Library Notes

Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis Nexis), with its new intuitive interface designed with university student input, features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.  This interdisciplinary, full-text database includes over 350 newspapers, 300 magazines and journals, 600 newsletters, wire services, transcripts of broadcasts, and nearly 300 college/university papers. Business sources include business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and…

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Several MSU students, including Jaren Newman, a student employee in the Library Information Technologies unit of the Missouri State University Libraries, were mentioned in the “Newsmakers” column of this week’s Springfield Business Journal. Here’s a quote from that column. Congratulations, Jaren, and the entire MSU Model United Nations team! Missouri State University’s Model United Nations team received several awards during the Midwest MUN conference in St. Louis. Junior Shelby Collier was named Outstanding International Press Delegate for representing British Broadcasting Co. MSU seniors John…

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Many people from MSU and beyond contributed to the writing, compiling, and creation of Living Ozarks, an anthology of essays, photos, poetry, art published by the Ozarks Studies Institute, an initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries. Bill Edgar, Rachel Besara, and Jim Baumlin served as the editors. The book was designed by Jacek Fraczak. President Clif Smart wrote the forward. Original essays were contributed by many people, including MSU Provost Frank Einhellig, History Professor Brooks Blevins, and MSU Libraries…

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The current exhibit in Special Collections and Archives features selections of items from military related archives from both Missouri State University and the State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Springfield. The collections are available for research, and include a wide range of formats, such as oral histories, correspondence, cartoons, propaganda posters and booklets, diaries, books, photographs of aircraft, and military insignia. The exhibit does not focus on a particular military conflict or action, but showcases the variety of formats and subject…

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The next chapter in the “Living Stories” initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries will be held on Thursday, April 26th in MSU’s Plaster Student Union, Room 132, from 1:30 to 3:00 and from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. The MSU Libraries and MSU’s Diversity and Inclusion division are collaborating to host our second Living Stories project at the Collaborative Diversity Conference in late April.  The Living Stories theme this year is Racism in 2018 and beyond: a changing dynamic.  Our living books will share what…

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Beginning April 1, the Duane G. Meyer Library will host a photography exhibition by Polish-born artist, Jacek Fraczak. Featuring the artist’s landscape photographs of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, the exhibition lends visual support to the 2018 Public Affairs theme of sustainability. In program notes to the exhibition, Fraczak writes, “In August 2017, my wife, daughters, and I became U.S. citizens. God bless America! This photo-album is a testament of my dedication to this land—to the pastoral beauty of its…

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Two members of the Library Science faculty at Missouri State University, Rachel Besara and Tracy Stout, will be presenting their original research project, “Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees? Measuring Library Employees’ Perceived Efforts and Their Alignment with Strategic Goals,” at the 10th Annual Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Conference in Chania, Crete. This is one of the foremost international library assessment conferences and is a great place to exchange ideas, methodologies, and techniques related to library research….

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On Monday, April 9th, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the PSU Theater, students and faculty will join in an evening of readings from the forthcoming book anthology, Living Ozarks: The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place, a publication of the Ozarks Studies Institute, an initiative of the MSU Libraries. Selections will highlight the region’s rich 200-year history of nature-themed writing. The Ozarks has inspired an equally rich, 150-year history of music, much of it nature-themed, for piano and voice. Under…

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Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) is an interdisciplinary database that, according to its publisher, is “the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.” CMMC contains both scholarly and popular materials, including academic journals, trade publications, magazines, reviews, and books. Its coverage of the field of communication extends from interpersonal communication to mass communication and media. Therefore, topics may range from speech communication to information technologies, from telephones to net neutrality. CMCC incorporates the…

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President Smart and Provost Einhellig recently approved the formation of a new service unit at Missouri State University, The Center for Academic Success and Transition (CAST). The new center will be located on the First Level of the Duane G. Meyer Library building, just west of the BearCLAW. Construction of the new center will be undertaken this summer.  Plans call for CAST to have three full-time employees, as well as three graduate assistants. CAST will have no fiscal relationship with…

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