Library Notes

Approximately 75% of MSU’s budget is for human resources (salaries, wages, and benefits). At the MSU Town Hall Meeting on Monday afternoon, April 10, President Smart noted that non-academic cost centers (e.g. Student Life, Athletics, Alumni Affairs) plan to cut 4.9% from their operating budgets. A total of $2.8 million will be cut from the non-academic cost centers . The colleges, including the Libraries, need to cut 1.2% from their budgets or $1.248 million. At the Provost’s Budget Committee meeting…

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The United Nations and OECD have worked together to create UN iLibrary, a database containing documents including journals, books, and series.  You can access both entire texts of these documents as well as chapters within documents.  The database includes information regarding peace and security, human rights, economic and social development, and more.  This database will be extremely helpful for anyone doing research on international issues from an international perspective. If you ever need assistance using this database or have questions,…

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Films On Demand, easily accessible from our A-Z List of databases, is a streaming video service of over 6,000 high-quality, educational videos. This specific collection focuses on the subjects of Sociology and History, but contains highly interdisciplinary films. The content includes documentaries, curriculum-focused videos, broadcast journalism features, and archival primary source materials. All have public performance rights and citations in Chicago, MLA, and APA styles. Special features allow users to organize and bookmark clips, create and share booklists, personalize folders,…

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Meyer Library now has a Lactation Room, available whenever the main part of the building is open (i.e., other than the Open Access Computing Lab and the main lobby). The room is LIBR 315, located in the north study area on the Third Level. To use the room, a user needs to check out the key at the main Circulation Counter on the First Level.  The room already has been named in honor of Lux Kleineck. Thank you, Matt and Kerri…

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The new Digitization Lab of the Missouri State University Libraries recently opened. Digitization efforts will focus on in-house digitization projects, rather than end-user, self-service digitization projects. The lab is located on the Third Level in Room 305D, which is accessible through Tracie Gieselman-Holthaus’ office (306D).  Current and near-term digitization projects include Frisco laboratory photos, two collections of glass plate negatives, Route 66 oral histories (audio and video), the KWTO Dial, and more. The Digitization Lab will be run and managed…

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The “Racist Commercial Art of the Early 20th Century” exhibit now on display in Room 107 on the Main Level of Duane G. Meyer Library shows some of the negative ways advertisers depicted African Americans in the early 20th century.  While this exhibit may be objectionable and disturbing to some visitors, the exhibit organizers hope that viewing the materials will lead to discussion of the racism of yesterday, as well as an awareness of how such imagery has affected perceptions…

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A MSU Libraries faculty and staff luncheon will be held on Thursday, April 20th, from 11:30 to 1:30 in the Employee Lounge of Meyer Library. Pizza and pasta will be provided by the Libraries, along with cool, refreshing beverages. Attendees are encouraged to bring salads, side dishes, and desserts, as well as their own, reusable plates and eating utensils.

Reptile Day was a free, educational event open to the public featuring live reptiles and amphibians to see and touch. The animals were brought by herpetology enthusiasts with lots of experience in the hobby. Many questions were answered, including captive husbandry inquiries and information on native species was provided with a display, featuring several live native specimens. A questionnaire was offered to attendees. Not many filled it out, but we estimate that over 60 people attended the event. Our own…

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2017 marks the centennial of America’s official involvement in the Great War, now known as World War I. On April 6, 1917, after the Zimmerman telegram was intercepted and made public, in which Germany proposed to support Mexico in its attempt to regain territory in the southwestern U.S., and after seven U.S. merchant ships were sunk by German torpedoes, the U.S. Congress declared war on Germany. Next Wednesday, April 5, at 6 p.m. in the Fox Theater, owned and operated…

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Last Thursday evening the Ozark Jubilee Digitization Project was officially launched by a public event held at the University Plaza Hotel, in conjunction with the Missouri Conference on History, organized by the State Historical Society of Missouri. Over sixty people attended the event, which lasted over an hour longer than anticipated, because audience members had so many questions to ask and memories to share. Last Thursday also was the launch of the YouTube Channel for these amazing recordings of live, nationally broadcast…

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