The Macy’s Use Book Sale has been a great success thanks to the volunteers’ hard work and the patron’s generous support. Here’s a photo album of the event.
Proceeds made from the book sale will be used to help fund the Southern Kentucky Book Fest, which will take place April 20 and 21, 2007 at Sloan Convention Center, Bowling Green, Kentucky. You are welcome to the two-day event.
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Kentucky Live! program organized by the WKU Libraries presented “Historic Kentucky” by Photographer James Archambeault at Barnes & Noble on February 8.
If you happened to miss the event, you can view a photo album of the event. You can also listen to the recording of the lecture or subscribe to this Podcast to listen to it on the go.
For more than 20 years, Archambeault has worked as an independent photographer specializing in nature and landscape. His work has appeared in many national publications including Architectural Digest, National Geographic and Time-Life Books, to name a few, and has been exhibited in most of the premier art shows. Learn more at http://www.jamesarchambeault.com/.
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Black History Month @ your Library is a partnership project of Western Kentucky University Libraries, Barnes & Noble, Bowling Green Public Library and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. To learn more visit: www.sokybookfest.org
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On Saturday, January 27, thirteen individuals learned how to adapt and change the basic nine patch block into several variations. This activity was the closing event in a series of programs offered with the Nature’s Bounty: Quilts and More exhibit.
More photos.
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Thelma Green is a local artist and one of several who in February 2006 painted an 18′ mural celebrating the life of Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. and his involvement with the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s. Thelma’s works were exhibited at the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce in August 2005 and The Kentucky Museum in April 2006.
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You can search TOPCAT by series title “Early American Imprints, First Series” and get all 36,305 or, if you know a specific title or want to limit to a subject category, you can also search in that way and limit to microform. Below is an example of one title now in TOPCAT.
Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
February 1, 2007
Over 120 artists, students, and admirers turned out Sunday, January 21st for the opening reception of Side by Side: VSA arts 2007. The result of a partnership between Kentucky Library & Museum and VSA arts of Kentucky, Side by Side includes eighty-five pieces of art by professional artists, students’ work from VSA arts classes, and collaborative pieces between the professional artists and students.
Photos from opening.
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WKU Libraries offers several new electronic journal packages that allow access to impressive numbers of titles for existing or fewer dollars.
Just activated are the following: (1) ACM Digital Library, accessed through ACM Portal. A collection of 19 journals and magazines, 26 transactions, over 85 conference proceedings, SIG newsletters, and the ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature; (2) IEEE Computer Society Magazine Package, providing access to 14 journals (whereas previously we subscribed to 7) and backfiles to 1988. This is a subset of the IEEE Digital Library; and (3) SpringerLink consortial arrangement through ESIG (EPSCoR Scientific Information Group) that gives users access to over 1,200 Springer titles and subsidiary companies, but we pay only for our current titles. 33 titles = 1,200+ titles. Not bad! and many disciplines are covered, such as economics, marketing, psychology, educational leadership, sociology, mathematics.
Additionally, we are adding individual online titles for public health and nursing. Check with your library liaison for more information; search TOPCAT for titles and links or TDNet, our online e-journal management system.
Connie Foster, Head
Library Technical Services
January 25, 2007
The Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners’ annual One Book-One Campus-One Community project kicked off in the leisure room of the Helm Library on the afternoon of January 25, 2007. Mike Binder, Dean of the Libraries, opened the event and English Professor Marya Waters introduced The Memory Keepers Daughter, the book selected for reading as well as its award-winning author Kim Edwards. Free books were distributed to attendees of the event.
If you happened to have missed the event, you may revisit it through this photo album and listen to the mp3 recording or subscribe to the podcast to listen on the go from the Libraries’ Podcast web site.
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