Events and Exhibits
Superhero Science with The Antidote!
See The Antidote in action! Join MU Libraries for the opening lecture of Superhero Science: Fact vs. Fiction in Superhero Comics, featuring our very own Dr. Tim Evans.
Wednesday, March 12th, 11:00 AM, Ellis Library Colonnade
Heck, design your own Scientific Superhero and win tickets to Bill Nye and a $100 Gift Card! http://library.missouri.edu/announcements/2014/02/20/design-your-own-scientific-superhero-win-100-gift-card/
Mold FAQ and How You Can Help
FAQ Regarding Mold at Off-site Storage Facility
In October 2013, mold was discovered on books and bound journal volumes in one of MU Libraries' off-site storage facilities (UMLD2). This facility holds approximately 600,000 volumes belonging to the MU campus.
MU Libraries has established a Collection Enhancement Fund to assist our response to the mold damage. Your gift will be used to treat, relocate and in some cases, replace items impacted by mold. Our goal is to ensure the MU Libraries' ability to serve the needs of our users is not compromised by this sad event. A gift of any amount is greatly appreciated!
No one cares more than we do about preserving knowledge and scholarship. As we work through our response plan, know that we are making every effort to save items with special value and to retain ready access to information in the collection.
If you would like to help us preserve this collection, click here to donate to our Collection Enhancement Fund.
Open Access: What It Is, What It Isn’t
Find out more about Open Access: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/openaccess
New Exhibit! Terrific Tales: From Fairies to Fables
“Terrific Tales: From Fairies to Fables” on exhibit in the Library Colonnade. The exhibit is brought to you by Special Collections and will be on display July 1st – August 15th.
New exhibit! Beyond Words: Visual Narratives from the Block Book to the Graphic Novel
Yesterday I posed a question on Facebook: What do Albrecht Durer, Thomas Rowlandson, Frans Masereel, and Art Spiegelman have in common? The answer: they all published works of sequential art, which are now on view in our latest exhibition, Beyond Words: Visual Narratives from the Block Book to the Graphic Novel.
If, as the popular saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, then pictures and words together form an even more powerful tool for communication, expression, and storytelling than either would alone.
The materials in this exhibition are from the Rare Book Collection and the Comic Art Collection. In each, artists and writers have used sequential art to construct narratives that are complex, subtle, sophisticated, and powerful. Rather than presenting an evolutionary history of visual storytelling, these selections allow us to situate woodcuts, engravings, comic strips, and graphic novels in a long tradition of word- and image-making, in order to consider the roles of image and narrative in our culture.
Beyond Words will be on view in the Ellis Library Colonnade May 3-31, 2013.
Papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Lanford Wilson in Special Collections
We're happy to announce that an exhibition of selected materials from the Lanford Wilson Collection, curated by our colleagues at the University Archives, is on view in the Ellis Library Colonnade.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson made a legacy gift of his papers to the University of Missouri in 2011. Wilson grew up in Springfield and Ozark, Missouri, and spent most of his life in New York. He began his career at Caffe Cino, a pioneering Off-Off Broadway theater run by Joe Cino that produced plays by many young, aspiring playwrights.
Wilson wrote plays for La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and the Circle Repertory Company, a project organized by Wilson and three of his associates from the Caffe Cino and La MaMa. Plays that premiered at the Circle Repertory Company included Talley's Folly, Serenading Louie, The Mound Builders, Fifth of July, and The Hot l Baltimore. Wilson's plays were critically acclaimed and won several awards and nominations. In 1980, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Talley's Folly. Wilson was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.
The Lanford Wilson Collection includes 53 linear feet of correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, posters, photographs, and over 100 books. Researchers can access the finding aid online, and the collection is available for use in the Special Collections reading room.
The Lanford Wilson exhibition is presented in conjunction with a conference, "Angels in Performance: Documenting LGBTQ Lives in Theatre & Performance," hosted by the MU Department of Theatre, April 24-28. The conference will feature guest artist and award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Tony Kushner. The exhibition will be on view through the month of April.
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Smithcors Student Veterinary History Essay Contest
Students, submit your history essays! Cash Prizes ($1200, $1000, $800, $500) and possible publication in Veterinary Heritage. Deadline: April 15, 2013
Because History has a lot to tell us about our profession and ourselves.
See the details from the American Veterinary Medical History Society
A chance to win $50 gift card!
The MU Libraries needs your help organizing its website.
Please take 10 to 20 minutes of your time to complete this fun activity: http://bit.ly/WG8rLl
Upon completion, your name will be entered in a drawing to win a $50 gift card to the MU Bookstore.
Thank you for taking the time to participate!
For further questions please contact:
Neeley Current
IE Lab Project Manager
University of Missouri
573-884-2986
currentn@missouri.edu