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“MU librarian to share on historic Boone County housing discrimination”
Columbia Daily Tribune, January 22, 2024
Grassland Expectations
A plein air artist from rural Boone County, Martha Daniels enjoys sharing her love for nature through painting and art. Her background in wildlife conservation and nature education peeks through the paintings. Prairies are complex and fascinating habitats – the subject for many of her works. Martha sees art as a way to capture moments of beauty in the fields, woods, and rivers, then share those colors and forms with others as a connection to the outdoors. To her, art is a way to absorb the soul-soothing and spirit-calming aspects of the natural world.
On display throughout the spring semester in the Ellis Library Bookmark Cafe.
The Data Archives Service at MU Libraries offers assistance to MU faculty, staff and students needing machine-readable datasets for new and original research projects. Through the library’s campus membership in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, MU affiliates may browse and download any of thousands of datasets on a wide variety of topics. We also help users access the growing number of public use datasets on the internet.
SECTORS WHICH SUPPLY DATA:
Government
Not for profit organizations
Commercial organizations
Academic organizations and individual researchers
EXAMPLES OF DATA SUPPLIERS AND THEIR DATASETS:
U. S. Census Bureau: Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS)
U. S. Center for Disease Control & Prevention: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: American Time Use Survey
National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago: General Social Survey
International Monetary Fund: International Financial Statistics
Pew Internet & American Life: Broadcast networks and news publishers offer opinion poll data
WHERE TO START?
MU Libraries Data Archives Service website has links to ICPSR, the Roper Center, and more:
https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/datasets
NEED MORE HELP?
Contact Marie Concannon (concannonm@missouri.edu) to schedule a presentation/workshop on how to get data for research projects.
In late spring, MOBIUS will transition to a new library catalog system. The MOBIUS catalog project will require temporary suspension of requesting and loaning services between MOBIUS libraries later in the Spring 2024 semester.
If you have questions, please contact us at ask@missouri.libanswers.com.
Below is a general timeline for the MOBIUS catalog project:
Founded in July 1998, the MOBIUS Library Consortium currently serves 80 member libraries, which include 64 academic libraries,11 public libraries, 4 special libraries, and the Missouri State Library, serving more than 200 physical branches. The consortium’s purpose is to share library materials, information, and services using accessible, cost-effective methods. The MOBIUS Union Catalog has expanded to include more than 29 million items, serving users in Missouri and into Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas and Texas. A courier service delivers library materials to member libraries once per day, 5 days per week. Faculty, staff, and students at Mizzou have utilized MOBIUS services frequently during its almost 25-year history.