By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

STOCKTON–Area artists and their original works will begin making regular appearances in Stockton.

The small Rooks County town will kick-off its first seasonal art walk this weekend, according to Cheryl Calvin, owner of Sand Creek Mercantile.

The premier Fabulous Fall Art Walk is Sunday, Nov. 22, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Six participating businesses will each host an artist of their choice: Sand Creek Mercantile, Carousel Bakery, Stitch and Chatter, Enchanted Cottage, Asian & Thai Food and the Owl Motel.

“We will each have door prizes and the winners will be called the Sunday night or the next day,” Calvin said. “Also we will have food and drinks at each location.”

“This is our first seasonal art walk,” she explained. “We plan to have an art walk four times a year.”

For more information contact Calvin at (785) 425-8605 or email her at [email protected].

FHSU University Relations and Marketing

Deborah Ludwig, dean of Forsyth Library at Fort Hays State University, recently collaborated with librarians from the University of Kansas and KU Medical School to publish a peer-reviewed practice article, “Campus Open Access Funds: Experiences of the KU ‘One University’ Open Access Author Fund” in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

The article describes the librarians’ experience creating and implementing a pilot project that provides funds to authors whose work is published in commercial journals that charge fees for open access distribution. The pilot project was launched at the University of Kansas in 2012 as a two-year project. Additional funding was provided to the libraries for two additional years beginning in the fall of 2014.

Authors who received funding were required to deposit a copy of their work in the universities’ institutional repositories for open dissemination. Ludwig previously served as assistant dean and associate librarian with the University of Kansas Libraries.

“Open access publishing is an increasingly important strategy to heighten the visibility and accessibility of faculty scholarship and to reduce costs for students and for universities,” said Ludwig. “Fort Hays State University is in the process of implementing the FHSU Scholars Repository.”

The repository will allow faculty, staff and student authors to deposit scholarship and creative work as open resources when permitted by copyright and license permissions. Forsyth Library is working with faculty on an initial set of projects to showcase the capacities of the repository with a full launch expected in the fall of 2016.

 

By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

Construction on the two “people” shade shelters at the Hays Dog Park began Friday.

According to Friends of the Hays Dog Park President Kim Perez, the builder QSI started has started framing the structures. “Unfortunately, the dog park will be closed this weekend and early next week while the work is underway,” Perez said.

“This will result in a positive improvement for the park.”

The entire dog park project, begun in 2011, has been funded by donations and grants to the Friends group. A Dane G. Hansen Community Grant through the Heartland Community Foundation was awarded specifically for the final Phase 3–installation of the shelters.

According to Hays Parks Director Jeff Boyle, the shelter in the small dog area will be 16’ x 16’ with a larger 20’ x 20’ shelter in the large dog area.

Both structures come from Quality Structures Incorporated (QSI) which installed a similar shelter in Ekey Park, 19th and Holmes Road.  The city is donating the labor for laying  concrete sidewalks and pads.

The Hays Dog Park is located on city land at the Bickle Schmidt Sports Complex.