Library Notes

For the second year in a row, the Ozarks Studies Institute will serve as a sponsor of the annual showcase gathering of the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest. The Springfield showcase, one of five held each year in various locations in Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, which is now in its sixth year, will be held in the Shrine Mosque from Thursday, May 16th through Saturday, May 18th.  Western Swing music goes back to the time of the band…

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As of this week, the Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, is printing its latest monograph, Saving Bull Creek by Loring Bullard and Robert Kipfer. The book, which is slated to be published by the end of March, chronicles the history of the Bull Creek watershed from Native American habitation to the present and looks at the impact of human activity on a fragile ecosystem. Today, as Springfield and Branson expand and crowd into…

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Alesha Cerny, the Architectural Historian for the Southeast Region of the National Park Service, will be on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University today (Thursday, March 7, 2024) to give a talk about “giraffe-style” native flagstone architecture in the Ozarks.  The event, free and open to all, begins today at 4:00 p.m. in the Ozarks Room on the Third Level of Duane G. Meyer Library. Light refreshments will be served. Metered parking is available nearby in MSU Lot…

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The Missouri State University Libraries had a table at the annual MSU@OTC Day held on Thursday, February 15, 2024 in the Information Commons of the Springfield campus of Ozarks Technical Community College.  The purpose of MSU@OTC Day is to provide an easy and convenient venue for current OTC students to explore and learn more about how they can seamlessly transition from OTC to MSU and be engaged and successful in the next phase of their higher education.   The event lasted…

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