Screening of “Battle: Change from Within” Documentary About Local Civil Rights Pioneer at Ellis Library, Aug. 27
Local civil rights pioneer Eliot Battle is the subject of this documentary that chronicles his pivotal role in desegregating schools, housing and the Columbia community. On Aug. 27 at 11 a.m., the MU Libraries will hold a preview screening of “Battle: Change From Within” at the Ellis Library Colonnade on the MU campus. The screening is free and open to the public.
Announcement sponsored by MU Libraries
Resources and Services
DSM-5 now available in electronic format
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is now available in electronic format.
Read more about the DSM-5:
New York Times: “The Book Stops Here”, May 20, 2013
Mizzou Reads Book on Reserve
Two copies of this year’s One Read book, Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie, are now on reserve at the Ellis Library Circulation Desk and can be checked out on a 3-day loan.
For more information about the Mizzou Reads program, visit http://newstudent.missouri.edu/mizzoureads/book/.
I. Lynn Garriott-Porter Art Exhibit
I. Lynn Garriott-Porter Art Exhibit
Garriott-Porter was born in Fulton, Missouri and grew up living in the country loving the natural realistic beauty of her surroundings. Art was her first love and watercolor was her first medium of choice. Later in life she discovered colored pencil and gained a new love and found with watercolor pencil she gets the pleasure of both mediums in one.
Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous shows, galleries, hospitals, businesses, Cafe’s, and competitions in Missouri and Illinois. She is a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, National Watercolor Society, Missouri Water Color Society, and a Juried Best of Missouri Hands Artist. She was selected as February 2008’s profiled artist in Ann Kullberg’s Colored Pencil e-zine “From My Perspective” and chosen to have one of her watercolor pencil paintings in Ann Kullberg’s most recent book, “Colored Pencil Secrets to Success”, written for North Light Book Club and released in May 2009.
Most of her life art was only a part-time passion as she was employed full-time in the medical field. As a result most of her works have been commissioned and her specialty is in turning
“Photo Memories Into Art”. She still loves doing commissioned work and continues making new art as well as teaching art classes in her home studio. Visit The Columbia Art League Gallery in Columbia, MO and The Capital Arts Gallery in Jefferson City to see some of her works of art. Contact the artist if you are interested in having her do a commissioned work of art for you or if you are interested in taking classes.
The artist currently resides in Jefferson City, Missouri with her husband and youngest son.
Her art will be on display in the Bookmark Café throughout the fall semester.
I. Lynn Garriott-Porter
1330 Biscayne Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65109
email: garriottporterart@hotmail.com
Fax: (573)635-1999
cell: (660)351-6915
www.facebook.com/I.LynnGarriottPorter
www.bestofmissourihands.com/lynnporter.htm
Resources for VM-1s & VM-2s
Welcome and welcome back! Check out the VM-1 and VM-2 Resource Guide for essential information on library and information resources.
RJI, University of Missouri Libraries team up to address digital archiving of news
Edward McCain was deeply concerned as he watched the Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen, a newspaper he had once worked for, close its doors without a good system in place to preserve and access its print or online archives.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: RJI, University of Missouri Libraries team up to address digital archiving of news
Zotero Workshops
New Service! Get Bound Journals from Other Campus Libraries
You can now request that a bound journal from the Health Sciences Library (or Ellis or Engineering…) be sent to the Vet Library!
Request a bound volume via MERLIN:
- Find the journal in the MERLIN catalog;
- Click on the request button;
- Log in with your Username;
- Choose your pickup location. Don’t worry, you’ll choose the journal volume on the next page.
- You’ll get an email when the journal is ready for pick-up.
Faculty, staff, graduate and professional students can borrow bound journals for 3 days; undergraduates can borrow them overnight.
Easier Access to Bound Journals
- Bound journals can be requested from any of the MU Libraries through the MERLIN catalog and shipped to any library:
- Ellis
- Engineering
- Geology
- Health Sciences
- Journalism
- Math
- Veterinary Medical
- Bound journals can be requested through the MERLIN Library Catalog. Faculty, staff, graduate and professional students can borrow for 3 days; undergraduates can borrow them overnight.
Adopt a Book Update
Thanks to our generous donors, the Friends of the Libraries, and conservator Jim Downey, we have been able to do much-needed repair work on many of the fragile, valuable, and irreplaceable books in our collections. Below are just a few of the most recent examples of the amazing work the Adopt a Book Program accomplishes. As always, there are new books available for adoption as well. Click over to our Adopt a Book page and take a look!
A few of the books now available for adoption:
