On the evening of March 17 at Barnes & Noble, the WKU Libraries’ “Far Away Places” international talk series featured Professor John All from WKU’s Department of Geography & Geology. While studying climate change in the Himalayas in 2010 as part of the Fulbright Scholar program, he scaled the treacherous northeast ridge and reached the summit of Mount Everest, at 29,035 ft. the world’s highest mountain on May 23rd.
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Home Economics
The Department of Domestic Science & Domestic Arts is turning 100 this year! Never heard of it? That’s because the department has had several names and moved about on the organizational chart a few times:
Domestic Science & Domestic Arts 1911-1913
Domestic Economy 1914-1923
Home Economics 1924-1969
Home Economics & Family Living 1969-1995
Consumer & Family Sciences 1995-2010
Family & Consumer Sciences 2011-present
A contract signed January 3, 1911 between the Peabody Foundation and the WKU Board of Regents formalized a grant of $2000 to create the department by April 4 of the same year. Since then the department has been housed in the College of Education (1911-1969; 1981-2000), the now defunct College of Applied Arts & Health (1969-1981) and the College of Health & Human Services (2001-present). The departmental records have been processed and three finding aids created reflecting the administrative changes over the last 100 years.
Some of the treasures housed in University Archives created by the department include the Book of Instructions in Domestic Science in Warren County Schools, 1912; Linkages, newsletter and photographs such as the one shown here of Evadine Parker and an unidentified student. Let us know if you can identify her.
These and additonal records are available for researchers through our online catalog, KenCat and in the Harrison-Baird Reading Room of the Kentucky Library & Museum Monday – Saturday, 9 – 4.
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It appears the power may not be restored until later Friday afternoon, so Cravens Library will remain CLOSED tomorrow and will reopen on Saturday from 10am-2pm and resume regular hours on Sunday.
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New at WKU Libraries! Online full text access to 42 premier Lippincott nursing journals, including AJN, ANS, CIN, JONA, MCN, and many more. Visit the WKU Libraries Database page or the Research Guide for Nursing at http://libguides.wku.edu/nursing to access.
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Due to planned power upgrade, Cravens library will be closed next week.
Helm library will remain open and the following changes will apply:
• A circulation desk will be setup at the JAVA CITY entrance in HELM for book checkout and returns.
• The Interlibrary Loan office in Helm 107 will be used for library obligations (i.e. fines, etc.) or if a book needs to be retrieved from Cravens Library for patrons.
Work will be going on in Helm so please exercise caution. Cravens library is tentatively scheduled to re-open Friday at 8am. Please call the reference desk with questions 745-6125.
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Cale Young Rice & Alice Hegan Rice dine in Japan, 1905 (Kentucky Library & Museum)
The Rice Collection of letters, scrapbooks and photos at WKU’s Special Collections Library has been extensively used in the research and writing of a new book about Shelbyville native and author Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942). In Beyond the Cabbage Patch: The Literary World of Alice Hegan Rice (Butler Books, 2010), Mary Boewe chronicles the life and times of Alice and her husband, poet and dramatist Cale Young Rice. As Boewe shows, Alice Hegan Rice’s novel Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch–a 1901 bestseller that became an “industry” in the manner of Harry Potter–was only one achievement in a life that encompassed authorship of more than two dozen books, exotic travel, and acquaintance with a wide circle of public and literary figures such as Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Watson Gilder, Ida Tarbell, Edith Wharton and Henry Watterson.
After a trip to Japan in 1905, Cale Young Rice included his impressions of the country in a poetic collection he published as Plays and Lyrics. In a letter that is part of the Rice Collection, Cale’s fellow poet Madison Cawein praised his Japanese poems as truly representative of “the mystic spirit of the East.” Cale’s travels and partnership with Alice were essential to his work; not only did the couple collaborate professionally, but Alice was unwavering in her support of his solo literary efforts. As Boewe notes, the creator of Mrs. Wiggs–one of the great literary phenomena of the early 20th century–loyally contrasted her “potboilers” with her husband’s “true” artistry.
A finding aid for the Rice Collection at the Special Collections Library can be downloaded here.
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As part of Kentucky Literacy Week (February 28 through March 4, 2011) the Educational Resources Center (ERC) in Gary A. Randsdell Hall in partnership with College of Education and Behavioral Sciences’ School of Teacher Education hosted its first ever “Read-In” Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 4:00 -5:00 p.m. Everyone in the WKU community was invited to participate by bringing their favorite book–appropriate for all ages!–and read a short selection.
Promoted statewide by First Lady Jane Beshear, the celebrations are intended to highlight literacy in Kentucky, celebrating the accomplishments and focusing on the challenges. The event drew a large crowd of participants including students, staff, faculty and children. WKU’s First Lady Julie Ransdsell opened with a story from Dr. Seuss; Gordon Baylis, Vice-President for Research, read a chapter from acclaimed London novelist Ian McEwan; the Provost, Gordon Emslie, read a classic baseball story by Roger Angell, sports columnist from the New Yorker which highlighted the final game of the 1978 American League season between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox (the Red Sox lost); the Dean of Libraries, Mike Binder, read a section from Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451. Brian Coutts, Department Head of Libraries Public Services, read a section from Man Martin’s humorous novel, Days of the Endless Corvette, Dr. Kay Gandy read from “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America” by Bill Bryson, and Professor Haiwang Yuan read an ethnic folktale “The Mother Who Drives the Sun” from his book Princess Peacock: Tales from the Other Peoples of China. Other contributors included Ellen Micheletti and Jack Montgomery, both from the WKU Libraries.
Education students participated as well: Penny Allison read a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first prominent African American poets, born in 1872 of parents who had escaped slavery in Kentucky; Jamie Silverberg read from the children’s book Enemy Pie by Derek Munson, Jonathan Large read a poem from Shel Silverstein’s popular Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Jessie Varner read from a picture book about Daniel Boone.
Roxanne Spencer, ERC Coordinator, co-hosted the Read-in @ the ERC event, along with Jennifer Montgomery, Literacy faculty member, who spearheaded this celebration. A reception followed.
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The US Bank Celebration of the Arts took place on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the Kentucky Building on WKU campus. Over 370 art pieces from about 200 artists were on display and awards were given to the winners in the competition.
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This Thursday, March 3 at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, University of North Alabama historian Matthew Schoenbachler talked about Kentucky’s most famous murder case. After his talk, Schoenbachler signed his new book Murder & Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy.
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With 5,446 items in WKU’s Research and Creative Activity Database, TopSCHOLAR® attained 201,219 full-text downloads to date and 121,999 downloads in the past year. Check out digitalcommons.wku.edu and contact connie.foster@wku.edu for more information on how your efforts can be accessed globally! TopSCHOLAR® allows for hosting conference sessions, publishing journals, and extending other intellectual efforts to the world.
Connie Foster, Head
Department of Library Technical Services
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