Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a Special Irish Language Course

If you have a few spare moments:

Mango Languages offers a specialty course in St. Patrick’s Day Irish. This course will allow you to connect with your Irish traditions to the fullest. You’ll be able to ask the bartender for a refreshing and authentic Irish beverage, impress your friends with your knowledge of just who the heck St. Patrick is, what he did to deserve his own day, and engage in all sorts of practical St. Patrick’s Day conversations.

Access Mango Languages

Look for the Specialty Courses inside Mango Languages

Mango Languages is available through the State Library of Kansas. You can access this link from any Kansas IP address but if you’re outside of Kansas or on a mobile device, you’ll need to sign up for an eCard. At no charge, Kansas residents can obtain a Kansas Library eCard, provided by the State Library of Kansas, by visiting your local library.

Access trouble? Call 785.296.3296 or email kslc@library.ks.gov.


Many Thanks,

Candace LeDuc
Communications Coordinator
State Library of Kansas
300 SW 10th Street
Room 312N
Topeka, Kansas 66612
(785) 291-3230

Scholar Series at the Library 2015 -- Lorraine Madway Presents....

Ok, the headline wasn't much:

Madway Presents Presentation on Persuasion, Propaganda - See more at: http://www.butlercountytimesgazette.com/article/20150307/NEWS/150309500#sthash.76MJBx1e.dpuf

...but it was a pretty good writeup. We also held the event in Andover 5000 at 6 pm. Next time I'll know better - all of Butler's history classes in Andover are held on the 6000 building. :-(



Our thanks to the Kansas Humanities Council, and particularly the funding from a gift from the Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Charitable Trust.

Sponsored by Butler Libraries &
Butler Division of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Fair Use Week

This week is Fair Use Week, according to the Association of Research Libraries, and that's as good a time as any to remind everyone that it's wrong to refer to fair as merely a "limitation or exception" to copyright law -- or merely a defense to infringement. It is a right that is protected by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has regularly referred to "fair use" as a "safeguard" of the First Amendment, allowing copyright law to be compatible with the First Amendment. As such, it seems bizarre that fair use is not seen as the default, rather than the other way around. If we are to protect the First Amendment, and not allow for speech to be stifled, at the very least, we need a greater recognition of the importance of fair use in guaranteeing that the First Amendment's principles of free speech are allowed to thrive.


https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150222/16392430108/reminder-fair-use-is-right-not-exception-defense.shtml

…brig

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Brig C. McCoy
Network Services Manager
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
625 Minnesota Ave
Kansas City, Kansas 64114
913-279-2349, Phone
816-885-2700, Cell
www.kckpl.org

Thanks, Brig!
Micaela

Induced Seismicity

Hello all....

The Kansas Geological Survey has a great page of links on induced seismicity and general information on earthquakes at:

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/PRS/Seismicity/index.html

Among the links is a State Action Plan by the Kansas Corporation Commission issued initially September 26, 2014 and amended January 21, 2015.... i.e. hot off the virtual press!

http://kcc.ks.gov/induced_seismicity/state_action_plan.htm

Thanks to:

Bill Sowers
Kansas Documents and Cataloging Librarian
State Library of Kansas
ksdocs@library.ks.gov

KS Governors' Press Releases, 2003 - 2015

The press releases of a gubernatorial administration can be an opportunity for a historical/political researcher to get a chronological footing on what issues and decisions were made under a particular administration.

The State Library's KGI Online Library has the press releases of three Kansas governors up online:

Sebelius (2003-2009)
http://cdm16884.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16884coll3/searchterm/G1-13-Sebelius/field/identi/mode/exact/conn/and/order/govern

Parkinson (2009-2011)
http://cdm16884.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16884coll3/searchterm/G1-13-Parkinson/field/identi/mode/exact/conn/and/order/govern

Brownback (2011- )
http://cdm16884.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16884coll3/searchterm/G1-13-Brownback/field/identi/mode/exact/conn/and/order/govern
(annual cumulations up to 2014)

Thanks to
Bill Sowers
Kansas Documents and Cataloging Librarian
State Library of Kansas
ksdocs@library.ks.gov