Library Notes

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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Last weekend Tom Peters, Dean of Library Services on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University, attended the annual meeting of the Research Route 66 group, which is organized and led by Kaisa Barthuli, the program director of the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program of the National Park Service. The meeting was held at the El Vado Motel on old Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This meeting partially overlapped with the annual meeting of The Road Ahead Partnership,…

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The Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, is helping to produce the upcoming 5th Annual Showcase of the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest, to be held in the Shrine Mosque, May 18-20 of 2023 (Thursday – Saturday).  Western Swing Music is a type of American country music that was popular in the Thirties and Forties, primarily in the Southwest, from the Ozarks to California. Swing music is an amalgamation of rustic, cowboy,…

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