Author of Ozarks noir fiction, Jake Hinkson, will visit Springfield in early April to speak about his latest novel, Dry County. Jake Hinkson: Talking About Noir Fiction Thursday, April 2, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. The Library Center on South Campbell Avenue Jake Hinkson is the award-winning author of four novels, a novella, a short story collection, and a book of essays. Dry County is a story of blackmail and murder set in the Arkansas Ozarks along Highway 65. Hinkson will…
The renovations to the Skylight Area on the east side of the Second Level of Duane G. Meyer Library on the Springfield campus of Missouri State University are almost complete. New carpeting has been installed, and all-new furniture is being assembled for users of this area. Also, special new shelving is being assembled that will hold our oversized volumes. When the renovation of this area is complete, it will become another popular study area. This renovation project is just one…
The Springfield African-American Read-In, chaired by MSU Library Science faculty member Grace Jackson-Brown, is sponsoring several special events in February. The MSU Libraries is a co-sponsor. On Friday evening, February 28, beginning at 7 p.m., enjoy a storytelling presentation with storyteller Gladys Caines Coggswell in celebration of the Springfield African American Read-In. Ms. Coggswell is recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Missouri Humanities Council. She will share stories that she has collected professionally over many years, as well…
Over forty years ago, in the late Seventies, a documentary film team, led by faculty and staff from Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University), documented the life, culture, and society in Shannon County, Missouri, one of the more impoverished areas of the multi-state Ozarks region. The footage gave rise to two separate but related documentary films: “Shannon County: Home” and “Shannon County: The Hearts of the Children.” These films always have been available in earlier video formats, and…
On January 22nd through the 24, a contingent from the MSU Libraries, consisting of Brooks Travis (LIT Coordinator), Mark Arnold (Library Systems and Support Specialist), and Joshua Lambert (Head of Access Services), attended the 2020 World Open Library Foundation Conference (WOLFcon) on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. The three-day conference featured over 50 sessions on FOLIO, the new library services platform (LSP) the MSU Libraries are going live with in June 2020, and provided an opportunity to…
For several years now the Duane G. Meyer Library on the Springfield campus of Missouri State University has won the “Best Campus Study Spot” Award. The award is based on voting by students in an online poll conducted by The Standard, MSU’s student-run newspaper. We won again in 2019. The multi-year project to renovate the public areas of Meyer Library continues in 2020. Later this semester new furniture will be added to the Skylight Area on the east side of…
Greenwood students are enjoying new patron furniture at Haseltine Library.
An article by student reporter Brenna Lumbley in this week’s Standard, the student-run newspaper at Missouri State University, highlights the current “Over There” exhibit about Missouri involvement in the First World War. The exhibit was a great collaboration, not only with the Missouri Humanities Council and the Springfield-Greene County Library District, but also within the MSU Libraries. Numerous units worked together to help transport the display cases, assist in exhibit construction, and create supplemental displays. Craig Amason helped coordinate the…
Information Literacy is an important service at the Missouri State University Libraries, and it has many diverse facets, including, for example, media literacy and financial literacy. Ambassador V. Mitchell, MSEd. from MSU, is one of the leading experts on Child Financial Literacy in Springfield, Missouri and serves on the Prosper Springfield Financial Literacy Committee, headed by Francine Pratt. Ambassador states, “Financial Literacy is an asset, and children should be taught about money often, at an early age.” Recently he also…
Dr. Frank Einhellig, Provost at Missouri State University, recently gave the MSU Libraries the go-ahead to begin a search to fill a new position, E-Resources Strategist. Andrea Miller, a Library Science faculty member who had been managing our e-resources program, which comprises approximately one-third of our annual operating budget, recently graciously stepped forward to help the University Libraries in another critical area of need, cataloging and metadata services. The E-Resource Strategist, a new staff position, will provide operational support in…