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What’s Brewing @ Your Library Event

What’s Brewing @ Your Library Event

Save the date for the next installment of the MSU Libraries’ signature event, What’s Brewing @ Your Library! Friday, December 13th at Duane G. Meyer Library 5:00-7:00 p.m. What’s Brewing @ Your Library is a great way for MSU faculty and staff to celebrate the end of the semester and visit with colleagues, all while enjoying samples from area breweries, snacks, and live music. It’s also the perfect opportunity to check out what’s new and exciting at Meyer Library! Want to help?…

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Talk by Brooks Blevins Draws Large Crowd

Talk by Brooks Blevins Draws Large Crowd

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…

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DC-HUG Meeting Here a Success

DC-HUG Meeting Here a Success

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…

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Springfield Hosts Annual MAMA Conference

Springfield Hosts Annual MAMA Conference

  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…

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