WHAT: Print for the People, a Mizzou Advantage networking group interested in digital humanities, is hosting “The Future of Archives in a Digital Age”. This symposium will discuss all aspects of archiving valuable historical documents and artwork in a digital form. Panelists and speakers will present successes and solutions to the problems that arise in archiving valuable items such as diaries of 19th century settlers. Berkeley Hudson, an associate professor in the Missouri School of Journalism and a member of Print for the People, says it is vital to preserve this information permanently in digital form.

“These precious, one-of-a-kind documents give us a perspective of who we are as a state and as a nation,” Hudson said. “The past has value for today and tomorrow.”

This symposium is the beginning of a larger Mizzou Advantage digital humanities project called “Gateway to the West”. This project aims to advance expertise in the field of digital humanities and to create new scholarly opportunities on the MU campus, in the state, and nationally.

WHO: Keynote speakers include Robert Darnton <http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/darnton.php> , director of the University Library at Harvard University, and William Ferris <http://history.unc.edu/faculty/ferris.html> , former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

WHEN: Feb. 24–25, 2011

WHERE: Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri campus

NOTE: Media welcome. Participants are required to register for the event. More information and a complete schedule of events can be found online at: http://www.muconf.missouri.edu/futureofarchives/index.html

OurArt is a collaborative, conversational project to create visual art (collages, color studies, abstract portraits) and to nurture all the arts in our community’s daily life.

This exhibit will be on display in the Bookmark Cafe during the spring semester.

Catherine Parke
ourart.cparke@gmail.com
573-289-0825

Please view “The Harlem Renaissance in Art, Literature and Film” an exhibit in the 1st floor display cases.

For information about Black History Month events, visit MizzouWire and the Black Studies Program.

Thursday, 10 February, 2011 at 2 p.m. Ellis Library Colonnade:  Curators Professor John Miles Foley will present a talk entitled Albert Lord and the Study of Oral Traditions. This presentation honors the landmark achievements of Albert Bates Lord, one of the founders of the field of studies in oral tradition, and celebrates the generous donation of his and Mary Louise Lord’s personal libraries by their sons Nathan and Mark Lord to the University of Missouri.  The discussion will trace the roots of Lord’s research and scholarship in contemporary anthropology and philology, as well as discuss the spread of this comparative approach to more than 150 language traditions from the ancient world to the present day.  Audio examples of Lord’s fieldwork collections in the Former Yugoslavia will illustrate the talk.

Jim Cogswell will welcome, introduce, and thank the Lord family for this important donation to the University and the University Libraries.  A showing of some of the more important items donated by the Lord family will be held in 401 Ellis Library, the Reading Room of Special Collections, immediately after the Professor Foley’s talk.

Faculty, staff and students can get a flu shot at Ellis Library on Feb. 9. UM Faculty & Staff Benefits will provide FREE flu shots to UM Choice Health Care members who bring their Coventry card. For those who are not enrolled in the UM Choice Health Care program, the cost will be $15, which may be paid by cash or check. Children will not be vaccinated at this event. Students need to bring their Mizzou ID card and the fee will be charged to their student account. Questions? Faculty & Staff should call Healthy for Life at 884-1312 and students can call the Student Health Center at 882-7481.*Prizes will be given out.

Feb.9 from 1-3 p.m. at Ellis Library, 1st Floor Colonade

Wednesday, February 2nd:  Ellis Library will remain closed through Thursday.

“MU will remain closed Thursday, with all classes canceled.  The blizzard has made clearing campus streets, walkways and parking lots challenging for maintenance crews, according to the MU News Bureau. It also remains difficult for many faculty, staff and students to get to campus.

Classes are expected to resume Friday, with confirmation reported at 4 p.m.Thursday on MU Alert.”  Columbia Missourian