• The fourth annual Southern Kentucky Festival of Books, held April 19-20, 2002, at Sloan Convention Center, brought unprecedented positive publicity and attention to University Libraries. With the help of the festival partners, the Bowling Green Public Library and Barnes & Noble, it is now the largest literary event in the state, with over 200 authors. Book talks by eight authors were filmed by C-Span Book TV for a program to be aired in May both nationally and internationally.
  
  
• The Kentucky Building Online was launched in February 2002, representing a major new addition to the already vast Topper InfoPortal web site and the homepage of University Libraries & Kentucky Museum. A wide selection of diaries, exhibits, letters, photographs, postcards, posters, steamboats and more found in the Kentucky Building can now be viewed without leaving one's home or office.
  
  
• "Far Away Places With Strange Sounding Names!" completed its second successful season at Barnes & Noble, with the series involving Western faculty discussing their research in foreign countries, ranging from Nepal to Scotland for topics as varied as fish larvae and small business. A second series was started at Barnes & Noble, "Kentucky Live -Southern Culture at its Best!" that drew large crowds to hear such talks as Warren Women, Duncan Hines, and Shake Rag: Historic Black Community of Bowling Green.
  
  
• Using CPE Action Agenda funds, with a script based on the Libraries' very popular "Walking Tour," a new library video was recently produced that is designed to serve as a general introduction to the libraries, their services and resources. In addition to its being made available to Freshman Seminar classes and the local media, it is expected that the video will prove highly valuable to the University Libraries' instruction program that in the last year provided 586 classes to 15,718 students.
  
  
• With the addition in May of a new online journal subscription service, EBSCO Online, nearly 25% of WKU Libraries' 4500 print subscriptions are now available online in full text as well as abstracting and indexing for over 5,000 journals not held by University Libraries. Through two other online services, JSTOR and Project MUSE, some 700 additional full text titles are now being provided to the campus community from the Libraries' homepage and the Topper InfoPortal. With CPE Action Agenda funds, University Libraries is working with Information Technology to make all of these titles available from off campus.

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