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In honor of Black History Month, we're highlighting the work of African-American artists and authors in Special Collections. Artist Romare Bearden and poet Derek Walcott participated in this beautiful collaboration for the Limited Editions Club in 1983. We've selected a few of our favorite images to share here, including the gorgeous decorated cloth binding, which is the first image below.
Ellis Library will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. – but there will be no services available in the building.
All of the Libraries’ Digital Services will be available, including digital reference.
The Branch Libraries will be closed.
To stay up to date on MU closings and cancellations due to weather, visit MU Alert.
It's never too early or too late to start your job search, and MU provides many opportunites for finding a career after college.
Network with employers and find out about engineering job and internship opportunities at the Engineering Career Fair next week on February 11, 2014. Learn how to prepare for the career fair, and check out the calendar of other upcoming professional development events for engineers.
For this week's manuscript, we're posting a couple of pages from Carta de el secretaro, Antonio Perez, al duque de Lerma de la manera que seharia de governar en la privanza.
The manuscript was produced between 1568 and 1579. It's quite a long letter written by Antonio Perez, secretary to Philip II of Spain, addressed to the duke of Lerma, providing advice for princes on governing from privilege, illustrated with examples from the Spanish court. Find it in the MERLIN catalog.
Ellis Library will close early today, Saturday, Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. due to icy weather conditions. Please check the library branch web pages for information about library branch closings. Ellis Reference desk will close at noon. Phone and virtual reference will be monitored until 3:00.
Now, when you search PubMed from MU Libraries pages or by using this special PubMed link, you’ll notice an Available at MU filter in the upper right area of the results screen.
The Available at MU filter will show you what’s available online or in a campus library.
You can use Available at MU when you’re in a time crunch and just want to see what’s available on campus right now. Available at MU is far more comprehensive and accurate than PubMed’s standard “Text Availability” filters because it knows what MU Libraries subscribes to in print and electronically.
To use this filter when you’re logged into your personal My NCBI account, you’ll need to create a custom filter. From a PubMed results page, click on “Manage Filters” and then “Create custom filter.” The query terms are:
Loprovumochsclib[sb] OR free full text [sb]
Save filter as: Available at MU
Any questions? Ask Kate.
Do you need help with a paper? Writing tutors are available starting Jan. 26th during the following times:
Sun 4pm-9pm
Mon 11am-9pm
Tue 11am-9pm
Wed 11am-9pm
Thu 4pm-9pm
Stop by for a free, walk-in session for help with any part of the writing process, from brainstorming to revising drafts. No appointment necessary!
To register online, click the class title. If these dates and times are bad for you, please feel free to email brekhusr at missouri dot edu with a preferred time. We will make an effort to accommodate you. The March workshop will be incorporated into graduate student workshops that month; date is tba.
All workshops are in-person unless marked as online. Zotero workshops meet in 213 Ellis Library, which is the computer classroom on the north side of the building on the 2nd floor, across from the main reading room.
Happy Manuscript Monday! This week's offering is a letter from the papal chancery of Pope Leo X, written in Rome on March 27, 1517, to Ottaviano Fregoso, Doge of Genoa. The letter is signed Jacopo Sadoleto as papal secretary and was written by the papal scribe, Ludovico degli Arrighi. In addition to being a papal scribe, Arrighi was a type designer and author. His typefaces, based on his own elegant script, have influenced the design of fonts and letter forms from the Renaissance to the present.
