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  Baseball is featured in WKU physical education classes, and students eagerly grab leather gloves, wooden or metal bats, and try to learn the rules of success or failure of a team sport from their instructor.   Here’s a little more history. Baseball was established as an American “pastime” in the middle of the 19th century, about 170 years ago. American professional leagues were established in the early 20th century, along with a cheating scandal in 1919 that lead to the formation of a commiss…

Dear Architecture Freshmen Please bring your valid ID card to pick up your major textbooks at GEH B207. Collecting textbooks by others is not allowed. Payment link will be sent through E-mail after the collection. No. Course Textbook Price 1 ARCH 1102 Ching, Francis D.K.  Building Construction Illustrated, 5th Ed. \293.27 2 ARCH 1102 Ching, Francis D.K. Building Structures Illustrated: Patterns, Systems, and Design \322.63 3 ARCH 1201 Ching, Francis D K, A Global History of Architecture \733.63…

    Dear students who have ordered textbooks:   Please bring your valid ID card to pick up your selected textbooks at GEH B207. Collecting textbooks by others is not allowed.   Textbook pick-up time: February 13nd & 14nd, 2019 Wednesday & Thursday 09:00-16:00   Students who miss the textbook pick-up time above please come to GEH A307 at office hour for assistance.   If any questions, please contact Tel: 0577-55870659 Email: libtex@wku.edu.cn   ⇐ Back to Library Home Page

Dear freshmen,   Due to the issue of the course registration system, freshmen who have not completed 2019 Spring Semester Textbook Selection need to summit the orders by 11:00 on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018.   Freshmen who have not summited online survey need to click the link below to start the selection. The link can only be used once.   Freshmen who have already summited online survey and want to add another orders need to send orders (including name, student no. major, cell phone no., textbook tit…

  Dear Students,   Due to the change on the course registration date, the deadline of 2019 Winter & Spring semester textbook ordering changes accordingly. Please check the details below: 由于课程注册日期的变动，2019年冬季及春季教材征订的截止日期作相应的更改，详情见下文：   The deadline of the selection is 11:00 on December 11th, 2018. The students with no submission will be regarded as giving up the privilege of the textbook ordering. 截止时间为2018年12月11日11时00分。逾期将视为放弃教材选购。   A link for payment is going to be sent by email in the afte…

2019 Spring Semester Textbook Selection   Dear students,   2019 Spring Semester Textbook Selection has started. Please carefully read Notes for textbook ordering below. 2019春季学年教材选购已经开始，请仔细阅读以下教材订购注意事项:   Notes for textbook ordering 教材订购注意事项   1.2019 Spring semester textbooks will mainly be in electronic version, except some textbooks marked with “Printed Version Only”. The version of textbooks may change based on the actual order numbers or other situations. 除部分标明“仅供纸质版”的教材，2019学年春季教材主要为电子版，其采…

2019 Winter Semester Textbook Selection   Dear students,   2019 Winter Semester Textbook Selection has started. Please carefully read Notes for textbook ordering below. 2019冬季学年教材选购已经开始，请仔细阅读以下教材订购注意事项:   Notes for textbook ordering 教材订购注意事项   1.2019 Winter semester textbooks will be in electronic version, except CPS 1032 and MATH 2415 is printed version. 2019学年冬季教材均为电子版，除了CPS 1032及MATH 2415课程会提供纸质教材。   2.The usage and its using period of electronic textbooks are determined by policies of publi…

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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press. The OED documents the development of the English language by providing definitions and evidence of earliest documented use for any English word. The volumes of the first edition were published 1884–1928. The complete new second edition, owned by the WKU Library, was published in 1989. (Reference Collection, Call No. PE1625 .O87 1989)      The history of the OED started in…

On Wednesday, October 31st, the annual day of Halloween in America, the Wenzhou-Kean Library sponsored a Library Big Read event to celebrate the holiday when horror becomes entertainment.  The book chosen for the Big Read was DRACULA, originally published in 1897, the first popular entertainment book to introduce the English speaking world to Vampires, beings that die and come back to life in a variety of human and animal forms to feed on the blood of living humans.  Humans bitten by vampires t…