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Unlock the Secrets of Ellis Library! Join Us on a Tour

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Friday, August 22                                       11:00 am

Monday, August 25                                    9:00 am

Tuesday, August 26                                   10:00 am

Wednesday, August 27                             11:00 am

Thursday, August 28                                  Noon

Friday, August 29                                        1:00 pm

Tuesday, September 2                               4:00 pm

Wednesday, September 3                         3:00 pm

Thursday, September 4                              2:00 pm

Friday, September 5                                    1:00 pm

Monday, September 8                                 Noon

Tuesday, September 9                                1:00 pm

Wednesday, September 10                        2:00 pm

Thursday, September 11                            3:00 pm

Friday, September 12                                   4:00 pm

 

Tours start at the West Entrance of Ellis Library, Ground Floor, near the Security Desk.

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives A Stereoscopic Atlas of the Chick

A Stereoscopic Atlas of the Chick

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Working in a Special Collections Departments has its perks.  One such perk is being able to browse the closed stacks and treasure hunt for unique items.  I ran across this little gem a few weeks ago.

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A Stereoscopic Atlas of the Chick by Joseph Long

Published 1937

 

home Resources and Services Books with Personality on Display in Ellis Library Colonnade

Books with Personality on Display in Ellis Library Colonnade

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Books with Personality Exhibit, August 1-29, 2014
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Brought to you by the Special Collections Department of Ellis Library

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.  To read is to voyage though time”
-Carl Sagan

The books on display, from the Special Collections Department of Ellis Library, all carry traces of their former owners. Some contain notes in the margins; others hold mementos between their pages. In either case, these traces tell stories not only about the books’ reception but about the lives of those who read them.

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives The one and only Mark Twain autograph in Special Collections

The one and only Mark Twain autograph in Special Collections

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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A letter from Samuel Clemens to journalist Walter Williams, who served as the founding dean of the Missouri School of Journalism in 1908, and was University of Missouri president from 1931 to 1935.

March 4/94

Dear Mr. Williams:

I shouldn’t be able to do it, for if I should be in America in July it would be on business & my time would be fully occupied. I am leaving for Europe day after tomorrow. The compliment of your invitation gratifies me exceedingly & I want to thank you for it notwithstanding I am debarred from taking advantage of it.

I seem to have written this letter to you before; or something like it. But surely that is not possible.  I don’t know how I get the impression; & yet it is a quite strong one.

Truly Yours

S. L. Clemens  

This letter is pasted onto the front endpaper of Walter Williams’ personal copy of Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World – one of a couple of notable copies of that text in Special Collections.  Take a look at the catalog record for information on the others.  The text on the photo frontispiece is printed, not handwritten – but you can compare Samuel Clemens' signature to that of Mark Twain.

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home Resources and Services, Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Resources for VM-1s & VM-2s

Resources for VM-1s & VM-2s

By Kate Anderson   Posted in Resources and Services Zalk Veterinary Medical Library
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Welcome and Welcome Back!

Check out the Zalk Library guide for your first two years: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/vm1.

Here, you'll find the basics of how the library operates and information on the resources we have available for you.

And a friendly reminder that the library is often the only quiet space in the building. Respect your classmates' needs for a quiet study area…shhhhhh…

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Remembering Lauren Bacall

Remembering Lauren Bacall

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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Actress and icon Lauren Bacall passed away yesterday at the age of 89.  Well-known for her film roles, she also appeared in various stage productions, including Cactus Flower (1965), Applause (1970), and Woman of the Year (1981).  These are a sampling of the covers available in the Theater Programs Collection here in Special Collections, which numbers over 2,300 programs (and counting).  They document Bacall throughout her stage career, from the 1960s to her appearance at Powell Symphony Hall in Saint Louis on November 17, 1997.

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Find them in the MERLIN catalog: Cactus Flower, Applause, Woman of the Year, and Grand Center is proud to present a Grand Evening with Lauren Bacall.

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Everyone out of the water! It’s Shark Week!

Everyone out of the water! It’s Shark Week!

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In honor of Shark Week, we thought you would enjoy a few colored plates from A History of the Fishes of the British Isles by Jonathan Couch, 1877.

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home Resources and Services, Zalk Veterinary Medical Library NEW! ClinicalKey to Replace MDConsult

NEW! ClinicalKey to Replace MDConsult

By Kate Anderson   Posted in Resources and Services Zalk Veterinary Medical Library
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MDConsult is being phased out and is being replaced by a new product called ClinicalKey. ClinicalKey contains all of the MDConsult content plus much more: over 1,000 additional clinical e-books and over 20,000  videos. In addition, FirstConsult and Vitals, point-of-care information for medicine and surgery, are included. The transition from MDConsult to ClinicalKey is underway, and will be completed by September 2014. The library currently has trial access to ClinicalKey. 

Just some of the books of interest available in ClinicalKey:

  • Cellular and Molecular Immunology
  • Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology
  • Emery's Elements of Medical Genetics
  • Miller's Anesthesia
  • Rang and Dale's Pharmacology
  • Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
home Resources and Services, Zalk Veterinary Medical Library NEW! SPORTDiscus with Full Text

NEW! SPORTDiscus with Full Text

By Kate Anderson   Posted in Resources and Services Zalk Veterinary Medical Library
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The MU Libraries now subscribes to SPORTDiscus with Full Text !

SPORTDiscus is a full-text database covering sports and sports medicine journals, including equine sports. Subjects covered include biomechanics, drugs, exercise, kinesiology, movement science, nutrition, occupational health and therapy, physical fitness, physical therapy, rehabilitation, sports and exercise psychology, coaching and education and sports medicine.

SPORTDiscus also provides access to about 400 new journals in these subject areas, including highly requested titles such as:

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Dogs, Jackals, Wolves and Foxes, and an Adopt a Book program update

Dogs, Jackals, Wolves and Foxes, and an Adopt a Book program update

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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St. George Jackson Mivart was a well-known nineteenth-century English biologist. He served as Vice-President of the Zoological Society twice (1869 and 1882)and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work On the Appendicular skeleton of the Primates. This work on animals in the canine family is filled with woodcuts and 45 hand-colored plates drawn from nature by J.G. Keulemans.  Mivart examines the anatomy of canids from the Mexican lap dog to the common wolf, and just about every variety in between.  

This book recently received conservation treatment through the Adopt a Book Program.  Before conservation, the book and plates were so fragile that they could not be scanned without risking further deterioration.  Thanks to conservator Jim Downey and donor Robin Wenneker, the book is now available to all in our reading room.  I'll be updating the Adopt a Book record to reflect the conservation work in a day or two, but in the meantime, I couldn't wait to share this sampling of the book's beautiful plates.

Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes : a monograph of the Canidæ by St. George Mivart ; with woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by J.G. Keulemans and hand-coloured. London : R.H. Porter : Dulau, 1890. MERLIN catalog record

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