Coffee and Books

National Coffee Day...yesterday!

We missed it, but we're celebrating today. We had our highest level of sales in the 5 years we've been open yesterday. Okay, it's not much in terms of making a living, but we are excited that we meet the needs of students, staff, and faculty this way.

And here at the end of Banned Books Week:

In honor of Banned Books Week, Google Maps has a map of the country pinpointing and describing challenges to books as documented by the American Library Association and the Kids' Right to Read Project.

Some good things coming together...

"Where is the Love" library instruction designed by Judy Bastin gets Karla Fisher approval: "You're teaching just like our Faculty Development Day speaker wants us to!"

Contracts signed to digitize the college yearbooks from 1927 - 1995, and supplementary material such as the Grizzly Magazine and the Scan since. Thank you for pulling this together, Martha Gregg. It is funded by a donor who wished to honor his family: "Made Possible by the James R. Boyd Family".

Tonight begins our Teen Reading programming, with Sheryle Dunbar, Martha Gregg, Micaela Ayers, Susan Balman, Suzie Van Tries, Jeff Tymony, Velma Honer, Kirbie Shearburn, Anne Carpenter, and Glenn Lygrisse all involved at some level or another. Kudos to Sheryle for seeing us to this moment.

And I'm happy to announce a CULS recognition (CULS Legislative Leadership Award) will go to me next month. It's always special to be recognized by your peers. I hope it inspires me to new efforts on behalf of Kansas academic libraries.

More housing in El Dorado

I hope everyone has seen the news about Butler's new dorms. But there won't be married student housing in them when they open next fall. Today I saw this announcement and following press release from Friday, Sept. 23:

From El Dorado Main Street

I am very happy to announce that El Dorado has been awarded the HOPE VI Main Street grant that we have been working on for over two years. Thanks to the partnership between the City of El Dorado,building owners and El Dorado Main Street; this grant will help revitalize two building which are in desperate need and located in the downtown. --Director Lindsey Baines

HUD No. 11-230
Donna White
(202) 708-0685
FOR RELEASE
Friday
September 23, 2011



HUD AWARDS $500,000 TO REJUVINATE EL DORADO'S "MAIN STREET"
Funding will add a dozen affordable housing units to city's revitalization plan

KANSAS CITY, KS - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the city of El Dorado a $500,000 grant today that will allow the city and its local partners to include affordable housing as it revitalizes its historic central business district or "Main Street."

The grant is provided through HUD's HOPE VI Main Street Program that gives financial support to small towns to ensure they have the resources to include affordable housing in their ongoing effort to revitalize older, downtown business districts.

El Dorado will use the funding to transform Ellet's Opera House and the Gish Building into affordable housing. Two developers - Gish Apartments, LLC and W&M Enterprises, LLC - formed WMS Partnership. The new entity will join the city and PKHLS Architects to oversee and design the construction of the new housing.
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The project will create 12-upper-story, affordable one and two-bedroom housing units. Ten of the units will be reserved for low- to moderate-income residents. The remaining two units, one in each building, will be reserved for very low-income residents.

For complete item, visit KNSS Radio.

While away an hour today, and view...

...The Cave of Chavet Pont-D'Arc, and 30,000 year old cave drawings. Brilliant!

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html

We have an excellent history of the cave drawings in the library: " The Cave Painters: Probing the Mystery of the World's First Artists" by Gregory Curtis, 2006.

September Updates to Facts On File News Service Databases

As the 2011-12 year gets under way, here are highlights of recent additions to your authorized Facts On File News Service database(s) with selected key summer additions.

Drive - What Motivates Us

http://www.fastcompany.com/1646337/science-shows-that-bigger-bonuses-create-worse-performance

Monarch!

Monarch on Kansas Gayfeather flower


It's September in Kansas and we are once again witnessing a visit from our transient royalty. Fluttering southward we will be graced with the appearance of monarch butterflies for a short while.

More information on these amazing insects and their journies can be found at the Kansas Government Information blog: http://ksdocs.blogspot.com/2011/09/monarch-butterfly.html

The Kansas Government Information Blog is a service of staff at the State Library of Kansas.


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