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Month: March 2011
Rescuing Digital Oprhans
EndNote X4.0.2 & PubMed Journal Abbreviations
PubMed journal abbreviations not working correctly? The PubMed connection file included with EndNote X4.0.2 for both Windows and Mac places the full journal name in the Journal field rather than the abbreviated journal name. A new connection file is now available to import journal names correctly.
Note: not all veterinary journal abbreviations are loaded into the journal terms list, so this new connection file may not fix all the abbreviations. But it should help!
Instructions from EndNote:
The Medical terms list in EndNote keys on the abbreviated journal name for presenting the appropriate variation in your bibliographies. By replacing your X4.0.2 PubMed connection file with this copy, you will restore the journal name substitution with the terms list. This only applies to EndNote X4.0.2, other versions are not impacted. To properly install this new connection file:
- Download the connection file from the link above and save it somewhere easy to find, such as your Desktop.
- Double-click on the downloaded file to open it in the EndNote software.
- Click the File menu in EndNote and select Save As.
- IMPORTANT: Make sure that the name shows here as PubMed (NLM). You may need to remove the word “Copy” to get it to show exactly correctly. Then, click Save.
- The correct connection file is now installed in EndNote. You can delete the copy that you downloaded.
Questions? Email Kate.
Fun Stuff in the Library
Think Like a Doctor (Contest)
Try your best to make the diagnosis. Can you solve a medical mystery involving a healthy child who is losing her hair?
This is a one day contest posted on March 23 in the New York Times.
Tennessee Williams’ first two plays
Before Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie, there were Beauty is the Word and Hot Milk at Three in the Morning. And before he went by Tennessee, playwright Thomas Lanier Williams was an MU student. This weekend kicks off campus-wide celebrations of Williams’ 100th birthday, and to join in the festivities, we’re featuring two manuscripts of his earliest plays.
Beauty is the Word was Williams’ very first play. It was submitted for the MU Dramatic Arts Club’s Dramatic Prize Plays contest in 1930. The play was produced on stage as part of the competition, but it appears not to have won an award in the contest. Over the course of one act, two young and worldly aesthetes visit their austere and forbidding missionary relatives somewhere in the South Pacific. When the natives revolt and threaten to burn down the mission, the young couple saves the day by appealing to the natives with dance and music rather than fear of damnation.
Hot Milk at Three in the Morning was Williams’ sophomore submission to the Dramatic Prize Plays contest. The play focuses on an argument between a young married couple who are trapped by poverty and illness. It was staged in 1932, and like Beauty is the Word, it received an honorable mention. Williams revised the play in 1940, titling it Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry. It was included in a compilation of the best plays of 1940 and was the first of Williams’ plays to be published.
Both manuscripts are a part of the University of Missouri Collection, which features official publications along with the works of faculty, staff, and distinguished alumni.
Green Fire Showing on April 7
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.
Projects and Problems in Digital Humanities
Stefani Engelstein’s Opening Lecture for “Controlling Heredity”
Stefani Engelstein, professor of German at the University of Missouri, presented a lecture entitled “Visions of Transparency: The Human Body and Social Order,” on March 8 in the Ellis Library Colonnade. Dr. Engelstein’s talk opened the exhibit Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade 1870 – 1940, which is on display in the Colonnade until March 30. The exhibit and lecture are part of the Life Sciences & Society Symposium series. A video of the lecture in its entirety is available below.
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University of Missouri Professor John Miles Foley, director for The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, presented a talk entitled, “Albert Lord and the Study of Oral Tradition,” on Thursday, February 10th, 2011. Below is a full length version of Professor Foley’s Lord Library Donation Lecture.
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