Library Notes

A new exhibit, Appreciating the Art and Culture of the Indigenous Americas, will open in Special Collections and Archives on Thursday, November 7, 2024.  Please join us for an opening reception from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. in Meyer Library Room 306. This educational exhibit is the culmination of the best student research from the 2023-2024 Citizenship and Service-Learning (CASL) integrated courses ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica and ART 487: Art of the Americas, taught by Dr. Billie Follensbee. Objects studied are on loan from historical…

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Rachel Besara, Associate Dean of Libraries at Missouri State University, recently returned from WolfCON 2024, the World Open Library Federation Conference, which was held in London at the Senate House on the campus of the University of London.  This event provided opportunities to dive into the latest in resource sharing platforms, OpenRS, and data reporting, Metadb. There were also important sessions about open science initiatives, showcasing how the STEM disciplines and libraries are working together to enhancing access to research…

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This fall Tom Peters, Dean of Library Services at Missouri State University, has had several publications and media appearances come to fruition: The Ozark Jubilee Encyclopedia, compiled by Dean Peters, will be published next week by Pie Supper Press. The encyclopedia grew out of an ongoing effort by the MSU Libraries to collect, organize, and preserve recordings and supporting documentation about the Ozark Jubilee, a popular weekly nationally-broadcast live television show that originated from Springfield, Missouri, from 1955 to 1960. …

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Professor Joshua Lambert of the Duane G. Meyer Library recently attended the 2024 Midwest Data Librarian Symposium (MDLS) in Lawrence, KS. The 2024 MDLS Conference presentations included innovative research related to data repository use and better ways to engage minorities so that they will contribute to institutional repositories. The participants practiced using Application Programming Interfaces, which could better inform their institution about researcher publishing practices. Other sessions helped librarians think of complex concepts using metaphors so that they can better…

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Author-duo Tom Koob and Curtis Copeland, who together penned the Ozarks Studies Institute’s latest publication, On The River: A History of the Ozarks Float Trip, will be presenting their book and doing a signing on Monday, October 21 at 4 p.m. The event will take place in the Ozarks Room on the 3rd floor of the Duane G. Meyer Library on MSU’s Springfield campus. On The River examines the guides, camps, outfitters and gear that spawned and grew the distinctive…

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Dr. Jonathan M. Newman, the Clif and Gail Smart Professor of English at Missouri State University, will deliver the fall address at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the Johnson Library and Museum in Osceola, Missouri. The event is open to the general public. Ample free parking is available on the grounds. A buffer supper will precede the talk at 6:00 p.m. After the talk, tours of the complex will be available.  Dr. Newman’s talk will analyze Milton’s…

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If you’ve ever wanted some privacy in order to place a call in the Duane G. Meyer Library, now you have a space for that. This week, a new phone booth was installed in the north wing of level 3. “It was purchased to provide a space for persons to take a phone call on level three, have a Zoom or Teams meeting, or to just have an even more quiet space to study,” said Nathan Neuschwander, a Technology Strategist…

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Author-duo Tom Koob and Curtis Copeland, who together penned the Ozarks Studies Institute’s latest publication, On The River: A History of the Ozarks Float Trip, will be presenting their book and doing a signing on Monday, October 21 at 4 p.m. The event will take place in the Ozarks Room on the 3rd floor of the Duane G. Meyer Library on MSU’s Springfield campus. On The River examines the guides, camps, outfitters and gear that spawned and grew the distinctive…

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Library faculty, staff, and student workers, both current and former, were well-represented at the September 2024 Missouri Library Association (MLA) Annual Conference held at the KCI Expo Center in Kansas City, MO. The conference’s theme was “Innovate, Integrate and Inspire: Crafting the Future Library Experience.” Two research poster sessions were presented about projects pursued at the University Libraries. Andrea Miller, Professor/Metadata and Cataloging Librarian; Lynn Cline, Emeritus Professor; and Scott Fischer, Library Associate I presented a poster entitled Scholarly Information…

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Death, funeral and burial traditions — from services to superstitions to headstones and more — are an evolving part of Ozarks culture. These topics, shared by individuals who know them best, have been documented as part of an ongoing oral history series produced by Missouri State University Libraries and Ozarks Alive.   On Tuesday evening, Nov. 19, Kaitlyn McConnell of Ozarks Alive, who has been conducting these oral history interviews, will share some of what she’s learned through this research,…

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