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

In 1904 the city of St. Louis hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which became popularly known as the St. Louis World’s Fair. The Exposition, which was held to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase, hosted an estimated 20 million visitors. The Fair and the progress it highlighted thrust St. Louis into the global spotlight and became a source of tremendous regional and national pride. The University of Missouri Libraries are now providing searchable online access to the text and illustration of its collection of materials from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

The materials in the collection range from single-sheet broadsides to multi-volume book sets and lithographic views of the Exposition to the actual photographic view books submitted by the University of Missouri for its exhibit in the Palace of Education and Social Economy. An important item for the history of the Exposition is the World’s Fair Bulletin, a monthly publication running from 1900 through 1904 that provided insight into the planning, construction, management and the activities of the Fair. Another highlight of the collection is James Buel’s eleven-volume Louisiana and the Fair: An Exposition of the World, Its People and Their Achievements, which was published in limited edition in 1905 and which gives a detailed history of the fair.

The digitization in 2010 of the resources in this collection was supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. The collection is available online and free of charge to the public through the University of Missouri Digital Library at: http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=home;c=lex.  It will become available through the Missouri State Library in 2011.

Wednesday, 26 Jan, 2011
1-2 p.m.
Ellis Library, Colonnade

Dr. Debra L. Mason, Executive Director of The Center on Religions and the Professions, will share findings from research on religious literacy (a survey on religious literacy from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life). Data was collected via a nationwide poll conducted from May 19 through June 6, 2010, among 3,412 Americans age 18 and older.

This event is sponsored by the MU Libraries’ Faculty Lecture Series and Diversity Action Committee.

Due to bad weather and low registration numbers, the Endnote class scheduled for tonight, January 20^th is canceled and will be rescheduled. Details on other Endnote classes may be found at  https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/endnote

The Parker Quartet
Jan. 24, 2011
Ellis Library Colonnade
10 am – 11 am