Leamj, WKU student, Louisville native and successful rap artist, performed his unique musical style for the lunch crowd at the Java City patio on September 23, 2008.
WKU Student Performed at Java City
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Faraway Places: Panama
Aristófanes Cedeño, Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of the Panamanian Studies Program and Academic Dean of the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program at the University of Louisville, talked about Panama in the Faraway Places Series on Thursday, September 18th at Barnes & Noble.
Born and raised in Panama, Dr. Cedeño earned a law degree at the University of Panama before moving to the U.S. and obtaining his Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Michigan State University. Recently he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Humanities Council, and was named one of the twenty-five most influential Hispanics in Louisville because of his contributions to education in Kentucky and to the Latino Legal Clinics organized by the Louisville Bar Association.
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Web Resources on the U. S. Constitution
The Libraries celebrate the U. S. Constitution on Constitution Day, September 17. Follow the links on the web site to the National Archives and the Library of Congress for Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers, dates of ratification by the states, an interactive Constitution and a time line, among others.
Beyond 1,000 for TopSCHOLARâ„¢
TopSCHOLARâ„¢ surpassed the 1,000th mark today, reaching 1004 papers in The Research and Creative Activity Database of Western Kentucky University. What else? Over 12,000 downloads to date, graduate theses being routinely uploaded and the SelectedWorks personal researcher sites being created to increase the accessiblity of faculty works.
Do you want your productivity published in TopSCHOLAR? Do you need to publish and cannot find the right outlet? Tired of bad links and want permanent URLs? Check out digitalcommons.wku.edu and contact Connie Foster soon.
Posted Sept. 12, 2008
Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
Push Articles to Your Desktop with TDNet!
Locate the TDNet (Find e-journals and more) link on the left-column of the WKU Libraries Home Page (www.wku.edu/Library):
Does the library have the electronic version of Journal X? The database I used referred me to Journal ABC. Does WKU have it? My class has a group project this semester on stem cell research and public ethics. Can we get weekly email updates on the latest developments? And the answer is …YES.
TDNet, a powerful electronic journal management system has four features: the A-Z list of journal titles to which we have access and links to the databases where they are found; links to publisher web sites; a link to TOPCAT for additional information; and My TDNet, an alerting service for use by individuals or classes to track subject or journal specific contents weekly.
Create your own user profile by journals or subjects for which you want table of contents alerts with links to the articles as they are published.
- Delivered into your email account
- Allows a professor to create a profile or profiles for classes so that groups can receive alerts if they are studying certain topics throughout the semester
- Have as many profiles as you like; track different research interests with different profiles.
What is this button? TOUR, an Open URL resolver, links a citation found in an indexing or abstracting database directly to the full-text access if available. The TOUR button signals a click to check for full-text access. 
As if that is not enough, Google Scholar displays WKU Link! Researchers can now “FindFullText@WKU†for Google Scholar hits when WKU has the cited work, thanks to TDNet and Google Scholar linking software.
Questions? Contact Connie Foster, Head, Library Technical Services (connie.foster@wku.edu)
Kentucky Live: Lonesome Cowgirls
WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! presented Kristine McCusker who spoke about her new book “Lonesome Cowgirls & Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio,” at Barnes and Noble on September 11 2008.
Popular between the two world wars, American barn dance radio evoked comforting images of a nostalgic and stable past for listeners beset by economic problems at home and worried about totalitarian governments abroad. Sentimental images such as the mountain mother and the chaste everybody’s-little-sister “girl singer” helped to sell a new consumer culture and move commercial country music from regional fare to national treasure. Kristine M. McCusker examines the gendered politics of these images through the lives and careers of six women performers.
Kristine M. McCusker is an associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. She is coeditor of A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music.
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Several Musicians Performed at Java City Lately
Lately at the Java City patio several musicians and groups have performed: The Celtic folk duet “Shadowdancer” on September 3, the Nashville alt-country recording artist Daniel Glen Timms on September 8, and WKU student band “Birdswim” on September 10.
These are among the concert series planned for this semester by The University Libraries/Java City Live Entertainment Committee. To get information about future concerts, please visit our Java City Concert Web site.
Photo albums: Shadowdancer | Daniel Glen Timms | Birdswim.
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The KYLM Fall Break Arts Day Camp
Going on from October 13 to 17 at 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., the Arts Day Camp is designed for children in grades 1-6. The cost is $100 per camper. Space is limited, so please register early. You may contact Lynne Ferguson (270-745-2594) or Christy Spurlock (270-745-6082).
Campers will create using a variety of traditional art media. Participants will experience book making, basket making, gourd painting, and more. They will tour Kentucky Museum exhibits including our newest permanent exhibit, “A Star in Each Flag: Conflict in Kentucky†Civil War exhibit. Campers will take a daily snack break with snacks supplied by the Museum.
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Library Faculty’s New Book Published!
Haiwang Yuan’s new book Princess Peacock: Tales from Other Peoples of China has been published!
China, the most populous country in the world, is also a nation of great diversity. In addition to the majority population of Han Chinese, there are 55 officially recognized national minorities–including Tibetan, Mongol, Manchu, Zhuang, Dai, and Gaoshan. The folklore of these minorities is often obscure and difficult to find in the English-speaking world, as is information about the people, their cultural histories, and their traditional customs. This book fills a gap by offering more than 50 representative folktales from China’s minorities, as well as background information on each of the ethnic groups.
Princess Peacock is a companion to Yuan’s The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales of the Han Chinese, published in 2006. Carefully selected from the fathomless reservoirs of Chinese folklore, the tales from the books combined give the American reader a glimpse of the richness and diversity of a folk literature from an ancient and yet fast-modernizing China, which will definitely play an increasingly important role in world fairs, particularly after its successful hosting of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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| Chinese Students in ethnic costumes |
Listed in Marquis’s 2009 edition of Who’s Who in America and currently working on his two-volume encyclopedia on Chinese ethnic groups, Yuan is also serving on the editorial board for and contributing to the five-volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of China.
See If You Can Identify Anyone
University Archives are continually loading unidentified images on Flickr.
Please check it out and let us know if you can identify anyone in an image or share a memory about a person or an event that you find there.
For more information about the University Archives Photograph Collection: check out http://www.wku.edu/Library/dlsc/ua/pc.htm.
Suellyn Lathrop, University Archivist/Records Officer
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