Lisa McEowen tries not to spell her name for people. The reason being that her name is not pronounced how it appears. She would like you to know that she is called LEE-zuh MI-KYOO-en, please and thank you. Her parents named her after a Cat Steven’s song called “Sad Lisa.” “They just liked the way that the name sounded,” she said. “It wasn’t the content of the song. It was the sound of the name.” She was born in the…
Tonight from 5-7 pm, Meyer Library is hosting its annual What’s Brewing? event on the first floor of the library. Alcoholic beverages will be provided by Hold Fast Brewing, Springfield Brewing Company, Piney River Brewing Co., Mother’s Brewing Company, and donations from Heart of America Beverage Company and Wil Fischer Companies. Local singer/songwriter Barak Hill will be providing the evening’s musical selection. The event was put together by the library’s Marketing and Communications department, who wishes to give a special…
Annie Stauffer is a librarian who works as a non-student part-time employee in the Resource Management and Discovery department in the Duane G. Meyer Library. She works on gift donation and processing. “We’ve had a big backlog of donations,” she said. “I’ve been going through the items that have been donated and checking to see if we already have them, and if we don’t, analyzing the conditions of the items, documenting a list of everything that was donated, and…
Next week, on November 12, 2025, Dr. Joanna Dee Das, a professor at Washington University of St. Louis, will give an author talk on her new book, Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America, published this year by The University of Chicago Press. The book examines the entertainment industry in the tourist destination of Branson, Missouri, and how it has developed over time into a lightning rod for the culture wars. The author talk will take place…
This week, Meyer Library is hosting Carve & Cackle, a pumpkin decorating contest between the faculty and staff members in various departments. All of the pumpkins were decorated based upon a book in the Meyer Library collection. Students, faculty, and staff who enter the library are invited to vote on their favorite pumpkin displayed in the lobby. The ballots are being counted by student workers Gabi Martin and Evelyn Kerr from the Marketing and Communications department. A winner will be…
Please join us for a reception for “Understanding Art and Artifact: Research and Conservation” on Thursday, October 23rd from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. This educational exhibition is the culmination of the best student research from the 2024-2025 Citizenship and Service-Learning (CASL) integrated courses ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts and ART 386: Art of Africa, taught by Dr. Billie Follensbee. The students researched and conserved these objects as part of their course projects. Objects studied are on loan…
Joshua Brotherton is a Distributed User Support Specialist at the Duane G. Meyer Library on Missouri State University’s Springfield Campus. This is not his first time working for MSU. In fact, back when MSU was still Southwest Missouri State University, he was a student and he did similar work on campus. He did IT for Wells House in those days. After many years of working a variety of jobs, he finally returned to Missouri State in 2024. Born on December…
Q: Do you have a printing center in the library? -Andi Gooden, sophomore transfer student, biomedical science major A: Yes! There is a place to print. On the first floor, across from the library front desk, there is a computer lab occupying room LIBR 105. There are several computers and a printing station. Across from the printing station, room LIBR 104 is the Lab Support Office. According to graduate assistant…
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Scott Goodwin has been a Distributed User Support Specialist at Duane G. Meyer Library since December 2024. His work is largely IT. He serves the MSU campus by troubleshooting computer issues, a passion he stumbled into as a young college student many years ago. At the time, Scott was working in Las Vegas doing architectural drafting, which was in line with his original major. He had gone to college for architecture, but an issue on a computer changed his mind. …