Louisa May Alcott subject of film shown as part of SOKY Reads!
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Kentucky Library & Museum Fellowship
Fellowship recipient Matthew E. Stanley
Each year, the Kentucky Library & Museum awards up to three $500 fellowships to a faculty member or graduate student to encourage scholarly use of our nationally significant collections. One of this year’s recipients is Matthew E. Stanley, a doctoral student in American history at the University of Cincinnati.
A native of White County, Illinois, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Louisville respectively, Matt became interested in our collections as part of his research into regional and sectional identity in southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. How did people in the free states of what one historian has termed the “Lower North,” who had political, familial and cultural ties with the South and West, understand their regional and national identities during the war and reframe them afterward? How did people use the Ohio River as a “physical and metaphorical border” to define the meaning of the war? These are some of the questions Matt is exploring through the use of manuscript collections, rare books and newspapers in the Kentucky Library.
Invitations to apply for fellowships are distributed at the first of the year; review of applications begins early in April and recipients are notified in mid-April. For further information, contact Jonathan Jeffrey (jonathan.jeffrey@wku.edu) at the Kentucky Library & Museum. To learn more about our Civil War collections, search TopScholar and KenCat.
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Early Journal Content on JSTOR Now Available
Exciting news from JSTOR!
JSTOR materials published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere are now freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR.
You can access the new content through WKU’s JSTOR link on the Database page or directly If you are off campus, you will need to log in using your NetID and password. In the future, you can access the new early materials from anywhere in the world directly through this link.
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Global Health and Humanitarianism in Post-Soviet Georgia
University of Kentucky Anthropologist Erin Koch talked about her research in the Republic of Georgia and its dislocated people at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Bowling Green, Kentucky on the evening of September 15, 2011.
Photo Album | Podcast | Audio
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Folklife in the Digital Age
Digitization Equipment at Kentucky Library & Museum
WKU’s Manuscripts & Folklife Archives is a repository for papers and projects created by undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members in the WKU Folk Studies program. Established in the early 1970s, the archives provide an extensive and ever-growing source of knowledge about folk ways, art, beliefs and customs, and regional dialect and speech patterns.
Also included in the Folklife Archives are thousands of sound recordings–interviews, oral histories and musical performances–on reel-to-reel and cassette tapes. Advances in technology, however, are quickly rendering these formats obsolete. With the aid of recently acquired equipment, we are now working hard to digitize these recordings and store them electronically, in order to preserve their unique content and make them more accessible to researchers.
For more information on our folklife collections, search TopScholar and KenCat.
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Introduction to Government Documents
The following blog post is part of an ongoing series on the government documents collection.
Introduction to Government Documents
The government documents and law librarian at WKU is Rosemary Meszaros. Her office can be found in the basement of Helm Library, on the same level as the government documents and law collection.
Government documents can be searched for using the library’s new OneSearch search interface. Simply type your topic into the search box and click “Search.” Once your results have been listed, you can refine your search to only government documents by choosing the options which contain “Government” in the location refinement options.
When clicking on a listing for a government document, you will notice that the location is not formatted using the Library of Congress Classification System. Instead, it uses the Superintendent of Documents classification system, developed by the Government Printing Office (GPO). In it, documents are grouped by the government agency or department that published the materials. Major agencies are identified by an assigned letter and then further broken down by number into the subordinate offices. These are further broken down into series.
For example:
D is the Department of Defense.
D 101 is the Army
D 201 is the Navy
D 214 is the Marine Corps
D 301 is the Air Force
These are all sub-departments of the Department of Defense.
HS is the Department of Homeland Security
HS 7 is the U.S. Coast Guard, now under the control of the Department of Homeland Security
In the next installment, we will begin exploring the materials WKU’s Government Documents collection has to offer.
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September Reference Book Display: 10 Years at War
Stop by the reference area to see our display 10 Years at War, featuring books on terrorism, Afghanistan, and military service. These books were chosen to highlight the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, and the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform. These books all come from our reference collection, and are just a sampling of what there is on the topic.
Books on Display
- Encyclopedia of the American armed forces by Alan Axelrod UA23 .A875 2005 (2 volumes)
- Military life : the psychology of serving in peace and combat / edited by Thomas W. Britt, Carl Andrew Castro and Amy B. Adler. U22.3 .M485 2006 (4 volumes)
- United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients : a comprehensive registry, including U.S. Navy medical personnel honored for serving Marines in combat / edited by George B. Clark. VE495.3 U53 2005
- Air warfare: an international encyclopedia / edited by Walter J. Boyne ; associate editors, Michael Fopp … [et al.] ; foreword by Michael J. Dugan. UG628 .A73 2002 (2 volumes)
- Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency / W. Thomas Smith, Jr. UB251.U5 S63 2003
- Afghanistan / Noah Berlatsky, book editor. JQ1769.A15 A325 2010
- Terrorism : essential primary sources / K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, editors. HV6431 .T465 2006
- Military communications : from ancient times to the 21st century / Christopher H. Sterling, Editor. UG590 .M56 2008
- The Encyclopedia of warships : from World War II to the present day / general editor, Robert Jackson. V765 .E53 2006
- Atlas of the Middle East. National Geographic Society (U.S.). Book Division. G2205 .N34 2003
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Maggie Green and “The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook”
Maggie Green, a seasonal cooking expert who specializes in culinary nutrition from Lexington, Kentucky, spoke at our WKU Libraries Kentucky Live series in Barnes and Noble about her new book The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook on the evening of September 8, 2011.
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Java City Noon concerts begin
The Java City Noontime Concert Series opened today with singer songwriter Ned Hill of Nashville, TN. Mr Hill, lead singer for the band Ned Van Go entertained the crowd with his original songs and unique interpretations of American roots music.
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Want to Meet Alexander Hamilton?
Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull
Well, sorry, he’s still dead. But now you can view over 12,500 of his documents and get to know him that way through the “Papers of Alexander Hamilton“. This is thanks to a digital archive newly published by Alexander Street Press.
You can access the database directly through this link if you’re on campus or through our WKU Libraries homepage by going to Databases -> American Founding Era -> Papers of Alexander Hamilton.
If you are off campus, you will be asked to log in using your NetID and Password.
Enjoy!
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