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Learn with Pride 📖 Teach with Pride 🍎 Research with Pride 🔬 Build community with Pride 😻 UK Libraries is celebrating Pride Month by highlighting oral history collections, databases, and journals that support teaching, research, and learning across the vast fields of gender and sexuality studies. We're also sharing our LGBTQ* Resource Guide with information and services to help Central Kentuckians build strong and dynamic communities, healthy and confident individuals, and informed and affirming allies.Find our resources here: https://bit.ly/45d7Igv

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As we approach the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing, we're highlighting a 1994 interview with Garrard County native Jesse Beazley in our latest Saving Stories podcast episode. Beazley was among the first wave of soldiers that fought their way onto Omaha Beach that fateful day in 1944. At 5:30 pm on Thursday, June 6, the Kentucky Theatre will host a free event commemorating the anniversary, featuring the Nunn Center, Kentucky Educational Television, the Lexington Public Library, Lexington History Museum, and visitors from Lexington's sister city, Deauville, France, which is located near the Normandy beaches where American forces landed.🎙️ Hear the harrowing and heroic episode, and learn more about the event here: https://bit.ly/4c5HjmO

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17. The One With the Whittlers There’s nothing quite like a late spring afternoon with a porch, a pocket knife, and a piece of wood: oh yes, it’s whittling time! We were going to start out easy with spoons, bowls, and birds, but we’ll admit to being more than a little inspired by the Kentucky Folk Art Oral History Project. So we’re carving straight to the heart of human frailty, and like Edgar Tolson, whittling the Fall of Man! A woodcarver from Wolfe County, Kentucky, Tolson is at the center of these 59 interviews conducted in the mid-1990s by Julia S. Ardery as research for her book, The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art. Ardery interviewed friends and family of Tolson and key players in the folk art scene, tracing the increasing popularity of these expressive objects with collectors, critics, museums, and auction houses. Two additional oral history projects, Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change and Amidst the Sparrow's Nest: A Look at Eastern Kentucky Through the Arts, bring Appalachian folk art into the present. These projects explore the wide variety of materials and techniques used by contemporary Appalachian folk artists – from basketry, quilting, and stonework to drawing, painting, and pottery – and delve into the impact that the region has on its artists, and that artists have on their region. Pour a tall glass of tea, take a listen, and get whittling!Take a listen: bit.ly/4bwOYL8#UkyLibraries #UniversityofKentucky #NunnCenter50

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This spring, the Louie B. Nunn Center's Women in Bourbon Oral History Project Team was honored with a Sarah Bennett Holmes Award!Our wonderful team was made up of Dr. Janice Fernheimer, Dr. J Wells, Nunn Center Director Dr. Doug Boyd, Oral History Archivist Kopana Terry, Oral History Librarian Jennifer Bartlett, former Oral History Processing Archivist Danielle Gabbard, and current Oral History Processing Archivist Jesse Nau.Bestowed by the UK Women's Forum, the Holmes Awards recognize individuals and teams who promote the growth and well-being of women at the university and across Kentucky. 🎙️ Check out the 53 interviews from the award-winning project here: https://bit.ly/3QKtVwk

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UK Libraries is proud to recognize exemplary faculty member Ruth Bryan as the recipient of the 2024 Paul A. Willis Outstanding Faculty Award.“An immensely talented archivist, Ruth has played an essential role during her tenure at UK Libraries,” said Doug Way, Dean of UK Libraries. “Ruth has not only helped to preserve the University’s history, but has ensured that it will remain accessible for generations to come. I am so pleased that her efforts and impact are being recognized with this honor.” A Certified Archivist, Bryan serves as University Archivist at the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), where she has worked since 2011.Bryan was honored at the UK Libraries Spring Celebration on May 16. Learn more about her amazing work at UK Libraries: https://bit.ly/3WHNMQA

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18. The One Where We Fought for Full AccessOne of the Nunn Center’s newest projects, the Disabled in Kentucky Oral History Project documents the first-hand experiences of Kentuckians who identify as having disabilities. These 30 interviews trace the complicated history of disability in Appalachian Kentucky and delve into the intersection of disability with a wide variety of socioeconomic, gender, sexual, racial, and regional identities. Interviewees share powerful personal disability journeys that track their experiences with ableism in education and the workplace, but also celebrate the development of accessible infrastructure and legislation, the rise of disability advocacy, and the long struggle for disability justice. At their core, these are stories of self-acceptance, self-discovery, and the strength of both individuals and communities.Take a listen: https://bit.ly/3V2Ahd9#UkyLibraries #UniversityofKentucky #NunnCenter50

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UK Libraries is proud to recognize seniors Zachary Owen and Megan Quish with the 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Scholarship.Each year, the UK Libraries rewards two students' research projects that make substantive and creative use of UK Libraries' collections, services, and resources. Zachary Owen is a senior majoring in Public Policy. He was awarded for his project “Homeownership and Mortgage Loans: How Important is a Conventional Loan?” which addresses urgent questions of mortgage lending, credit, and homeownership in the US. Megan Quish is a senior majoring in Architecture. She was awarded for her project “A House for Aging and Home for Community,” which envisions a multigenerational living community in Lexington’s Davis Bottom. Owen and Quish will each receive a $1,000 cash award and their works will be published through UKnowledge, UK Libraries’ open-access digital repository.

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We are proud to honor Dr. Paul Evans Holbrook, Jr. as the 2024 recipient of the UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement, one of UK's most prestigious awards. A man of many talents, Holbrook’s professional life has wound through the academy, the ministry, fine printing, and even restauranteurship. At every stage, his warmth, passion, and a commitment to the ideal of excellence in all things has guided his success.Holbrook has served as the Director of the King Library Press since 1988. With his five decades of experience in letterpress printing, typography, book binding, and all facets of the book arts, he carries forward the tradition and spirit of fine printing that has long been alive in Lexington. Join us to recognize Dr. Holbrook at the UK Libraries Spring Celebration on May 16!Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3UFkE9Z

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19. The One With the High Lonesome SoundSwing those fiddles and roll your banjos! The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum Oral History Project documents the history of this distinctly Appalachian genre and includes interviews with legends from “Bluegrass Music’s First Generation” – including Ralph Stanley, Earl Scruggs, the Osborne Brothers, Donna Stoneman, and Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard – as well as those who have carried its high lonesome sound around the world. These breakdowns will make you hop, howl, start up a clogging line, yearn for a foggy mountain morning, pine for your long lost love, organize a union, and spontaneously buy a mandolin. This finger-picking project was born from a partnership between the Nunn Center and the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky.Take a listen: https://bit.ly/3Wxx1aT #UkyLibraries #UniversityofKentucky #NunnCenter50

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