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Award
Winning Book Fest!
The
Southern Kentucky Book Fest was awarded two distinct honors
from the Kentucky Tourism Council. The Book Fest won honorable
mention in the Traverse Award Marketing Campaign category.
This is the third consecutive year the Book Fest has received
this award. The winner in this category was the Kentucky State
Fair Board. The Kentucky Tourism Council presents the Traverse
Awards each year to honor the best work in advertising and
marketing among Kentucky tourism businesses and organizations.
“The
Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners should feel very honored
to have received a 2004 Traverse Awards for Excellence in
Tourism Marketing because of the record number or entries
this year and the outstanding quality of those entries,”
says Vicki Fitch, Marketing Director for the Bowling Green
Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. The second honor bestowed
on the Book Fest was being named a “Top Ten Festival
or Event” by the Kentucky Tourism Council. Criteria
for selection include popularity of the event, its impact
on the local tourism economy as well as cultural and historical
significance. (Jayne Pelaski)
Deana
Groves Helps DLTS Get Provost’s Iniatitives for Excellence
Grant for a KERA Project
Deana
Groves, Education Catalog Librarian, Department of Library
Technical Services, applied through the Provost’s Iniatitives
for Excellence for a grant for a project, “Making the
KERA Legal Document Available Online.” Through lots
of hard work and support from Connie Foster and Dr. Binder,
Deana was awarded this grant for the 2005/2006 academic year.
She and a student worker will be scanning and posting on the
University’s KERA Website the KERA, House Bill 940,
Chapter 476 of the Kentucky Acts 1990, from which KERA was
born. This project is expected to be started by September,
2005 and will be completed within a year’s time. (Katy
Roe)
Brian
Coutts and Sean Kinder Are University Libraries' Award Winners
Dr.
Brian Coutts, Head of Department of Library Public Services,
has won the 2005 WKU Award for Research/Creativity and Sean
Kinder, Social Science Librarian of the same department
has won the 2005 WKU Award for Public Services. Both were candidates
for the university awards in those areas. Brian, a nationally-renowned
scholar in librarianship, has just published one more book while
working on still another. Meanwhile, he is reviewing reference
books and web sites and publishes lists of Best Reference Books
and Best Web Sites annually on the American Library Journal.
Sean is dubbed as one of the best reference librarians by patrons
and has been contributing tremendously to the WKU and the Bowling
Green communities. (Haiwang Yuan)
Jack
Montgomery Authored a Book on Conflict Management
Jack
Montgomery, WKU Libraries Collection Services Coordinator,
and Eleanor I. Cook, Serials Coordinator of Appalachian State
University, recently have co-authored a book titled Conflict
Management for Libraries: Strategies for a Positive, Productive
Workplace. Using national survey data, case studies and
professional conflict consultants, Montgomery and Cook take
a unique and innovative approach to this difficult and often
hidden topic in libraries. Published in American Library Association
Editions, the book emphasizes the manager’s role of
internal management and self-responsibility in the management
of interpersonal conflict. (Sue Lynn)
Haiwang
Yuan Contributed to an Encyclopedia of Chinese Culture
Encyclopedia
of Contemporary Chinese Culture has just been published
by Routledge.
Haiwang Yuan has contributed 27 articles on such topics as
holiday economy, leisure culture, socio-political values,
and Western-style Chinese medicine. (Haiwang Yuan)
MARCIVE
Marches On
The
Government Documents Retrospective Conversion Project (see Katy
Roe’s article in Spring, 2005 Collections & Connections,
“Government
Documents Retrospective Conversion Project”) marches
forward! New milestones achieved during the 2004-2005 academic
year include the completion of profiling of the Government Documents
collection and compatibility analysis on a test file of bibliographic
records. The profiling process involved the scrutiny of a vast
number of bibliographic records and then choosing which ones
to incorporate into computer files customized by MARCIVE, Inc.
As
a result of the profiling or filtering process, 216,802 bibliographic
records along with 107,637 authority records were identified
for integration into our Endeavor Voyager system. The file
have now been sent via the Internet for Nelda Sims to load
in suppress mode into Voyager. After some additional work
has been done to these records, they will be matched to our
federal documents holdings. The documents will be made shelf-ready,
and then the bibliographic record will appear on TOPCAT. This
project will bring tremendous visibility to a rich collection
of resources available at the library. WKU will join the ranks
of the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Morehead
State, KDLA, Vanderbilt, and the University of Tennessee,
among others, who have used MARCIVE records. (Rosemary Meszaros)
Artist
in Residence Receives Woman of Achievement Award
The
Bowling Green Human Rights Commission recently recognized
Lynne Hammer Ferguson, Kentucky Library and Museum's artist
in residence, for her contribution to the Arts during the
14th annual Women of Achievement Awards banquet at the Carroll
Knicely Conference Center. (Sue Lynn)
Paula
Owens Chosen to Attend Staff Leadership Institute
Paula
Owens, Secretary, Department of Library Technical Services,
was chosen in the fall of 2004 to attend the Staff Leadership
Institute. Meeting once a month beginning in September, Paula
has been attending all day class sessions at various locations
in and around campus. After putting in lots of hard work and
dedication, Paula graduated from the Institute on Wednesday,
May 18, 2005. (Katy Roe)
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