On Tuesday, June 10, the Duane G. Meyer Library hosted a mixer in the living room on the first floor of the building. The event was held so that faculty and staff could get to know each other. “We had had several new people and/or departments move into the library towards the end of the semester so I just thought it would be a good opportunity for all of us to make connections and get to know the people in…
Sue McCrory, testing center coordinator, has announced her retirement, effective July 1. Her last day in office will be June 30. McCrory has had a long career at Missouri State University. “I started here as a student worker in 1998 and then as a full-time person in 2000,” she said. Initially, she worked for the now-defunct Center for Scientific Research and Education, which was a center under CNAS. She did that for two years with progressively more challenging…
Recently, the Saint Louis Art Museum requested the loan of materials from Special Collections and Archives for use in their exhibit Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France. The exhibit untangles the impact of fashion, interiors, architecture, aviation, and the avant-garde on French automobile design and production. The Saint Louis Art Museum requested a loan of Sonia Delaunay: ses peintures, ses objets, ses tissues simulantés, ses modes (1925) from our collection of rare books. The richly illustrated album illustrates…