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Popular
‘Roadshow” Appraiser Headlines “Appraisal
Day”
Ken
Farmer, one of the most popular and highly respected appraisers
on PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow,” was the featured
appraiser at the Kentucky Library and Museum’s second
annual “Appraisal Day,” 10am—3pm, Saturday,
May 21, at the Kentucky Building. 
WKU
Libraries Participate in Civil War Center’s Development
The
refrain of a well known spiritual goes, “Ain’t
gonna study war no more, ain’t gonna study war no more.”
This is not the theme, however, for Western Kentucky University’s
History Department, which, with the help of several other
University departments and administrators, has established
a research center to encourage the study of war—specifically,
the Civil War, and more specifically, the Western Theater.
Southern
Kentucky Book Fest 2005 Is Another Success
With
best selling authors Sue Grafton, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Chuck
Barris, Sharon Creech and many more, the SoKy Book Fest proved
it is unsurpassed as the top literary festival in the state.
Kentucky
Writers Conference 2005
The
second annual Kentucky Writers Conference took place at the
Bowling Green Community College on April 14-15, 2005, and
proved to be a rousing success. With nearly 400 people in
attendance, this year’s conference offered WKU students,
faculty, staff, community members, and local area high school
students a wide variety of talented writers and presenters.
Kentucky
Literary Awards Honor the Commonwealth's Writers
The
Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in fiction, nonfiction
and poetry were announced on Friday, April 15, at WKU's Carroll
Knicely Conference Center.
Cravens
Elevator Renovations
In
November both elevators in the Cravens tower were temporarily
out of service for complete restoration. With the help of
ABC Elevator Company we were able to use one elevator on a
limited basis in the mornings to move books and packages.
New
Furniture for Helm and Cravens
WKU
Libraries has received classroom improvement funds totaling
$49,654 to improve Helm room 100 and Cravens floors 7-9.
New
Opac Enhancements
There
are a few new enhancements on TOPCAT that should help make
your searching easier. In the basic search key, an author/creator
sorted by title search has been added. If you are searching
by a specific author’s name, select this option, type
in the name, and it will give you a list sorted by titles
of that particular author.
WKU
Libraries' Recent Acquisition of Online Databases
Western
Kentucky University Libraries is always striving to provide
the most up-to-date information to our users. During academic
year 2004—2005, the library has managed to add the following
databases to our online database collections.
New
Stamp Honors Kentuckian Robert Penn Warren
Using
a photograph of Robert Penn Warren from his personal library
housed in the Kentucky Library & Museum, the United States
Postal Service has issued a stamp honoring the Kentucky native.
The stamp, designed by San Francisco artist Will Wilson, features
a profile of Warren based on the 1948 photo.
Kentucky
Library and Museum Fellowship Granted
Kelley
F. Wright, a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati,
has received the Kentucky Library and Museum Fellowship for
2005. Wright's work at WKU will assist her in completing her
dissertation: "Coloring Their World: Americans and Color
in the Nineteenth Century."
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.
MARCIVE
Marches On
The
Government Documents Retrospective Conversion Project (see
Katy Roe’s article in Spring, 2005 Collections &
Connections, “Those Behind the GDRCP 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.
DLTS
Received Provost’s Iniatitives for Excellence Grant
for a KERA Project
Thanks
to 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.”
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 authored Conflict Management
for Libraries: Strategies for a Positive, Productive Workplace.
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.
Brian
Coutts and Sean Kinder Are University Award Winners
Faculty
of WKU Libraries have been recognized for outstanding faculty
achievement in the University Libraries and Information Technology
Division.
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.
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| Debbie LaMastus and her daughter Tyra |
Debbie
LaMastus:
I’ll bet you know that the Kentucky’s State Horse
is the Thoroughbred, but did you know that the State Wild
Animal is the Grey Squirrel...? All you have to do is ask
Debbie LaMastus.
Authority Control Project Team: The
Bibliographic Access Unit started the Authority Control Project
in February 2004, and we worked little by little to clean
up authority files in our TOPCAT system and add new ones as
needed.
 Jonathan
Jeffrey, Special
Collections Librarian, visited China this summer to assist
Chinese natives that teach English to junior high students.
He spent ten days in Anshun in the Guizhou Province, where
he gave presentations to teachers on three topics: American
history and government, American music, and American holidays.
Earlene
Chelf recently
accepted a three-year term on the Board of the Bowling Green-Western
Choral Society.
Sue
Lynn McDaniel participated
in the Society of American Archivists' seminar, “Archival
Perspectives in Digital Perspectives.”
Rosemary
Meszaros hosted
and moderated a panel discussion entitled "E-Reference
Services: What Are Our Users Telling Us?" on June 26,
2005, at ALA in Chicago.
Roxanne Spencer, assistant
professor and coordinator, WKU Libraries' Educational Resources
Center, and Dr.
Cynthia Houston, assistant professor, Library Media Education
program,
received travel support grants from WKU to Barcelona, Spain.
Carol
Watwood has
been recertified as a member of the Academy of Health Information
Professionals by the Medical Library Association.
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| Haiwang
was collecting folktales in China |
Haiwang
Yuan
has become Chair-elect of the KLA Information & Technology
Roundtable.
Jue
Wang has
been awarded a Junior Faculty Scholarship for her research
project in Beijing, China.
Calendar
and Events of Western Kentucky University Libaries
WKU
Libraries' coming events are available on the Calendar
and Events page of its web site. To learn what is happening
and what is going to happen at WKU Libraries and its community,
you may also visit its Community
Outreach Events and Projects page.
Lucy
Daniels, longtime
supervisor of the Circulation Desk in the Cravens Library,
retired in January after more than thirty one years of service
to Western.
Laura
Harper Lee,
Kentucky
Library and Museum's Education Curator, retired in March 2005
after twenty-eight years of service. She will be missed for
her teaching and grant-writing experience.
Gary
Whittle has
been promoted to Circulation Desk Supervisor for the Helm-Cravens
Library.. He replaces Lucy Daniels who retired after 32 years
of service.
Paula
Bowles replaces
Gary Whittle as Senior Circulation Assistant with responbility
for obligations (fines and overdues). Paula formerly held
two part-time positions in Reference/Periodicals.
Evelyn
Thurman: Known
to countless thousands of Kentucky school children as Mizz
Thurman, Evelyn began turning kids on to reading from her
very first teaching assignment in Simpson County schools in
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