Resources and Services
Earth Day, 1648
Happy Earth Day!
April 22, 2012 marked the 42nd celebration of Earth Day. The first celebration was a grass roots event focusing on education and legislative responses to pollution and ecological concerns.
Earth Day gives us a chance to appreciate our planet. In 2012, amazing photos are available from every corner of the globe (and beyond). But what if you lived over 500 years ago? The Americas were full of flora and fauna unknown to Western eyes. Special Collections is home to many volumes that recorded these new discoveries.
Published in 1648, Historia naturalis Brasiliae records the botany and zoology of Brazil. With sections on animals, plants, fish, insects, and tropical medicine, the book introduced a wealth of information about the natural world.
Willem Piso was sent by the West India Company as physician to the governor of the Dutch colony in Brazil. While there, he learned about herbal medicines used by the indigenous people. His knowledge of medicinal plants, local poisons and tropical illnesses is recorded in Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
In addition to Piso’s contributions, the Historia contains information gathered by Georg Markgraf on plants, fish, birds, animals, snakes, and insects. Markgraf died before the book’s publication. Johannes de Laet edited his notes and illustrations for final publication.
The Historia naturalis Brasiliae is full of illustrations, and many of these were the first representation of animals and plants from the new world seen in the Old World. While some of the volumes were hand colored, Special Collections copy is not.
See the full text of a hand colored copy. This volume is from the collection of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Click on an image below to see a gallery of selected pages from Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
FDLP Anniversary
- Of over 1,200 participating libraries, MU is the 15th oldest in the nation
- We are the 6th oldest academic library in the FDLP
- U.S. Superintendent of Documents/Assistant Public Printer Mary Alice Baish will be flying in from Washington to present our library with a150-year certificate
- U.S. Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer willpersonally deliver a message of congratulation
- Refreshments will be served
- A display of historic government documents willbe exhibited in Special Collections
Thursday, May 3
1:30-2:30
Ellis Library Colonnade
New: Online workshops now available for EndNote X5 and Zotero!
Do you use EndNote to Find Full Text articles?
If so, you will need to edit your EndNote preferences due to some recent changes with Findit@MU article linking.
Open EndNote. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences…Find Full Text.
Change the OpenURL Path from http://mulbraries.1cate.com to http://ew3dm6nd8c.search.serialssolutions.com
and click OK.
See it in this screenshot.
If you have questions, contact Kate.
The MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series Presents Dr. Doug Randall
“A Glimpse at Science in the Antarctic”
April 19, 2012
1 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade
The presentation will take a look at some of the USA’s Antarctic science activities operated under the National Science Foundations Polar Programs, how to do science in the Antarctic, the McMurdo logistics facility, a look at the new South Pole Station and a brief tour of some of what is seen around the US facilities.
Paper Presentations From the 2nd Annual MU Libraries Undergraduate Research Paper Contest
Monday, 16 April
2-3 p.m.
Ellis Library Colonnade
1st Place:
Nathaniel Schuster
Alma’s Betrayal and Mahler’s Unfinished Symphony No. 10
Written for Music 3085: Problems in Music
Teacher: Professor Judith Mabary
2nd Place:
Donald Glen Cole
“…In View of Impending Conflict…” The Role of Southern Christianity in Sectionalism, Secession, and Southern Defeat
Written for English 4310: Civil War and Memory
Teacher: Professor Maureen Konkle
Do you link to journal articles in BlackBoard or on other web sites? Important changes…
If you provide links to journal articles, you’ll need to change your URLs after this semester.
If you are re-using links next semester, you’ll need to edit any links that use mulibraries.1cate.com as part of the URL. Find and replace mulibraries.1cate.com with finditatmu.library.missouri.edu .
For example,
http://mulibraries.1cate.com/?genre=article&volume=22&issue=3&spage=416&date=2012&title=qualitative+health+research
becomes
The old links you’re using now should continue to work for the rest of the semester, but after that, they will stop working.
Starting now, you can create links in the new Findit@MU Article Finder by clicking “Get Short URL” on the article finder page as shown here.
Do you link to journal articles in BlackBoard or on other web sites? Important changes…
If you provide links to journal articles, you’ll need to change your URLs after this semester.
If you are re-using links next semester, you’ll need to edit any links that use mulibraries.1cate.com as part of the URL. Find and replace mulibraries.1cate.com with finditatmu.library.missouri.edu .
For example,
http://mulibraries.1cate.com/?genre=article&volume=22&issue=3&spage=416&date=2012&title=qualitative+health+research
becomes
The old links you’re using now should continue to work for the rest of the semester, but after that, they will stop working.
Starting now, you can create links in the new Findit@MU Article Finder by clicking “Get Short URL” on the article finder page as shown here.
Changes to Find It @ MU
The MU Libraries have contracted with Serials Solutions to utilize 360 Link for the “Find It @ MU” service.
It will continue to allow researchers searching within databases to easily check for the availability of the specific material they need and to link directly to the full-text when it is available online.
Researchers will also still be able to search for specific citations and journal titles.
The changes will be implemented in the various databases, websites, etc., over the coming days. The button will remain the same.
If you have any questions, please contact us or report problems using the “Report Problems” button that displays on the page.