Library Notes

On Monday afternoon, May 14, 2018, during Finals Week at MSU, a half dozen lovable dogs from Pet Therapy of the Ozarks visited MSU’s Duane G. Meyer Library for a couple of hours to interact with students as they (the students, not the dogs) prepared for finals. According to their website, Pet Therapy of the Ozarks, Inc. is a not-for profit Missouri Corporation organized to provide emotional therapy visits to nursing homes, hospitals, schools and other facilities. We are based…

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Curtis Copeland, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator for the City of Branson, one of the founders of the Society of Ozarkian Hillcrofters (second generation), and a member of the informal group of representatives from various cultural memory institutions in the Ozarks who are planning events, publications, and resources to commemorate and celebrate the 200th anniversary of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft’s exploration of the Ozarks, recently completed and made available at no charge to the public a mobile, interactive map of…

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On May 1, 2018, Laurie B. Hall, the Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Publishing Office in Washington, DC, wrote a letter with an enclosed Certificate of Appreciation to Tammy Stewart thanking and commending her for her “contributions to and outstanding work on the FDLP [Federal Depository Library Program].” According to the FDLP website, “The mission of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is to provide free, ready, and permanent public access to Federal Government information, now and for…

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The Curtis F. Marbut Collection (M 14) in Meyer Library’s Special Collections and Archives features mainly photographs taken by Mr. Marbut in South America in 1923-1924. Subjects include animals, vegetation, rivers, boats, towns and settlements, buildings, crops, land features, and people. Curtis Fletcher Marbut was born July 19, 1863, in Barry County in southwest Missouri, where he also grew up.  In 1889, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri, and in 1894 a Master of Arts degree…

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On Wednesday, May 2nd, during the most recent meeting of the Library Advisory Board of the Student Government Association, the student representatives expressed to Dean Peters and Associate Dean Besara a strong need for more tables in Duane G. Meyer with power outlets on the table tops. One week later, on Wednesday, May 9th, after his regular monthly meeting with Dean Peters, MSU Provost Dr. Frank Einhellig authorized the transfer of $25,000 in one-time funds immediately to the MSU Libraries…

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Mobile Media Production and Learn-to-Code Kits Fully funded, this proposal will enable the library to purchase another twenty iPad Pro devices, accessories, and software to make available to students as mobile audio and video production workstations, along with Apple’s “Everyone Can Create” and “Everyone Can Code” curricula, for learning digital creative skills and iOS and macOS app development using Apple’s new Swift programming language. Multimedia Production Workstations Fully-funded, this proposal will enable the library to purchase six multimedia production workstations…

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The MSU International Travel Grant was created to support the international presentation of research that advances the university’s mission, with the winning proposals selected by the faculty on the International Travel Awards Committee. Full-time, permanent faculty members actively involved in research are eligible for this grant funding.  Preference may be given to junior faculty members for whom the trip is more likely to advance their careers. These awards will be administered by the Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate College and…

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This comprehensive database includes over 60,000 maps, including over 5,000 high-resolution modern maps of the world, regions, countries, and states. There are outline maps, political maps, physical maps, population maps, environmental maps, climate change maps, and other thematic maps from NASA, USGS, USFS, NOAA and other scientific, technical, and conservation organizations. Featured are 15,000+ Google Earth “Skins,” interactive maps, and animated maps. New maps are added to the collection every month. There are also 7,000+ antique world, regional, country, and…

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One of the many items available in the Digital Collections from Meyer Library’s Special Collections and Archives is a 1919 booklet for the Springfield Association of Musicians union, Number 150 (SC-LA-004), containing their price list, constitution, by-laws, and rules.  Membership was exclusive to whites, as stated in the by-laws, and presumably to white men only, judging by the description of a uniform (with trousers, and no description for a women’s uniform). This booklet pre-dates by a few years the invention of…

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Several years ago the Missouri State University Foundation started “Bears in the Know,” an ongoing series of luncheon meetings to showcase unique areas at Missouri State University and connect personally with our friends and supporters in the community. It has proven to be very popular and successful. Thank you Arvest Bank for supporting this series as the Presenting Sponsor! On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, the MSU Libraries will be the focus of the Bears in the Know luncheon. The abstract for…

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