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Dean Binder
Welcome to the web site of the WKU Libraries. Under the leadership of Haiwang Yuan, Special Assistant to the Dean for Web & Emerging Technologies, our Web & Emerging Technologies Working Group has been keeping our site up-to-date. As you can see from the regularly redesigned homepage, our library faculty and staff have been working hard to provide you with various information resources, from print and electronic library materials to a value-added web directory; and from research guides to information of particular interest to our WKU and community constituents such as the Kentucky Information in Cyberspace and resources on the Kentucky Education Reform Act. The Kentucky Library and Museum, a valuable component of University Libraries, has been digitizing some of its collections and making them available to the public via the Internet. This effort is seen in the constantly updated Kentucky Library and Museum Online and the Mammoth Cave National Park Digital Library partner project.

From the Libraries’ web site, you will also discover that many new developments are enhancing our library and museum services, including:

Our Web Site Team and other faculty and staff have been working hard to provide better services to our patrons by using such Web 2.0 technology as blog, podcast, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace and Twitter. We will continue exploring emerging technologies to better serve our WKU and regional communities.

In collaboration with the University's academic departments, the library faculty in the Department of Library Public Services have developed and are maintaining departmental and subject research guides that have been incorporated within TIP (Topper InfoPortal). I think you will enjoy browsing their selections and find this resource of continuing value.

The University Libraries faculty have enjoyed significant professional and academic accomplishments and won recognition internationally, nationally, regionally and campuswide for their achievements. You may readily locate them from our library liaison pages and librarian and staff directory that includes organization charts. We strive to be responsive to the citizens and the needs of the Bowling Green area and are actively involved in developing partnerships with the community. Since 1999, with the Bowling Green Public Library and Barnes & Noble, we have organized the highly acclaimed Southern Kentucky Book Fest. At Barnes & Noble, we have been hosting a series of "Far Away Places with Strange Sounding Names!" international talks by Western faculty. In addition, we are hosting a "Kentucky Live! Southern Culture at Its Best" lecture series. We continue to look for opportunities to contribute our expertise to enriching the cultural understanding for our region. Globally, in addition to a partnership with the public library of Bowling Green's sister city, Kawanishi, Japan, our faculty members are involved in programs that reach as far as China and Spain.

In sum, there is much that we at WKU Libraries are proud of as our highly motivated and devoted faculty and staff continue their work to improve and expand services and programs. Thank you for visiting our web home. Please come back and visit us often.


Michael Binder
Dean of Libraries

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