UK Libraries will host an online “Jeopardy”
contest from November 14 thought 18 as part of the campus activities in
celebration of International
Education Week. The contest will focus on the College of Arts and Science Passport to
the World countries, celebrated as part of their Year of South Asia, and is
designed to provide information about the countries as well as to raise
awareness about the library resources available that provide country
information.
The winning contestant of the UK Libraries
"Jeopardy" contest will receive a $25 Starbucks gift card. The contest
will be available online at: http://uky.libsurveys.com/uky-libsurveys-com-southasia
and in print at the William T. Young Library Circulation Desk. The contest can
also be printed out from the online site and returned to Young Library. A drawing for the prize will be held in the
event of multiple winning entries. The site will be live 8 a.m. Monday, November
14, and will close 5 p.m. Friday, November 18.
The Arts and Sciences Passport to the World
program is focusing on the South Asian countries of Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri
Lanka and the Maldives for this academic year.
Flags from these countries are on display in the Atrium of the Young
Library and a flag key is available at the Security Desk, Circulation Desk and
the Reference Desk. A research
guide has been developed as a companion to
the flag exhibit and provides more detailed information on each country. In addition to the flags from the South Asian
countries, an exhibit of books from the library collection on South Asia will
be on display before the Thanksgiving holiday break.
An
exhibit focusing on India with a Kentucky connection has also been mounted in
the Young Library Rose Street entrance.
The exhibit “India through the Eyes of Ellen Churchill Semple” features a series of postcards from early 20th
century India collected by renowned geographer Ellen Church Semple. Semple was born in
Louisville, Kentucky, and worked in the male dominated field of geography from
1901 until her death in 1932. In 1911 and 1912 she took a break from her
writing and lecturing to tour the Asian countries of Japan, China, the
Philippines, Indonesia and India. The exhibit features the postcards collected
during her tour and illustrates Semple’s
keen interest in how people and place cannot be separated.
Her focus ranged
from the monuments, to transportation, to the people of the region, and
illustrates a strong interest in the connection between humans and the
environment. A website on the "Life and Career of Ellen Churchill Semple" has been developed as a companion to the exhibit. Other library exhibits on past Passport
Countries can be found in UKnowledge.
Ellen Churchill Semple Day is celebrated annually on the UK Campus. Now in its 45th
year, the event is organized by the UK Department of Geography and will be
celebrated in April of 2017.
The
papers of Ellen Churchill Semple, as well as her photographs, are housed in the UK Libraries’ Special Collections Research
Center and are available digitally through ExploreUK.
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