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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 20th 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
May 10–19 (Finals Week)
May 10 (Fri) ……………………………………………………………………………………..7:30am–2am
May 11 (Sat)…………………………………………………………………………………………..9am–2am
May 12 (Sun)………………………………………………………………………………………….9am-4am
May 13-16 (Mon-Thu) ……………………………………………………………………………7am–4am
May 17 (Fri)…………………………………………………………………………………………7am–6pm
May 18 (Sat)…………………………………………………………………………………………9am–5pm
May 19 (Sun)…………………………………………………………………………………………Noon–5pm
Sat, Nov. 17 1 to 5 p.m.
Sun and Mon, Nov. 18 and 19 Closed
Tues and Wed, Nov. 20 and 21 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thurs and Fri, Nov. 22 and 23 Closed
Sat, Nov. 24 1 to 5 p.m.
Sun, Nov. 25 Noon to 2 a.m.
A Brown Bag Panel Discussion Organized by Print for the People
(Print for the People is a Mizzou Advantage Networking Group)
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010, 12-1 pm
Tucker Forum, MU School of Journalism
Panel Members: David F. Moore (Western Historical Manuscripts Collection), Sean Franzel (German and Russian Studies), Noah Heringman (English)
David Moore will discuss the challenges and issues with past and current digitization projects undertaken by the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia. He will also discuss how WHMC-Columbia has tried to prioritize the collections that are considered for digitization.
Sean Franzel and Noah Heringman will discuss their research on German-language holdings at WHMC and the State Historical Society in light of the challenges and possibilities of digitizing historical materials for use by students, scholars, and the broader public. Putting historical sources online represents an important way to make library holdings significantly more accessible, but it also requires renewed reflection on how to organize and present them. Franzel and Heringman will initiate discussion by presenting their preliminary research on local holdings produced by Missouri’s extensive German-language publishing industry in the nineteenth century. Our goal in this brown bag discussion is to focus on the process of selecting materials to digitize from MU’s collections.