• Of over 1,200 participating libraries, MU is the 15th oldest in the nation
• We are the 6th oldest academic library in the FDLP
• U.S. Superintendent of Documents/Assistant Public Printer Mary Alice Baish will be flying in from Washington to present our library with a150-year certificate
• U.S. Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer willpersonally deliver a message of congratulation
• Refreshments will be served
• A display of historic government documents willbe exhibited in Special Collections

Thursday, May 3
1:30-2:30
Ellis Library Colonnade

“A Glimpse at Science in the Antarctic”
April 19, 2012
1 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

The presentation will take a look at some of the USA’s Antarctic science activities operated under the National Science Foundations Polar Programs, how to do science in the Antarctic,  the McMurdo logistics facility, a  look at the new South Pole Station and a brief tour of some of what is seen around the US facilities.

 

Monday, 16 April
2-3 p.m.
Ellis Library Colonnade

1^st Place:
Nathaniel Schuster
Alma’s Betrayal and Mahler’s Unfinished Symphony No. 10
Written for Music 3085: Problems in Music
Teacher: Professor Judith Mabary

2^nd Place:
Donald Glen Cole
“…In View of Impending Conflict…” The Role of Southern Christianity in Sectionalism, Secession, and Southern Defeat
Written for English 4310: Civil War and Memory
Teacher: Professor Maureen Konkle

The MU Libraries have contracted with Serials Solutions to utilize 360 Link for the “Find It @ MU” service.

It will continue to allow researchers searching within databases to easily check for the availability of the specific material they need and to link directly to the full-text when it is available online.

Researchers will also still be able to search for specific citations and journal titles.

The changes will be implemented in the various databases, websites, etc., over the coming days.  The  button will remain the same.

If you have any questions, please contact us or report problems using the  “Report Problems” button that displays on the page.

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, winning entries of the Saint Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s annual Art and Writing Competition will be displayed at Ellis Library on the University of Missouri campus April 2-30. Each year middle and high school students from across the Midwest are invited to submit entries related to lessons of the Holocaust, persecution, intolerance and injustice. The winning entries will be presented in display cases in the Ellis library colonnade on the main floor. For more information about the Saint Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center or how to enter next year’s competition, please visit www.hmlc.org.

In addition, survivor Guenther Goldsmith will visit the University of Missouri to share his experiences during the Holocaust. Mr. Goldsmith survived the war by taking the last Kindertransport out of Germany to the United States. The event will be held at Ellis library on Tuesday, April 17 at 2 p.m. and is sponsored by the University of Missouri Hillel, the MU Department of German and Russian Studies and the MU Libraries Diversity Action Committee. This program is open to the public.

Holocaust Remembrance Week Schedule

Tuesday, April 17, 2 p.m., Ellis Library

Holocaust survivor Guenter Goldsmith will be speaking about his experience in the Holocaust. There will be a Q&A and reception following his presentation.

Wednesday, April 18, 7 p.m., Hillel

Professor Béa Gallimore will be leading a discussion about modern genocide following a screening of “Sometimes in April,” a film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m., Hillel

Cantorial soloist and composer Nancy Tunick will present “Songs for the Unsung,” a multimedia presentation about Christian rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. A reception will follow her presentation.

Friday, April 20, 6 p.m., Hillel

Hillel will host a Holocaust remembrance Shabbat, followed by our weekly Shabbat dinner.

“poems that stick with you like a song that won’t stop repeating itself in your brain, poems whose cadences burrow into your bloodstream, orchestrating your breathing long before their sense attaches its hooks to your heart.”
—Washington Post on Captivity

Tuesday , April 24
10:30 a.m.
Ellis Library Colonnade

Reception
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Berlin Theatre

Performance of Mama’s Kitchen
6:30-7:00 p.m.
Berlin Theatre

Mama’s Kitchen is a short play by Teresa Stankiewicz based on the memoir Bread on the Water: the Olden Times by Antonia Baquet.  Growing up during the Great Depression Nootsie lives with her mother Regina while serving in the house of the “Rice King of the South” in Crowley, Louisiana.   The memoirs of Toi Derricotte’s mother take us through a journey of strength and love of the African Americans who served the rich white families in the American south.  This brief glimpse into the lives of three women shows us the love, laughter and hardship that all of them rose above.

We learn the painful lessons of history in our parents’ beds.  I believe we are sent out on their mission; their un-spoken dreams, the true self that was neglected and even buried because it was a miracle if they just survived to make the lives of their children better.  These are the words that came through my mother and the poems that come through me today.
–Toi Derricotte

It’s National Library Week, a time to celebrate the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers in schools, campuses and communities nationwideand the perfect time to discover why you belong @ MU LibrariesYour Connection to Knowledge. The MU Libraries are celebrating National Library Week by holding a party for the MU faculty, staff, students and our community users. Please join us for refreshments and library information at Ellis Library on Tuesday, April 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Where Did We Come From?
New Insights into Our Oldest Ancestors

Perhaps no subject fascinates us more than the mystery of our origins and evolution. Teams of scientists working throughout the world are recovering record numbers of fossils of our earliest ancestors, and these fossils are expanding and refining the picture we have of how we evolved.

Dr. Carol Ward has been involved with the discovery and analysis of many of these fossils, and will present some of the more exciting ones.  She will share how these fossils speak to scientists through their anatomy and biology, and how they reveal to us that our evolutionary history was more complex and nuanced than we have imagined.

Wednesday, April 4
1-2 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

Science informs nutrition.  What informs science?

From the four humors to the discovery of vitamins, Food Revolutions examines our changing notions of healthy eating over two centuries.  This exhibition brings together medical books, cookbooks, scientific publications, and dieting texts to illustrate our ongoing quest for health, and our changing relationships with food.  Food Revolutions will be on display in the Ellis Library Colonnade March 2-29, 2012.

Ingolf Gruen, associate professor in the Department of Food Science, will give an opening talk entitled “Food Revolutions: How Science Changed the Way We Eat,” on March 6 at 2:30 in the Ellis Library Colonnade.  The exhibition and lecture are events affiliated with Food Sense, the eighth annual Life Sciences and Society Symposium.  The symposium will take place on the MU campus March 16-18.

TITLE: Crossover Pioneer and Godmother of Rock-n-Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Chambers Auditorium, MU Student Center
PRESENTER: Dr. Michael Budds, Professor of Musicology, MU School of Music

DESCRIPTION: In this multi-media presentation, musicologist Dr. Michael Budds lectures on the life and music of Rock-n-Roll pioneer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The Arkansas native, armed with an electric guitar and soulful voice, left her distinctive mark on gospel, blues, rock-n-roll, and jazz and had been mentioned as an influence by iconic American musicians such as Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Bob Dylan. In this presentation, Dr. Budds presents Tharpe in all her glory, and reminds music lovers of her deep impact on American music.

TITLE: Student Experience Panel Discussion
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, Feb. 22, 12:00 – 1:0 p.m.
LOCATION: Ellis Library Colonnade
FACILITATORS:  Noor Azizan-Gardner of the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative and Nathan Stephens of the MU Black Culture Center

DESCRIPTION: A facilitated discussion about the library experience of African-American undergrads. The students will discuss their childhood associations (both cultural and educational) with public and school libraries through their experiences in and with the MU Libraries.

TITLE: Four Women: A Conversation about Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Camilla Williams, and Mary J. Blige.
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Ellis Library Colonnade
PRESENTER: Dr. Maya Gibson, Assistant Professor, MU School of Music; Dr. Treva Lindsey, Assistant Professor, MU Women and Gender Studies, and Dr .Stephanie Shonekan, Assistant Professor, MU School of Music

DESCRIPTION: Nina Simone’s iconic 1966 song “Four Women” brilliantly highlights the roles that have defined (and confined) black women in the United States. Simone herself was an artist that broke through the boundaries of these stereotypes to create her own way, to define her own terms, and to ultimately establish herself as a distinctive voice in American music and culture. Reflecting on this legacy, three scholars discuss the lives and work of three black female musicians: jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, opera diva Camilla Williams, and queen of hip-hop Mary J. Blige. The discussion will explore the contributions of these artists on the history of American music and culture.

Feb. 9, 2012
10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Ellis Library Colonnade

The Pro Arte Quartet was founded by students at the Brussels Conservatory. The University of Wisconsin chancellor offered a permanent home to the quartet – it was the first such residency ever in a major American university, and became the model on which many other similar arrangements were developed at other institutions. Today, in addition to widely acclaimed performances of standard classical repertoire, the Pro Arte continues its tradition of championing new music.

This event is free and open to the public.

For tickets to the Pro Arte Quartet’s Concert Series performance at the Missouri Theatre, please visit the University of Missouri Concert Series website.

Missouri School of Journalism Associate Professor John Fennell has been a painter as long as he’s been a journalist. In 25 years as a writer and editor, Fennell has worked in almost every variety of print media: a wire service, newspapers and magazines. He is also the editor of a book on typography and the author of a biography. He joined the MU magazine faculty in August 2005 and holds the Meredith Chair for Service Journalism. He teaches writing and magazine publishing.

During his 13-year tenure as editor of Milwaukee Magazine, the publication was nominated for the National Magazine award, the Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial reporting (twice) and won more than 160 national and local awards. Under his leadership, the magazine was also honored by the Society of Publication Design, the Society of Illustrators and won more awards than anytime in the history of the magazine, including two gold awards for general excellence.

He has exhibited his paintings in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis and in Columbia at PS Gallery. There is a current exhibition of his abstract work, “The Geometry of Light,” in the School of Journalism’s Strategic Communication office in Walter Williams Hall.

He can be reached on campus at 321A Lee Hills Hall, 882-8966.

A review of John Fennel’s Night Lights series.

Quiet computer work space is now available in Room 114, also known as the Current Periodicals Reading Room (CPRR) of Ellis Library. This is a temporary computer lab that is being run by the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) in Ellis Library while Pershing Hall is closed for renovation. This computer lab will be open in Ellis Library until the end of 2012.

The DOIt computer lab (near the Reference collection) that was affected by the Ellis Library fire has reopened.

Note: LibX 2.0 was written for Firefox and Chrome.

• About LibX

• Install Firefox toolbar
• Install Google Chrome toolbar

• Additional subject toolbars (engineering, journalism, etc.

Lisa Carlucci Thomas, who is nationally recognized for her leadership, innovation and research on evolving mobile and social technologies, will give a talk entitled “Designing the Imperative: Libraries, Technology & Leadership” on Wednesday, January 25 at 7 p.m. in Ellis Auditorium.

Thomas is a 2010 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, a 2009 ALA Emerging Leader, and a MLIS graduate of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. She is currently the director of design think do, a library technology and innovation consultancy. She was formerly digital services librarian at Southern Connecticut State University, responsible for exploring, developing and coordinating library technologies, systems and digital initiatives. Thomas’s previous experience also includes project and services management in Access Services, Manuscripts & Archives, and Electronic Collections at the Yale University Library.

Sponsored by the Library and Information Science Graduate Student Association.

As many men went abroad to serve in the war, large numbers of women were left behind.  However, women played an integral part in the WWII victory.  War posters on display from the Special Collections Department of Ellis Library illustrate how women were called upon to help win the war both at home and in foreign lands.

World War II Posters will be on display in the Ellis Library Colonnade November 3^rd-December 2^nd, 2011.

Thinking about those courses you’re teaching next semester?
Think about exploring Special Collections and Rare Books with your students!  Come to Ellis Library for a Special Collections orientation (or just to refresh your memory) on Friday, November 11, at 10:00 am or Monday, November 14, at 2:30 pm.  Topics will include:

• Materials and collections with potential for use in class visits or assignments
• Instruction services offered by Special Collections
• Assignment and activity ideas

Registration
Register online and preview the workshop at http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/instructor_registration.htm

Questions? Schedule conflicts?
If you have questions, or would like to request a session at a different time, contact Kelli Hansen at hansenkb@missouri.edu.

In 1911, Chester Brewer invited old grads to “come home” for the KU game, and a tradition was born. This exhibit located in the Ellis Library colonnade takes a look back at one hundred years of homecoming history. The exhibit will be on display for the month of October.

On Saturday, October 15, visit Ellis Library after the Homecoming Parade from 10 a.m. to noon for refreshments, tours and family activities. This event is free and open to the public.

At approximately 3:30 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 10, Columbia Fire Department fire fighters and MU Police Department (MUPD) officers responded to a fire alarm in Ellis Library. Upon arrival, fire crews discovered several small fires in offices of the north end of the main level of the building. The fires were localized in two areas, photocopy services and circulation/interlibrary loan, and they were suppressed by automatic fire sprinklers in those areas.

Fire fighters extinguished the flames, which resulted in moderate damage to these two locations. Significant amounts of water were released in the time between the initial alarms and when emergency personnel determined that no other fires remained in the building. As a result, the northern and eastern portions of the first floor of Ellis Library, as well as areas of the lower level housing the State Historical Society, received water damage.

At approximately noon on Sept. 10, officers from the MUPD arrested Christopher C. Kelley of Columbia on suspicion of committing arson, burglary and vandalism in Ellis Library. Mr. Kelley turned himself in, and additional details cannot be released due to the ongoing investigation.

At this time, the northeast quadrant of the first floor is closed to the public. This  includes

• the Circulation/Reserve/Interlibrary Loan offices,
• the 1^st floor men’s restroom,
• the Government Documents collection and staff offices,
• the print Reference Collection,
• the Cisco TelePresence room, and
• the student computer lab.

The Administration Offices are accessible by a route past the south side of the elevators. Please look for the signs.

The Circulation/Reserve/Interlibrary Loan service point has been temporarily relocated to the northwest corner of the first floor.

We estimate that it will take most of the fall semester to finish the cleanup, renovate the fire-damaged offices and replace carpet and tile in the water-damaged areas.

We appreciate your support and understanding during this time. And we apologize for any inconvenience.

 

Learn to set up and use this powerful tool to organize your references and format them in thousands of citation styles.

 

Next workshop:

Thursday September 22, 2011

6:00-7:30 p.m.

Ellis Library Room 213

Instructor: Ashley Nelson

More information on EndNote and registration link: http://libraryguides.missouri.edu/endnote

Ellis Library will remain closed through Monday, September 12.  The Library will resume regular hours on Tuesday, September 13.  Circulation, Reserve and Interlibrary Loan Services have been temporarily relocated to the Current Periodicals Reading Room on the west side of the first floor of Ellis Library.

On Monday, September 12,  Ellis Reference will resume phone service (573-882-4581) in addition to answering questions through chat, email and text messages until 6:00 pm.  All branch libraries will follow their regular hours. 

More information regarding the Saturday morning fire and cleanup may be found here.

 

MUPD and Ellis Library Security will be providing a FREE bike/electronics (laptops, iPads, e-readers, etc.) registration and engraving session in Ellis Library for the 2011 Fall Semester on Wednesday, September 7th 9am – 1pm and Thursday, September 8th from noon – 4pm. DoIT will also have a help station set up for any computer questions or problems. The event will take place on the first floor of Ellis Library in the colonnade. All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to be proactive in protecting their property.

The MU Libraries will host a reception for Lt. General Russel Honoré at the Traditions Lounge in the MU Student Center on Wednesday, September 14 from 4-5 p.m. Please join us for refreshments and an opportunity to meet Lt. General Honore.

Lt. General Russel Honoré
Leadership and Preparedness in the 21st Century

September 14, 2011
7:30 pm
Jesse Auditorium, Jesse Hall

When it seemed that desperation and chaos were taking over the ciy of New Orleans, one man took charge.  Don’t miss this opportunity to see Lt. General Russel Honoré, commander of Joint Task force Katrina, speak about his experience restoring hope and order to a community left in shambles.

Tickets available after August 17th at the MSA/GPC Box Office in the MU Student Center.
Tickets are free for MU students and the general public. Everyone must have a ticket.

Sponsored by New Student Programs, Department of Student Life and MSA/GPC.

Come and see what the MU Libraries has to offer.  Find Fun, Treasures, Quality, Access, Help and Study resources – all at the library!  An informational display is on view in the Colonnade through September 30.

Richard is a life long artist and educator. Dutton taught art at Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa, Iowa for over thirty years and served as Chair of the Performing and Visual Arts. Richard retired from college teaching in 1999.  Since that time he and his wife Karen have traveled extensively throughout the US and overseas. Richard and Karen moved to the Hallsville and Columbia, Missouri area six years ago.

Richard continues to paint primarily in watercolor but also working sometimes in oil and acrylic.  He believes that an art work has to transcend the subject matter and take on a visual entity of its own.

Dutton’s paintings can be found in many Midwest art collections. Paintings by Richard can be found in banks, businesses, and private collections. Two examples are the Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, and HyVee Headquarters, Des Moines, Iowa.

10768 N. Barnes School Rd.
Hallsville, MO 65255
573-881-3198
rkdutton60@msn.com
www.duttonwatercolor.com

Due to hardware replacement by campus, many library systems will be unavailable for access from 10:00 am-Noon on Sunday, July 31, 2011.  Systems affected include MERLIN library accounts, proxy server and the room reservation system.

Mapping the Past: Rare Russian Maps from Special Collections has been created as a digital highlight of books and maps on the website of the Special Collections and Rare Books department.  This virtual exhibit describes the cartographic trade and the exploration of the Russian empire from the 16^th through the 18^th centuries. The display was originally mounted as a physical exhibit in the Ellis Library colonnade at the University of Missouri in April 2011.

 

Come out and see an exhibit on the Civil War in Missouri! A short history of the war is provided alongside relevant books, manuscripts, photographs, and artifacts. Attention is also given to Missouri Civil War Historic Sites. Materials on display have come from the University’s holdings, the State Historical Society of Missouri, The Library of Congress’s American Memories Project and private collections. The exhibit has been curated by Amy C. Nickless, Graduate Reference Assistant at Ellis Library and Historian.

The exhibit is free, located on the main floor’s Colonnade, and available during Ellis Library’s operating hours. It will be open through July 27, 2011.

 

Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade, 1870-1940 has recently been mounted as a permanent exhibit on the website of the Special Collections and Rare Books department.  This virtual exhibit explores the intersections between ethics and the pseudo-science of eugenics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was originally mounted as part of Ethics and the Brain, the seventh annual symposium sponsored by the Life Sciences and Society Program at the University of Missouri in March 2011.

After you graduate, the MU Libraries will still be here to serve you. To find out more about the resources available to alumni, visit Library Resources for Alumni.

All of us at the MU Libraries, wish you the very best in your future endeavors!

Choose Privacy Week will take place May 1-7, 2011 and is an ongoing program of the American Library Association.

Choose Privacy Week is an initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.

You can find out more information at http://www.privacyrevolution.org/index.php/privacy_week/.

At Ellis Library, we will have several posters and an exhibit on display to educate our users about privacy.

 

Tuesday, 26 April, 2011
4:00-5:00pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

1^st Place:

Alexandrina Dimitrova

Svatbarska muzika and Chalga: The Fusion of Music Genres that Contributes to a Social Change

Written for English 1000

Teacher: John Nieves

 

2^nd Place:

David Lamble

The Patriarchal Gentleman: American Gender Roles of Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Women Through the Mind of Thomas Jefferson

Written for History 4972.

Teacher:  Dr. Wilma King

 

“Send me a paper, I do not know what is going on:” Civil War Soldiers’ Media Dependency
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
2-3 p.m.
Ellis Library, Colonnade

When the Civil War distanced combatants from familiar surroundings and put them in a bloody war, their letters home often referred to the different ways they depended on newspapers and magazines. Through their reliance on the mass media of their day, Civil war soldiers demonstrated different kinds of mass media dependency during war. This lecture will include letters from Missourians and soldiers stationed in  Missouri from 1861-1865.

This event is sponsored by the MU Libraries’ Faculty Lecture Series.

Join us for the Missouri premiere of Green Fire! The film shares highlights from Aldo Leopold’s extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. See how Leopold’s vision of a community that cares about both people and land continues to inform and inspire people across the country, highlighting current projects that put Leopold’s land ethic in action.

DATE: Thursday, April 7, 2011

TIME: 7 PM; doors open at 6:30 pm

LOCATION: Conservation Hall, Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources building

ADDRESS: On Rollins Street, between the Christopher Bond Life Sciences building and the Agricultural building.

This event is free and open to the public.  After 5 pm, free parking is available at the Hitt Street, University and Virginia Avenue Garages.

Sponsored by MU Libraries, MU School of Natural Resources, MU Department of History, Missouri Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology, Missouri River Relief, Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture and Columbia Audubon Society.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EVENT, contact Christine Montgomery, MU Libraries, (573)814-9134, montgomeryc@umsytem.edu; FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ALDO LEOPOLD AND GREEN FIRE, visit www.GreenFireMovie.com.

Angie Fox, the New York Times bestselling author of the Accidental Demon Slayer series will speak at the Friends of the Libraries Luncheon on April 9, 2011 at noon. Fox, BJ ’94, worked in television news and then in advertising before beginning her career as an author. For ticket information, contact Sheila Voss at 882-4701 or VossS@missouri.edu.

Please join us on April 8 from 6-9 pm in the Ellis Library Grand Reading Room for the Library Society Dinner with keynote speaker Peggy Engel, journalist, author and playwright. For ticket information, contact Sheila Voss at 882-4701 or VossS@missouri.edu.

You are considering a career as an academic librarian or you are an academic librarian already. Excellent choice. Wait, academic libraries are in terrible trouble. Thanks to Google, Wikipedia, free answer services, mass digitization, abundant e-books and changing research behaviors, academic libraries have a limited future. By 2030 they’ll be history. Based on some recent essays about the future of academic libraries, you might believe that they will soon be obsolete. While cautionary tales and threats of extinction may be useful in helping academic librarians stay focused on building a sustainable future, they typically are based more on imagined fears than reality. In this presentation, Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian for Research & Instruction at Temple University, sheds some light on the prospects for academic librarianship in a tumultuous higher education and information landscape. While there are challenges ahead, prospective and current academic librarians can prepare themselves now for careers in which they’ll lead the change in academic librarianship.

March 17th
7:00pm
Ellis Library Auditorium

This event is free of charge and open to all who are interested, sponsored by LISGSA and ORG.

The Controlling Heredity Exhibit will be on display in Ellis Library from March 4 – 30.  The exhibit will be officially opened by a talk from Professor of German Stefani Engelstein entitled “Visions of Transparency: The Human Body and Social Order.”  The talk will be in the Ellis Library Colonnade on Tuesday March 8^th at 3:00 PM.

This exhibit displays and interprets some of the seminal texts that embody the eugenics movement in the United States, detailing the response of the privileged to accelerated and chaotic social change. The exhibit explores two campaigns central to the eugenics movement: restriction of the immigration of the “unfit” into the United States and the forced sterilization of so-called degenerates who were American citizens. In all, over 60,000 American citizens were sterilized.

The exhibit and lecture are part of the Life Sciences & Society Symposium series, which can be found at:  http://muconf.missouri.edu/sciencessocietysymposium/AffiliatedEvents.html.

We regret to inform you that due to scheduled repairs, the two, ground-to-fourth-floor elevators will NOT be operational on Friday, 25 Feb.  (The ground-to-first-floor elevator in the Information Commons will be working, however.)

If you are unable to use the stairs, and if you need assistance retrieving resources from the upper floors, please inquire at the Reference Desk on the first floor, 882-4581.  Someone there will be able to arrange assistance for you.

Questions?  Contact Ellis Library Security at 882-4220or Cindy Cotner, 882-4693.

WHAT: Print for the People, a Mizzou Advantage networking group interested in digital humanities, is hosting “The Future of Archives in a Digital Age”. This symposium will discuss all aspects of archiving valuable historical documents and artwork in a digital form. Panelists and speakers will present successes and solutions to the problems that arise in archiving valuable items such as diaries of 19th century settlers. Berkeley Hudson, an associate professor in the Missouri School of Journalism and a member of Print for the People, says it is vital to preserve this information permanently in digital form.

“These precious, one-of-a-kind documents give us a perspective of who we are as a state and as a nation,” Hudson said. “The past has value for today and tomorrow.”

This symposium is the beginning of a larger Mizzou Advantage digital humanities project called “Gateway to the West”. This project aims to advance expertise in the field of digital humanities and to create new scholarly opportunities on the MU campus, in the state, and nationally.

WHO: Keynote speakers include Robert Darnton <http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/darnton.php> , director of the University Library at Harvard University, and William Ferris <http://history.unc.edu/faculty/ferris.html> , former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

WHEN: Feb. 24–25, 2011

WHERE: Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri campus

NOTE: Media welcome. Participants are required to register for the event. More information and a complete schedule of events can be found online at: http://www.muconf.missouri.edu/futureofarchives/index.html

OurArt is a collaborative, conversational project to create visual art (collages, color studies, abstract portraits) and to nurture all the arts in our community’s daily life.

This exhibit will be on display in the Bookmark Cafe during the spring semester.

Catherine Parke
ourart.cparke@gmail.com
573-289-0825

Please view “The Harlem Renaissance in Art, Literature and Film” an exhibit in the 1st floor display cases.

For information about Black History Month events, visit MizzouWire and the Black Studies Program.

Thursday, 10 February, 2011 at 2 p.m. Ellis Library Colonnade:  Curators Professor John Miles Foley will present a talk entitled Albert Lord and the Study of Oral Traditions. This presentation honors the landmark achievements of Albert Bates Lord, one of the founders of the field of studies in oral tradition, and celebrates the generous donation of his and Mary Louise Lord’s personal libraries by their sons Nathan and Mark Lord to the University of Missouri.  The discussion will trace the roots of Lord’s research and scholarship in contemporary anthropology and philology, as well as discuss the spread of this comparative approach to more than 150 language traditions from the ancient world to the present day.  Audio examples of Lord’s fieldwork collections in the Former Yugoslavia will illustrate the talk.

Jim Cogswell will welcome, introduce, and thank the Lord family for this important donation to the University and the University Libraries.  A showing of some of the more important items donated by the Lord family will be held in 401 Ellis Library, the Reading Room of Special Collections, immediately after the Professor Foley’s talk.

Faculty, staff and students can get a flu shot at Ellis Library on Feb. 9. UM Faculty & Staff Benefits will provide FREE flu shots to UM Choice Health Care members who bring their Coventry card. For those who are not enrolled in the UM Choice Health Care program, the cost will be $15, which may be paid by cash or check. Children will not be vaccinated at this event. Students need to bring their Mizzou ID card and the fee will be charged to their student account. Questions? Faculty & Staff should call Healthy for Life at 884-1312 and students can call the Student Health Center at 882-7481.*Prizes will be given out.

Feb.9 from 1-3 p.m. at Ellis Library, 1st Floor Colonade

Wednesday, February 2nd:  Ellis Library will remain closed through Thursday.

“MU will remain closed Thursday, with all classes canceled.  The blizzard has made clearing campus streets, walkways and parking lots challenging for maintenance crews, according to the MU News Bureau. It also remains difficult for many faculty, staff and students to get to campus.

Classes are expected to resume Friday, with confirmation reported at 4 p.m.Thursday on MU Alert.”  Columbia Missourian

In 1904 the city of St. Louis hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which became popularly known as the St. Louis World’s Fair. The Exposition, which was held to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, hosted an estimated 20 million visitors. The Fair and the progress it highlighted thrust St. Louis into the global spotlight and became a source of tremendous regional and national pride. The University of Missouri Libraries are now providing searchable online access to the text and illustration of its collection of materials from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

The materials in the collection range from single-sheet broadsides to multi-volume book sets and lithographic views of the Exposition to the actual photographic view books submitted by the University of Missouri for its exhibit in the Palace of Education and Social Economy. An important item for the history of the Exposition is the World’s Fair Bulletin, a monthly publication running from 1900 through 1904 that provided insight into the planning, construction, management and the activities of the Fair. Another highlight of the collection is James Buel’s eleven-volume Louisiana and the Fair: An Exposition of the World, Its People and Their Achievements, which was published in limited edition in 1905 and which gives a detailed history of the fair.

The digitization in 2010 of the resources in this collection was supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. The collection is available online and free of charge to the public through the University of Missouri Digital Library at: http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=home;c=lex.  It will become available through the Missouri State Library in 2011.

Wednesday, 26 Jan, 2011
1-2 p.m.
Ellis Library, Colonnade

Dr. Debra L. Mason, Executive Director of The Center on Religions and the Professions, will share findings from research on religious literacy (a survey on religious literacy from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life). Data was collected via a nationwide poll conducted from May 19 through June 6, 2010, among 3,412 Americans age 18 and older.

This event is sponsored by the MU Libraries’ Faculty Lecture Series and Diversity Action Committee.

Due to bad weather and low registration numbers, the Endnote class scheduled for tonight, January 20^th is canceled and will be rescheduled. Details on other Endnote classes may be found at  http://libraryguides.missouri.edu/endnote

The Parker Quartet
Jan. 24, 2011
Ellis Library Colonnade
10 am – 11 am

The Parker Quartet, four New England Conservatory graduates, began their professional career in 2002 and have been hailed as “something extraordinary” by the New York Times. Inspired by their own love for music, the Parker Quartet spend time each year with young musicians and work with them through outreach programs to help advance their musical knowledge and abilities.

They will also be performing in Jesse Auditorium on Sunday, January 23, 2011, 2 p.m.
$17 | MU students half-price | BUY ONLINE

May 4–13 (Finals Week)
May 4 (Fri) ……………………………………………………………………………………..7:30am–2am
May 5 (Sat)…………………………………………………………………………………………..9am–2am
May 6 (Sun)………………………………………………………………………………………….9am-4am
May 7-10 (Mon-Thu) ……………………………………………………………………………7am–4am
May 11 (Fri)…………………………………………………………………………………………7am–6pm
May 12 (Sat)…………………………………………………………………………………………9am-5pm
May 13 (Sun)………………………………………………………………………………………Noon-5pm

Click here for Circulation/Reserve Desk Hours

The Ellis Library Circulation and Reserve Desk will be staffed the following hours during finals.

May 4    (Friday)                                                   7:30 a.m. -2 a.m.

May 5   (Saturday)                                               9 a.m. -8 p.m.

May 6 (Sunday)                                                     9 a.m.-2 a.m.

May 7-10 (Monday – Thursday)                     7 a.m.-2 a.m.

May 11 (Friday)                                                    7 a.m.-6 p.m.

May 12 (Saturday)                                               9 a.m.-5 p.m.

May 13 (Sunday)                                                   noon-5 p.m.

Sat, Nov. 19                                                           1 to 5 p.m.

Sun, Nov. 20                                                           Closed

Mon-Wed, Nov. 21-23                                       8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thurs-Fri, Nov. 24-25                                       Closed

Sat, Nov. 26                                                           1 to 5 p.m.

Sun, Nov. 27                                                          Noon to 2 a.m.

A Brown Bag Panel Discussion Organized by Print for the People
(Print for the People is a Mizzou Advantage Networking Group)
Wednesday, November 17th,  2010, 12-1 pm
Tucker Forum, MU School of Journalism

Panel Members: David F. Moore (Western Historical Manuscripts Collection), Sean Franzel (German and Russian Studies), Noah Heringman (English)

David Moore will discuss the challenges and issues with past and current digitization projects undertaken by the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia.  He will also discuss how WHMC-Columbia has tried to prioritize the collections that are considered for digitization.

Sean Franzel and Noah Heringman will discuss their research on German-language holdings at WHMC and the State Historical Society in light of the challenges and possibilities of digitizing historical materials for use by students, scholars, and the broader public.  Putting historical sources online represents an important way to make library holdings significantly more accessible, but it also requires renewed reflection on how to organize and present them.  Franzel and Heringman will initiate discussion by presenting their preliminary research on local holdings produced by Missouri’s extensive German-language publishing industry in the nineteenth century.  Our goal in this brown bag discussion is to focus on the process of selecting materials to digitize from MU’s collections.

On Saturday, October 23, visit Ellis Library after the Homecoming Parade from 10 a.m. to noon for refreshments, tours and family activities. This event is free and open to the public.

Stop by Ellis Library to pick up your copy of our Banned Books brochure. Learn more about Banned Books Week at http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm

Make it easier for your students to find and use scholarly library resources by adding links to those resources on your Blackboard page. Remember, you can always ask your Subject Librarian for help.

http://libraryguides.missouri.edu/blackboard

ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours on Saturday, 28 August. During this time, upgrades will be implemented to these systems as part of the launch of the new SciVerse platform. For more information about SciVerse, please visit www.acceleratescience.com.

Down time is expected to be as follows:

• U.S. Central Daylight Time: 6:30AM to 3:30PM, August 28

We apologize for the inconvenience while we improve your Elsevier products.

Regards,

The Elsevier Team. 

Room 213, 2^nd Floor, center, Ellis Library

Critical to academic success is your ability to use a research library and its resources. In academia, independent research including library research is very important in order to be able to produce papers for classes or complete your thesis or dissertation.

These workshops specifically designed for international students will cover:

• Exploring the MU Libraries (Learn how MU Libraries support your research—take advantage of all the free services the MU Libraries have to offer)

• Finding Articles using MU article databases and Google Scholar (Discover which databases are best for YOUR research. Learn time-saving tips for effective searching to find the research articles, reports and other materials you need)

• Finding Books using the MERLIN Catalog and Google Books (Use the right online search tools to locate books in the library, find books on a topic, find books that even mention a topic, and retrieve books from other libraries)

• Writing your Paper and Citing your Sources (Don’t make the mistake of using other researchers’ findings and ideas in your paper without proper credit)

Registration:

• REGISTRATION IS FULL.
• Each workshop is limited to 40 students.

Questions: Contact Goodie Bhullar, bhullarp@missouri.edu

The MU Libraries will host a reception for Dr. Jean M. Twenge at Ellis Library in the First Floor Colonnade on Thursday, September 9 from 4-5 p.m. Please join us for refreshments and an opportunity to meet the author of this year’s Mizzou Reads book.