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Latinix Heritage Month is annually celebrated from September 15 to October 15 in the United States for recognizing the contributions and influence of Hispanic Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States.
Participants can enter for a chance to win a guaranteed study space during Finals Week and other prizes! Learn more a the Check Us Out Information Page.
Wednesdays at the Library with Special Collections and Archives
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! See pieces from our Special Collections and Archives and enter for a chance to win!
Wednesdays at the Library: Connect the Library to Your Google Scholar
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Learn more about Google Scholar and enter for a chance to win.
Wednesdays at the Library: Banned Books and Intellectual Freedom
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Learn more about Intellectual Freedom and Banned Books and enter for a chance to win a guaranteed study space during Finals Week and other prizes!
Wednesdays at the Library: Discover@MU
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Compete with a librarian to find a resource in Discover@MU for a chance to win a guaranteed study space during Finals Week and other prizes! Beat the librarian to find the resources, and get an extra entry into the drawing!
Wednesdays at the Library: Specialized Libraries
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Learn more about the specialized libraries for a chance to win a guaranteed study space during Finals Week and other prizes!
Wednesdays at the Library: Museum of Anthropology
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Learn more about the Museum of Anthropology and enter for a chance to win!
Wednesdays at the Library: Museum of Art and Archeology
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Learn more about the Museum of Art and Archeology and enter for a chance to win!
Wednesdays at the Library: Find Your Fortune!
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Find your AI fortune and enter for a chance to win!
Wednesdays at the Library: Digital Media and Innovation Lab!
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Learn how you can use Ellis Library’s Digital Media and Innovation Lab and enter for a chance to win!
Wednesdays at the Library: Museum of Art and Archeology and JSTOR!
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Learn more about the Museum of Art and Archeology and learn how to use JSTOR to find Open Access Images and enter for a chance to win!
Wednesdays at the Library: Identifying Misinformation!
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from 11a -1p in Ellis Library Colonnade
Get to know the MU Libraries by learning about the resources, services, and events that take place in the libraries! Learn how to identify misinformation and enter for a chance to win!
Find out how you can get additional entries into the drawing by visiting the Check Us Out Information Page.
On Tuesday, September 17 from 10am to 3pm, there will be an open-air demonstration of Ebru, a paper-decorating art where patterns are created on water and then transferred to paper. Each piece that emerges will be unique, shaped by random chance, but the patterns are part of a long tradition. Ebru, or paper marbling, originated in the Middle East and came to Europe in the early 1600s, where it became an important part of book arts and bookbinding.
Come down to Kuhlman Court, between Ellis Library and the Student Center, to see the art as it happens. Feel free to ask questions or just watch as the patterns take shape.
Want to try this process yourself? Sign-ups for a introductory workshop to the technique on Saturday, October 5, 2024, will be available at the demonstration.
Sponsored by the School of Visual Studies and MU Special Collections.
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
“Ephemera” is the catch all term for the miscellaneous category of printed or handwritten materials intended to be kept for a short time then discarded. Greeting cards, calendars, ticket stubs, newspaper clippings, broadsides, and even match boxes are examples of ephemera. Advances in printing technology, such as chromolithography (the process of printing in color), die cutting and embossing, allowed presses to create ornate advertisements that could be kept as keepsakes or art. Examples shown in this exhibit include a lithographic prospectus, a die-cut paper doll, a colored wood engraving business card, a colored wood engraving keepsake, and a lithographic scroll dating from the 1880s to the present.
The exhibit will be on display in Ellis 401 until the end of September. Come on down and stop on by!
Fall semester is just around the corner and with new faces comes a new digital exhibit! The exhibit is an updated version of our past “Fine Press Materials” LibGuide: https://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/show/finepress/. The original LibGuide was curated by Tim Perry and has since been reworked as an exhibit and updated by Clare Starkey. The exhibit features examples from fine press publishers held within our collection, showcasing traditional printing technologies and techniques from the modern fine press movement. This exhibit concentrates on presses associated with the fine press movement but also covers a selection of precursors to the movement. Presses founded after 1939 are excluded, except presses founded as continuations of earlier presses, presses founded by printers whose careers were well established by 1939, and prominent Midwestern Presses. Notable examples from the exhibit include items from the Kelmscott Press, Harbor Press, and the Limited Editions Club.
The University of Missouri Press Summer Reading display can now be found on the second floor of Ellis Library. Explore a rich collection of books celebrating Missouri’s history, literature, music, and art, including both new releases and favorite backlist books. Highlights of the display include Patricia Cleary’s latest work, Mound City: The Place of Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis, and Greg Olson’s award-winning Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present. Also showcased are selections from the Sports and American Culture series, such as Jon Langmead’s Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling and Sheldon Anderson’s Schools for Scandal: The Dysfunctional Marriage of Division I Sports and Higher Education. Additionally, visitors can see books dedicated to the work of Missouri’s Laura Ingalls Wilder and coffee table books that featuring the state’s scenic parks and its natural life and landscapes.
Finals week is here and so are we with another digital exhibit! The exhibit is called “Fancy Magazines for Pet Fanciers”, curated by John Henry Adams and Haley Lykins. The exhibit features fourteen magazines about pets, the animals that we keep around not just because they are useful but because they are fun. Magazines about birds, cats, dogs, and ferrets are all on display in the exhibit. (The animal types are in alphabetical order, so please don’t think that the order of the pets in any way indicates our preference!) So, if you need to de-stress with some pictures of animals as you prepare for or recover from your exams, come check out the exhibit!
The exhibit features magazines from a recent acquisition, the Samir Husni Magazine Collection. The collection features magazines on topics ranging from beauty and fashion magazines to news and lifestyle magazines.
April is Mizzou’s Pride Month and is also Arab American Heritage month!
This year, not only are we celebrating stories of triumphs and struggles of the LGBTQ community, but also celebrating and recognizing Arab American heritage and culture.
Below are some books in our library collection you can check out to celebrate both of these months. And be sure to check out the dual book display in the Ellis library Colonnade.
Non-binary lives : an anthology of intersecting identities
The Velvet Mafia : the gay men who ran the Swinging Sixties
Queer ear : remaking music theory
Encyclopedia of embroidery from the Arab world
Right to Read Day is April 8th and it’s the kick off to this year’s National Library Week!
So what can you do on Right to Read Day?
“Books bring us together. They teach us about the world and each other. The ability to read and access books is a fundamental right and a necessity for life-long success,” says Burton. “But books are under attack. They’re being removed from libraries and schools. Shelves have been emptied because of a small number of people and their misguided efforts toward censorship. Public advocacy campaigns like Banned Books Week are essential to helping people understand the scope of book censorship and what they can do to fight it,” Levar Burton, 2023 Honorary Banned Books Week Chair.