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Tomorrow, Friday, April 26th, in Helm 5 from 10:00-11:00am. Brian Coutts, Head of the Department of Library Public Services will present his best reference books of 2011. He has been choosing the Best Reference Books for the past 26 years. Among some of the chosen titles are: American Menswear, Atlas of the Great Plains, The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, and the Oxford Companion to Beer. Please come and join us for the presentation followed by a discussion session and refreshments.

Membership Directory, 1980-1981

Members of the now disbanded Bowling Green Warren County Medical Society Alliance have donated the records of their organization to the Manuscripts & Folkife Archives at WKU.  If not for these posterity-minded individuals, the organization might only be remembered for two nursing scholarships that it administered for many years.  These scholarships–the Newman & Lena Harris Scholarship (begun in 1972) and the Maydelle Johnson Funk Scholarship (started in 1978)–will continue to be awarded annually to WKU nursing students under the aegis of the College Heights Foundation.

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During Southern Kentucky Book Fest on April 21, 2012, some of the authors read their books at the West Lobby in the Knicely Convention Center.

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Meet the Authors Reception took place on the evening of Friday, April 20, 2012, a night before the SOKY Book Fest took place at the Knicely Convention Center on WKU’s South Campus. The annual Kentucky Literary Award ceremony also came to pass in the same venue at the same time.

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This year, the Kentucky Writers Conference and the SOKY Book Fest Children’s Day coordinators teamed up to bring you the Children’s Writers Conference on Friday, April 20, 2012. Authors offered three presentations on writing and illustrating topics to students during the day.

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The Southern Kentucky Book Fest was a two-day community event. Day 1 was Children’s Day which was held Friday, April 20. It was devoted to school children in grades K-12, librarians, and educators. Students had the opportunity to meet and hear from their favorite authors, participate in dramatic and musical performances, and exercise their creativity in the make and do area. It was lots of fun for teachers and parents, too!

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Faculty members had their monthly meeting in the Glasgow Regional Campus Library and celebrated National Library Week on April 18, 2012. Interim Dean Connie Foster joined them at the reception, where a delicious cake was served with other light refreshments. Door prized were given out at the conclusion of the reception.

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Today a large crowd gathered to hear celebrated song-stylist and WKU Residence Hall Director Lauren Cunningham perform her musical magic which ranged from soulful jazz to blues to the Beatles. Ms. Cunningham was accompanied by guitarist James Michael Meece and guest performer Ashley Coulter took the stage to add her own musical enchantment.

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Good news! Google Scholar confirms that all Digital Commons sites, including TopSCHOLAR, are ” fully optimized for Google Scholar crawlers.”  Bepress continues to work with Google Scholar to facilitate crawling and thus indexing the content in Digital Commons repositories.

If you want to learn more about this indexing and access, there are forthcoming webinars:

Webcast: Indexing Repository Content in Google Scholar
Presenter: Darcy Dapra – Partner Manager, Google Scholar
Date: Tuesday, June 19th, 11am Pacific
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/883942882

Webcast: Optimizing Repository Content for Google and Google Scholar
Presenter: bepress
Date: Wednesday, July 11th, 9am Pacific (for U.S., Canada, and Europe)
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/177667794
Date: Wednesday, July 11th, 5pm Pacific (Thursday, July 12th, 10am Eastern Australia)
Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/704157826