Exploring the Hathi Trust Digital Library
Sept. 19 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 213, Ellis Library

The Hathi Trust Digital Library contains millions of digitized books from libraries around the world. Learn how you can use this resource to download books, build collections, and use analytical tools to mine the contents of this large body of texts. Although most useful to those studying texts published prior to 1923, Hathi also provides the full text of hundreds of thousands of more recent materials in the public domain and indexes many more still under copyright. This hands-on workshop will unlock this world at your fingertips.

Anne Barker, Interim Head, Ellis Reference Department

Registration Preferred. http://tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops

Sept. 12 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 213, Ellis Library

Special Collections has over 90,000 items—from rare books and manuscripts to comics and posters—and a staff that wants to empower you to use them. Whether you’re new to campus or just need a refresher, come and find out how these exciting and inspiring resources can contribute to your semester. We’ll provide an overview of our collections and cover strategies for using Special Collections in class visits,undergraduate assignments, and your own research.

Kelli Hansen, Print Collections Librarian, Special Collections

Registration Preferred. http://tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops

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

• Sept. 17 or 20 —  9:15 am
  Exploring the MU Libraries
• Sept. 23 or 27 – 9:15 am
  Finding Articles using MU article databases and Google Scholar
• Sept. 17 or 20 – 10:45 am
  Finding Books using the MERLIN Catalog and Google Books
• Sept. 23 or 27 – 10:45 am
  Writing your Paper and Citing your Sources

 

Registration:Click on a specific workshop(s) on the calendar to register

        https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/libraryclasses/upcomingclassesworkshops

Literature Review & Beyond:
Tips and Tricks for Research

Sept. 5 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 213, Ellis Library

Learn some of the more sophisticated features of database
searching to yield the results you want. Using a variety of
databases, we’ll focus on practical techniques that can save
you time and effort.

Goodie Bhullar, Library Instruction Coordinator
Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian

Registration Preferred. http://tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops

Due to low usage, the MU Libraries have canceled the subscription to Bibliography of Asian Studies, effective October 1, 2014.

Until October 1, 2014, Bibliography of Asian Studies will still be available.

The MU Libraries provide access to numerous databases indexing resources within the subject areas covered by Bibliography of Asian Studies. You can find other databases for your research by selecting the appropriate subject listing of databases.

If you have any questions, please contact the Ellis Library Reference Desk or call 573-882-4581.

Staying Ahead of the Curve:
Be Aware of What Your Library
Offers You
Aug. 29 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 213, Ellis Library
Learn how other faculty and students are using the Library’s
services and find out about the newest tools and information
sources.
Goodie Bhullar, Library Instruction Coordinator
Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian

Registration Preferred. http://tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops

Is ‘Liberal’ Education Out of Style? – a conversation with former Chancellor Richard Wallace, UM President Emeritus Mel George and Interim Deputy Provost Patricia Okker

Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union

3-4 pm, September 16, 2014

Reception of light refreshments immediately following

This event is sponsored by the MU Libraries on the occasion of the 175^th Anniversary Commemorative Week.

The word “liberal” has a nomenclature problem – it carries baggage for some people because of its political connotations. What does a “liberal education” really mean? The origin of the word is the Latin word “liber” (free), and the history of the concept goes back at least as far as ancient Greece. A common misunderstanding is that the concept describes specific subject matter (such as “Great Books”); but a liberal education is less about specific subject matter content than about the goals and emphases of the education. For example, a liberal education carries public benefit, not simply private benefit.

There are many threats and challenges to liberal education today, including financial pressures and vocationalism. In this conversation, two highly regarded MU educators lay out compelling reasons suggesting that a liberal education is even more important today than in the past and promote the idea that its continued vitality and central role in American higher education should be ensured.

Friday, August 22                                       11:00 am

Monday, August 25                                    9:00 am

Tuesday, August 26                                   10:00 am

Wednesday, August 27                             11:00 am

Thursday, August 28                                  Noon

Friday, August 29                                        1:00 pm

Tuesday, September 2                               4:00 pm

Wednesday, September 3                         3:00 pm

Thursday, September 4                              2:00 pm

Friday, September 5                                    1:00 pm

Monday, September 8                                 Noon

Tuesday, September 9                                1:00 pm

Wednesday, September 10                        2:00 pm

Thursday, September 11                            3:00 pm

Friday, September 12                                   4:00 pm

 

Tours start at the West Entrance of Ellis Library, Ground Floor, near the Security Desk.

Books with Personality Exhibit, August 1-29, 2014
Ellis library Colonnade
Brought to you by the Special Collections Department of Ellis Library

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.  To read is to voyage though time”
-Carl Sagan

The books on display, from the Special Collections Department of Ellis Library, all carry traces of their former owners. Some contain notes in the margins; others hold mementos between their pages. In either case, these traces tell stories not only about the books’ reception but about the lives of those who read them.

COLUMBIA, Mo.− The University of Missouri (MU) Libraries have received $400,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support remediation or content replacement of materials damaged by an extensive mold outbreak in an off-site storage facility. This outbreak, discovered in October 2013, is presumed to have contaminated all of the approximately 600,000 volumes housed in that facility.

Partnerships with Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) and Missouri State University (MSU) will provide access to replacement copies of federal government documents and inter-library loan access to Missouri state materials, respectively. Subcontracts with these universities through this project will support the cataloguing, retrieving and preparing of relevant materials to share with MU Libraries on an as-needed basis. The funding also will help MU review the availability of online or print-ready copies of needed replacements through cooperation with membership organizations. WUSTL will benefit by regaining space vacated by federal documents transferred to MU, while MSU will benefit by having its Missouri state materials catalogued in order to provide access to MU and other area libraries.

“The MU Libraries are deeply grateful to the Mellon Foundation for their support of this project that leverages tools of digital librarianship to help preserve scholarship in traditional formats,” said MU Libraries Director Jim Cogswell. “Institutional partnerships will enable the preservation of regional documents collections. The Mellon Foundation funding will allow MU Libraries to remediate mold for key groups of materials, work effectively with partner institutions for resource sharing, provide continued access to needed content of the damaged materials, and support part of the recovery effort.”

MU Libraries also will spend up to $600,000 from a self-insurance fund; additional sources are being explored. MU Libraries has contracted with a company for remediation services and negotiated for rental of two storage spaces, one in which pre-treated materials will be stored until they are cleaned, and one for storage of the remediated materials. As a longer-term solution, the Libraries are working with University of Missouri (UM) System's risk and insurance management department to develop a new strategy for fully insuring all collections, including those in storage, and will work with campus and UM System leadership to restore a plan for building an expansion to an existing storage facility and to accelerate fund allocation for its construction.