Reading Revelry: November 2024

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Gateway Carousel ELTC

Posted on November 1, 2024October 29, 2024

Howdy! This month’s Reading Revelry include three short, uncanny books perfect for Fall reading! If you are interested in requesting these books, click on the hyperlink in the title, and on the blue “Place Request” button on the left side of the page.

Our picks for November:

Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
ISBN: 9781250816214
Publication Date: 2021

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Everything is perfect.

It’s just that he’s away so much. So often. He works so hard. She misses him. And he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband, and everything is perfect.

But sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Strange things. Dark things. The look on her husband’s face when he comes back fr

om a long business trip. The questions he will not answer. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can’t quite meet her gaze…

But everything is perfect. Isn’t it?

Bunny by Mona Awad
ISBN: 9780525559757
Publication Date: 2019

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’

s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort–a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door–ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson ISBN: 0143039970
Publication Date: 1962

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

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Peer Navigator Corner: The Engineering Library

By Kimberly Moeller Posted in Engineering Library Gateway Carousel ELTC

Posted on October 29, 2024November 8, 2024

Written by: Brock Schofield

Did you know about Mizzou’s Engineering Library?
When you think of libraries at the University of Missouri, Ellis Library might be the first one that comes to mind. But did you know that Mizzou has six other branches that cater to specific academic needs? Other Peer Navigators have written about the Journalism and Health Science Libraries, but another one of these hidden gems is the Engineering Library, located in Lafferre Hall.

If you’re not an Engineering major, you might not know this library exists, it has been a cornerstone of the College of Engineering’s research since 1905. The Engineering Library is more than just a quiet place to study—it’s a treasure trove of specialized resources.

In addition to an extensive Ebook collection, over 600 full-text International Atomic Energy Agency reports on nuclear engineering, and the Knovel Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Collection with 185 titles. It also houses historical documents, including uncatalogued reports from the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Papers on microfiche through 1989, making it a valuable resource for
research projects.

Even if you’re not an engineering student, the Engineering Library in Lafferre Hall can still be a great spot for quiet study. It’s a lesser-known space on campus, meaning it often has fewer distractions, making it perfect for focusing on your work in a calm, quiet environment. Whether you need a change of scenery or just a peaceful place to get things done, this library is worth checking out.

When Can You Visit?
The Engineering Library’s hours are designed to accommodate your busy schedule. It’s open Monday through Thursday from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm, Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Sunday from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Just keep in mind that it’s closed on Saturdays, so plan accordingly if you’re gearing up for a weekend study session.

Whether you’re deep into your engineering studies or just curious about what this library has to offer, the Engineering Library is a resource you shouldn’t overlook. Next time you’re in Lafferre Hall, take a moment to explore the space and discover how it can support your academic journey.

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Happy Mole Day!

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Events and Exhibits

Posted on October 23, 2024October 24, 2024

On behalf of the Engineering Library and Technology Commons (ELTC),
Happy Mole Day!

This day commemorates Avogadro’s Constant: $6.02214 \times 10^{23}\, mol^{-1}$

Celebrations run from 6:02AM to 6:02PM

Stop by the ELTC Circulation Desk for a FREE Mole Day button while supplies last!

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Reading Revelry: October 2024

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Gateway Carousel ELTC Resources and Services

Posted on October 1, 2024

Happy October everyone! We hope your classes are going well! For this month’s Reading Revelry, we have three sinisterly scary books to get you in the mood for Halloween.

To learn more about the books, click on the hyperlink in the title. If you have questions or issues requesting items, please contact us at (573) 882-2379.

Happy reading!

Our picks for October:

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
ISBN: 9780321398925
Publication Date: 1764

This book is often considered the first “gothic” novel.
Despite its short length, Walpole expertly crafts an uncanny and unforgettable story about a wedding gone wrong.

Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
ISBN: 9781982150921
Publication
Date: 2017 (English translation 2020)

In a world where animals carry a virus that makes them
poisonous and deadly for human consumption, society has moved on to a new protein source…humans.
This book is NOT for the faint of heart.

The Harpy by Megan Hunter
ISBN: 9780802148162
Publication Date: 2020

This book follows Lucy, a loving wife and mother to two children.
When her husband, Jake, is found to be having an affair,
Lucy decides to stay with Jake on one condition:
she gets to have her revenge three times.

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Books to Celebrate Disability Culture Month at Mizzou

By Taira Meadowcroft Posted in Ellis Library Engineering Library J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Journalism Library Resources and Services

Posted on September 6, 2024September 13, 2024

Mizzou began a tradition of celebrating Disability Culture Month, formerly Celebrate Ability Week, every September! Learn about Mizzou events happening the month of September to celebrate Disability Culture Month.

Below are a few we have available for check out. You can view the whole list of recommendations here.

Have a purchase recommendation? Use our book recommendation form

Being Heumann : An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann

Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people.

Blackness and disability : critical examinations and cultural interventions by Christopher Bell

“Disability Studies diverge from the medical model of disability (which argues that disabled subjects can and should be “fixed”) to view disability as socially constructed, much in the same way other identities are. The work of reading black and disabled bodies is not only recovery work, but work that requires a willingness to deconstruct the systems that would keep those bodies in separate spheres. This pivotal volume uncovers the misrepresentations of black disabled bodies and demonstrates how those bodies transform systems and culture. Drawing on key themes in Disability Studies and African American Studies, these collected essays complement one another in interesting and dynamic ways, to forge connections across genres and chronotopes, an invitation to keep blackness and disability in conversation.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

Defying Disability : The Lives and Legacies of Nine Disabled Leaders by Mary Wilkinson

This book tells the stories of nine disabled leaders who, by force of personality and concrete achievement, have made us think differently about disability. Whatever direction they have come from, they share a common will to change society so that disabled people get a fair deal.

Demystifying Disability : What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Landau

People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about

Disfigured : on fairy tales, disability, and making space by Amanda Leduc

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.

Disability aesthetics by Tobin Siebers

Disability Aesthetics is the first attempt to theorize the representation of disability in modern art and visual culture. It claims that the modern in art is perceived as disability, and that disability is evolving into an aesthetic value in itself. It argues that the essential arguments at the heart of the American culture wars in the late twentieth century involved the rejection of disability both by targeting certain artworks as “sick” and by characterizing these artworks as representative of a sick culture

Women, Disability, and Culture by Anna Siri

Women and girls with disabilities find themselves constantly having to deal with multiple, intersectional discrimination due to both their gender and their disability, as well as social conditioning. Indeed, the intersection made up of factors such as race, ethnic origin, social background, cultural substrate, age, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, gender, disability, status as refugee or migrant and others besides, has a multiplying effect that increases discrimination yet further. The book seeks to pay the right attention to the condition of women with disabilities, offering points for reflection, also on the different, often invisible, cultural and social undertones that continue today to feed into prejudicial stereotypes.

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Reading Revelry: September (2024)

By Amanda May Posted in Engineering Library Resources and Services

Posted on September 5, 2024October 21, 2024

Hello everyone! We hope you’ve has had a wonderful start to the semester! This month we have two book recommendations for when you need a break from homework.

If you are interested in requesting these books, click on the hyperlink in the title, and on the blue “Place Request” button on the left side of the page. If you have questions or issues requesting items, please contact us at (573) 882-2379

Happy reading!

Our picks for September:

Biography of X By Catherine Lacey ISBN: 9780374606176
Publication Date: March 21, 2023

This suspenseful literary masterpiece follows C.M, widow of the eclectic artist known as X, as she tries to unravel the threads of mystery left behind in X’s death. C.M. sets out on an unforgettable quest to find out who her late wife really was. Told in an alternate timeline of history, with lots of pop culture references, this book will leave you enthralled until the very last page!

Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
ISBN: 9780593537619
Publication Date: January 18, 2024

Cyrus Shams is obsessed with martyrs, so much so he is writing a book about them. His life has been plagued with senseless violence and loss, and martyrs are a unique comfort for him. He becomes drawn to Orkideh, an artist who is spending her final days as a live art piece at the Brooklyn Museum. Determined to include her in his book of martyrs, Cyrus travels from Indiana to New York to meet her. The journey leads him to discover answers to his past. Told in multiple perspectives, this debut novel is as hilarious as it is devastating.

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The IBM PC/AT: Groundbreaking Heartbreaker

By Taira Meadowcroft Posted in Engineering Library Events and Exhibits Gateway Carousel ELTC

Posted on August 28, 2024

Library Technical Services has created an exciting exhibit showcasing the history and inner workings of the IBM PC/AT (Model 5170). This machine from 1984 revolutionized the computer industry as a fast and powerful personal desktop.

The exhibit, located in the Engineering Library, includes a Model 5170 with numbered markers, and a blue information booklet detailing each of the parts. A special thank you to Dustin Hoffmann for all of his time and work putting the exhibit together.

For those interested in learning more about the exhibit, there is an online library guide available at https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/IBMPC/AT

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Summer Reading Favorites from Mizzou Librarians

By Taira Meadowcroft Posted in Ellis Library Engineering Library J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Journalism Library Resources and Services Uncategorized Zalk Veterinary Medical Library

Posted on August 22, 2024September 5, 2024

We asked Mizzou Librarians to tell us what their favorite read of the summer was and asked them to explain why it was their favorite. They could:

Write a few sentences OR
Provide 3-5 descriptive words OR
What emojis would describe the book?

The books could be published in any year and any genre as long as they were available at Mizzou Libraries or in Mobius.

We know it’s hard to pick a favorite book, but we have some great selections to add to your tbr.

Heartstopper Vol. 3 by Alice Oseman

“The Heartstopper graphic novel series is A+. It’s about young love and finding yourself. My jaw hurt from smiling the entire time reading this,” -Taira M.

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

“Truman Capote spills the tea on New York socialites,”- Diane

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

“A woman reinvents herself and her life by starting a bookshop in her beloved local community. A lovely, heartwarming read about identity, goals, dreams as well as finding community,” Stara H.

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

“Hopeful, a new way to think about loss and death,” – Megan

Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death Through the Paranormal by Adam Berry

“This is not a self-help book. It is Adam’s personal take on grief and dying from both a supernatural and psychological standpoint, peppered with stories and interviews from his career in the paranormal. You might find out you’re not crazy/it’s not just you after all.” – Mara, your morbidly curious librarian

A Pirate’s Life for Tea: a Cozy Fantasy with Ships Abound by Rebecca Thorne

“I just discovered the cozy fantasy subgenre, which this novel falls into. It also has many of my favorite things: tea, adventure, good people, and a little romance.” – Noel K.

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New Database: Dimensions

By Taira Meadowcroft Posted in Databases & Electronic Resources Engineering Library Gateway Carousel J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Journalism Library Zalk Veterinary Medical Library

Posted on August 12, 2024August 16, 2024

The Dimensions database is now available to our campus community thanks to the MU Division of Research, Innovation & Impact.

Dimensions provides a holistic view of millions of publications, grants, citations, impact metrics, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents all in one place. You can also analyze research outcomes and gather insights on research funding and collaborations to inform future strategy.

Here are some unique features to look for:

For any article with an Altmetric link, you can set up an alert to track future mentions in social media and more.

Unique in providing AI summaries for publications, grants, patents and clinical trials and address the daunting task of navigating and condensing vast amounts of information.

If you have questions about the database or how to use it, contact your librarian at ask@missouri.libanswers.com.

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National Book Lovers Day August 9th

By Taira Meadowcroft Posted in Ellis Library Engineering Library J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services

Posted on August 7, 2024September 5, 2024

Reading reinforces our humanity by helping us to see others and be seen. We love this unofficial holiday where we can celebrate our love of reading. Not that we ever need an excuse to celebrate reading.

Below are some of our book lists to help you add to your TBR:

Books to Celebrate Pride

Summer Reading Revelry

Books to Read on the Beach (or Couch!) This Spring Break

Mizzou Librarians Share Their Favorite Reads of 2023

Summer Reads for Doctors — or Anyone Interested in the World of Medicine

Take A (Reading) Bite Out of Shark Week

Books to Celebrate Disability Culture Month at Mizzou

National Hispanic Heritage Month Book Recommendations

Native American Heritage Month Book Recommendations