Library Notes

KYTV and the MSU Libraries have collaborated to digitize a 30-minute 1959 early television program about the Shepherd of the Hill drama. Although the quality of the recording has declined over the 60 years since it was produced and won awards, in less than a week over 660 people have viewed the digitized version.  Here is how KY3 describes the genesis of the program: “KYTV purchased one of the nation’s first mobile video tape units in March 1959. This new…

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On Friday, September 20, 2019 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. CDT there will be a meeting of all employees of the MSU Libraries, other than student employees, with President Clif Smart and Provost Dr. Frank Einhellig.  The meeting will be held in the newly renovated Sunderland Foundation Auditorium (Library 101).  President Smart and Provost Einhellig will share with everyone updates about the university’s enrollment, budget, challenges, innovations, and opportunities. We all will share with the President and Provost the Libraries’…

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Missouri State University is organizing a two-day symposium in honor of Thomas Moore Johnson, which will be held in MSU’s Duane G. Meyer Library and at the Johnson Library & Museum in Osceola, Missouri, November 7-8, 2019. Johnson (1851-1919) was born in Osceola, where he served as mayor, prosecuting attorney, and school superintendent. An ardent Platonist, he was actively involved in both philosophical and esoteric circles, producing translations, publishing journals, and collecting rare books. He corresponded with dozens of intellectuals…

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The MSU Testing Center recently upgraded their patron lockers to include electronic locks.

On July 17 and 18, Sue McCrory of the MSU Testing Center attended the first meeting of the Missouri Association of Testing (MoAT). She was elected as the first Vice President of the group and has started serving her first two-year term.

Andrea Miller, with fellow Missouri Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee members Tiffany Mautino, Kara Bell, and Kris Dyer, presented the Introduction to Intellectual Freedom Workshop, or How To Be an Intellectual Freedom Fighter to the Springfield-Greene County Library District at the Library Center on July 17, 2019. The 3-hour workshop was held for branch managers and other SGCLD librarians and staff. The workshop provided an overview of the importance of intellectual freedom to the mission of libraries. Break-out sessions in small…

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Mark your calendars for the annual GEP 101/UHC 110 Welcome Party at Meyer Library: Friday, August 23 5:00-6:30 p.m.  FREE pizza, soda, DJ, games, superheroes, prizes, and more!

Assistant Professor Jessica Bennett participated in a recent session of RESPOND Training, facilitated by the MSU Counseling Center and Dean of Students Office.

Diner-style booths in Duane G. Meyer Library have proven to be very popular with library users. This summer another set of booths were installed in the west end of the Second Level, near the current Music and Media area and the offices supporting the Public Affairs events of Missouri State University. In preparing for the new booths, a strip of electrical outlets was added, so that users will be able to plug in and recharge their laptops, smartphones, and other…

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Over two and a half years into the Ozark Jubilee Digitization Project, a collaborative project with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, demand for these digitized kinescopes of the popular Fifties live ABC-TV national broadcasts, which originated from Springfield, remains strong.  The April 16, 1955 episode has been viewed 7,140 times. The July 30, 1955 episode has been viewed 5,003 times since it went online on June 28, 2017.  To date, 13 dates have been uploaded, and more are being…

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