Welcome to Jonathan Richardson, new librarian information assistant in Shelving, who started on Tuesday, February 18. Ryan Bish will be his supervisor.
Shannon Cary
Library Management Team Meeting Information and Action Items 2/11/20
Upcoming Black History Month Events @ Your Library
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
114A Ellis Library
Lecture: Voyage into the Matrix of Race & the Truly Determined
Professor Rodney Coates examines the complexities of institutional racism and offers techniques for dealing with them.
Sponsored by: Black History Month Committee, Black Studies, and University of Missouri Libraries
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
114A Ellis Library
Reparations panel/presentation
A panel of scholars will look at the problems posed by the question of reparations, one of the most contentious and championed causes of our time.
Sponsored by: Black History Month Committee, Black Studies, University of Missouri Libraries, and History Department
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29
6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Friends Room, Daniel Boone Regional Library
Black History & Culture Trivia Night
Info & registration: library.missouri.edu/trivia.
Free dinner & prizes.
Sponsored by DBRL, University of Missouri Librarie, Columbia Honda, Black Studies and Black History Month Committee
In the News
“Paul Pepper: Joan Stack, State Historical Society of Missouri, ‘The Black Vote'”
KBIA, February 7, 2020
New Muse Posts
Welcome to Matthew Sigmon
Welcome to Matthew Sigmon, who started as a library information assistant on Wednesday, Feb. 12. Kevin McFillen will be his supervisor.
Welcome to Jennifer Walker
I’m delighted to share that the successful candidate for the Acquisitions Librarian is Jennifer Walker. She will start on 2/24. Thank you to everyone who participated in the search and/or provided feedback.
–Corrie Hutchinson
Black History Month Events
Black Vote/Liberation: The intersectional themes of black voting and liberation are complex and global for peoples of African descent. Indeed, issues related to the two-party system, proportional representation, Pan-African ideals, competing concepts of “democracy” have challenged any simple notions of what “black voting” signifies in 2020. Therefore, this year’s Black History Month Theme: Black Vote/Liberation celebrates the ongoing struggle for Black Liberation and its changing sociocultural and political patterns and migrations of Africa and throughout the Diaspora.
View all events at https://blackstudies.missouri.edu/feature/mu-black-history-month-2020.
Black History Month Events
Black Vote/Liberation: The intersectional themes of black voting and liberation are complex and global for peoples of African descent. Indeed, issues related to the two-party system, proportional representation, Pan-African ideals, competing concepts of “democracy” have challenged any simple notions of what “black voting” signifies in 2020. Therefore, this year’s Black History Month Theme: Black Vote/Liberation celebrates the ongoing struggle for Black Liberation and its changing sociocultural and political patterns and migrations of Africa and throughout the Diaspora.
View all events at https://blackstudies.missouri.edu/feature/mu-black-history-month-2020.
U. S. Cartoonists Chronicle the History of African American Voting Rights
Now on Display in the Ellis Library Colonnade
This exhibition explores the 2020 national theme of Black History Month, African Americans and the Vote, with a series of twentieth-century American editorial cartoons that address the issue of African American voting right in the United States. Most of the artworks displayed are original drawings from the nationally renowned cartoon collection of the State Historical Society of Missouri. These rarely seen artworks document the long struggle Americans of color have experienced in their attempts to exercise their fundamental rights as citizens.