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April
Celebrations |National
Library Week Activities |A
Twig of Professional Books |
Book
Bouquets for Children |Sprigs
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by Sean Kinder
With spring blooming all around us, the National Library Week 2002 committee members are busily planning this year’s celebratory events. We plan to offer a little something for everyone, from preschoolers to seasoned researchers. Plans have been made for Mayor Sandy Jones and Judge Executive Michael Buchanon to sign a proclamation declaring April 14-20 as National Library Week 2002 in Bowling Green and Warren County. Watch upcoming announcements on the Western Kentucky University Libraries Topper InfoPortal (TIP) (www.wku.edu/library/tip/) for additional information about these and other fun activities at the WKU Libraries and Kentucky Museum. Join in the fun by celebrating, participating, and exploring the wealth of materials, resources, and services available @ your library. There’s something for everyone
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National
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NATIONAL
LIBRARY WEEK
April 14-20,
2002
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Guest Speaker Joe Duvall, Park Guide Mammoth Cave National Park “Story of Floyd Collins: Entrapment, Death and Burials” 7:00 p.m. Helm Lobby 
Monday-Thursday, April 15-18 Scholastic Book Fair (Monday –Thursday) 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Educational Resources Center Tate Page Hall 366
Tuesday, April 16 Launch – New Web-Based Library Service Haiwang Yuan, University Libraries Web Site and Virtual Library Coordinator 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Helm Lobby
Guest Speaker Dr. Raymond L. Cravens WKU Professor Emeritus “Lost River Cave” 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Helm Lobby
Performance Lost River Band 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Helm Lobby
Wednesday, April 17 Storytelling 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Jones Jaggers Hall 113
Open House Glasgow Regional Center Library 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Refreshments served.
Thursday, April 18 Guest Speaker Dr. Dwayne Buttler, Schneider Endowed Chair For Scholarly Communication University Of Louisville “Issues in Copyright and Scholarly Communication” 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Cravens 111 |
Thursday, April 18 (continued)
Fifteenth Annual Western Authors Reception Faculty Library Award Presented At 2:45 Galleries K & L Kentucky Building 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
International Talk* Dr. Robert Hoyt, WKU Biology Dept. “Scotland” 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble Café 1680 Campbell Lane *Part of the Far Away Places series sponsored by Coca Cola
Friday, April 19 Southern Kentucky Festival of Books School Day Activities Bowling Green 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Sloan Convention Center
Guest Speaker Chuck Decroix, Park Guide Mammoth Cave National Park “The Longest Cave: A History of Exploration” 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Cravens 111
“Meet The Authors” Reception (Southern Kentucky Festival of Books) 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Galleries K & L The Kentucky Building
Saturday, April 20 Southern Kentucky Festival of Books Activities for Children & Adults 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sloan Convention Center Bowling Green
Connect@ WKU Libraries’ National Library Week Website: www.wku.edu/Library/nlw
Southern Kentucky Festival of Books Website: www.sokybookfest.org
National Library Week 2002 underwritten by WKU Friends of the Libraries. |
A Twig or Two of Professional BooksFriend, Marilyn and William D. Bursuck. Including Students with Special Needs.
This book offers lots of help for the teacher in the regular classroom to accommodate the students with special needs.Pollaway, Edward et al. Strategies for Teaching Learners with Special Needs.
Offers techniques for teaching children with mild learning and behavioral problems. Includes chapters on classroom management and curriculum design.Reynolds, Cecil ed. Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education.
A one volume encyclopedia of special education topics and people in the field. There are also references
at the end of each entry for those who would like further information on a topicAllen, Christine. Skills for Life: Information Literacy for Grades K-6, 2nd ed.
Lesson plans for many different subjects and grade levels, based on the information literacy standards.Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis. Strategies That Work.
Reading techniques using children's literature. There is a wonderful bibliography of books to use to teach content in various subject areas.
Book Bouquets for Children
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.
~ Robert FrostScieszka, Jon. Sam Samurai
The Time Warp Trio are transported back to 17th century Japan where they manage to make an enemy of a powerful Samurai. Can they save themselves? Well, of course!Jones, Rebecca. The President has been shot!
Contains accounts of assassinations and attempted assassinations on all the presidents of the United States from Lincoln to Reagan.Dolon, Edward. The Spanish-American War.
This war as been all but forgotten. This book gives the background and history of this short conflict that made the United States into an international power.Denny, Roz. A Taste of China.
Gives the history and examples of the cuisines of China. There are several recipes included.
Sprigs of Poetry for Kids
Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.
~ Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557Colin McNaughton. Making Friends with Frankenstein: A Book of Monstrous Poems and Pictures
The poems and illustrations in this collection should make children of any age shiver with delight!Jack Prelutsky, with pictures by Paul O. Zelinsky. Awful Ogre's Awful Day.
What a team! The famous author and well-known children's book illustrator set readers a-quake (with laughter!) at the antics of Awful Ogre!Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry.
The beautiful illustrations alone are worth checking out! The short poems on each page use the first word of the first line for the alphabet. Poets include Nikki Giovanni, Raymond Patterson, Rita Dove, and Lucille Clifton.
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
~ William ShakespeareKathleen de la Peña McCook. Opportunities in Library and Information Science Careers.
Forget the hair in buns and orthopedic shoes! Today's librarians are information professionals and knowledge management specialists. Check out the diverse options of this versatile career!Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer. Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky (Librarian's Choice!!!)
Chock-full of wonderful photographs of intrepid librarians who braved Appalachian winters to deliver books to remote families. Funded during the Great Depression through the Work Projects Administration of the New Deal.Roxie Munro and Julie Cummins. The Inside Outside Book of Libraries.
From the grandeur of the Library of Congress to the tiny Ocracoke Library in coastal North Carolina, readers will enjoy this colorful and fact-filled book about the "inside outside" of libraries.Mandel Family. Cyberspace for Kids: 600 Sites That Are Kid-Tested and Parent-Approved (Grades 7-8)
Middle-schoolers are vulnerable to less-than-scrupulous online advertising and promotion, so why not offer these fun alternatives to curious websurfers?
Roxanne Myers Spencer
Assistant Professor & Coordinator
Educational Resources CenterDr. Michael Binder, Professor & Dean
University Libraries and MuseumDr. Brian E. Coutts
Professor & Department Head
Library Public ServicesAnnotated Bibliographies compiled by Ellen Micheletti
Senior Educational Resources Center Assistant &
Esther French, Educational Resources Center AssistantPoems about April from www.gardendigest.com/monapr.htm ERC Bookends, April 2002
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
~ T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
