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Join us at Ellis Library to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday anniversary! We’ll have tea & biscuits, a letter writing station, make your own velvet ribbon bookmarks craft and a display of Jane Austen’s books from the libraries’ collections.
Hello! Join us for Silent Book Club, a low-pressure, no-assignments reading group for book lovers of all kinds! Bring whatever book you’re currently reading—fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel, or anything else—and enjoy an hour of quiet reading in the company of others. There’s no required reading or group discussion—just a cozy, welcoming space to relax, read, and share the love of books. Come early or stay late to chat about what you’re reading, or just enjoy the quiet time. All readers are welcome!
For more information, visit our Silent Reading Book Club LibGuide.
Join us during the fall semester for crafting activities to help flex your crafting muscles and relieve some stress.
Beaded Plants
Ellis Library Main Floor
Monday, September 29th 1:30-4:30pm
Join us in taking a calming breath and making a craft. Drop by to make a beaded plant in a vase. All supplies provided.
Cryptid Coloring
Ellis Library Main Floor
Tuesday October 21st 1:30-4:30pm
Join us in taking a calming breath and making a craft. Pick out your favorite cryptid coloring page and relieve some stress by coloring! We’ll also have Mothman and Sasquatch stickers. All supplies provided.
Halloween Jars
Health Sciences Library
Wednesday, October 22nd 2pm-4pm
Join us in taking a calming breath and making a craft. We’ll have glass jars and decorating materials. As always, we will have coloring pages too. All supplies provided.
Friendship/Affirmation Bracelets
Ellis Library Main Floor
Thursday November 6th 1:30-4:30pm
Join us in taking a calming breath and making a craft. Turn your favorite word or phrase into an affirmation bracelet. All supplies provided.
Mini Books
Health Sciences Library
Wednesday, November 19th 2pm-4pm
Join us in taking a calming breath and making a craft. We’ll be making mini books. A great way to commemorate the past year of reading. As always, we will have coloring pages too. All supplies provided.
DIY Hand Warmers
Ellis Library Main Floor
Monday December 8th 1:30-4:30pm
Join us in taking a calming breath and making a craft. Make reusable handwarmers for the winter weather. Customize with aromatherapy of your choosing and get ready to do a little hand-sewing. All supplies provided.
Everyone is welcome!
Not sure where the health sciences library is? Here’s a map for you.
What is impact dot matrix printing? Which technologies converged in the mid-20th century to create such a computing icon?
Located in the Engineering Library and Technology Commons and created by Library Technology Services, the history and anatomy of the Okidata Microline 320 Turbo is explored in this compelling exhibit.
For those interested in learning more about the exhibit, there is an online library guide available at https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/dotmatrix
Students enrolled in Professor Bossaller’s class on the history of books and media have curated five new exhibits related to the Samir Husni Magazine Collection, a wide-ranging collection of first-issue magazines dating as far back as 1805. The exhibits highlight different themes found within the collection:
We are very excited about these exhibits and we hope that you enjoy them!
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
2 to 3:15 pm
114A Ellis Library
Open House Research Presentation
ARH_VS 4160W / 7160: Global Encounters in Art History
Prof. Anne Rudloff Stanton
By Ellie Cearley, Alexis Cornett, Fynn Lamanske, Sara Lawson, Jake Mangan, Kaitlyn Melton, Adakunle Ogunleke, Muditha Pathirana, Greg Pekurney, Didintle Setzin, Xiaoran Tang, and Hanxue Zhang
Now through the month of April.
The Journalism Library is celebrating National Poetry Month by putting on a Black-Out Poetry station the entire month of April. Folks can come and construct original poetry out of newspaper and magazine clippings gathered by the library staff.
Blackout poetry is created by marking out words from a text, like a newspaper, until a poem is created from the words that remain. For inspiration, check out others’ creations at Newspaper Blackout.
Everyone is welcome!
Dr. Joan Stack from the State Historical Society of Missouri developed the exhibit “A Historic Look at Black Labor in St. Louis Seen through the Eyes of Artist Spencer T. Banks (1912-1983),” which is on display in the Ellis Library exhibit area on first floor.
Black History Month Programs at the State Historical Society of Missouri
Now through February.
Stop by the Journalism Library to view their curated display featuring books related to black history in journalism.
All books are available for check out.
This is an educational exhibit and is open to everyone.
Do you want to join a book club but prefer to choose your own book? Join the BYOBook Club!
Our first meeting of the semester is Wednesday, February 19 at 4:00 pm in Ellis Library 114A.
This month’s theme is: read a book with a red or pink cover. Need a book recommendation? Check out our book club guide.
Registration is not required, but encouraged.