When a noisy scanner in the library disrupted his studies, one savvy student went straight to the library suggestion blog. The suggestion: relocate the scanner or replace it with a quieter model. Great idea! We communicated with DoIT and they quickly came to the library to replace the old scanner with a quieter model. Study on!

The Health Sciences Library will be handling out cake pops and other goodies in celebration of National Libraries Week. Stop by to say hello to your friendly library staff April 17^th from 11am to 1pm and share what YOU love about your library!

On April 19 at 10:30 am in the Ellis Library Colonnade the MU Confucius Institute will present Chinese-language and culture materials to the MU Libraries. The MU Vice Provost Handy Williamson, MU Libraries Director James Cogswell  and Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Chris Belcher will speak. The MU Libraries and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs invite you to attend this book presentation ceremony to learn more about these important materials. 

The bid has been awarded for the 1st floor renovation. Remaining furniture on the first floor will be removed this month, and construction is scheduled for May through September.
The HSL117 computer lab will close on April 26.
We expect to have access to the books on first floor through much of the construction.

You can preview the new floor plan here.

Want to know how to use the compact shelving?  This humorous video lets you know the basics about our compact shelving system for books of the first floor.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
1 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

For several decades, Dr. Howard Marshall, Professor Emeritus of Art History and Archaeology and former director of the Missouri Cultural Heritage Center, has nourished a not-so-secret passion for Missouri’s heritage of “old-time” fiddle and dance music. His training (PhD, Folklore, Indiana University) and previous positions at the Library of Congress and at museums. and many publications, reflect his life-long interest in recording the nuances of daily life and grass roots history — such as old-time violin playing. As a scholar, Marshall has recorded and photographed numerous fiddle events, and interviewed numerous older fiddlers, and published research in various places. As the descendant of generations of Missouri fiddlers, Marshall has sought, in his own playing, particularly to carry on the repertoire and performance style of the state’s Little Dixie cultural region. In today’s presentation, Marshall will discuss themes in his new book, “Play Me Something Quick and Devilish:” Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri (University of Missouri Press, with accompanying archival CD of 33 fiddlers) and play examples of music in the book.

“How the Experience of the Humanities Can Help Train Doctors”
Friday, April 12th
11:00am
Memorial Union S203

For more than a dozen years, Ronald Schleifer, a professor of English, has team-taught courses with Jerry Vannatta, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, focusing on the ways that the humanities – and particularly an understanding of narrative – can contribute to the education of physicians and other health care workers. They have conducted seminars and classes with pre-med students, students in medical school and workshops for practicing physicians and other health care professionals. Their students include the last four Rhodes Scholars from the University of Oklahoma, three of whom continued their work in the medical humanities at Oxford before returning to their medical education in the United States. Just this January they published The Chief Concern of Medicine: The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices. His talk, “How the Experience of the Humanities Can Help Train Physicians” calls upon this background to argue for the systematic inclusion of humanistic understanding into the education and practice of physicians.