“What Makes an Urban Species Urban?” with Prof. Charles Nilon

When: Tues., March 12, 2013
Time: 2 p.m.
Where: Ellis Library Colonnade

Wildlife management and conservation is often portrayed as dealing with rare species in remote places. Nilon’s research focuses on common species in everyday settings. “What makes urban birds
urban,” covers research on how cities act as filters influencing what kinds of birds we see in our daily lives.

This event is free and open to the public.

Family Resemblances: Early Modern Ideas on Sorting out the Natural World
Professor William B. Ashworth
Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Consultant for the History of Science, Linda Hall Library

This talk is affiliated with the 9^th annual Life Sciences & Society Program symposium ‘Claiming Kin’ <http://lssp.missouri.edu/claimingkin> , Mar 15-17.
Kinship is disputed territory, investigated by a wide array of disciplines that include anthropology, cultural studies, evolutionary biology, family studies, genetics, law, medicine, psychology, sociology, and women’s and gender studies. Kinship classifications change across cultures and over time. As measures of legitimacy and arbiters of social standing, such categories have significant consequences. In the contemporary world, kinship is in flux as a result of such developments as reproductive technologies, blended families, same-sex marriage rights, and shifting gender roles. Our kin is not limited to humans, however. We belong to a vast evolutionary family tree, the history of which may influence the ways we interact with kin and organize kinship itself. The 2013 MU Life Sciences & Society Symposium, Claiming Kin, will explore the evolution of kin groups and evolving notions of kinship.

This lecture will serve to launch a Rare Books exhibit entitled “Kindred Kingdoms: Families in Flora, Fauna, and Fiction.”

Closing times for Feb. 25.

• Ellis Library is closing at 10:00 p.m
• Engineering Library will close at 8:00 pm
• Geology Library will close at 6:30 pm
• Health Sciences Library will close at 9:00 pm
• Veterinary Medical Library is closing at 9:00 pm
• Journalism Library is closing at 9:00 pm
• Math Library is closed at 5:00 pm

All libraries will be closed on Feb. 26. Please check mualert.missouri.edu for further updates.

Redemption Songs: Politics, Nationalism and Creativity in Black World Music

Stop by the main floor of the library to pay a visit to the Henkel Physicians exhibit. This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, curated by Jim  Labosier.

The Henkel Physicians: A Family’s Life in Letters offers a glimpse into the daily lives of men of medicine in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley during the 19th century. While it documents the working lives of physicians, it also illuminates social and home life and how one family experienced the Civil War. Covering more than a century of life in the Shenandoah Valley during which four members of the remarkable Henkel family practiced in the same area, this exhibition features a selection of writings that vividly illustrate the writer’s personality and their experiences as physicians. The letters cover local events, professional jealousies, the national crisis of the Civil war and finish with the dramatic testimony of the Henkel physicians in a murder trial.

You can view the vivid history of the Henkel Family at the Health Sciences Library until March 9th. Feel welcome to sign the guestbook as well. Click here for more information on the exhibit.

Great news: thanks to DoIT, access to the software’s license is available on computer terminals throughout the library. Ask a librarian for more details!

The J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library has been awarded a one-year license for the English and Spanish software package, “Health Literacy Advisor,” thanks to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Midcontinental Region. Use of this license will be available until April 2013.

Employees are welcome to use the program to review reading levels of their health information materials and then revise the documents to improve readability. You can use the software to scan the document and it will highlight words that may limit readability. You will then receive suggestions for language that is easier to read.

For more information, please contact Darell Schmick, information services librarian, at the Health Sciences Library at (573) 884-3575 or SchmickD@health.missouri.edu.