[Sabbatical Report]

(1) Write/revise the chapters of the book I was currently under contract to produce by the end of December 2017 (see below for details) (2) Make significant progress on some genealogy research projects already underway (3) Increase my expertise in specific genealogy-related record sets located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, the Philadelphia City Archives, and two local-history libraries in Chicag

Croatia: Jewel of the Adriatic

Katherine Pennavaria, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Visual and Performing Arts Library from the Department of Library Public Services of WKU, gave a presentation on her recent trip to Croatia, land of her ancestors, in Helm 100 on the morning of September 23, 2014. The trip was part of her genealogy research

word~river literary review (2010)

wordriver is a literary journal dedicated to the poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction of adjuncts and part-time instructors teaching in our universities, colleges, and community colleges. Our premier issue was published in Spring 2009. We are always looking for work that demonstrates the creativity and craft of adjunct/part-time instructors in English and other disciplines. We reserve first publication rights and onetime anthology publication rights for all work published. We define adjunct instructors as anyone teaching part-time or full-time under a semester or yearly contract, nationwide and in any discipline. Graduate students teaching under part-time contracts during the summer or who have used up their teaching assistant time and are teaching with adjunct contracts for the remainder of their graduate program also are eligible.https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/word_river/1000/thumbnail.jp

Genealogy: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Commercials for the largest subscription database indicate that the process of genealogy is simple—you just “plug in” what you know, and the database does the rest! Those ads might sell subscriptions, but they are misleading. Getting beyond that “low-hanging fruit” is not so easy; collecting the records and data needed to delineate a family tree accurately requires time, organization, and informed searching. Records are available from many places, and finding them is never a “one-stop shopping” experience. So how does the new researcher identify which resources meet his or her specific research needs? And how can libraries and librarians best help this new generation of genealogists?https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlps_book/1032/thumbnail.jp

Tangier Island: A Chesapeake Bay Treasure

Katherine Pennavaria talked about her recent trip to Tangier Island. It turned out to be “the strangest place you’ve never heard of,” she told the audience. Kath said she had been attracted to the island by the quaint accent the island people spoke. Tangier Island, dubbed the “soft crab capital” of the nation, is a unique island located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. The people of Tangier, who speak with a lingering trace of Elizabethan accent, live here because they like the lifestyle and have no desire to live on the mainland

We\u27ve Been Everywhere: Tangier Island

WKU Libraries professor and coordinator of Glasgow Regional Center Library Katherine Pennavaria talked about her trip to Tangier Island. It turned out to be “the strangest place you’ve never heard of,” as we learned from her presentation. Kath said she had been attracted to the island by the quaint accent the island people spoke. A crowd of her colleagues were her fascinated and amused audience in Helm Library Room 100 today, September 25, 2012. Her presentation was part of the Libraries’ “We’ve Been Everywhere” talk series, where library employees share with their own their experience outside the United States

Collections & Connections

Collections & Connections is a newsletter of Western Kentucky University Libraries periodically featuring its major events. This Fall \u2703 issue highlights NASA Astronaut Terry Wilcutt, quilt collections, the Book Fest\u27s Traverse Award, Dean\u27s presentation to a conference in UK, local folk music collection, the reception of the Canadian Studies Grant, the implementation of the EZProxy, KY Library & Museum educational activities, and recent acquisitions

User Expectations of Library Genealogy Databases v. What They Actually Get

An analysis and comparison of two genealogical databases: Ancestry.com and Heritagequest.com

Genetic Genealogy: What Every Librarian Should Know

The past few years television, podcasts, and blogs across the Internet promoted the role of DNA testing in genealogy. But what do you really get, and is it worth the price? We discuss the logistics of DNA testing as it relates to genealogy and take a hard look at the legal issues involved in genealogy’s hottest topic

Using Federal Documents to Dispel a Myth about Ellis Island

Government workers at New York’s Ellis Island have been accused of murdering ancestral names to serve their own purposes and prejudices. Despite zero evidence to support this accusation, the myth stubbornly persists. They did not change names. They worked from manifests, which were governed by law