Greenwood parent and author, Loren Broaddus, along with his family, stopped by Haseltine Library at Greenwood Laboratory School on the campus of Missouri State University on Monday to sign a copy of his poetry book, Joe DiMaggio Moves Like Liquid Light : Poems.
Last May, The Atlantic published an interesting essay by Dan Cohen, an historian by training who now serves as Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, Dean of the Library, and Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston. Prior to his work at Northeastern, Dr. Cohen served as the founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America. The essay summarizes the declining use of print collections at several universities: At Yale, circulation of books to undergrads declined 64% in…
The Ozarks Studies Institute, an initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, and the Springfield-Greene County Library District (SGCLD) collaborated on organizing a public lecture by Dr. Brooks Blevins, the Noel Boyd Professor of History at Missouri State University. His talk was held at the Library Center of the SGCLD on Tuesday evening, September 17, 2019. Over 160 people attended. Dr. Blevins talked about his most recent book, The History of the Ozarks, volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks. The book covers…
Save the date for the annual BRB Book Sale to be held Tuesday, November 19, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Duane G. Meyer lobby.
The Digital Commons-Heartland User Group (DC-HUG) met at MSU on Thursday October 24th and Friday October 25th for their third annual meeting. Digital Commons is the software platform that BearWorks, MSU’s institutional repository, runs on. The meeting drew attendees representing eleven institutions from six states for presentations and discussion of Digital Commons, institutional repositories, and open access to journal literature. Shandon Quinn, vice president, and Ann Connolly, director of product for Digital Commons, represented bepress, the software’s vendor. Both made…
Brooks Travis is attending, as Libraries-directed travel, the EBSCO Users Group for Academic Libraries meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Many of the sessions will focus on FOLIO, EDS, and OpenAthens. MSU recently entered into a three-year contract with EBSCO to implement these systems at MSU in 2020. Last Thursday Tom Peters made a brief presentation about the First FOLIO at MSU Project at the monthly meeting of the MSU Faculty Senate. Several Senators asked questions about the project. Some concerns…
Lindsey Taggart, Rachel Besara, and Tericka Brown, a library student employee, participated in a panel presentation along with University of Arkansas Little Rock Librarian Louise LaFrane Lowe and graduate student Zachary Jones titled “Evidence Based Inquiry Using Student Led Focus Groups at the Library” at last week’s Library Research Seminar VII held in Columbia, South Carolina. The presentation covered the work resulting from the MSU Assessment Grant funded project “University Libraries’ Student Led Assessment of Students’ Libraries Attitudes,…
Both Cheri Jones and Marklyn Cotter have announced that they will retire at the end of this semester.
Last week the Missouri Association for Museums and Archives (MAMA) held their annual conference in Springfield for the first time. Attendees toured Bass Pro, Wonders of Wildlife, The Discovery Center, Springfield Botanical Gardens, History Museum on the Square, Springfield Art Museum, and Missouri State University’s Special Collections and Archives. The final day of the conference was held in Duane G. Meyer Library, mainly in the newly renovated Sunderland Foundation Auditorium. Anne Baker, Head of Special Collections and Archives, and…
Archivist Tracie Gieselman-Holthaus and Digital Archivist Shannon Mawhiney of the MSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives recently presented to Ozark High School’s Local History and Folklore class about archiving, digital archiving, and local history.