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Easy
Access to Library Databases via EZProxy
by
Jue Wang
Most
of the university’s subscription-based online databases
and e-journals are now available off-campus via the EZProxy
server. Faculty, staff, and students will be able to log-in
to these databases using a WKU-issued email account username
and password.
For those databases that cannot be accessed through the Proxy
server, you can call the Library Reference Desk at (270) 745-6125
for a password, or you can e-mail web.reference@wku.edu for
that information. Friends of the Libraries will need an ID
and password to access the licensed online resources. Please
contact the Reference Desk for this information.
Education
programming for 2003-2004
by
Lynn Ferguson
Education
programming for the 2003-2004 academic year will again focus
on the highly successful art workshops for students and community
groups around the region. Lynne Ferguson, artist-in-residence
at the Kentucky Library and Museum, will develop workshops
to highlight exhibits like the "Wright Approach: Wilbur
and Orville and Their Flying Machine" and themes like
life on the Kentucky frontier. Holiday programming will include
a discussion of how Victorian Christmas customs developed
and the making of a Victorian Christmas ornament for elementary
students.
Several
teacher workshops are also planned for the coming year. They
include Quilts Cover the Curriculum, Oral History in the Classroom,
art workshops, and Using Photographs in the Classroom. It
promises to be a very busy and successful year involving thousands
of students and teachers, as well as area community members
who are part of education programs at the Kentucky Library
and Museum.
Recent
Acquisitions
by
Jonathan Jeffrey
Potter
College Annual—University Archives was elated
this summer when Mrs. Mary L. Moore of Pensacola, Florida
donated a copy of the 1906 yearbook of Potter College for
Young Ladies. Our collection had included Potter College’s
other three known annuals, but we learned from Mr. Ken Stringer,
a relative of Mrs. Moore’s who visited the Archives
in 2000, of the existence of this missing 1906 volume. Mr.
Stringer’s mother, Inez Huffines, had attended Potter
College before her death in 1919 from influenza. We are grateful
to Inez’s descendants for remembering our plea to help
us complete our collection of yearbooks for this private school
that stood on the site of Cherry Hall at the turn of the century.
With its beautiful photographs of the students and its record
of their athletic club and sorority activities, the 1906 annual
is (as the young ladies would say) “charming.”
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Collages—Manuscripts
and Archives are pleased to report a recent donation of several
handmade greeting cards. Mary Kimbrough of Bowling Green created
these cards that contain miniature collage designs created
from minute pieces of colored paper cut from postage stamps.
Mary cut the stamps, which were one color in the early 1940s,
into small pieces using scissors. Then she designed them into
collages, even creating a 3-D effect on one of the cards.
Even more amazing is the fact that Mary made these cards after
being diagnosed with A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig’s disease),
which caused her right hand to be permanently clenched. To
be able to write, Mary held the pen between her thumb and
index finger of her right hand. She then used her left hand
to guide her right one, with the result being beautiful calligraphy
to accompany her lovely collages.
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Photographs—The
Kentucky Library houses a collection of approximately 12,000
photographs. Although the subject matter of the collection
varies greatly, the bulk of the images relate to Kentucky
and more specifically the south-central region. Shirley Howell
of Bowling Green recently donated two black and white 8x10
photographs of Bowling Green postmen to the collection. Although
these were posed photographs, library staff enthusiastically
added them to the collection, because images of people at
work are scarcer than the more common head-and-shoulders portrait.
The postman featured here is Clarence Hubert Owens (1887-1918)
who was a parcel post carrier for the post office. He died
at the age of 30 during the great Spanish Influenza epidemic.
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Cigar
Case—During the late Victorian period, the
income of many Americans rose, as did their desire for sterling
silver and silverplated personal items, household accessories
and serving pieces. Manufacturers turned out an abundance
of flatware, napkin rings, chafing dishes, inkstands, candelabras
and the like. Virgil Leroy Almond, Sr. and George Wellington
Hendrick, both of Bowling Green, were part of that trend.
Almond used a three-finger cigar case, while Hendrick, the
father of long-time Bowling Green resident Georgia Love Cargile,
carried an elegant match safe. Both objects are a recent gift
from Mr. & Mrs. V. Leroy Almond, Jr. of Bowling Green.
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