The MSU Libraries has acquired a rare book for Special Collections & Archives that is notable because it contains a fore-edge painting. The book is a book of poems by Thomas Gray, an 18th century English poet and scholar, best remembered for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. In this particular type of fore-edge painted book, the landscape painting cannot be seen until the fore-edge of the text block is fanned.
Next Wednesday the 32nd annual Showcase on Teaching and Learning will be held in the Plaster Student Union on the MSU campus. The MSU Libraries will have several presentations. Jessica and Tracy to Promote New Library Space: Jessica Bennett and Tracy Stout will have a table at the upcoming FCTL’s 32nd Showcase on Teaching and Learning. Showcase is an opportunity for faculty to highlight their teaching and learning and reaches approximately 350-400 faculty who attend. Space is an important part…
Howard Wight Marshall, the author of the new book, Fiddler’s Dream: Old-Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in Twentieth-Century Missouri, will give a presentation — including musical performances — on Friday evening, November 10, 2017, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Room 101 of Duane G. Meyer Library. In this sequel to his 2013 book on earlier old-time fiddlers in Missouri, Play Me Something Quick and Devilish, Prof. Howard uses oral history, archival photographs, and transcriptions of selected tunes to trace the evolution of…
The Missouri State University Libraries, in partnership with Ozarks Alive (OzarksAlive.com), has received a $5,100 grant from the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program of the National Park Service to undertake the “Trucking on Route 66” project. Twenty oral history interviews will be recorded with individuals involved in the trucking industry along the Route 66 Corridor in Missouri from 1926 to 1985. Tom Peters, Dean of Library Services at Missouri State, noted, “Oral histories have a proven track record of expanding and…
Re-Carpeting the southwest section of the Second Level (the “Wedge”): Earlier this week PD&C (the office of Planning, Design, and Construction) informed the Libraries that the new carpeting would arrive sometime during the week of August 14th, and will take approximately four days to install. Once we receive confirmation that the new carpeting has shipped, we may be able to have the old carpeting removed and the floor surface prepped before the new carpet actually arrives. The installers have agreed…
On Wednesday, August 2nd, it was announced (here and elsewhere) that Elsevier had acquired bepress. Bepress, started in 1999 as Berkeley Electronic Press by three professors from UC-Berkeley, had grown to 73 employees. MSU, as well as approximately 500 other institutions of higher education, has been using Digital Commons from bepress as the platform for its institutional repository. Elsevier, one of the largest publishers of academic journals in the world, has been moving toward preprints, open access journal content, data…
The Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC) is a comprehensive collection of over 10,000 articles on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Comprised of eight major encyclopedias, as well as additional content from Oxford University Press, AASC contains over 5,000 biographies and 3,000 articles on a variety of subjects. This database also includes more than 450 primary source documents, 2,500 images, nearly 200 maps, and more than 150 charts and tables that offer…
Published in January 2017 and written by Daniel Rowles and Thomas Brown, Building Digital Culture: A Practical Guide to Successful Digital Transformation, undertakes to help organizations create integrated, deeply ingrained digital cultures. While many organizations, such as the MSU Libraries, are striving to keep up with rapid technological change (e.g., 3D printing, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics), Rowles and Brown argue that, unless an organization embraces a digital culture within, the results may be fractured, disappointing, and unsustainable. One Amazon…
This full-text database is a trusted and unique resource for information covering all areas of hospitality and tourism. It contains more than 500,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. Over 400 trade publications, magazines, and academic journals are indexed, and there is full text coverage for more than 250 publications, including periodicals, company and country reports, and books. Hospitality & Tourism Complete includes full text for the top resources in the field, including the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education. Many…
Associate Dean of Libraries: Rachel Besara has a new start date: Friday, August 11, 2017. She’ll be attending an all-day administrator training workshop on that date. A welcome reception for Rachel will be held from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, August 18th in the Employee Lounge. Head of Acquisitions and Content Management: The on-campus interviews for the two finalists will be held during the fourth week of August. Andrea Miller, currently serving as Interim Head of Content Management and…