News & Events @EKU Libraries

Everyone is invited to join us on Friday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. in Crabbe Library Room 201 for an hour of informal, moderated conversation over articles of various topics selected by EKU faculty. This week’s discussion will be moderated by Dr. Minh Nguyen and devoted to renowned philosopher Thomas Nagel’s recent (and controversial) essay Public Education and Intelligent Design:

“…the campaign of the scientific establishment to rule out intelligent design as beyond discussion because it is not science results in the avoidance of significant questions about the relation between evolutionary theory and religious belief, questions that must be faced in order to understand the theory and evaluate the scientific evidence for it.”

Refreshments provided by EKU Student Government Association.

Please click this link for more information about the series.

The 2008 Kentucky Book Fair will take place on November 15th at the Frankfort Convention Center, 405 Mero Street, Frankfort, KY. Hours are 9 to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.

The Book Fair is Kentucky’s premier literary event and one of the largest of its kind in the nation. It is sponsored by the The State Journal, Frankfort’s daily newspaper, and co-sponsored by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives and the University Press of Kentucky.

Each year approximately 150 authors attend the Book Fair to autograph copies of their latest book, generally published within the 12 months preceding the November Book Fair date.

Additional information regarding other special events is available on the Book Fair website

Available online for the first time, this edition of this renowned resource will make finding information about plays easier than ever.  This unique resource covers important classic and historical plays as well as the works of contemporary playwrights, including new editions or translations.

• Find citations to some 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form patrons prefer.Search over 600 monologues for auditions or course assignments.
• Limit your results to plays with a specific number of male and/or female roles, or size of total cast.
• Search for plays appropriate for preK-6, grades 7-12, and adult.
• A descriptive annotation summarizes the plot and indicates any musical requirements: chorus, singing, dancing etc., and indicates number of sets, noting whether scenery requirements are interior or exterior.
• Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama.
• Search for plays by title; author; subject (culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more.

Click here to access the Play Index trial.

Trial ends: November 30, 2008

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Education Research Complete is a research database with coverage spanning all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals, and includes full text for more than 133 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.

Click here to access the Education Research Complete trial.

Trial ends: December 19, 2008

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• High quality indexing of more than 770 periodicals as far back as 1983, over 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
• In-depth abstracts of 50 to 150 words let users know instantly if a cited article is useful to their research.
• Full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996.

Click here to access the Education Full Text trial.

Trial ends: November 30, 2008

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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800

Explore 17th- and 18th-century America:

• Based on the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol’s Supplement
• Complemented by Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw- Shoemaker, 1801-1819
• Early American Imprints, Series I enables primary research of 17th- and 18th-century America
• Features expert indexing and a broad selection of subjects
• Includes more than 36,000 items and 2.3 million pages
• Offers new imprints not available in microform editions
• Provides a wide variety of publications from more than 160 years of American history, literature and daily life
• Published in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society

Click here to access Early American Imprints, Series I.

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Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819

Explore early 19th-century America…

• Early American Imprints, Series II enables in-depth research of early 19th-century America
• Based on the renowned bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker
• Complements Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
• Cross-searchable with other Archive of Americana collections
• Features expert indexing and a broad selection of subjects
• Includes more than 36,000 items and four million pages
• Offers new items unavailable in previous microform editions
• Provides a wide variety of publications, including early U.S. government materials
• Published in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society

Click here to access Early American Imprints, Series II.

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Trial ends: October 31

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Please come to the Scholastic Book Fair hosted by the Learning Resources Center in Crabbe Library, September 15-19, 2008. Hours are Monday through Friday 8am until 8pm, and Friday 8am until 12pm. Featured items include hardcover picture books, state award books, books in Spanish, and even a small selection of adult bestsellers. Proceeds will be used for programs supporting the College of Education. For more information, contact LRC staff at 859-622-1794.

This is an online version of the Cambridge Histories book series, covering the following subject areas:

Click here to access the trial.

Trial ends: October 11.

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