Library Notes

One of the Summer Innovation projects for 2017 involves digitizing and creating metadata for rare, historic maps of Springfield, Greene County, surrounding counties, the Ozarks region, and Missouri. Jim Coombs, Shannon Mawhiney, and student assistant Emilie Burke will be the principal participants in this project. Maps from the Civil War era will be digitized, along with street and road maps dating back to the Roaring Twenties, when Route 66 was born. Selected topographic and geologic maps also will be scanned….

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The Office of Public Affairs Support is located in the northwest quadrant of the Second Level of Duane G. Meyer Library. Mary Ann Wood is the Director. Public Affairs Support is part of the Office of the Provost. Mary Ann reports to Dr. Rachelle Darabi, Associate Provost for Student Development and Public Affairs. Public Affairs Support plans, organizes, publicizes, and produces all public events related to public affairs, such as the Public Affairs Conference, Public Affairs Convocations, and more. This…

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September 2016:  The MSU Libraries did a soft launch of BearWorks, an institutional repository (IR) for Missouri State University. Institutional repositories are  archives for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the intellectual output of an organization. They are particularly common in research institutions and often include not only articles and reports, but also organizational documents, data sets, and even multimedia.   Graduate theses were the first records entered into BearWorks. As of spring 2017 there were over 3,000 citations with full text…

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GeoRef contains a vast amount of indexed information, including 3.8 million bibliographic records from more than 3,500 journals covering a wide spectrum of geoscience literature. Other records featured within the database include indexed books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses, and dissertations. GeoRef is also constantly adding new material to its collection, with more than 100,000 records added annually. Subjects covered include mineralogy, hydrogeology, economic geology, hydrology, environmental geology, marine geology, engineering geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, oceanography, geophysics, and paleontology. Coverage within the database includes the geology of…

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The Ozark Jubilee Digitization Project is off to a rip-roaring start. Donations of money, new footage, and support have come from as far away as England, and as close as Springfield. Since going live last month, two of the uploaded episodes have had well over 1,000 views. The Ozark Jubilee was a live, nationally broadcast country-western variety show originating from the Jewell Theater — “the heart of the Ozarks” — in downtown Springfield from 1955 through 1960 — 297 episodes total. Many…

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