Used books are being accepted at Macy’s, Barnes & Noble, Warren County Public Library, and WKU Libraries.
Macy’s Used Book Sale
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Brian Coutts Named 2014 Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award winner
Brian E. Coutts, professor and head of the Department of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, has been awarded the 2014 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award. Congratulations!
For details, please read the news release from American Library Association.
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“Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century”
Folk Studies Professor Ann Ferrell discussed “Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century” in our Kentucky Live Series on Thursday, February 13 at Barnes & Noble Bookstore.
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Drake’s Creek Baptist Association
The annual minutes of Drake’s Creek Baptist Association have been recently acquired by the WKU Special Collections Library. There are scattered issues of the minutes from 1847 – 1962. The associational meetings were held in Allen, Simpson, Barren or Warren counties in Kentucky and a few Tennessee counties like Gallatin, Robertson, and Sumner as well.
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DLPS Professor Publishes New Book in Paris
Cover Enquête sur un Aventurier de l’Esprit: Le Véritable Alfred Russel Wallace by
Dr. Charles Smith
Charles Smith, Science Librarian, recently released a book in French: Enquête sur un Aventurier de l’Esprit: Le Véritable Alfred Russel Wallace, through the Paris publisher Editions de l’Evolution. Dr. Smith was asked to put together a series of essays on naturalist and social critic Wallace’s work for the French readership as part of worldwide celebrations of the one hundredth anniversary of his death in 1913. Wallace was a co-discoverer, with Darwin, of the principle of natural selection, and additionally made contributions to a range of studies in the natural and social sciences.
Joan Mondale
Big Red greets Joan Mondale at a WKU campaign rally, 1984 (Kevin Eans photo)
Joan Mondale, who died yesterday at age 83, was on the customary mission of a political spouse when she visited WKU on September 17, 1984. She was seeking support for her husband, former vice president Walter Mondale, the Democratic Party’s nominee to challenge President Ronald Reagan’s bid for re-election in November.
At a rally on DUC’s north lawn, Mrs. Mondale reminded the crowd of her husband’s sponsorship of Title IX legislation, which had allowed schools like WKU to develop strong women’s athletic programs. She also criticized the Reagan administration’s education policy, particularly its cuts to financial aid programs and low-interest loans.
After her speech, Warren County Judge Executive Basil Griffin presented Mrs. Mondale with a country ham–making her not the first or last dignitary to receive this token of appreciation. But this being WKU, she also received (and gamely waved) a red towel, courtesy of none other than Big Red. Having encouraged her husband to make history by choosing a woman to be his vice-presidential running mate (which he did, selecting Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro), Mrs. Mondale would have been pleased to know that inside the furry WKU mascot costume was Jessica Rappaport, the first female ever to play Big Red.
Search TopSCHOLAR and KenCat to learn about materials held by the Special Collections Library documenting campaign visits and other political activity in Bowling Green.
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January Out of the Box
Parking
Basketball program 12/12/1961 WKU vs Northwestern Louisiana University
BUWKY 1/1939 – college humor and poetry
Elevator 1/1914 – catch up with the classes of 1908-1913, read about basketball and the Training School 100 years ago
Gary Ransdell Reading File – collection inventory for presidential papers
Parking – WKU Archives records related to our favorite topic
Personnel File 1/1989 – lists new employees 25 years ago
Phi Alpha Theta – collection inventory for student organization papers
Rural Training School – building history, records and photos
Women’s Basketball – collection inventory of WKU Athletic records
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Bad Horse or Bad Company?
Fielding Bettersworth Inquest Report
They assembled on June 11, 1846 at the Bowling Green home of one Fielding Bettersworth, recently deceased. The task of the twelve citizens was to determine, at the behest of the Warren County coroner, the “when where how and after what manner” said Bettersworth departed this life. Having found no “marks of violence on his body,” and presumably having made such further and other inquiries as they deemed necessary, the panel concluded that the deceased had come to his end “by falling in water and mud and drowning being intoxicated at the time.”
The Manuscripts & Folklife Archives section of WKU’s Special Collections Library holds many other inquest reports in a large collection of Warren County court records currently being processed. Dating as far back as 1798, they include findings of death by routine misadventure–overindulgence in spirits, drownings, accidental gunshots, fires–or foul play, but also by more mysterious means. Take the 1811 case of a man found dead two miles west of Bowling Green, about 50, average height, “very corpulent,” with “no teeth in the under jaw except the eye tooth on the right side,” two fingers missing from the left hand. . . and a pair of bridle reins drawn tight around his neck. After describing in detail the man’s clothing and property, including “money amounting to about $75,” and finding that he had been travelling through the area with several other gentlemen, the inquest determined that death came after he “was strangled by the bridle reins, either by his horse or his company.”
Click here to access a finding aid for the inquest report on Fielding Bettersworth. For other collections of Kentucky court records, search TopSCHOLAR and KenCat.
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Health Clinic Reports
It’s flu season again. Regardless of the time of year the WKU Clinic sees patients all year round. In January 1964 the Western Clinic administered the following:
- 51 allergy immunizations
- 50 doses of insulin
- 92 respiratory system treatments
- 19 gastro-intestinal treatments
- 7 nervous system treatments
- 9 bones, joints & muscle treatments
- 49 accidents
- 15 eye, ear, nose, etc. treatments
- 17 wounds dressed
- 39 consultations
- 1 case of scarlet fever
- 3 cases of red measles
- 18 infirmary patients
- 36 students advised to see a physician
The entire year’s reports are available to researchers online at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/1852/
Stay warm and healthy!
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