Library Notes

Beginning January 26, the Reading Room will be closed on Mondays. This will allow staff time to focus on collection care, including organizing archival material, digitization, and conservation needs. We will be available by appointment on those days, so please reach out to Archives@missouristate.edu or 417-836-5428 to schedule research consultations or class visits. Hours will remain 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday (closed University holidays.) Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to making additional historical documents…

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The latest issue of OzarksWatch Magazine has arrived! Series 3 Volume II is Route 66-themed in honor of the centennial of the Mother Road. A telegram naming it “Route 66” went out on April 30, 1926. This issue features the history of how the route came to be, explorations of tourist destinations in the Ozarks, a sports story, an environmental story, a profile of an artist, and a personal essay all about the Main Street of America. There are also…

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From January 12, 2026 to February 5, 2026, the first floor of Meyer Library will host an exhibit on French culture from Fall 2025 students in Instructor Jeff Loughary’s Elementary French and Intermediate French classes. “This exhibit showcases student projects related to France and Quebec in relation to National French Week which is celebrated in November nation-wide,” said Loughary. “The purpose of National French Week is to share French language and cultures with community members outside of our classroom.” The…

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Tonight from 5-7 pm, Meyer Library is hosting its annual What’s Brewing? event on the first floor of the library. Alcoholic beverages will be provided by Hold Fast Brewing, Springfield Brewing Company, Piney River Brewing Co., Mother’s Brewing Company, and donations from Heart of America Beverage Company and Wil Fischer Companies.  Local singer/songwriter Barak Hill will be providing the evening’s musical selection.  The event was put together by the library’s Marketing and Communications department, who wishes to give a special…

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Lisa McEowen tries not to spell her name for people. The reason being that her name is not pronounced how it appears. She would like you to know that she is called LEE-zuh MI-KYOO-en, please and thank you.  Her parents named her after a Cat Steven’s song called “Sad Lisa.”  “They just liked the way that the name sounded,” she said. “It wasn’t the content of the song. It was the sound of the name.” She was born in the…

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Annie Stauffer is a librarian who works as a non-student part-time employee in the Resource Management and Discovery department in the Duane G. Meyer Library. She works on gift donation and processing.   “We’ve had a big backlog of donations,” she said. “I’ve been going through the items that have been donated and checking to see if we already have them, and if we don’t, analyzing the conditions of the items, documenting a list of everything that was donated, and…

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Next week, on November 12, 2025, Dr. Joanna Dee Das, a professor at Washington University of St. Louis, will give an author talk on her new book, Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America, published this year by The University of Chicago Press. The book examines the entertainment industry in the tourist destination of Branson, Missouri, and how it has developed over time into a lightning rod for the culture wars.  The author talk will take place…

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This week, Meyer Library is hosting Carve & Cackle, a pumpkin decorating contest between the faculty and staff members in various departments. All of the pumpkins were decorated based upon a book in the Meyer Library collection. Students, faculty, and staff who enter the library are invited to vote on their favorite pumpkin displayed in the lobby. The ballots are being counted by student workers Gabi Martin and Evelyn Kerr from the Marketing and Communications department. A winner will be…

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Joshua Brotherton is a Distributed User Support Specialist at the Duane G. Meyer Library on Missouri State University’s Springfield Campus. This is not his first time working for MSU. In fact, back when MSU was still Southwest Missouri State University, he was a student and he did similar work on campus. He did IT for Wells House in those days. After many years of working a variety of jobs, he finally returned to Missouri State in 2024. Born on December…

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Please join us for a reception for “Understanding Art and Artifact: Research and Conservation” on Thursday, October 23rd from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. This educational exhibition is the culmination of the best student research from the 2024-2025 Citizenship and Service-Learning (CASL) integrated courses ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts and ART 386: Art of Africa, taught by Dr. Billie Follensbee. The students researched and conserved these objects as part of their course projects. Objects studied are on loan…

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