Library Notes

Because of a generous gift from Bill and Virginia Darr, the Missouri State University Libraries is able to acquire and use a new, high-tech BookEye 4 book scanning station and supporting software. This scanner can create high quality, color scans of bound materials quickly and easily.  Its design allows fragile items to be digitized without damaging the original binding, as our flatbed scanners would.  This new scanner enables the MSU libraries to digitize our wealth of Ozarks regional booklets and…

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Thanks to the efforts of Paige Harp, a staff member of the MSU Libraries, Springfield, Missouri is now home to an official chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour.   This organization “captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress…

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The academic publisher Palgrave-Macmillan recently released a book of contributed chapters about Anthropological Data in the Digital Age, and our own Rachel Besara, Associate Dean of University Libraries, served as one of the four co-editors. The twelve chapters explore how anthropologists are grappling with new methods to collect, analyze, manage, and present digital data. The authors of the twelve chapters include anthropologists, archaeologists, archivists, ethnologists, and librarians.  The other co-editors are Jerome W. Crowder, Associate Professor of Preventative Medicine and…

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Over 100 MSU faculty and staff attended the What’s Brewing @ Your Library event held on the First Level of Duane G. Meyer Library last Friday evening, as the fall semester concluded. Fourteen vendors enabled attendees to sample their beverages, Sydadre, a local three-person band, provided the music, and Mexican Villa served up generous and tasty portions of their food.  This is the sixth What’s Brewing @ Your Library to be held at the MSU Library. Interest in and attendance…

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It is a pleasure to announce that Holly Kouns has accepted an offer from the Missouri State University Libraries to serve as Coordinator of Public Services, a new position at the MSU Libraries. She will begin on Monday, February 3, 2020.  Her office will be located in Room 115A, near the new consolidated service desk on the First Level of Duane G. Meyer Library.  Prior to coming to MSU, Ms. Kouns served as Department Head of User Success & Services…

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Current and former colleagues, family and friends gathered in the Infant Through Grade 12 (IG12) area on the Second Level of Duane G. Meyer Library on Tuesday evening, December 3, 2019 to honor and congratulate Cherri Jones and Marklyn Cotter, who are retiring.  Both Cherri and Marklyn plan to travel quite a bit in the near future. Congratulations and best wishes! 

Yesterday, December 11th — Brenda Lee’s birthday — the Missouri State University Libraries made available online two digital recordings that should be of interest to fans of “Little Miss Dynamite.” A demo audio tape of Ms. Lee, circa 1955, that was sent to Bryan Bisney of the Ozark Jubilee, after Red Foley, the host of the Ozark Jubilee, heard Brenda, who was eleven years old at the time, sing at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Georgia, on February 23, 1956,…

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During the first week of December — the final week of classes for the fall semester — over 26,000 people entered Duane G. Meyer Library on the Springfield campus of Missouri State University. If such high foot traffic were experienced 50 weeks throughout the year, we would have well over 1.3 million annual visitors. In reality, we have approx. 750,000 visitors per year.  Tuesday, December 3rd was the busiest day of last week, when over 4,750 people entered the building. …

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