home Resources and Services Choose Privacy Week, May 1-7

Choose Privacy Week, May 1-7

Choose Privacy Week will take place May 1-7, 2011 and is an ongoing program of the American Library Association.

Choose Privacy Week is an initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.

You can find out more information at http://www.privacyrevolution.org/index.php/privacy_week/.

At Ellis Library, we will have several posters and an exhibit on display to educate our users about privacy.

 

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home Resources and Services Paper Presentations From the 1st Annual MU Libraries Undergraduate Research Paper Contest

Paper Presentations From the 1st Annual MU Libraries Undergraduate Research Paper Contest

Tuesday, 26 April, 2011
4:00-5:00pm
Ellis Library Colonnade


1st Place:

Alexandrina Dimitrova

Svatbarska muzika and Chalga: The Fusion of Music Genres that Contributes to a Social Change

Written for English 1000

Teacher: John Nieves

 

2nd Place:

David Lamble

The Patriarchal Gentleman: American Gender Roles of Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Women Through the Mind of Thomas Jefferson

Written for History 4972.

Teacher:  Dr. Wilma King

 

home Resources and Services MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series Presents Dr. Betty Winfield

MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series Presents Dr. Betty Winfield

“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.

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Rescuing Digital Oprhans

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Fun Stuff in the Library

home Resources and Services Green Fire Showing on April 7

Green Fire Showing on April 7

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.

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Projects and Problems in Digital Humanities

home Resources and Services Best-Selling Author Angie Fox to Speak at Friends of the Libraries Luncheon

Best-Selling Author Angie Fox to Speak at Friends of the Libraries Luncheon

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.

home Resources and Services Library Society Dinner on April 12

Library Society Dinner on April 12

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.