Works in: Meyer Library’s Circulation Major: Wildlife Conservation and Management Favorite TV series: Planet Earth Something students should know about the libraries: Students should know there are limitless resources in the library. Besides the obvious, like books, journals, movies and computers, there’s also an entire staff that will help you find whatever you’re looking for; don’t be afraid to ask for help!
In August MSU held a half-day emergency preparedness workshop for the officers of the university and other key personnel from MSU, the City of Springfield, and Greene County. Dean Peters attended. The workshop was conducted by David Hall, MSU’s new Emergency Preparedness Manager. While MSU’s Emergency Operations Plan is highly structured and complex, David Hall suggested to Dean Peters that all members of the MSU university community can do little things to prepare for most emergencies. For instance, he suggested…
The Sports Photos Collection (RG 23/01) of Meyer Library’s University Archives includes athletics photographs of university sports such as baseball, basketball, football, gymnastics, swimming, track, and wrestling. They range from the early years of the university to 2003, with the majority falling between 1913 and 1950. A large part of the collection once hung in the Forsyth Athletics Building before coming to Special Collections and Archives. The photos in this collection, along with selected sports images from the Ozarko Collection (RG 22/1),…
A perfect fit with our Public Affairs Mission and especially timely for Public Affairs Week, the Public Affairs Index contains nearly 900,000 records and more than 3,300 indexed journals. Public Affairs Index is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international commerce and conflict. This databases also contains a variety of subjects that have recently been in the news from immigration, energy…
The Human Library is a worldwide organization, founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a seventeen year history. Its slogan — “Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover” — says it all. The MSU Libraries expanded upon that idea with its motto for its pilot human library project — “Read a book that talks back!” The MSU Libraries 2017 pilot human library is named LIVING STORIES: Sustainability. The pilot project focuses on the 2017 MSU Public Affairs theme and it gives students…
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 2.5 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888. The database contains full text for more than 920 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such…
This Friday, Sept. 8, at 7:00 p.m. in the Plaster Student Union Theater, the MSU Department of English and Moon City Press are hosting a poetry slam by nationally ranked Spoken Word poets Ill Dialects, and MSU’s own Spoken Word student group, Untamed Tongues. A poetry slam is a fun, competitive event where poets read their poetry aloud. This event is free and open to everyone. Where else can you say, “I slam, therefore I am”?
The southwest corner of the Second Level of Duane G. Meyer Library — known affectionately as “the Wedge” — is getting a complete makeover. The Wedge will offer a great new place to study, as well as a great view of the main campus quad. The installation of new carpeting is well-nigh complete, as is repainting of the walls. Ten new tables, with 40 new chairs, have been put in place. The Provost, Frank Einhellig, provided the funding for this…
Late last month the libraries of the University of Missouri at Columbia and Missouri State University in Springfield began very preliminary conversations that may eventually lead to a collaborative long-term print retention program involving these two universities. Ann Campion Riley, the newly-appointed Vice Provost for Libraries and University Librarian at Mizzou, and Tom Peters, Dean of Library Services at MSU, had a phone conversation covering basic possible parameters of such an agreement. Ann Campion Riley and her staff will work…