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/11/t;;l.1 Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University Nov. 2-3, 1999 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 (606) 783-2030 THE. CCV_RIER-JOURNA;L • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 19W ·virtual Iibrilfy' foi- state_goes _9nline By LONNIE HARP- · --·- 1n its Kentucky section, tranacripts of The Courier.Journal the University of Kentucky's John Sher man Coo~er Oral H~~ Project are aJ. FRANKFORT, Ky. -An Internet site ready available on the fte. They include · that will allow Kentuckians to gather in- a 1981 interviewwith the late Jacqueline formation from libraries across the state Kennedy Onassis describing the - and eve·!}tually throughout the world friendshiJ;> that she and John F. Ken ,/ -went onlineyesterday. •. ---'-· · ... nedy cultivated with Coopel\ a Som State and local library officials have erset. lawyer .who represented Ken been working on the Kentucky Common tucky in the U.S. Senate. '.""r .-. Iwealth Vutua.l Library for more than four Officials said they will digitally rec years, and yesterday the Council on Post otd many; manuscripts and other secondary Education unveiled the site b)' Kentucky records of .note to.store on playing the late Gov. Albert "Happy'' tbesite. .. ,,,. •" ifft ,i (• J,!lr,-'"c '•~ f"!'; ;,:lf"l ·f Chandler's rendition of' _ .- · · - · · . For general interest reference or· "My Old Ken research materials, the virtual library tµc;ky Home" over the will allow users to search the cata Internet. ·. ~ __,,_,._ logs of, various state libraries and po The ·site;· teQtially tiave the materials delivered www.kcvl.org, will gjve te>! -their local public:library.· Miko users access to card Pattie,,the- library'.s director, said that catalogs and databases · . at this:stage, storing ~ op ~ In., at various libraries, ... teJ1let litoo ~f• ; qu,, WOfl .. l! links to sites with gov ·ttI.n.the.t,eginmng, we re jest Ii>~ ernment data ana a to let people ~ow who. bas wbat, collection of Kentucky she said. ,,..~ ·;" · -T" . documents, photo- Gordon ~' ~ Juµ Nelso.~, t\le. §tate lib~~~ ~id graphs and recordings, , ~• - . ·t1L.,. - - , 11te ~~li_date, JfN including• ~dler'1 !'agency -·'J.kL :i serenade. n;.,Jl.tlie first unveiled ,~ -~~hirl-qs~ ~~.1~M.1~ ~ -- i mobaf'' www.kcvt.org. ·• available to 11b est imo0¥. tile step rk f1ib' .,. '·•"• ~~ . ·•( J institutions to make the SW1tch fro netwo o ranes ac,;_. ;.-t'f'l;l; ,. ·'il'.:.i! paper records to electronic files!". cessible- '!~@Jtini~/ ~ · he added that the vfrtuaUlbtary•WI . Kentucky site.~ . ~ -' ~'!~'fl~ make searching simpler and more ~ . •1'.'nls puts the· reso , '..some ·of the great ltbraries of the world irito the ces!ffl>le!>lfl •:J .)'1_'.'b1il•JT~ . -- .. ' I.I,~ ' bands of eighth-graders fn Eastern Ken :For·some semces,- users·will'n . tucky': ~!f,~~~-~n Da'!j~;,_tbe ~uncil's ti'. ·get'an· Identification number an · president. l't•f.~~ . ..,1~W---i"f:Y-,\ . ~~1hroiigti a local librarv:'' •;;-_, . The.centralized service.should als The onllne library is connected to the 1 Kentucky Commonwealth Vlrtual Utliver, lietP.· ttiij'sfa~ij m1>ni:l' its moriev mo· ' sity, which started ~th 250 sfuderits tak- ·• effectfvelfwfie-;f~ . • . a:ccesrto t' : ing classes onllne this f.U,,, The,rary, , awaY. qa~~~ase,s,. ~thm.; .'Ii . hewever, .ii t,e;.ng· ~ tor~ tbatll bn,fY~,ftf>')J~e~~9f,,-~:.- .. qg~tl., I just Internet itudenta. :--<'~', j,.,,; n to SUCy eJ.~~p.lC reco,wi JUmQ Yesterday., the catalog section~ ~le,. frq% qQQ.Q.Qf1;,to .sr.~ ,million ... Jb5 to search the j.nvent~ o~ sevea:KenJ ; eii~;.~J'UY Jlroject J~as -~ ~5.1111 tuck)' colleges as well as Vanderbilt Uni liont!ver.lhe past two years. ,, ., .1 ; versity ancf the Universitf of Tennessee . "Tne real Benefit is that search· at Knoxville. Officials 5a1d· the site will f9~; J~9m41tjpn is,. g9ing . tQ · 9!-' ~ expand substantially in .t'1e • months . 1 whole lot easier," Nelson said. "Right ahead. ····,::!/- .,•;~-~ ; ,ii ... ~ .. '. ··1 now, you can spend half a day on tho A section devoted to government infor Intemet lookinf , for what mation provides links to Internet infor ~u•rf \ mation from organizations ranging from ~~jj~ ..~ ,f ! t ~ ~11.a the Kentucky Historical Society to ·the U.~. J?.eP.!rtmen~ of Transportanon. Lexington Herald-leader T~~s.9ay, N~mber 2, 1999 • N~~;~m.. .9P~~ ~$W~ libi:anes t,o all on__htt.emet -, ... Kentucky Commonweajt~ V~~--~ibrary offers fn~oaa array:_gf ~~rvices By Holly E. Stepp ."li 1 "11iis"'. allows ua to bring' a new /-· At that time, the IThr.W.was seen HERAJ..D.lEAOER EDUCATION WRITER • Iworld of 6ooks ·and information to the as a way to get books and research FRANKFORT - The state's - eighth-grader in.nira1 Eastern Ken material to students taking courses newest public library made its debut h.icky," said Gordon Davies, president through the Kentucky C.Ommonwealth yesterday, with former Gov. A.B. of the state's Council on Postsec Virtual University, the state's Inter "Happy" Chandler singing My Old ondary Education, which oversees the net-based college oourse demngnouse. Kentucky Home in the background. virtual library. 'I, . &t the state's "virtual hlrarian," Mike The digital serenade by the late - '"Literally, everyone with access to Pattie, said the library has grown well be, governor is just a sample of the type a computer will have the resources of yood that ' . ~-,~ . of materl.al available on ilie state's every Kentucky co~ and universi• "While this helps our' distance-learning new Kentucky C-Ommonwealth V:~ tJ, bb~• •~ public litnry, every students, it alao puts an ·o1 Ke:ntl)cky'a li_. :l...,_; ....,_.. :~. - ---< · , --.,,. .. ~•" · ~te"co' · li:i-:_:,:,.Da ·· A:·•.d · LllUlcu,. • ~ .- . ...., ..., .. - ,.. .. w e,..... ,, VIes•sai braries and their patroOI on·• te+el play- The virtual library is an Internet- ....,The virtual h'brary was aeated in ma field.· Pattie said. -✓~ ~ • • based information source that con- 1997 as part of legislation that re• nects nearly all the state's libraries structured the public higher education (MORE) and their resources. system. ·t,, - ·.- t:t _. ~ ... ·• UDl'UII'( I : .- Through the KCVL Web site, anyone '{irtual librarY users also caii access with access to a oomputer and the Internet special Kentucky collections, such as oral each publi~ hbrary had tried to pun:hase.the. can b~ the catalogs of almost every li · hJStory tapes. photographs, manuscri -ts resources itself. · ·· • brary m the state. ~-~,!U!IO provides .-.aa we11 as:" ll:i8itaI vmion of 0ia00Yer :"Students now expect to have:~-to~ 31 different databases, wtiicn uicludetne _singinfMjVuTKentucky Home. the Ia test databases and. Internet tools.· full text of articles and reports from close ; The KCVL will also offer gov~ent !!!lid ~e R~gers, dirmor bf Paris-Bour to 5,000 journals, magazines, newspapers information, tutorials to help people with ~ Public Library. "This allows us to pro and reference books. · their research and a virtual reference desk. VJde the ]lest service no matter. our size.• If someone needs a book m: other mate Local public librarians who attended yes rials at another library, it can be delivered taday's ceremony said the virtual library to.them by courier service to their closest boosts the services they can offer. The virtu, library or through a new Internet faxing al lilxary cost $.5 million;.ofticials estimate it: system. __ · __· W®ld have cost at least 10 times as mucli if I By KIM HAMILTON j Staff Writer · ''Leaders at· Morehead State said. "There are University's agricultural 1 a~out eati111 goat meat, but complex .hope to get goats approximately 20 million. once people try it, they love it,• · going as· an • alternative immigrants 'of Muslim, Jewish he said. "It has less fat and and· other populations who more protein "than chicken or product to. beef cattle and bee£-•·:-,.,. ••la!}:-· .••, •: tobacco. r.:J'.•;•• -~. _._,.,,.,.i ,_, . like goat meat _and want thfD ,;.,, •... ,;r-.-1~.,,.., .. ~ .... -· ·.. The Boer meat-goat' project ; Anotlier quality of the goats was started .last October with fre:;,-;1~;~~ said he w~i~\, is·their:abiJity to"clean trees a $10,000 grant. This fall, two ' be able tci grade and weigh tlie 1hru.J?~- and_ leaves off steep Boer goats were bom from a · goats at .the MSU farm, then· md rugged land: , transfer them to New Holland, · Spanish goat with the help: of 1:. :'We: 9an. contract loc~lly embryo transfer, according to ! Penn.,. the best goat ma:i::ke.~onl ! :~ em·coast. .• ;. • . ' Dr. Don.. Applegate, MSU '. • • I • .. I.:· ~(lll·'!;fNP.aats, ....., ~~~ir an .an toa: · ....~o a producer, that means•: lioDOWs' · · te~----- · usociate ,. p;rofessor .of "f· .••. •:~ • veterinary technology. · they could get 20 cents a .. G"oat;_._iion't' eat the same .\nnle,rnte and associate pound mo~e than they could thiirg~;~;·catile do, so they here," .he said. "Our goats can veterinary profeesor ur;. could. use the same pasture or · · bring up _to twice as much as be rotated. Phillip Prater are-researching New Zealand goats, up to $3.a the feasibility of·bringing For more information on the meat. goat program ·or to goats to the·rarili"'tb:at_ ·ate_ \ poi;;:~~ ~o:~:~~~ 'are f~~~ ready for market."•: :+i•: •"!-" contract for cleaning goats, The-baby goats· were on in west Texas, which is a 10111 call Applegate at 783-2671 or way from the east coast Prater at 783-2326. display last Thursday: during market. Marketing them Business After Hours, a local locally ,provides a good chamber of commeice·event window for development, he held at the university farm added. : · "· •·. · 0 ~The :V,~ profes■ o~ hope .bl . In the future, Applegate write a recommendation for said he would like to supply breedera across·the.state.