“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 12 from 6-9 pm in the Ellis Library Grand Reading Room for the Library Society Dinner with keynote speaker Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson and biographer of Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi. 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.