What’s New in the News?

The Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center is test driving a new source of newspapers, both historical and current, with NewsBank.  Read all about it here:

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/best/febhp

The collection features a search box that you can use to find the What, When, Where, and Why’s of the world from both today’s news and historical newspapers.

An image of a search box featuring the text: "NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues"

Explore results from national newspapers, college newspapers, state and local papers, plus videos, audio, and other formats.

Screenshot of results from a search for "Taylor Swift" featuring results that include videos, newspapers, college newspapers, and audio.

Explore the “hot topics” section to find focused news on Hispanic Life in America, Black Life in America, the San Francisco Chronicle Collection, and the Cannabis NewsHub Research Edition.  You can browse newspaper results by subject or location.  Sources also include newspapers from around the world, in multiple languages.

Want to find something closer to home?  The database includes access to 93 newspapers in Arkansas, including the Arka Tech, the Courier, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Arkansas Times, and college and city newspapers from all over the state.

News article result from the Feb. 14th issue of the courier. Headline reads: "Tacos 4 Life hitting ATU campus".

Currently, the only way you can read back issues of the state’s newspaper, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, is to use microfilm or browse the bound copies from more recent years.  This interface finally makes searching and accessing the state’s newspaper of record online possible within the library.

Give it a try between now and Feb. 29th when the trial ends.  You can let us know what you think by emailing us, texting us, calling us, chatting with us, or whisper-yelling your feedback to us from inside the library.

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Second Monday Author, Janis F. Kearney, Feb. 12th

Join us as we welcome special guest, Janis F. Kearney, author and presidential diarist of Bill Clinton, who will give a talk at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12, in Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center, room 300.   A reception sponsored by the ATU Black Faculty and Staff Organization along with the Minority Mentorship Program will be held in at 4:30 prior to the lecture.  Admission will be free and everyone is welcome.

Cover of Book, "Only on Sundays: Mahalia Jackson's Long Journay" featuring black and white photograph of Mahalia Jackson resting her chin on her hands and looking concerned.Kearney’s latest book, Only on Sundays: Mahalia Jackson’s Long Journey, is a biography about Mahalia Jackson, famed gospel singer and civil rights activist.  Mahalia Jackson sold over 22 million records during her career that spanned the 1940s to the 1970s, and is considered one of the most influential gospel vocalists of the twentieth century.  Only on Sundays takes a look back at Jackson’s life at the turn of the 20th century in America, and explores one black southern woman’s struggle to attain the American dream.

Author Janis F. Kearney is a native of Gould in southeast Arkansas, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and embarked upon a public service career that included nine years as a project manager and public affairs director in Arkansas state government.Photo of Janis F. Kearney, an African American woman with neck-length curly grayish, silver hair wearing a black shirt and multi-colored wrap-around scarf.

After working alongside civil rights pioneer Daisy L. Gatson Bates as managing editor for the Arkansas State Press newspaper, Kearney purchased the publication and became its publisher upon Bates’ retirement in 1988.

Kearney served in the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993-2001. She fulfilled the roles of media affairs office staff member and director of communications for the U.S. Small Business Administration before her appointment in 1995 as the first personal diarist to a U.S. president. She continued in that role through June 2001.

Harvard University selected Kearney for a two-year fellowship at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute of African and African American Studies in 2001. There, she began writing a Clinton biography, published as Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton, from Hope to Harlem in 2006. She went on to co-found Writing our World Publishing in 2003 and has written or co-written 17 books.

For more information about the ATU Second Monday Author Series and other events in the library, contact Luke Heffley at (479) 964-0546 or follow us on social media: Instagram, Facebook, or X.

 

Scale the Paywall at RPL

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Fighting Back on 9/11

Photograph of Deena Burnett Bailey, author

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Library Hours

The library's current interim hours are: Monday-Friday: 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Saturday-Sunday: Closed Starting August 23rd, the Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center will resume regular semester hours: Monday-Thursday: 7:00 A.M. - 12:00 … [Continue reading]

Events, Authors, and Speakers Planned for April

Starting April 4th, the Ross Pendergraft Library & Technology Center kicks off several events and lectures celebrating books, culture, history, diversity, and understanding both close to home and from the other side of the world. Tuesday, April … [Continue reading]