Events
@WKU
Libraries: http://www.wku.edu/library/calendar&event/eventlist.htm March Events:http://www.wku.edu/library/calendar&event/eventlist.htm#mar03 One
Campus - One Community -
One Book: Final Book
Discussion with Author Scott
Elliot as he
discusses his book, Coiled in
the Heart. March 3, 2:00
p.m., Java City, Helm Library, Western Kentucky University, and 6:30
p.m., Bowling Green Public Library, 1225 State Street March 4,
6:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble,
1680 Campbell Lane, Bowling Green. For more
information, contact Jayne
Pelaski at 270-745-5016.
March 5: Silk
Painting Workshop
with Laura McGee 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.,
Kentucky Library and Museum. This 5-hour silk
painting workshop is for beginners. Space is limited, and
pre-registration is required by March 2nd. There is a fee for this
workshop. For more information or to pre-register, contact or Lynne
Ferguson at
270-745-2594.
March 12, 2005: Professional
Development Workshop for Teachers: Women
in Kentucky 9:00 a.m. to
12:00 p.m.,Kentucky Library and Museum. Co-sponsored by the Kentucky
Library & Museum and the Green River Regional Educational
Cooperative (GRREC).Limited to 25 participants.Pre-registration
is required. To enroll, call or email
Jana Kirchner at GRREC at
270-745-2451. March 17, 2005 Faraway Places with
Strange-Sounding Names: Cyprus: By Richard
Keyser, Assistant Professor of the Department of History, WKU. 7:00 p.m. to 8:30
p.m. Barnes & Noble, 1680 Campbell Lane, Bowling Green, KY. Contact
Brian Coutts at 270-745-6121.
March 17, 2005 Felts Log House
Educational Tour:
9:00 and 11:00 a.m. Kentucky Library and Museum. Observe demonstrations
of open hearth cooking and spinning by educator and writer Joanne
Seiff, an award winning spinner who has diverse experience in open
hearth cooking.Pre-registration
is required. For more information or to enroll, contact Lynne
Ferguson at
270-745-2594.
•Want
to
help your students find out more about research in… Information
Systems…? Check out
the bytes with Department of
Management and Information Systems: Information SystemsDepartmental
Research Guide:http://www.wku.edu/Library/dlps/rsrchguides/dept/html/infodept.html
Between
the Bookends... Noteworthy
Titles @ the ERC...
Fastbacks from
the George H. Reavis Reading Area of the ERC, Courtesy of the Phi Delta
Kappa Educational Foundation:
#483: Professional Portfolios for Practicing
Teachers, by Ann Adams Bullock and Parmalee P. Hawk:
"Portfolios have become important in all stages of the teaching
profession: preservice, induction, and the in-service. They are used
for self-assessment, awards, and evaluations." #492: Evaluating Website Content, by
Ellen Chamberlain: "Criteria for Evaluating Webpages: Purpose,
authoritiy, currency, content, and page design." #496: Inside Teams in Education, by Ann Smialek:"The Power of Teams: The benefits of teams are tangible: people
feel better about themselves and their efforts on the job and they take
greater pride in their work."
Treats from WKU
Libraries' New Database: TeachingBooks.net (http://www.wku.edu/library, Select E-Resources, Databases, login,
then choose TeachingBooks.net from the alphabetical list. You will need
to create your own login user ID and password to use TeachingBooks.net)
View your
favorite children's and young adult authors up-close: See slideshows,
read in-depth interviews, see a comprehensive bibliography of Peter Sís's
work (author and illustrator extraordinaire of The Tree of Life: A
Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Geologist &
Thinker, Tibet: Through
the Red Box, and other
imaginative and complex stories).
Look up
thematic booklists, such as Adventure Stories with Female Protagonists,
Frontier and Pioneer Life, Biographies for Boys and much, much more!
Check out book guides on such titles
as Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man,
Katherine Paterson's Preacher's Boy,
and Walter Dean Myers' Fallen Angels,
just to name a few!
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is
out, but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ~Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (from http://www.heartquotes.net/exwomen.html)
Staff Picks @
the ERC... The Saddest Little Robot, by Brian Gage,
Illustrations by Kathryn OtoshiThis
book is the tale of a robot that is forced to slave away in the
Cylinder.The only problem is that he gets
made fun of
because of his shape and he wants to leave the Cylinder to find out
what is
beyond it.He finally leaves the
Cylinder and finds new friends who convince him to go back and help out
the
other robots that want to leave.
Horace the Horrible:A Knight Meets His Match, by Jackie French Koller,
Illustrations by Jackie Urbanovic This is a tale of
a horrible knight that slays dragons and
kills vast armies, that is, until he is forced to take care of his
young niece.
To make his niece happy he slays a dragon and frightens off an army,
but that
still doesn’t make her happy. The
knight finally realizes that he doesn’t have to be horrible to make
someone
happy.
Science Verse, by John Scieszka
and Lane Smith A great teacher’s aide for
teaching science. It’s the
story of a boy who thinks he has the “science curse” and he begins
learning
everything in poetry. This book is a compilation of science poems that
are
really funny and exciting to read.
Contributed by Anna L.
Douthitt
Fizz,
Bubble & Flash!:Element
Explorations & Atom Adventures for Hands-on Science Fun! by
Anita Brandolini What do
elements have to do with your everyday life? They make your world--and
beyond--move and groove, fizz, bubble, and flash! It's hands-on
learning the Williamson way--where learning is a happening thing! (Honest, I don't
make this stuff up!)
Can You Hear Me Smiling?: A Child Grieves
a Sister, by Aariane R. Jackson, Illustrated by Leigh Lawhon ...the
book's 9-year-old author recounts with honesty, tenderness, and courage
the story of her older sister's illness and death. Aariane's heartfelt
narrative gently leads young readers through the range of emotions she
experienced during this difficult time....
Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family, by
Sydney Taylor
The All-of-a-Kind Family series chronicles the joys and sorrows of five
little Jewish girls growing up in New York City at the turn of the
century. Here is the eldest, Ella's story: After World War I, Ella is a
young lady who dreams of singing and dancing in the theater, but she
also thinks of Jules, who is returning from the war.
Learning is not attained by chance,
it must be sought for with ardor and
attended to with diligence. ~Abigail Adams
•Two
coin-operated photocopiers for copying Reserve Readings and other
materials (10 cents per copy). •The ERC
has 11 public computers with access to TOPCAT, the WKU Libraries’
catalog (http://topcat2000.wku.edu/)
and excellent resources through TIP (http://www.wku.edu/library/tip/),
Western Kentucky University Libraries’ InfoPortal •The ERC’s
Ellison machine has hundreds of dies, perfect for bulletin boards and
poster projects •We will
photocopy pages onto our transparencies for a fee
We look forward to helping you find the
resources you need!
ERC
Hours: •Monday
through Thursday: 7:45 a.m. to 7:30
p.m.
•Friday:
7:45 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.
•Saturday:
12:00 noon to 4:00
p.m.
•Closed
Sundays.
Tailor-Made
Research Instruction: Roxanne
Spencer, ERC Coordinator, invites all education faculty to schedule
bibliographic instruction classes in the Educational Resources Center
for their teacher education students. BI classes include a tour of our
unique subject alcoves, the ever-growing juvenile collection,
curriculum guides, and online subscription databases. We encourage
faculty to ask us to design instruction to suit their particular needs.
Tips and training on successfully searching WKU Libraries’ databases
are available for students, staff, and faculty. Please don’t hesitate
to ask us to create a specific class to meet your needs! To schedule
your class for an ERC orientation, please call 745-4552 or 745-4659.
ERC staff, Ellen Micheletti, Gayle Novick, and our able student workers
look forward to assisting you!
•The
Educational Resources Center is a campus branch library of WKU
Libraries: http://www.wku.edu/library •Roxanne
Myers Spencer, Assistant Professor & Coordinator, Educational
Resources Center •Ellen
Micheletti, Senior Library Associate •Gayle
Novick, ERC Assistant •Annotated
Bibliographies compiled by ERC Staff and Student Workers •Dr.
Michael Binder, Dean, University Libraries •Dr. Brian
E. Coutts, Head, Department of Library Public Services
