Library Notes

A recent news report on longtime local TV station KY3 focused on the Ozark Jubilee Digitization Project, a massive multi-year project organized and managed by the MSU Libraries in conjunction with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and many donors and supporters, including the catalyst for the project, Wayne Glenn, the Old Record Collector. KY3 reporter Chad Plein worked on and reported this piece which runs approx. four and a half minutes, with lots of original footage from the Jubilee….

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Route 66, born right here in Springfield, Missouri at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 30, 1926, will turn 96 years old on Saturday.  At 4 p.m. on the afternoon of Friday, April 30, 1926, a telegram was sent from the Postal Telegraph office in the Colonial Hotel in the southwest corner of the intersection of East St. Louis Street and Jefferson Avenue in downtown Springfield, Missouri, to Washington DC. Cyrus Avery from Tulsa, and B. H. Piepmeier from Jefferson City…

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The goal of the “Admitted Student Mondays” (ASM) program at Missouri State University is to bring students and their parents to the main Springfield campus on a Monday in March or April to tour the campus, meet with various campus stakeholders in their matriculation and success, and to instill in the admitted students and their parents an overall feel for the campus (including the warm, welcoming library!), its vitality, and the commitment of the university community to student success. Kristin…

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Crystal Dicke, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Missouri State University, who works and teaches in the Research and Instructional Services program of the MSU Libraries, has been awarded an internal Innovation Grant for the Summer of 2022 to assist with the marketing and successful roll-out and implementation of the new Graduate Certificate in Library Media Specialist that will launch during the 2022/2023 Academic Year.  The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is implementing new educational…

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A team of program planners from the Missouri State University Libraries continues to work with representatives from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage, as well as with many people from various stakeholder groups throughout the five-state Ozarks Region, to prepare for the Ozarks program at the summer 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (SFF23OZ) to be held on the National Mall in DC. Here are some recent updates: A special preview event will be held THIS summer, on Sunday afternoon,…

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Jessica Bennett has been elected incoming Vice-Chair/Chair Elect of the Distance and Online Learning Section.

Special Collections and Archives, part of the Missouri State University Libraries, presents a new exhibit on the third floor of Plaster Student Union, titled “Seeing the World from the Classroom.”  This exhibit focuses on a collection of glass slides and stereograph images, along with the equipment used to view them: a lantern projector for displaying images from glass slides onto a wall, and a stereoscope for viewing stereographs (sets of images set side-by-side to create the illusion of depth and…

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  Recently author John Mort donated materials documenting his career to the Missouri State University Libraries. Mr. Mort is known for his writings on the Ozarks, including Down Along the Piney: Ozarks Stories and Goat Boy of the Ozarks.

This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the official dedication of the Jane A. Meyer Carillon, which is connected to the Duane E. Meyer Library (no relation) on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University.  The Jane A. Meyer Carillon was officially dedicated on April 13, 2002. The total weight of the 48 bells atop the Jane A. Meyer Carillon is 32,000 pounds, with the largest bell weighing 5,894 pounds, or nearly three tons. Carillons were developed in the…

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Congratulations to student assistants Brit Skinner and Madison Thompson for their nominations for the prestigious award, MSU Student Employee of the Year.   Brit and Madison work in access services, connecting library patrons to the resources and support they need. Help us thank them for all they do!