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MERLIN Catalog Unavailable on May 26

The MERLIN Catalog will be down on Tuesday, May 26th beginning at 8 am Central as the UM Libraries move to a new integrated library system   We anticipate the transition taking most of the day on Tuesday.

During this time the classic MERLIN Catalog will be unavailable, however, the MOBIUS Union Catalog (http://searchmobius.org) will still be up and running.  All faculty, staff and students will be able to place holds in MOBIUS using their MERLIN EMPL ID's. Those transactions will be queued until the MERLIN server is back up after the migration.

 

5/26/15 5:02 PM  The MERLIN database is now live.

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MERLIN library catalog unavailable Tuesday May 26

The MERLIN Library Catalog will be unavailable beginning at 8am CST.
Contact us if you need help locating or requesting books during this outage.
Book searching will be still be available in the MOBIUS Statewide Library Catalog and Summon during this time.

Weekend reading: Week of May 10

It's time for our weekly post roundup! Here's a collection of links for your weekend perusal, in no particular order:

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Tracking down the history of Booche’s

Earlier this week I put out a call on Tumblr for photos of present-day downtown Columbia and campus that we could match up with materials in our collections. Tumblr user thesetenthings contacted us to ask about the history of Booche’s, the downtown Columbia pool hall that has been open since 1884.  Named for “Booche” Venable, the first owner, Booche’s is a bit of a Columbia legend for its atmosphere, its burgers, and its long history.

Having eaten many a cheeseburger at Booche’s myself, I set about trying to find evidence of the pool hall in our digital collections: the Savitar yearbook, Missouri Alumnus, Showme Magazine, and the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.  And I found quite a bit! In fact, I found so much that I decided to make it a full-fledged post on this blog rather than a quick Tumblr photoset.

Booche’s bounced around several different locations and advertised to students in its first 50 years.  If Booche’s was the only pool hall in town in the 1880s (and I’m guessing it was; Columbia had less than 10,000 people back then), its first location was near Broadway and Seventh. This Sanborn Map shows a billiards business next to the lumberyard owned by W. P. Maupin.

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The earliest reference to Booche’s I could find in print in our digital collections was in the 1903 Savitar yearbook (there might be earlier references, but they’re not digitized, and for the sake of time for this post I was sticking to digital resources).  The 1903 Savitar has an ad that shows the interior but doesn’t mention the location. The next year, it simply says “Broadway and Tenth,” but doesn’t mention which corner of Broadway and Tenth.

savitar1904p246Advertisement from the 1904 Savitar, page 246.

Why?  It might have been because Booche’s had three different locations on or near Broadway and Tenth between 1895 and 1911. Here’s the first I was able to find in the Sanborn Maps, which shows a pool and billiards hall near the southwest corner of Broadway and Tenth.

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The next map, from 1902, shows a different business in that location and a pool hall on the northeast corner of Broadway and Tenth. This is probably the location shown in the photo ad from the Savitar.

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In 1908, Booche’s was back near its 1895 location on the southwest corner of Broadway and Tenth, except this time it had the corner storefront and had expanded into the storefront behind it as well.

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Finally, in 1911, Booche’s moved onto Ninth Street.  But it wasn’t in its present-day location yet; it was across the street, on the second floor of the Virginia Building.  The ad below from the 1911 Savitar announces the move and shows what must have been the interior at Broadway and Tenth, since the same photo was used in an ad the previous year.

sav1911p361Advertisement from the 1911 Savitar, page 361.

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I wasn’t able to verify this with maps, but according to this 1976 Missouri Alumnus article, Booche’s moved into its present location in 1930.  Booche’s advertised regularly in the Savitar yearbooks and the Showme magazine through the 1920s.  It changed hands several times, but it remained a popular student hangout.

sav1945p0187“Booche’s hath many charms, too” from the 1945 Savitar, page 187.

Articles in the 1976 Alumnus and the 1983 Savitar discuss more about Booche’s history – such as the fact that it barred women until the 1970s, that it was originally known for its ham sandwich, not its cheeseburger, and that you couldn’t get a beer there until relatively recently.  You can read more from each of those articles in the links above, or browse through the digital collections on your own. They’re freely available to everyone!

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SPIE Digital Library

The SPIE Digital Library contains the world’s largest collection of optics and photonics research and provides tools for researchers to optimize their valuable time. With more than 425,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research database available on optics and photonics research.

The SPIE Digital Library gives you full text access to the following publications:

  • Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS): Vol. 1 (2007) – present
  • Journal of Biomedical Optics: Vol. 1 (1996) – present
  • Journal of Electronic Imaging: Vol. 1 (1992) – present
  • Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS: Vol. 1 (2002) – present
  • Journal of Nanophotonics (JNP): Vol. 1 (2007) – present
  • Journal of Photonics for Energy: Vol. 1 (2011) – present
  • Optical Engineering: Vol. 1 (1962) – present
  • SPIE Letters: Vol. 1 (2004) – present (open access)
  • SPIE Reviews: Vol. 1 (2008) – present (open access)
  • Proceedings of SPIE: Vol. 1 (1963) – present

Thanks Grads

The MU Libraries currently employs 174 student workers. It would not be possible to run the Libraries without them! Twenty-seven of our student workers will graduate this semester.

We wish all of our students best of luck on their finals, and congratulate our graduating seniors andd graduate students.

For information about empolyment at the Libraries, visit http://library.missouri.edu/about/employment/.

Weekend reading: Week of May 3

Here's a roundup of our posts on Tumblr and our favorite articles, blogs, and posts from around the web this week for your reading pleasure over the weekend.

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SPIE Digital Library Now Available

SPIE Digital Library

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SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics.

The SPIE Digital Library contains the world’s largest collection of optics and photonics research and provides tools for researchers to optimize their valuable time. With more than 425,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research database available on optics and photonics research. Titles included are: Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS)(2007-present), Journal of Biomedical Optics (1996-present), Journal of Electronic Imaging (1992-present), Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (2002-present), Journal of Nanophotonics (2007-present), Journal of Photonics for Energy (2011-present), Optical Engineering (1962-present), SPIE Letters (2004-present)(open access), SPIE Reviews (2008-present)(open access), Proceedings of SPIE (1963-present)

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Employee Highlight: Capstone Project

Meet engineering student and library empoyee, Taylor, pictured here with his capstone group's project, "An Automatic Bicycle Derailleur to Automate Gear Shifting."  Congratulations on your project!

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MERLIN Catalog — Problem with Returned Books

ALERT! Returned books may not be cleared in the MERLIN catalog. Please be patient as we work through this issue.

MU Libraries are currently experiencing a problem with the integrated library system for managing library accounts, with the result that some books which have been turned in by patrons still appear on their accounts. Innovative Interfaces, the company behind the MERLIN platform, is working to correct the problem, and we hope to have the system running properly soon.

Updated 5/6/2015 3:17 pm