Library Notes

You and your family and friends are invited to attend an old-fashioned, up-tempo Ozarks Jamboree to be held on Friday, May 12th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the new John Goodman Amphitheater (JGA) on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University. This event, the first public event to be held in JGA, is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Jeff Houghton will serve as the host with the most. Originally from Iowa City, Iowa,…

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Dr. John Schmalzbauer, the Blanche Gorman Strong Chair in Protestant Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University, will give the spring lecture in the semiannual lecture series organized and hosted by the Johnson Library and Museum (JLM) in Osceola, Missouri. The lecture will be given at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2023 at the Johnson Library and Museum located at 220 Main Street in Osceola, overlooking the Osage River. Thomas Moore Johnson, a neoplatonic scholar…

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On April 17, 2023, the Missouri State University Libraries, in conjunction with the MSU Department of English, kicked off English Week with a panel discussion on Robert Wallace and a book launch reception for the book The Orbit of Meter: Writings on Poems and Prosody by Robert Wallace. This latest publication of the Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, was edited by James S. Baumlin and Anne Marie Baker, and includes a foreword by…

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Missouri State University has been selected to participate in AAC&U’s 2023-2024 Institute on Open Education Resources (OER). This Institute on OER provides a year-long, engagement opportunity for teams to actualize an ambitious strategy to broaden campus engagement with adoption of OER. The Institute will officially begin with a kickoff event on July 24th and 25th, 2023 and conclude with a capstone closing event on June 10th-11th, 2024. Between those dates will be another day-long event in December and monthly meetings as team…

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Two student workers at the Duane G. Meyer Library won the Karen Horny Student Employee Award. The Library Scholarship Committee awarded $1,000 each to Dayah German and Cassidy Hale.  Eligible students are those who have worked in the Library for at least 2 semesters and who have a letter of recommendation.  Dayah German works at the Meyer Access Services Information Desk, checking out books and technology to students, providing directions, and assisting the back-office staff when needed. She is a…

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The Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, and the Springfield-Greene County Library District are collaborating again to organize and host a free public talk by Sarah Jane Nelson, author of a new biography of Max Hunter. The free talk will begin tonight, Thursday, April 20, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium at the Library Center on South Campbell Avenue.  Copies of Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector, from the…

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A book launch reception for The Orbit of Meter: Writings on Poems and Prosody by Robert Wallace will be held Monday, April 17, 2023, from 3:00 to 5:00 on the third level of Duane G. Meyer Library on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University. The book was edited by James S. Baumlin and Anne Marie Baker, foreword by Christine Wallace, and is the latest publication of the Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University…

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The new “Songs of the Ozarks” playlist is performing well on the dedicated YouTube channel of the Missouri State University Libraries. The “Songs of the Ozarks” series is part of Missouri State University’s scholarly content leading up to its participation in the 2023 Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife Festival. The festival will feature the history and culture of the Ozarks region, presented in part by the university, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Emalee Flatness started this oral history project with…

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A good old-fashioned Ozarks Jamboree, a type of variety show common to the Ozarks for over 100 years, from the Weaver Brothers & Elviry in the early 20th century to today’s Branson shows, is being organized by the MSU Libraries, in conjunction with the MSU Alumni Association and the Office of the President, for Friday evening, May 12th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. CDT in the new John Goodman Amphitheater on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University.  The…

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From recording music to collecting books, Gordon McCann has spent decades preserving, sharing and documenting the Ozarks. His countless hours of dedication will now live on through Missouri State University Libraries, which has acquired his books – numbering in the thousands – regional memorabilia and ephemera, local music recordings and more.  “Many items in Gordon’s collection are one-of-a-kind and irreplaceable,” says Tom Peters, dean of MSU Libraries and director of the Ozarks Studies Institute. “His years of work are monumental to…

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