Butler County Community College in Pennsylvania closes for COVID-19 - but not us!

From our President.

By the way, you can tell it's a different college because they still use the word "County" in their name and branding. I finally stopped getting mail addressed to them when Butler made the switch to simply Butler Community College around 12 years ago.

Hi,
Please be aware that Butler Community College in Pennsylvania has announced its closing this afternoon. Our Butler CC is not. If you have questions from students, see things on social media, receive emails from students or family members, make sure they know the difference. Our classes are still in session and offices and campuses still open.

We’re in constant conversation with many of our partner institutions for sharing information and formulating plans to implement necessary measures if our regular working and class schedules are required to change. Our Critical Incident Management Team is meeting again on Friday. We’ll follow up with any updates.

To my awareness, there are no KS colleges to date that are shutting their doors and telling students and staff to stay home.
Thanks…
Kim


Kimberly W. Krull, Ph.D.
President
Butler Community College
901 S Haverhill Road
El Dorado, KS 67042
316.322.3100 (w)
kim.krull@butlercc.edu

Going Critical

And here's a remarkable website by Kevin Simler that illustrates diffusion: the way things move across a network, Going Critical.

Interactive, fascinating, thrilling, and scary today as I think about the COVID-19 coronavirus.

It gets personal as I think about Spring Break or vacation travel. Will we get to go to Hawaii or not?!

Warm welcome from Hamil at the Andover 5000 Library. Lots of changes coming to the library this year: location, services, space. But you are always going to be happy with our people here.

Kansas Education 150 Years Ago

From the State Library of Kansas:

A look at the state of education in Kansas 150 years ago: The 8th Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kansas… The report is generally a good read (i.e. not written in “Governmentese”) and touches on some issues that are still debated today. Read the blog and peruse the book online at the State Library of Kansas’ KGI Online Library.

https://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=660

Bill Sowers

Women's History in Kansas

From Bill Sowers at the State Library of Kansas,

Hello all…

Here’s a short list of publications in the State Library of Kansas' KGI Online Library on women in Kansas for Women's History Month...
https://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=648

Enjoy!

Happy Kansas Day 2019!

Paintings "Town of Kansas" and "Mill Scene" at the Charles Evans Whittaker U.S. Courthouse; Kansas City, Missouri

...And from the State Library of Kansas:

As we celebrate the 158th birthday of our state today take a leap back to 1961 and peruse the small collection of publications by the Kansas Centennial Commission up online at the State Library’s KGI Online Library.

Take note of the single issues of the Centennial Commission’s newsletter/bulletin. We’re going through each issue listing article and some photo caption titles in the table of contents for each issue. This will bring forth individuals, events and places promoted during the Centennial. We’re still adding these single issue records to KGI so check back later to see what’s been added.

Many thanks to the Kansas Historical Society for some of the scanning of the newsletter articles missing from our collection!

Happy Kansas Day!

Bill Sowers

Copyright free films from 1923

INTERNET ARCHIVE: FILMS FROM 1923
archive.org/details/moviesandfilms?&and[]=year%3A%221923%22

Readers wondering where they might find some of the films that recently entered the public domain under US copyright law should take a look at the Internet Archive's movie collection. At the link above, visitors can watch and download several dozen full-length feature films from 1923, the publication year that most recently became public domain in the US. This collection includes such films as Cecil B. DeMille's lesser-known silent version of The Ten Commandments, the classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Lon Chaney and directed by Wallace Worsley, and Alla Nazimova's avant-garde adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play Salome, as well as several of Otto Messmer's early Felix the Cat cartoons. Although films from this time had no audible dialogue, some in this collection include music. Visitors may use the search bar and filters on the left to further explore the Internet Archive's movie collections, and the entire site is bursting with other content to explore as well. [JDC]

From:
The Scout Report (ISSN 1092-3861) is published every Friday of the year except for the last two Fridays of December by the Internet Scout Research Group, based in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer Sciences.
Vol 25, Number 3, 1/18/19