home Resources and Services Black History Trivia Night, February 25, 5:30-7:30 pm

Black History Trivia Night, February 25, 5:30-7:30 pm

On Wednesday February 25th, from 5:30-7:30 pm, there’s a free event we’d like to invite you to – challenge you to attend, even. It is the first annual BLACK HISTORY TRIVIA NIGHT offered in conjunction with MU’s Black History Month event series.

There will be PRIZES!  There will be FREE FOOD!  There will be FRIENDLY COMPETITION!  There will be FUN PEOPLE there, starting with YOU!  There will not necessarily be anyone competing who considers themselves any sort of major expert in Black History, so don’t be intimidated…and also, any question you get wrong will be a NEW fact you learn! 

You may register as an individual or register several people together to form a team – teams of four will be seated together and if you register singly you’ll be placed at a table.  Here’s the registration link: https://t.co/hbCdjkMqAa – if you prefer not to register online, you can call me, Rachel Brekhus, at 882-7563, and I’ll take your information over the phone, if you catch me while I’m in my office.

After 5:00 PM, there is free parking in the University Avenue Garage.  If you park there, keep walking west on University until you reach Hitt St., turn left, walk past the Fine Arts Building, and then turn right into the pedestrian mall in front of Ellis Library.  Look for the big main entrance, with steps going up to it, on your left.  Once you enter the library, you will turn left, then walk past the stairs to the elevators on your right, take the elevator to 4R. Exit the elevator, turn left, then immediately right, down the hallway with all the book trucks parked in it.  Room 4F51A will be the last door on the right side of the hall.

Please come!  Bring friends and/or kids!  Start thinking of a fun team name! 

home Resources and Services Proposed renovations for the second and third floor

Proposed renovations for the second and third floor

Now that the first floor of the library has been renovated, we’ve been thinking about what kind of renovations we might like to see on the second and third floor of the library.

Stop by to view the proposed designs, or check them out online . We welcome your comments.

home Resources and Services, Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Online Access to SpringerProtocols Backfile (1980 – 2014)

Online Access to SpringerProtocols Backfile (1980 – 2014)

You now have online access to over 1,500 books and journals from SpringerProtocols. A major resource for laboratory protocols in the biomedical and life sciences, SpringerProtocols includes Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine.

Please note: this is a special backfile purchase and not a current subscription. While some 2015 items are available (e.g., Frank Schmidt’s newly published RNA-RNA Interactions Methods and Protocols), items added to SpringerProtocols later in the year will not be included.

home Resources and Services Preparing a poster for Innovation and Improvement Sharing Days in April? Take our PowerPoint class February 24!

Preparing a poster for Innovation and Improvement Sharing Days in April? Take our PowerPoint class February 24!

Sign up for a Powerpoint class on Tuesday, February 24 at 3pm and pick up some tips for preparing posters.
Not able to make it? Rebecca Graves, education and instruction librarian, has created a guide with step-by-step instructions for using PowerPoint to create a poster.

home Resources and Services Friday Workshop, Feb. 20

Friday Workshop, Feb. 20

EBooks: What every student and faculty member should know
Feb. 20 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 213, Ellis Library

Did you know the library has ebooks? Or perhaps you have seen an ebook in the MERLIN catalog and didn’t know how to access it. Learn what you need to read ebooks online and how to download ebooks to your computer or tablet. Bring your own tablet or laptop so that you will be ready to read after attending this session.

Nancy Messina, General Reference Librarian 

All workshops are offered simultaneously in two formats: Face-to-face in Rm. 213 Ellis Library and live online.
To Register: http//tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
(click on gold calendar entries for face-to-face workshops and pink calendar entries for live online)

Snow Day

Ellis Library will be open limited hours on February 16 due to weather conditions. The building will be open from 8 am to 4 pm with limited services.

If you have a question, virtual reference will be staffed from 7:30 am to 11:00 pm.

For more information about MU's closings, visit http://mualert.missouri.edu/.

home Resources and Services Submit your music videos to the Memmys, and win up to $1500 for our library!

Submit your music videos to the Memmys, and win up to $1500 for our library!

Attention medical, nursing, and health professions students: Submit your music videos to the Memmys, and win up to $1500 for our library!
Deadline is April 15; details here.

Need inspiration? Take a look at last year’s winning videos.

home Resources and Services Board Game Night

Board Game Night

Board Game Night
Thursday, Feb. 19
Ellis Library Colonnade
7-11 p.m.

Bring your favorite board game or try one of ours! Questions? Call 573-882-4581.

home Resources and Services Friday Workshop, Feb. 13

Friday Workshop, Feb. 13

Primary Sources for Instruction and Research
Feb. 13 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 213, Ellis Library

Learn about how primary sources at MU Libraries can help with meeting instructional goals and assist with research. Librarians from the Government Documents and Special Collections departments will introduce collections and strategies for using them in your
teaching and research.

Kelli Hansen, Print Collections Librarian, Special Collections; Sandy Schiefer, Government Documents Librarian

All workshops are offered simultaneously in two formats: Face-to-face in Rm. 213 Ellis Library and live online.
To Register: http//tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
(click on gold calendar entries for face-to-face workshops and pink calendar entries for live online)

Polybius and the Pre-digital Brain

Today we are featuring a manuscript draft made by Friedrich Otto Hultsch as he was editing Polybius’s Historiae. Hultsch (1833-1906) was a philologist of classical languages who published numerous critical editions throughout his career. He made the works of ancient mathematicians available to the scholarly world for the first time. He also wrote a monograph on ancient metrology that focused on Babylonian and Egyptian systems of weights and measures.

Polybius was a Greek historian who wrote in the second century B.C.E. His work was lost in the west until the fifteenth century. His work has continued to be of interest ever since as a witness of of Hellenistic Greek history and political theory and of the koine dialect of Greek.

Hultschdouble
To make the draft, Hultsch unbound the signatures of the previous edition of made by Emmanuel Bekker in 1844. He interleaved his own research notes, which included text from manuscripts not previously consulted. The draft is a monument to the resources of the human brain before computers.

Hultsch

The published edition came out in 1867 and is available in the open stacks. We are still researching the provenance of the draft. Perhaps one of his students or descendants immigrated to the United States and had some connection with the University of Missouri.