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Resources and Services
Cultural Bricolage Event, Nov. 13
Ellis Library Closed, Nov. 19
An electric outage has been scheduled for Ellis Library, on Monday, November 19th, from 7:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Ellis Library will be closed all day on Monday. This outage is necessary to allow Campus Facilities personnel to upgrade the electrical service to the building. This outage has been scheduled with the building coordinator to minimize disruptions to the activities in the building. In the interest of good communications however, we are alerting others who may have a need to know about this outage. Thank you for your patience as this necessary work is completed. If you have any questions, please contact Campus Facilities – Energy Management, 882-3094.
MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series Presents Emma Jean McKinin on “Nineteenth-Century Humorists in Australia and the U.S.”
November 28, 2012
1 to 2 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade
People in 19th century Australia and the United States often faced many of the same hardships, hazards, and quirks of the environment. In both countries people often coped by laughing. This lecture will look at examples of American and Australian frontier humor, with an eye to their similarities and differences. For more information contact carysn@missouri.edu.
New Books!
Want to see what’s new in the library? Check out our (new) New Books List!
You’ll see new print books, new electronic books, and new “purchase on demand” titles.
What’s purchase on demand? Due to impending shortfalls in our collection budget, we are investigating new ways to ensure that the books we purchase are needed and used by our campus community.
In the MERLIN library catalog, you may run across some titles that say: “Request the library order this book.” You’ll be asked to login with your Username so we can notify you once the book has been purchased and is available. We expect that most books will arrive within 2-3 weeks.
We’ve also pre-loaded some electronic books into the MERLIN catalog. Click on the e-book and it will open instantly just like any other ebook. An official purchase will be made behind the scenes.
What is Open Access?
Have you ever wondered just what Open Access really is? Here’s an 8-minute video, brought to you by the PhD Comics folks: http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/open-access-explained-by-phd-comics.
What is Open Access?
Have you ever wondered just what Open Access really is? Here’s a video (8 minutes long) http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/open-access-explained-by-phd-comics describing it.
Remember, remember the fifth of November…
Today is Guy Fawkes Day. This day commemorates the foiled Gunpowder Plot, a plan to assassinate King James I by blowing up the House of Lords during the king's opening address on November 5, 1605.
The Protestant James I was less favorable to religious freedom than many of his subjects had hoped he would be. Led by Richard Catesby, a small group of English Catholics planned to kill the king, place his Catholic daughter on the throne, and start a popular revolt in order to restore the country to Catholic rule. They rented a storage area under the chamber of the House of Lords and packed it with gunpowder, intending to ignite it when the king visited to open the session.
An anonymous tip in the early hours of November 5 led to the arrest of Guy Fawkes, who had been guarding the explosives, and who confessed the details of the plot under torture. Several other conspirators were captured and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered, a fate Fawkes avoided by jumping off the scaffold to his death.
James allowed his subjects to celebrate his survival with bonfires, and the observance became mandatory the next year with the passage of the Thanksgiving Act. Early celebrations involved artillery salutes, bell-ringing, sermons, and fireworks.
Special Collections has a few dozen pamphlets related to Guy Fawkes Night celebrations, from King James' speech in 1605 to Victorian tracts and sermons. Find a full list of holdings in the MERLIN library catalog.
Looking East from Plymouth: The Wampanoag and the “First Thanksgiving”
Looking East from Plymouth: The Wampanoag and the “First Thanksgiving”
– with Dr. Dennis Kelley, Assistant Professor
with the Department of Religious Studies
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Place: Ellis Library Colonnade
The Diversity Action Committee invites you to a presentation
in conjunction with November’s theme of Native American
Heritage Month. Dr. Dennis Kelley will talk about storytelling,
mythmaking, and modernization aspects of North American
Native Americans. Dr. Kelley’s biographical information can
be reviewed at:
http://religiousstudies.missouri.edu/people/kelley.html
Special Collections in Vox Magazine
Ever wonder who your favorite comic book superhero would vote for in the upcoming election? SCARaB’s own Rebecca Vogler helped Vox Magazine sort out the issues, superhero style.
Tyler McConnell, “The Presidential Election: Super Hero Style,” Vox Magazine, 1 November 2012.