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On March 4, MU Libraries’ Special Collections, Archives, and Rare Books (SCARaB) division will open an exhibition in the Ellis Library Colonnade entitled Anatomical Illustration: Art Informing Science: 1543 -1950. The exhibition will run in conjunction with the 6th Annual Life Sciences & Society Symposium “From Art to Biology and Back Again”. A wide variety of materials—books, prints, artifacts—from the collections of Special Collections & Rare Books, University Archives, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Rare Book Room and the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library will be displayed. Michael Holland, the Director of SCARAB division, is the curator of the exhibit. The display will run till March 26th 2010.

Opening lecture entitled: “Art and Human Nature” by Professor Carsten Strathausen
Chair, MU Department of German & Russian Studies

• Thurs. March 4, 2:00pm
• Ellis Library Colonnade

The Honors Humanities Sequence presents Chants of Hildegard von Bingen performed by Margaret Waddell in Ellis Library, Room 201 on Friday, Feb. 19 at 4 p.m.
Hildegard von Bingen was a Benedictine abbess in the 12th century. She composed 77 chants, plus a morality play containing 87 chants called Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues), which is the earliest known western music-drama by a single composer. Unlike Gregorian chant, Hildegard’s expressive melodies contain large leaps, with the range sometimes spanning well over an octave.

Margaret Waddell has been studying and singing Hildegard’s chants since 1993. Margaret is a member of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies. Margaret performs Hildegard’s chants throughout the Midwest.

Come join the Honors Humanities students and faculty for this amazing performance.
For more information, contact Julie Melnyk at melnykj@missouri.edu.

You finally found that book you’ve been wanting to read or that DVD you wanted to watch right here in your library…and it’s available! All you have to do now is find a piece of scrap paper, hunt down a pen that has ink, and write down the call number to take with you to the stacks. Or, you could text it to your phone!

Save yourself time and be green with the latest feature in MERLIN: the library catalog. While viewing any item, just click the “Send via Text” button. Just enter your mobile phone information, and click “Send.” In seconds, you’ll get a text message with the location, call number, and title of the item. Normal carrier charges may apply.

Thursday, February 18, 1 p.m.
Ellis Library, 1st Floor Colonnade

Professor Sam Cohen, assistant professor of English, will explore the persistence of nuclear fear in the American historical imagination after the end of the Cold War and
after 9/11. Reading a number of documents, creative works and creative works masquerading as documents, Professor Cohen will examine the ways in which our fears about the future help determine the shapes taken by our stories of the past. Please join us for this fascinating lecture and discussion. Dr. Cohen will be signing copies of his book After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s, which will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public.

Do you need help with a paper? You can now see a writing tutor in Ellis Library! Stop by for a free, walk-in session for help with any part of the writing process, from brainstorming to revising drafts. Writing tutors are available to both undergraduate and graduate students from all academic disciplines. You can find a writing center tutor in 151E Study Alcove in the Information Commons, during the following times:

Fall Semester Hours

Sunday – 4-9

Monday—4-9

Tuesday 11-9

Wednesday 4-9

Thursday 11-4

No appointment necessary!

Writing Center: Rachel Harper at harperrp@missouri.edu
Ellis Library: Goodie Bhullar at bhullarp@missouri.edu or 882-9163

Documenting the Black Experience in Small Town Missouri: This exhibit explores the lives of African Americans in small towns. From schools to churches to homes, Blacks built their own community within the larger community. They had to, since they were often shut out by “whites only” attitudes and laws. With the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling in 1954 that mandated school desegregation and The Voting Rights Act of 1965, integration wended its way across the state, but the Black experience remains singular.
These images are selected from the archive of The Missouri Photo Workshop, which was founded in 1949 by Clifton Edom of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, MPW has recorded rural life for six decades. Over the years, more than 2000 photographers have documented 43 Missouri communities. The towns are a laboratory for photographers to hone their visual storytelling skills under the guidance of a demanding faculty, some of the nation’s top picture editors and photographers. It’s a rigorous week for the photographers, who are expected to follow Edom’s prescription for making meaningful pictures: intensive research, followed by intent observation and judicious timing.
Workshop photographers study lives of individuals, structure of families, issues of the day. By investing significant amounts of time getting to know their subjects and building a trusting relationship, photographers’ portrayals provide intimate insight and savor a slice of time. Often, an image transcends a single moment and represents a universal experience. Cumulatively, the photographs provide a visual record of Missouri’s small towns.
The Missouri Photo Workshop is sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism, with educational grants from the Missouri Press Association Foundation and Nikon Professional Services. For more information, please visit our Web site at http://www.mophotoworkshop.org.

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