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National Library Week Event, April 17

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Next week, the MU Libraries join libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers.
 
Libraries today are more than repositories for books and other resources. Often the heart of their communities, campuses or schools, libraries are deeply committed to the places where their patrons live, work and study.  
 
The MU Libraries are celebrating National Library Week by holding two parties for the MU faculty, staff, students and our community users. Please join us for refreshments and library information at Ellis Library and at the Health Sciences Library on Thursday, April 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
home Resources and Services Celebrate National Library Week with us! April 17

Celebrate National Library Week with us! April 17

By Shannon Cary   Posted in Resources and Services
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Next week, the MU Libraries join libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers.
 

Stop by the Health Sciences Library on Thursday, April 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m for a chance to meet with the friendly faces at your library as they hand out refreshments. There will also be opportunities to win prizes!

Libraries today are more than repositories for books and other resources. Often the heart of their communities, campuses or schools, libraries are deeply committed to the places where their patrons live, work and study.  

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Monday Manuscript: Notebooks from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Monday Manuscript: Notebooks from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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April 13 would have been playwright Lanford Wilson's 77th birthday, so we're celebrating him by featuring his work on this week's Manuscript Monday. Wilson passed away in 2011 and left his papers to the University of Missouri Libraries. The collection includes correspondence, working notebooks, drafts and proof copies, and well as work related to Wilson's personal interests, such as gardening and art collecting.

The manuscripts featured here relate to Wilson's plays A Sense of Place and Fifth of July, which was recently produced on campus by the MU Theatre Department. It's fascinating to watch Wilson at work through these pages, as he adds, edits and deletes the texts of his plays.  

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An unexpected bonus: we also found Wilson's recipe for tomato tart, which sounds delicious. Let us know if you try it!

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

What’s Blooming this Week in Special Collections

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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Did you know that Mizzou is a botanic garden?  Our campus is gorgeous all year round, but it's particularly outstanding in the spring and summer.  We're celebrating the natural beauty around us with a new series that links Mizzou's campus gardens with the herbals, botanical books, and gardening manuals in Special Collections. 

We didn't have to go far to find inspiration this week.  These magnolia trees on the Ninth Street side of Ellis Library are show-stoppers every spring. Daffodils of several varieties provide a cheerful shot of yellow underneath. 

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We found images and descriptions of these plants in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, a publication that started in the late 1700s with the aim "to unite systematic knowledge with the pleasures of the flower-garden."  William Curtis includes several types of narcissus throughout the publication; the ones illustrated here are only a few.  About the magnolia, Curtis writes,"There is a magnificence about the plants of this genus which renders them unsuitable subjects of representation in a work the size of ours."  We have to agree; in person they're really amazing.

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Apologies for my fingers; these volumes of Curtis are really tightly bound!  Special thanks to Arthur Mehrhoff at the Museum of Art and Archaeology.  Be sure to check out his Pride of Place website, which provided an inspiration for this series.

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Food in the Library

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This is just a friendly reminder to help keep the library safe and clean by following our food policy.

You may bring drinks and snacks like chips and granola bars from the vending machines into the Engineering Library.  However, things like fruit, yogurt, pizza, sandwiches and other foods attract bugs.  Please eat these foods out in the hall before you come into the library to help protect our materials.

Thank you!

home Resources and Services Mold outbreak affects older, low use Health Sciences Library volumes

Mold outbreak affects older, low use Health Sciences Library volumes

By E. Diane Johnson   Posted in Resources and Services
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You may have seen items in the news about the mold outbreak in one of the MU Libraries’ offsite storage facility and wondered how it affects the Health Sciences Library collection. 

The primary storage facility on Lemone Boulevard, where most of the Health Sciences Library off-site volumes reside, is climate-controlled and is not affected by mold.  The storage facility with the mold contains 46,600 of our volumes. All of these volumes are over 30 years old and were sent to storage because they were not heavily used. 

We expect to be able to maintain some level of access to all affected content.  We’re hoping we might be able to replace some of the mold-affected volumes with online versions to allow instant access. 

Additional details  on the remediation process and procedures, is available on the MU Libraries website. 

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives The search for sustainable energy in 1869

The search for sustainable energy in 1869

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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Continuing our theme of engines, this week's pamphlet is Power without Fuel by James Baldwin, published in New York in 1869.  In this pamphlet, Baldwin explains his attempts to design an engine that isn't dependent on coal, wood, oil, gas, or other combustible fuel. His idea (he wasn't the first to think of it) was a variation on the carbonic acid motor: an engine that would run on a solution of carbon dioxide in water.  Engineers investigated carbonic acid engines as a possible replacement for steam power in the nineteenth century.  While the gasoline engine won out in the end, there are several turn-of-the-century patents for carbonic acid motors in the United States and Europe.  Today, we'd probably say that Baldwin was attempting to develop alternative energy, an endeavor which is one of the University of Missouri's four strategic research areas. 

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home Resources and Services, Zalk Veterinary Medical Library More Online Access to Wiley Journals

More Online Access to Wiley Journals

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We've recently purchased the “backfiles” of several Wiley journals. You now have electronic access to all years of:

Previously, these titles were available online from 1997 to present.

Enjoy!

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Monday Manuscript: 630-year-old notebooks from notary Bernard de la Turade

Monday Manuscript: 630-year-old notebooks from notary Bernard de la Turade

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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This week's manuscript is the register of Bernard de la Turade (or Iurade), a medieval notary.  The two notebooks contain documentation of wills, marriage contracts, and sales in several cursive hands.  The first volume has a large vellum tab that would have helped its original owner to identify it on the shelf – think of it as the ancestor to a modern-day file folder tab.  There are even a few fourteenth-century doodles at the end!

More information and images at the Digital Scriptorium, or view the MERLIN catalog record.

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home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Eighteenth-century artificial limbs, clockwork figurines, boat winches, and more!

Eighteenth-century artificial limbs, clockwork figurines, boat winches, and more!

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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Machines et inventions approuvées par l’Académie royale des sciences, depuis son établissement jusqu’à présent; avec leur description. Dessinées & publiées du consentement de l’Académie, par M. Gallon.  Paris, G. Martin [etc.], 1735-77.

MERLIN catalog record.  Recently restored through the Adopt a Book Program.