Library Notes

The new exhibit at the History Museum on the Square in downtown Springfield, Missouri about local children’s television from the Fifties forward  is now open. It’s called “Making Local Memories: Children’s Television in the Ozarks.” The Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, is a sponsor.  As the Museum staff notes, “Join us here at the History Museum on the Square as we take a look back at Springfield’s children’s television with a wonderful display…

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Shannon Mawhiney, Digital Archivist at the Missouri State University Libraries, is part of a group of three who have had three conference presentations accepted. All three presentations will be about the recently digitized Danzero Stereograph Card Collection.  Shannon, along with Leslie James, Field Archivist for the Missouri State Archives and the person who digitized the original Domino Danzero Photograph Collection, and Hannah Fuller, an intern from last semester who scanned the Danzero stereograph cards, submitted presentation proposals on the Danzero…

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A new exhibit from the massive collection of military patches and insignia just went up on the Third Level of Duane G. Meyer Library on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University. Stop by and take a look. Free and open to the public.  The newest exhibit of material from the Morgan Military Insignia Collection features United States Navy rate and rank insignia. With roots in Royal Navy traditions, the Navy’s insignia and manner of address is different than…

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If you enjoy images of campus from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, visit the display case on the first floor of the MSU Alumni Center, downtown at the corner of South Jefferson and East McDaniel.  Special Collections and Archives, a part of the Missouri State University Libraries, recently installed a display at the Alumni Center. The majority of the display focuses on images of campus used in Appointment Calendars from 1957 to 1973. The calendars were a supplemental…

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The Missouri State University Libraries has joined the Library Publishing Coalition, “an independent, community-led membership association of academic and research libraries and library consortia engaged in scholarly publishing.”  The LPC has nearly 100 member organizations, including the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of Iowa, and the University of Oklahoma. The vision of the LPC is to develop and sustain a “scholarly publishing landscape that is open, inclusive, and sustainable.” Their mission is to extend “the impact…

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On July 1, 2021 the Spring/Summer issue of OzarksWatch Magazine, published by the Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, arrived back from the printer. The theme of this issue is Ozarks Roads. Kaitlyn McConnell contributed the cover image and a photo essay. Robert Edwards writes about how good road transformed the nation — and the Ozarks. Allyn Lord traces the Ozark Trails Association. Gary Sosniecki describes how Lebanon won the battle to have Route…

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Through various local news outlets, you may have heard about Mr. Bob Kendrick’s presentation on several Negro Leagues baseball players, including Springfield’s Herman “Doc” Horn Jr. on Sunday, June 27. Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, gave this presentation at an event at Timmons Hall that also celebrated local African American baseball players and local authors’ books about baseball. Special Collections and Archives, part of Missouri State University Libraries, was excited to be invited to…

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This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger, has been selected as the summer reading selection for the popular MarooNation Book Club. The online book discussion group is a collaborative effort between the MSU Alumni Association and the MSU Libraries.   In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie…

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The Missouri State University Libraries makes it very easy to request new information materials, regardless of the format, print or electronic.  On the main website of the Missouri State University Libraries, under Services, there is a link to an online form. Simply answer a few basic questions and click on the submit button. We’ll take it from there.  You even can have an email receipt of your request sent to yourself. Current employees of the MSU Libraries have a separate…

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On June 28, 2021 EBSCO Information Services upgraded MSU Libraries’ FOLIO system to the latest official release of the Open-Source Library Services Platform, known as Iris. This release brings enhancements in Finance (automated fiscal year rollover), circulation (improvements to handling of recalled items and associated fees and fines), support for holdings and item information via OAI-PMH, and more. This marks the third major upgrade to FOLIO since the MSU Libraries migrated in June of 2020. The next release of FOLIO,…

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