Books from UPK and UK Libraries faculty featured in Courier-Journal gift guide

The Louisville Courier-Journal featured five books connected to the University Press of Kentucky and UK Libraries on their holiday gift giving list for 2015.

The article, available to read online, lists the following UPK books:

Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture, edited by Andrew Kelly, published by UPK.

The Birth of Bourbon: A Photographic Tour of Early Distilleries, by Carol Peachee, published by UPK.

The Manhattan Cocktail: A Modern Guide to the Whiskey Classic, by Albert W.A. Schmid, published by UPK.

Venerable Trees: History, Biology and Conservation in the Bluegrass, by Tom Kimmerer, published by UPK.

A fifth book on the newspaper’s list is Row by Row: Talking With Kentucky Gardeners, by Katherine Black, a former archivist at UK Libraries. Photos in the book are by Deirdre Scaggs, associate dean of the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center. The book is published by Ohio University Press.

Herald-Leader features photos, quotes from UK Libraries to mark UK 150

Cadets line up in front of the Main Building in 1918
Photo courtesy of UK Special Collections Research Center

This has been a special week on campus with the celebration of UK's sesquicentennial. Deirdre Scaggs, Associate Dean for Special Collections, co-chaired the UK150 Committee. The celebration included speeches by national higher education leaders, a student celebration, an open house for faculty and staff in the Special Collections Research Center, as well as the Blue Tie Bash in Rupp Arena.

On February 22 the Lexington Herald-Leader featured a special section about the university's history. It included many photos from the Special Collections Research Center.  

You can read more online. 

UK Libraries mentioned in The New Yorker

The February 2 edition of The New Yorker includes the piece "The Pursuit of Beauty," on Yitang "Tom" Zhang. Zhang, a part-time calculus instructor at the University of New Hampshire, solved an old problem on prime numbers and won fame and a MacArthur award.  

After finishing his doctorate at Purdue in 1991, Zhang spent some time in Lexington involved with a Chinese democracy group and keeping books for a local restaurant.  

The following quote is on page 23 of the magazine:

"When Zhang wasn't working, he would go to the library at the University of Kentucky and read journals in algebraic geometry and number theory."