Work began last week to replace the carpet on the Third Level of Duane G. Meyer Library on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University. The work, the first step in a larger renovation project for the Third Level, is expected to last two weeks. The project will generate some dust, noise, and inconvenience. In the coming months new furniture will be deployed, supported in part by the MSU Student Government Association.
This summer a team from Missouri State University, led by Professor Tracy Stout (Library Science), participated in a kickoff event for a program through the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The AAC&U Institute on Open Educational Resources provides a year-long engagement opportunity for teams to actualize an ambitious strategy to broaden campus engagement with adoption on OER. Later this month, Tracy Stout and Chris Craig (College of Education) will present at the August 16th FCTL Showcase about lessons…
Last Friday, July 28, the Missouri State University Duane G. Meyer Library hosted its annual Rare Wine Rare Books event. The dinner raised funds to support the rare books collection, and this year’s party theme was a tour through Italy. Over a five-course dinner with various red and white wines, guests were entertained with a video made by student workers, trivia, jokes, giveaways, and, of course, rare books. On all three levels of the library, there were first editions and…
The Reference and Instructional Services (RIS) Department of the Missouri State University Libraries, located in Duane G. Meyer Library on the main Springfield campus, seeks a graduate assistant to assist with the Library Media Specialist Certificate and Information Literacy instructional programs. The Library Media Specialist certificate provides secondary certification for Missouri K-12 teachers. In addition, the department is responsible for providing face-to-face research instruction for undergraduate and graduate courses and instructional support for distance learning. Work responsibilities: Assist instructors with…
Karen Durden, a Library Associate I at the Duane G. Meyer Library, has been accepted into the 2023-2024 cohort of Missouri State’s USA Program. The program is designed to give participants an in-depth look at the university system and facilitate a better understanding of the staff member’s valuable role within the university and their contribution to university’s mission. In addition to professional development, the program seeks to foster interdepartmental communication and bonds among cohort members. USA teams also work together…
Many good things came out of the Ozarks Program recently held on the National Mall in DC as part of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival. One of them was a new map of the Ozarks. The planning committee for the Ozarks Program wanted to create a new map of the region specifically for this Festival program, and we commissioned Curtis Copeland to work with the committee on the design and details. Copeland is a GIS Manager for the City of…
Craig Amason, a special projects librarian at Missouri State University, recently was interviewed on the “Making Democracy Work” weekly program on KSMU, the local public radio station, about his research into the increasing diversity of the population in Noel, Missouri, in McDonald County, located in the extreme southwest corner of the state. Most of the population change has occurred in the past 30 years. Jobs have driven this diversification, especially the poultry processing plants in McDonald County, but the impact…
Greta Cross, the Trending Topics Reporter for the Springfield News-Leader, recently researched and wrote an article about the white oak logs that were transported from the forests of the Missouri Ozarks to the National Mall in DC, to be used for demonstrations of white oak basket making during the Ozarks Program of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. In her reporting work, Greta Cross focuses on localizing national trends and highlighting Springfield’s LGBTQIA+ and arts communities. Greta also enjoys long-form feature reporting…
Missouri State University Libraries announces a new position in Resource Management & Discovery (RM&D)— the Content Strategist position. This new role will serve alongside the Director of RM&D to form the nucleus of a new content management initiative that Meyer Library is slowly beginning to implement. Director of RM&D, Derek Moser, says “[t]he Content Strategist is the first personnel piece to this larger content management puzzle that we’re trying to put together here. In late May we announced our new Journals Access List—a tool…
The Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, is actively pursuing new means of publicizing our book series. As interest in the publications grow and authors eagerly seek to get more attention on their books, managing editor Elaina Kersey is submitting applications to nationwide (and international) distributors that are able to get the books onto Amazon.com and into bookstores like Barnes & Noble. This week and next week, Elaina will be in conversation with an…