Western Kentucky University Libraries Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Podcasts of community outreach activities and programs organized or sponsored by Western Kentucky University Libraries and the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners.
Wilkes read from and discussed his novel on the evening of April 19, 2018, at Barnes and Noble Booksellers as part of WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! Southern Culture at Its Best series. Wilkes also signed his books.
On the morning March 27, 2018, in Cravens 111, Tony Paganelli told his colleagues about his trip to Australia, particularly the place called Coober Pedy, where opal excavators work and live underground.
Theresa Rajack-Talley, Associate Dean for International Diversity and Community Engagement Programs at UofL, talked about her book Poverty Is a Person on the evening of March 22, 2018 at Barnes and Nobles Bookstore for WKU Libraries' "Far Away Places" speaker series.
Timothy Smith from the University of Tennessee at Martin was the featured speaker in WKU Libraries’ “Kentucky Live series” on Thursday, March 8, at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Bowling Green.
WKU Biologist Nancy Rice talked about “The Magic, Mystery, and Misfortune of Modern Kenya” in WKU Libraries’ Far Away Places series on Thursday, February 22 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
Kentucky Live! Presented Mary Ellen Pethel on College Life and the Making of Modern Nashville on Thursday, February 15, 2018, at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
Holly Tucker, a professor at Vanderbilt University, was the featured speaker at the WKU Libraries’ “Far Away Places” speaker series on the evening of Thursday, November 9, 2017 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore. She talked about and signed at the end of the talk her book City of Light, City of Poison–Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris.
WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live speaker series featured Ann DAngelo, an attorney for the Kentucky Department of Transportation Cabinet on the evening of November 16, 2017, at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Bowling Green, KY. She talked about and signed her new book Dark Highway about the case of Verna Garr Taylor’s death on the night of November 6, 1936.
With support from an IYO grant, WKU Libraries invited Bellarmine Historian Fedja Buric to be our guest speaker at Barnes and Noble Bookstore on the evening of Thursday, October 26, 2017, to talk about the history and the current situation in Bosnia..
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Joel Pett spoke in this year’s WKU Libraries’ “Far Away Places” speaker series on the evening of Thursday, October 19, 2017. at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
Ricardo Marin Ruiz, a native of Spain, spoke on cycling in his country on Thursday, September 21 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
On the evening of September 14 at Barnes and Noble Books, Bowling Green, KY, WKU Libraries featured Fred Minnick in its Kentucky Live!.
Fenton Johnson a celebrated Kentucky writer was a featured speaker in WKU Libraries' Kentucky Live Series on April 20, 2017 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore. He talked about his newest novel The Man Who Loved Birds set in Nelson county Kentucky.
Historian Ron Fritze, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Athens States University, talked about his new book Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy on Thursday, April 13, 2017 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
Eric Roorda, professor of history from Bellarmine University spoke for Libraries’ Far Away Places series on his new book about the Dominican Republic on March 23, 2017 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Bowling Green, KY.
David Bettez,retired Director of the Office of International Programs at UK, talked about his newest book Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front on March 9, 2017 at Barnes and Noble.
Sean Kinder, associate professor of WKU Libraries, and his wife Valerie Kinder, a library assistant, shared their experience in Normandy, France Valerie's hometown, with their colleagues on February 28, 2017.
WKU Libraries kicks off its 2017 spring season of Far Away Places speaker series with Noah Ashley, Assistant Professor of Biology at WKU, who talked about Arctic songbirds of Alaska on February 23, 2017 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Bowling Green, KY.
WKU Libraries featured Becky Kelley, author of Winening Your Way across Kentucky with photographer Kathy Woodhouse, in its Kentucky Live speaker series at Barnes and Noble on the evening of February 16, 2017. Her talk is followed by wine tasting.
WKU Libraries featured Maggie Green, a seasonal cooking expert from Lexington, for its monthly speaker series "Kentucky Live!" on the evening of November 10, 2016 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Bowling Green, KY.
Nancy Richey, Associate Professor of WKU Libraries' Special Collections Library, spoke at WKU's Owensboro Regional Campus on the evening of Monday, October 17, 2016 on her new book Mose Rager: Kentucky’s Incomparable Guitarist, which she had coauthored with the late retired WKU history professor Carlton Jackson. Mose Rager was a guitarist famed for his unique thumbing style.
Sean Kinder, Associate Professor from the Department of Library Public Services at WKU Libraries, talked on his new book Una Merkel: The Actress with Sassy Wit and Southern Charm, on the evening of Thursday, October 13, 2016 at Barnes and Noble
Clinton Lewis, WKU’s University Photographer, spoke about “Exploring New Zealand” at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Bowling Green, KY on the evening of September 15, 2016.
One of the world’s leading tea experts Bruce Richardson gave us a talk on “The Tea Things of Jane Austen” at Barnes and Noble on the evening of September 8, 2016.
Brian Coutts, Head of the Department of Library Public Services, gave a presentation on Bali, an Indonesian island known for its forested volcanic mountains, iconic rice paddies, beaches and coral reefs, as well as multiple Hindu temples.
Peter Lorge, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University in in Nashville, TN, spoke about his book Chinese Martial Arts on April 22, 2016 at the Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Bowling Green, KY.
Aimee Zaring, an author from Louisville, KY talked about her book Flavors from Home on Thursday, April 14 at Barnes and Noble, Bowling Green, KY.
On April 11, 2016, Dr. Carlos de la Torre, Professor of Sociology at University of Kentucky, gave a presentation to WKU students in the Faculty House. He examined why left-wing leaders of Latin America were elected as well as the similarities and differences in their regimes.
Dr. Diane King, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UK spoke on her recent book Kurdistan on the Global State. The book explores how people in Kurdistan connect socially through patrilineage. Part of the WKU Libraries Far Away Places speaker series, it took place on March 31, 2016 at Barns and Nobles in Bowling Green, KY.
WKU Libraries Kentucky Live speaker series event featured Dr. Anne Cockerham from the Frontier Nursing University in Hyden, Kentucky at Barnes and Nobles Booksellers, Bowling Green, KY on the evening of March 17, 2016. She talked about her two books on Nursing and Midwifery at Kentucky’s Frontier School and Frontier Nursing Service Courier.
Dr. Jason Polk and Dr. Leslie North, Asstant Professors from the Department of Geography and Geology at WKU, talked about leading a study abroad group to Iceland in the summer of 2015. The speaker series event took place at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Bowling Green, KY on the evening of February 18, 2016.
On the evening of February 11, 2016 at Barnes and Noble, Tom Kimmerer, Chief Scientist at Venerable Trees Inc., in Lexington, KY., talked about his new book Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass.
Bowling Green author Molly McCaffrey was the speaker in the Kentucky Live! series on November 19, 2015 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore. She talked about and read from her newest book You Belong to Us: One Baby, Two Sets of Parents, a memoir which tells the story of her experience meeting her biological family just after her thirtieth birthday.
WKU Libraries’ November 12, 2015 Far Away Places speaker series event at Barnes and Noble Bookseller, Bowling Green, Kentucky featured Professor Akiko Takenaka from the History of Modern Japan at the University of Kentucky. She talked about her new book Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar, published this summer by the University of Hawaii Press.
Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Professor of Humanities, Dept. of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky, spoke about her most recent book The Queen with Six Fingers: Anne Boleyn in Fact, Fiction and Fantasy in the Far Away Places event on Wednesday, October 21, at Barnes and Noble in Bowling Green, KY.
John Hardin, Professor of History at WKU, talked about his recently published work The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia in the Kentucky Live event on October 8 at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Tyler Fleming, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisville, spoke about King Kong: The First South African Musical in our Far Away Places series and as part of the Year of South African celebration on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Bowling Green, KY.
Jane Olmsted kicked off this season of Kentucky Live with a presentation of her book of poems Seeking the Other Side. The event took place in the Western Room of the Kentucky Building on the evening of September 17, 2015.
WKU Libraries professor of Library Public Services Haiwang Yuan talked about his research trip to Tibet and his new book Tibetan Folktales for the Libraries Far Away Places speaker series at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Bowling Green on the evening of April 16, 2015.
The most famous caricaturist from Ecuador, Xavier Bonilla, AKA Bonil, spoke for the WKU Libraries-sponsored Far Away Places speaker series at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Bowling Green on the evening of March 26, 2015.
Brent Fisk, a circulation and information assistant from WKU's Visual and Performing Arts Library, and his wife Holly Hedden have made a trip to several of the significant cities in Itlay including Rome, Florence, and Naples. On the morning of Tuesday, March 24, 2015, he shared their trip with his colleagues in Cravens 111.
The Kentucky Live speaker series organized by the WKU Libraries hosted Nathaniel Northington, the first African American football player in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), on the evening of Thursday, March 19 at Barnes and Noble bookstore.
Scott Greene, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Fruit of the Loom, Inc., gave a talk on the evening of Thursday, April 9, 2015 at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore at 1680 Campbell Lane in Bowling Green, KY. He talked about Fruit of the Loom as one of the nation’s earliest patented brand, a fact little known by the local community that hosts its facilities that have a 2,000-strong workforce from Bowling Green alone.
Paul E. Fallon, an architect from Massachusetts who specializes in healthcare design, gave a presentation on his architectural design experience in Haiti to an audience mostly of WKU students at Barnes and Noble on February 19, 2015.
Mary Ellen Miller, an English professor of WKU, talked about the life and literary talent of her late husband, Jim Wayne Miller, a renowned writer and pioneer of Appalachian Studies and a distinguished and revered teacher that she and Morris Allen Grubbs have written about in the book Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader. The event took place in the Kentucky Museum on the evening of February 12, 2015.
David Zurick, Foundation Professor of Geography at EKU, was featured in our Far Away Places speaker series on November 20, 2014 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers. He talked about his trips to photograph Himalaya and Tibet as well as his book and film project.
Associate Dean of Special Collections UK and Co-Director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center, Deirdre A. Scaggs discussed her book written with co-author Andrew W. McGraw titled The Historic Kentucky Kitchen at Barnes and Nobles on the evening of November 13, 2014.
On the evening of Wednesday, November 5 2014, the WKU Owensboro Campus hosted a reprise of Karen Petrone's Far Away Places talk on The Great War (WWI) in Russian Memory. Dr. Petrone is the chair of the Department of History at the University of Kentucky, and her work focuses on cultural histories of Russia and the Soviet Union.
WKU graduate and retired teacher/counselor Sherry Logsdon discussed her new novel Asylum at our Glasgow Library on Thursday, October 30, 2014. The novel focuses attention on the incarceration of women in insane asylums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in many cases for their outspoken views on women's rights.
Lisa Miller, Instructor from the Department of Library Public Services of WKU, gave a presentation on her frequent trips to Ireland in Helm 100 on the morning of October 28, 2014. Her research interest has led her to many a sight with statues of literary figures of the nation.
WKU Libraries hosted its second Far Away Places event on October 23 at Barnes and Noble titled Two Scottish Duchesses in the Age of Men featuring Dr. Kathy Callahan, Head of the Department of History at Murray State University.
Cynthia Elder, local historian, photographer and editor of the Catholic settlement: A History of St. Jerome Catholic Church 1836-2011, introduced the church and the largest picnic of the nation in her hometown Fancy Farm, KY to a Bowling Green and Warren County audience in Barnes and Noble on the evening of October 9, 2014.
Kath Pennavaria, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Visual and Performing Arts Library from the Department of Library Public Services of WKU, gave a presentation on her recent trip to Croatia, land of her ancestors, in Helm 100 on the morning of September 23, 2014. The trip was part of her genealogy research.
Far Away Places kicked off its fifteenth year on Thursday, September 18 at Barnes and Noble with author Kate Saller of St. Louis, MO discussing her new book, The Moon in Your Sky: An Immigrant’s Journey Home.
Allen Dossey, the proprietor of the Purple Toad Winery and Vineyard at Paducah, KY, talked about his business at Barnes and Noble on the evening of September 11, 2014. The talk was concluded with wine tasting.
Sean Kinder, Associate Professor and Humanities Librarian from the Department of Library Public Services of WKU, gave a presentation on his to-be-published book Una Merkel: Actress with Saucy Wit and Southern Charm to his colleagues in Helm 100 on the morning of April 29, 2014.
Russian historian Karen Petrone, Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, gave a talk on The Great War in Russian Memory on the evening of April 17, 2014 at Barnes and Noble.
Loup Langton, Director of the School of Journalism and Broadcasting at WKU and author of Photojournalism and Today’s News: Creating Visual Reality talked about the lessons he has learned through his travels on the evening of March 27, 2014 at Barnes and Noble.
Dr. Gloria Nixon-John talked about her book "The Killing Jar" at Barnes and Noble on the evening of March 20, 2014. The book tells a compelling story of a 15-year-old who served 9 years on Death Row in Eddyville, Kentucky.
WKU Libraries' professor and web coordinator Haiwang Yuan received a RCAP grant and a sabbatical to write his Tibetan Folktales book. On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, he shared his adventurous research trip with his library colleagues, students, and friends in Helm 100.
Katherine Pennavaria talked about her recent trip to Tangier Island in this spring's Far Away Places series on Thursday, February 20 at 7:00 pm at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
Folk Studies Professor Ann Ferrell discussed Kentucky Burley tobacco in our Kentucky Live Series on Thursday, February 13 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Award recipients for Fall 2013 are Silas House & Neela Vaswani for their co-written book Same Sun Here.
Clay Motley, Associate Director for Academics for the WKU Honors College, has done extensive research on the blues, early country, and early rock n’ roll between 1920 and 1955, and presented his work on Thursday, November 21th at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
Wes Berry from the Department of English for WKU spoke at the Glasgow Regional Library on the art of barbecue in Kentucky on November 7, 2013 at 7:00pm.
Wes Berry from the Department of English for WKU spoke at the Glasgow Regional Library on the art of barbecue in Kentucky on November 7, 2013 at 7:00pm.
Wes Berry from the Department of English for WKU spoke at the Glasgow Regional Library on the art of barbecue in Kentucky on November 7, 2013 at 7:00pm.
WKU Libraries faculty, staff, students, and friends enjoyed a We've Been Everywhere presentation on Tuesday, October 22 in Helm 100 with Jonathan Jeffrey, WKU Special Collections Library Professor and Manuscripts/Folklife Archives Coordinator.
October 17, at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes and Noble Bookstore Samuel Marder spoke to a standing room only crowd.
October 10, at 7:00 p.m. at Barnes and Noble Bookstore Marc Murphy spoke about his life and work as an editorial cartoonist.
Michael Cairo is Associate Professor of Political Science at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. His newest title The Gulf: The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East, at Barnes and Noble September 19, 2013 at 7:00.
Mike Veach, the Associate Curator of Special Collections at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, KY discussed his latest book at Barnes and Noble about the the real story of Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey on September 12, 2013 at 7:00.
WKU Libraries and the University Experience program presented awards honoring the winners of the 2013 WKU Libraries and University Experience Undergraduate Research Award Friday, May 3, 2013 at 3pm.
WKU Libraries and the University Experience program presented awards honoring the winners of the 2013 WKU Libraries and University Experience Undergraduate Research Award Friday, May 3, 2013 at 3pm.
Dr. James Nicholson shared with his audience the history of the Kentucky Derby and what makes Premier Sporting Event in America this Ky Live Series, April 4, 2013 at Barnes and Noble.
WKU Photographer Clinton Lewis shared his spectacular photographs of the expedition Far Away Places series, March 21, 2013 at Barnes and Noble.
Jason Howard, James Still Fellow at the University of Kentucky, presented his newest book A Few Honest Words: The Kentucy Roots of Popular Culture, March 7, 2013 at Barnes and Noble.
WKU Libraries We Have Been Everywhere series featured Connie Foster, Dean of Libraries, on February 26, 2013 in Helm Library. She shared her trip and adventure in Alaska and the Yukon with her fellow library employees.
Chip Tullar, the proprietor of Miss Patti’s 1880’s Settlement Restaurant,spoke in the Kentucky Live! series on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
The Far Away Places talk series featured Dr. John Dizgun from KIIS, WKU on February 14, 2013 at Barnes and Noble, where he told a large community audience about his research experiences in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Kentucky Live series, taking place in Morgantown Public Library, Kentucky on October 25, 2012, featured Roger Givens and Nancy Richey who talked about Butler County in Kentucky.
Rick Redman, VP for Corporate Communication for Hillerich and Bradsby talked about the history of the Louisville Slugger for WKU Libraries Kentucky Live talk series at Barnes and Noble on the evening of November 8, 2012.
Taryn Rice from Special Collections Library talked about historic royal palaces and towers she had visited in Britain for the We Have Been Everywhere program in Helm 100 on October 24, 2012.
Dr. Patrick Pranke from U of L spoke about Paths to Liberation in Burmese Buddhism for our Far Away Places Series on October 18, 2012 at Barnes and Noble.
Samford University journalism professor Julie Hedgepeth Williams talked at Barnes and Noble about how the family of her great uncle Albert Caldwell survived the sinking of the Titanic.
Morgan Atkinson, writer and producer of Wonder, gave a presentation on his film about Wonder: The Lives of Anna and Harlan Hubbard at the Kentucky Building in the WKU Libraries Kentucky Live talk series on September 27, 2012.
WKU Libraries professor and Coordinator of Glasgow Regional Center Library Katherine Pennavaria talked about her trip to Tangier Island in Helm Library Room 100 today, September 25, 2012.
Florencia Mallon, Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, discussed her book in the context of Chilean history to an overflow crowd at Barnes and Noble on September 20, 2012.
Author Kirby Gann talked about his book Ghosting and signed it for his audience in the Kentucky Live Series at Barnes and Noble Bookstore on Thursday, September 13, 2012.
Leading Kentucky travel writer Gary West shared his travel secrets and signed his books in the Kentucky Live Series at Barnes and Noble Bookstore on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
WKU Geography Professor Michael Trapasso shared his research experience and encounters with exotic and sometimes dangerous animals in big game parks of South Africa on April 12 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
Ricardo Marin Ruiz, Professor of English at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, talked in our Far Away Places series about Ernest Hemingway and Spain: Or How a Land Can Attract A Man on Thursday, April 5 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore.
This month’s WKU Libraries’ We’ve Been Everywhere literary outreach program featured Dr. Charles Smith, who talked about his trip to London and Brazil researching for Alfred Russel Wallace, an early evolutionary biologist.
Amy Preske, PR and Events Manager of the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky, talked about this oldest distillery as part of the WKU Libraries Kentucky Live talk series at Barnes and Noble on March 1, 2012.
Professor Jid Lee from Middle Tennessee State University spoke about her book To Kill a Tiger, a personal narrative of her girlhood in a traditional South Korean family against the traumatic events of recent Korean history including the Japanese occupation. The talk took place on the evening of February 16, 2012 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Anne Onyekwuluje, Associate Professor of Sociology at WKU, spoke about her book highlighting the career of Former Senator Georgia Powers at Barnes and Noble on November 10, 2011.
On the morning of February 7, 2012, Christopher McConnell, a WKU student who works in the Office of DLPS Head, talked about his parents' native and his frequented land Chile in terms of its rural and urban life.
The final Lincoln lecture took place Tuesday, December 6, 2011 in the Kentucky Museum. Carol Crowe-Carraco, Nancy Baird, Patricia Minter, and Cecile Garmon discussed Lincoln’s legacy and the effects of his Constitutional decisions and leadership in our own time.
Dr. Glenn LaFantasie, WKU's Richard Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History, talked about how Lincoln came to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Dr. LaFantasie's presentation was offered on the evening of November 16, 2011 at the Kentucky Room.
In conjunction with the Lincoln exhibition, Dr. Cecile Garmon, WKU Professor of Communication, gave the lecture at the Western Room, Kentucky Museum on the evening of November 14, 2011.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Dr. Glenn LaFantansie, WKU's Richard Frockt Family Professor of Civil War History gave the lecture at the Western Room, Kentucky Museum on the evening of November 9, 2011.
St. Augustine, FL resident and retired KY lawyer Robert Dickey talked about his latest book Greyhound to Vegas, The Odysse of Hilda Reynolds Krause at Barnes and Noble, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Professor James Siekmeier, historian from West Virginia University, talked about Bolivia and the United States on Thursday, April 21 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Bowling Green, KY.
Award-winning Southern novelist Janna McMahan, a native of Campbellsville, Kentucky, spoke about her experience of the deep south during her writing career at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Bowling Green, Kentucky on the evening of April 17, 2011.
On March 17, 2011 WKU Libraries Far Away Places series featured John All, Professor of WKU Geography and Geology. While studying climate change in the Himalayas in 2010, he reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 23rd.
On March 3 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, University of North Alabama historian Matthew Schoenbachler talked about the most famous murder case in Kentucky.
On February 17, 2011, Haiwang Yuan, WKU Libraries professor, talked about the changes taking place in China through the city of Tianjin, where he grew up.
On the evening of February 10, 2011, Professor Antonio Thompson, a historian from Austin Peay University, talked about German POWs in Kentucky during WWII.
On the evening of November 11, 2010, Owner of Kennys Farmhouse Cheese Kenny and Beverly Mattingly came to Bowling Green to tell their story at Barnes and Noble as part of the Libraries KY Live program.
On the evening of October 28, 2010, Nancy Richey, Special Collections Librarian at WKU, introduced her book on the images of Barren County in the Glasgow Campus Library.
Sarah D. Phillips, award-winning Anthropologist from Indiana University, talked on Stories From Rights Movements In Ukraine on September 16, 2010 at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Bowling Green, KY as part of WKU Libraries Far Away Places international talk series. She signed her book afterward.
Albert Schmid, professor and chair of the Beverage Management, Hotel-Restaurant and Hospitality Management Departments at Sullivan University, talked on Culinary Tourism in Kentucky at Barnes and Noble Bookstore on October 14, 2010.
John R. Hale, Director of Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, talked on Discoveries Underwater in the Mediterranean on October 19, 2010. He signed his books afterward.
On September 9, 2010, the Executive Director of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville was the opening speaker in eighth annual Kentucky Live Series organized by WKU Libraries. The series took place in Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Bowling Green, KY. The topic of his talk was Steamboating on the Western Waters: Bicentennial Reflections. At the end of the talk he signed his book.
David J. Bell was the featured speaker in the Kentucky Live series on Thursday, April 8th at Barnes and Noble bookstore, Bowling Green, KY. His topic was The Missing and the Lost: A Girl in the Woods and The Condemned. A booksigning followed his talk.
On the evening of March 5, Fred Gross, Louisville writer and speaker, was the featured speaker of the WKU Libraries Kentucky Live talk series at Barnes and Noble. One Step Ahead of Hitler is a story of survival told in words and in photographs of a journey beginning in Antwerp and ending with his freedom in America
Dr. Saundra Ardrey, Head of the Department of Political Science at WKU, spoke about Ghana in this month's Far Away Places series at Barnes and Noble. Her lecture is part of the international talk series sponsored by the Friends of WKU Libraries and the Kentucky Museum. Dr. Ardrey led a study abroad delegation from WKU to Ghana in 2009. She's partnering with the village of Sanka and with the village elders to provide needed resources for the village.
Dr. Ron Fritze, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Athens State University, spoke on “Prince Madoc and the Welsh Indians: A Myth” and other topics on pseudohistory and pseudoscience at Barnes and Noble this Thursday, February 11th. Ron is the author of ten books on a variety of topics including: Legends and Lore of the Americas Before 1492 and New Worlds: The Great Voyages of Discovery, 1400-1600. His newest book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions has been drawing international attention.
Barry Kitterman was a featured speaker in our Far Away Places series this month. He talked about his experiences in the 1970s Belize as well as about his novel and creative writing on Thursday, November 19 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Bowling Green, KY. A book signing followed. His first novel, The Baker’s Boy, was published by Southern Methodist University Press in 2008 and in 2009 won the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. He drew inspiration from his work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Belize in the 1970s.
Robert Dickey was the featured speaker on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at Barnes and Noble. Dickey attended WKU and graduated from Centre College. Following a stint in the marines and a hitch as a reporter for the Bowling Green Daily News he graduated from Vanderbilt Law School. His first client was Beech Bend Park owner Charles Garvin. In Charles Garvins Dynasty of Dimes he tells the history of a man who he calls an eccentric entrepreneur who built an amusement park empire in Bowling Green, Kentucky based on 10 cent admissions. It is a fascinating story spanning four decades, and one indelibly linked with the tourist business in South Central Kentucky.
Nancy Baird, WKU Librarian, kicked off the 2009-10 Kentucky Live lecture series at Barnes and Noble on Thursday, September 10. Nancy Baird provided a unique look into the Bowling Green area during the Civil War through the eyes of Josie Underwood, a young woman from an influential family in Bowling Green, with brief summaries from Underwood's diary. The diary, edited by Baird, is a part of the collection from the Kentucky Library and Museum.
Professor Debbie Kreitzer from the Department of Georgraphy and Geology is the first speaker in the tenth series of talks on "Far away Places with Strange Sounding Names" sponsored by the friends of WKU Libraries and the Kentucky Museum. Debbie teaches classes on World Regional Geography, the Georgraphy of North America and Geographic Information Systems. She led a Study Abroad group to Slovenia in 2007 and made a return visit in 2008. This event was held at Barnes and Noble on Thursday September 17th at 7:00 p.m.
Mr. Guillerman spoke as part of our Kentucky Live series on Thursday, October 15th at Barnes and Noble on Campbell Lane. Michael D. Guillerman worked for the Peabody Coal Company from 1974 to 1991. Over his long career, his jobs included belt shoveler, timberman, shooter, drill and shuttle car operator, rock duster, and finally section foreman. Now retired, he lives with his wife, Marie, in Union county, Kentucky.
On October 16, 2009, a panel discussion on John Brown by Drs. Glenn Lafantasie, John Hardin and Robert Dietle was conducted in Helm Library 100. This discussion was co-sponsored by the History Department and the Department of Public Library Services, Western Kentucky University. Scores of WKU students and faculty members, including some of the Libraries employees attended the discussion.
On the evening of April 16 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, WKU Libraries Far Away Places Series featured Dr. Michael Trapasso from the Department of Geography and Geology at WKU. Trapasso provided a unique and fascinating look at retracing the Viking Voyages. Many WKU faculty and students as well as local community members attended the lecture.
WKU Libraries and Glasgow Community celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Glasgow Campus Library on April 15, 2009. Present at the event were Dean of WKU Libraries, Director of Glasgow Campus, Mayor, President and past President of local businesses, as well as faculty and staff from the Glasgow Library and the Department of Library Public Services
On April 9, 2009, WKU Libraries Kentucky Live series presented Georgia Green Stamper, who talked about Kentuckians that she wrote about in her book and read chapters of the book.
On March 27, 2009, WKU Libraries celebrated the 75th anniversary of its Federal Depository Library Program in Helm Library Room 100. Dean Binder of University Libraries welcomed the attendees. Provost Barbara Burch introduced US Congressman Brett Guthrie, who gave brief remarks regarding our US Government collection. The Depository Librarian Rosemary Meszaros concluded the event.
WKU Libraries presented Joseph Trafton, Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at WKU, who spoke on The Dead Sea Scrolls as part of the Far Away Places Series at Barnes and Noble Bookstore (1680 Campbell Lane) on the evening of March 19th, 2009.
On March 5th, 2009, WKU Libraries Kentucky Live series presented Jefferson Bass and the Body Farm Novels. Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, is the founder of the Body Farm.
On March 19, 2009, WKU Libraries Far Away Places Series featured Doug McElroy , a Professor of Biology at WKU, who talked about the Galapagos Island.
WKU Libraries hosted famed wildlife specialist Tom Barnes Thursday, February 12 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers as part of its Kentucky Live! Series. As Professor of Forestry and Wildlife Specialist at the University of Kentucky, he is a frequent commentator on wildlife management and animal damage control.
WKU Libraries Kentucky Live presented Jack Montgomery about his new book American Shamans: Traditional Healers and the Folk-Magic Tradition at Barnes and Noble on the evening of December 4, 2008.
On November 20, 2008, Dr. Roger D. Launius, Curator of the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian spoke for Western Kentucky University Libraries�Far Away Places series on his new book titled Robots in Space in Barnes and Nobles, Bowling Green, KY.
On November 19, 2008, David Keeling, Head of Geography and Geology, talked about Russia in Helm Library. This is part of the Faraway Places series sponsored by WKU Libraries and of the International Education Week events sponsored by the WKU Office of International Programs.
The International Education Week sponsored by the WKU Office of International Programs and hosted by WKU Libraries presented Prof. Haiwang Yuan, Web Coordinator of the Libraries and author of Chinese folktales. He gave a presentation first to the library faculty and staff and then a group of middle school students from Russellville, Kentucky.
WKU Libraries Kentucky Live program presented Prof. Brian Leung from the Department of English, University of Louisville on the evening of November 13, 2008. He talked about creative writing and his world-famous books to an audience consisting of mainly WKU students in Barnes and Noble.
Louisville native and WKU graduate Tyrone Cottton entertained the crowd at Java City today with his unique musical style. Despite the closure of the shop's coffee-service, Tyrone managed to enchant his audience with his thoughtful lyrics, soulful voice and masterful guitar.
WKU Libraries Kentucky Live presented Drew Curtis on October 23 2008 at Barnes and Noble Booksellers. He talked about how mass media tries to pass off crap as news and signed his book of the same title after his presentation.
This Thursday, October 16, 2008, David Keeling, Head of Geography and Geology, talked about Cambodia in our Faraway Places series at Barnes and Noble.
Aristofanes Cedeno, Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of the Panamanian Studies Program and Academic Dean of the Kentucky Governor Scholars Program at the University of Louisville, talked about Panama in the Faraway Places Series on Thursday, September 18th at Barnes and Noble.
WKU Libraries Kentucky Live presented Kristine McCusker who spoke about her new book Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio, at Barnes and Noble on September 11 2008. Popular between the two world wars, American barn dance radio evoked comforting images of a nostalgic and stable past for listeners beset by economic problems at home and worried about totalitarian governments abroad. Sentimental images such as the mountain mother and the chaste everybodys-little-sister girl singer helped to sell a new consumer culture and move commercial country music from regional fare to national treasure. Kristine M. McCusker examines the gendered politics of these images through the lives and careers of six women performers.
Karren Pell, a modern troubadour, led a session where she encouraged audience to brainstorm on a song about a place. The earthquake that rocked Bowling Green of course became the main theme. A song about the earthquake then was born.
Dr. Mark F. Sohn, a food historian, and Pikeville College professor, presented Appalachian Home Cooking at Barnes and Noble on Thursday, April 10, 2008. Dr. Sohn showed how food traditions in Appalachia had developed over two centuries from dinner on the grounds, church picnics, school lunches, and family reunions as he celebrated regional signatures such as dumplings, moonshine, and country ham. This program was part of the Kentucky Live series organized by the WKU Libraries.
This Thursday, March 20, 2000, Dr. Michael Trapasso, Professor of Department of Geography and Geology, WKU, shared his research experiences on the mysterious Easter Island in our Faraway Places series at Barnes and Noble.
On Thursday March 6, 2008 at Barnes and Noble, the Kentucky Live program, organized by the WKU Libraries, featured Ronnie Dreistadt, Outreach Educator of Kentucky Berby Museum. He covered 134 years of Derby history through stories and legends.
On February 28, 2008, Man Martin, author of Days of the Endless Corvette, came to Bowling Green to discuss his book, which is the 2008 One Book selection. He spoke and signed his book at the Corvette Museum, WKU Helm Library, and Bowling Green Public Library.
On Thursday February 14, 2008 at 7:00 pm, the Kentucky Live program, organized by the WKU Libraries, featured Nancy Baird, Kentucky History Specialist from the Kentucky Library and Museum, WKU. In support of her recent book Healing Kentucky, she looked at 200 years of progress in medicine and health care in the Commonwealth.
Thursday, November 8, 2007, Dr. Chris Groves of the Department of Geography and Geology at WKU talked about the history of the Mammoth Cave.
This Thursday, October 18, 2007, Uma Doraiswamy, Social Science Catalog Librarian and a native of South India, talked about that part of the country in our Faraway Places series at Barnes and Noble.
On Thursday October 11, 2007 at 7:00 pm, the Kentucky Live program, organized by the WKU Libraries, presented Lincoln the Lawyer by Anderson University professor Brian Dirck at Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
On September 28, 2007, internationally known food historian,author and seed saver of heirloom vegetables, William Woys Weaver, gave a presentation titled An American Appetite: The Material Culture of Food at the Kentucky Library and Museum.
This Thursday, September 20, 2007, David Keeling, Head of Geography and Geology, talked about the Sahara in our Faraway Places series at Barnes and Noble.
On Thursday September 13, 2007, Kentucky Live program, organized by the WKU Libraries, presented WKU horticulture and floral-design instructor Roger Dennis at Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Award Winning Canadian Author Sandra Birdsell spoke in Room 100 of the Helm Library on Tuesday, June 5, 2007.
On Thursday, May 3, Western Kentucky University and the Libraries held a reception in the Kentucky Building in honor of Kentucky History Specialist Nancy Baird, who received the Sara Tyler Merit Award.
On April 12, 2007, Prof. Shannon Schaffer talked about Israel at Barnes and Noble. This is part of the international lecture series sponsored by the WKU Libraries.
On April 5, 2007 at Barnes and Noble, author Kristin Johannsen talked about ginseng farming in American and its trade with China historically and currently.
This Thusday, March 1, 2007, renowned author Kim Edwards came to Bowling Green, Kentucky to meet and talk to her readers for the One Book Fest sponsored by the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners. This is the forth of such events.
This Thusday, February 15, 2007, Dr. Michael Trapasso, Professor of Geology and Geography at Western Kentucky University, talked about the remote icy continent in our Faraway Places series at Barnes and Noble.
On February 8, 2007 at Barnes and Noble on Campbell Lane, Photographer James Archambeault gave a presentation at the WKU Libraries-sponsored Kentucky Live program. Archambeault has worked as an independent photographer specializing in nature and landscape. His work has appeared in many national publications.
On February 1 and 2, Sheila Williams spoke at Western Kentucky University Libraries and Bowling Green Public Library. This is the recording of her speeck in the WKU Helm Library on the morning of February 2, 2007.
On the afternoon of January 25, 2007, the annual One Campus-One Community-One Book Event kicked off in the Leisure Room of Helm Library. Mike Binder, Dean of Libraries, gave the opening remarks and English Professor Marya Waters introduced the author Kim Edwards of the selected book for reading titled The Memory Keepers Daughter.
This Thusday, November 16, 2006, Ronald Messier, Professor of Middle East history at Vanderbilt University, talked about Medieval Morocco in our Faraway Places series at Barnes and Noble.
On the evening of November 9 at Barnes and Noble in Bowling Green, Kentucky, James Klotter, State Historian of Kentucky and author and coauthor of over a dozen books, talked about political scandals in Kentucky as part of the Kentucky Live lecture series organized by Western Kentucky University Libraries.
This leads you into the fourth floor of Cravens to show you around the circulation area, where you check in and out your books and the laptops
If you turn back from the Circulation Desk, you'll see a row of computers. TOPCAT, the WKU Libraries' online catalog is available on the computers.
This tour shows you the new book display shelf, the audio-visual library further into the fourth floor Cravens and the stacks from the fourth to nineth floor in Cravens. You'll be ready to cross over to the Helm Building via the walkway.
You are now in the Reference Room where the Interlibrary Loan service is provided, the Jump Circle on the first floor of the Helm Building, the Reference Desk, where you can seek help from librarians, staff and student assistants for help. Behind the Reference Desk are the shelves for ready reference materials. So ask us whenever you have a question.
Away from the Reference Desk, you will see computers where you can find electronic information resources using subscribed databases and TOPCAT. At the end of the electronic resource computers is the InfoLab where research instruction is conducted. Outside of it is the area where you can find maps and atlas. You are also introduced to our Java City. Come and enjoy it.
Walk up the stairs from Java City to enter the second floor of the Helm Library. There you'll find a computer lab, the microfilm readers and printers, the collection of journals, bound and current. Bound periodicals prior to 1980 will be found on the compact shelves ground floor of Helm. You'll be shown how to get there using the elevator.
On the ground floor of the Helm Library, you'll find the government documents, which include Kentucky resources searchable on the TOPCAT online catalog. Then you'll be introduced to the law collection and the service desk.
You are here at the compact shelving room where bound journals and indexes prior to 1980.
Back in the Java City cafe, you can enjoy the coffee or go back to the Reference Room. Remember, if you have a question, don't hesitate to ask us!
On Thusday, September 21 at Barnes and Noble, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Haiwang Yuan, Associate Professor of Western Kentucky University Libraries, gave a lecture on Chinese culture through the stories he retold in his book The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales from the Han Chinese published recently by Libraries Unlimited. Eighty WKU faculty and students as well as Bowling Green residents attended the lecture.
On the evening of October 12 at Barnes and Noble on Campbell Lane, Larry Kass, Director of Corporate Communications for Heaven Hill Distilleries, gave a talk about the distilleries and Kentucky Bourbon.
On the evening September 14 at Barnes and Noble on Campbell Lane, Lynn Hightower, famous mystery writer gave a presentation on how she wrote mystery novels.
On Thusday, April 13 at Barnes and Noble on Campbell Lane, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Dr. Shawn Parkhurst from the Department of Anthropology of the University of Louisville gave a lecture on Portugal.
On April 6 at Barnes and Noble on Campbell Lane, Nancy Baird, Kentucky History Specialist for University Libraries, presented this month's Kentucky Live program. Baird, Carol Crowe Carraco, Distinguished University Professor of History and Sue Lynne Stone McDaniel, University Archivist, are co-authors of this beautiful illustrated history.
On March 9 at Barnes and Noble on Campbell Lane, Paul F. Wells, director of the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University, presented this month's Kentucky Live! program.
From February 2 to 3, Mr. Walker spoke at Western Kentucky University Libraries and its Glasgow Campus, as well as Bowling Green Public Library. This is the recording of Frank X. Walker's speech in the WKU Libraries.
On the evening of March 7 in Western Kentucky University Libraries' Helm 100, Prof. Carlton Jackson, author of the book Joseph Gavi: Young Hero of the Minsk Ghetto, talked about Gavi and answered questions from attendees, mostly WKU's students and faculty. Presiding over the talk was Bryan Carson, Coordinator of the Libraries' Research Instruction and Reference Services.
On March 2, 2006, Bobbie Ann Mason answered questions and signed her books in WKU's Helm Library. Dr. Michael Binder, Dean of Libraries, convened the session, and English Professor Dale Rigby introduced Bobbie Ann Mason.
On Thusday, Feb. 16 from 7:00 - 8:30pm at Barnes and Noble on Campbell Lane, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Dr. John Dizgun, a member of Western Kentucky University's History Department, presented this semester's first Faraway Places program on the Yucatan in Mexico, which is rich in Inca cultural relics.
Charles Booe, President of Rebecca Ruth Candy Factory Inc., Frankfort, Kentucky, talked about the history of the factory and his grandmother Ruth, the founder. The talk was part of the Kentucky Live lecture series organized by the Western Kentucky University Libraries and sponsored by Trace Die Cast. The program takes place in Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Bowling Green, KY.
On January 30, 2006, the Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners kicked off its third annual One Campus-One Community-One Book project. Speaking at the event were Dr. Michael Binder, Dean of WKU Libraries, and English Professor Marya Waters.