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Register Now for May 29 & 30 Online Research Workshops

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Thursday, May 29 & Friday, May 30, 2014

REGISTER: To register click on specific workshop: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/upcomingclassesworkshops
Thursday & Friday: All Workshops take place online using Blackboard Collaborate

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Thursday May 29, 9:00-10:30 AM [ONLINE]

·        Literature Review & Beyond: Tips & Tricks for Research

   Learn some of the more sophisticated features of database searching to yield the results you want. Using a variety of databases, we'll focus on practical techniques that can save you time and effort.

   Goodie Bhullar, Library Instruction Coordinator; Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian

  

Thursday May 29, 11:00-11:30 AM [ONLINE]

·        Stay Current with Browzine!

Easily read and follow your favorite scholarly journals from the MU Libraries with Browzine from your iPad or Android tablet.
Rhonda Whithaus, Electronic Resources Coordinator

 

Friday May 30, 1:00-2:30 PM [ONLINE]                   

·         Creating Bibliographies with Zotero

   Zotero is a free, simple, open-source tool for organizing, managing and formatting bibliographic citations. Learn to extract citations from PDFs and web pages at the click of a button, and create in-text references and bibliographies.I I

            Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian

 

Friday May 30, 3:00-4:30 PM [ONLINE]

·        Creating Bibliographies with EndNote

   EndNote is a powerful program for storing citation data and producing in-text citations and bibliographies in a plethora of formats. Learn how to put this tool to work for your academic writing.

   Mike Muchow, Humanities Librarian; Ashley Nelson, Science Librarian

 

Questions:  Goodie Bhullar, bhullarp@missouri.edu

home Resources and Services, Zalk Veterinary Medical Library More online access to Vaccine & Veterinary Parasitology

More online access to Vaccine & Veterinary Parasitology

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We've recently added more "backfile" access to two ScienceDirect journals. You now have online access to Vaccine and to Veterinary Parasitology back to 1995 (previously, access was available back to 1998).

Enjoy!

home Resources and Services Bookmark Cafe Closed May 19-June 2

Bookmark Cafe Closed May 19-June 2

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The Bookark Café will be closed for renovation from May 19th to June 2.

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives What’s Blooming this Week: Iris

What’s Blooming this Week: Iris

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It's been unseasonably chilly here in Columbia this week, but that means the irises blooming all over town have been an even more welcome sight.  There's a beautiful planting of Iris pallida 'Argentea Variegata' near the west entrance to the library, and I captured it on my walk into the building this morning. There are many different species of iris growing across the northern hemisphere.  According to the Missouri Botanical Garden, Iris pallida is native to Croatia and the southern Alps, and it has a sweet fragrance.  The variegated subspecies growing on campus here has striped leaves of pale green and cream. 

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In 1542, the physician and botanist Leonhart Fuchs included a different iris species in his herbal, De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes, which is part of a long tradition of books that describe plants and their medicinal uses.  Although Fuchs wasn't interested in the plants' ornamental value, he hired three professional artists to illustrate the herbal to the highest degree of naturalism.  Fuchs wanted physicians to be able to use the book to identify medicinal plants, and the resulting publication is filled with detailed, hand-colored illustrations that depict species both familiar and exotic.  Iris germanica, illustrated below, is probably native to southern Europe, and it is the ancestor of most garden irises today. 

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home Resources and Services Congratulations to the Class of 2014!

Congratulations to the Class of 2014!

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After you graduate, the MU Libraries will still be here to serve you. To find out more about the resources available to alumni, visit Library Resources for Alumni.

All of us at the MU Libraries, wish you the very best in your future endeavors!

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Monday Manuscript: Bertrand Russell tells you how to be a philosopher

Monday Manuscript: Bertrand Russell tells you how to be a philosopher

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The semester's last manuscript of the week is from philosopher Bertrand Russell, whose birthday is on the 18th.  These three original manuscripts contain the text of "How to become a philosopher," "How to become a logician," and "How to become a mathematician."  They were later published in one volume by Haldeman-Julius Publications as nos. 7, 8, and 9 of The How-to series in 1942.  E. Haldeman-Julius donated them to the Philosophy Section of the Missouri Academy of Science in March 1943. Find it in the MERLIN catalog.

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Kelli Hansen is head of the Special Collections and Rare Books department.

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives What’s Blooming this Week: Columbine

What’s Blooming this Week: Columbine

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Right across Lowry Mall from the tulips I posted a couple of weeks ago, and under the magnolias that kicked off this series, there's a beautiful bed of columbine in full bloom.

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Columbines are part of the genus Aquilegia and grow wild throughout the nothern hemisphere.  The ones in the Mizzou Botanic Garden are derived from the species Aquilegia vulgaris, also known as European Columbine.  This week's illustration is from Johann Theodor de Bry's Florilegium renovatum et auctum (1641), an updated version of his Florilegium novum with engravings by his son-in-law, Matthäus Merian.  Some of the flowers on this page have double blossoms, and you can still find this type of hybrid columbine under cultivation.  The recognizable spurred bloom of the columbine appears right in the middle of the page.

Columbines from de Bry's Florilegium

Merian's daughter, Maria Sybilla Merian, would go on to become an accompished artist and naturalist herself.  Check out Julie Christenson's blog post about her for more information and some beautiful images.

home Resources and Services Places to Study During Finals

Places to Study During Finals

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Locate study spaces in the MU Libraries (Ellis and the branch libraries)

Locate study spaces on campus and in Columbia:

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home Resources and Services Make Sure Your Citations Count: Get an ORCID Number

Make Sure Your Citations Count: Get an ORCID Number

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Make sure your theses, dissertation and research publications are correctly attributed to you.  How?  Sign up for an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) number. ORCIDs are a relatively new international effort to provide author and contributor disambiguation across many databases and tools. Universities, libraries, publishers and researchers are partners in this effort.   

You can learn more about ORCIDs on the ORCID website (http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/topics/19379-frequently-asked-questions) or from your subject librarian (http://library.missouri.edu/contactus/#_contacts_).

Sign up for an ORCID today:  http://orcid.org

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Book Sale

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Did you know there's a book sale every day in Digiprint in Ellis Library, 1st floor north?

The MU Libraries receive donations of books from people in the community. Some donations, we keep, but others may be duplicated in our collections or just do not fit the kind of books we collect. These books are added to our ongoing book sale.  New books are added to the sale every 2 weeks.  Books remaining on the sale shelves from previous weeks get bumped down to a lower price.  Here you can find anything from fiction to local history.

The sale of these books benefits the MU Libraries Staff Association (MULSA). MULSA sponsors an annual picnic and other events for MU Libraries employees, maintains our staff room supplies, recognizes important life events of our employees, sends our staff cards when they are hospitalized, donates to local charities on behalf of its members, and more.