (unless things are moved up), during which time the entrance off the bridge and access to that area of the floor will be closed off, presumably only for a few days.

We will let you know specifically when the 4^th floor entrance will not be available when the lobby area is being retiled as I know some students have concerns about access to that HigherOne ATM.

Thank you.

Connie Foster, Interim Dean
WKU Libraries

Thanks to Glenda, Jan, Jennifer, student Christine, and many others in the Libraries, it held another successful and fun Halloween Party this year. As usual the party featured potluck meals, costume contest, and door prizes.

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