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home Events and Exhibits, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Phil Williams’ Abstracts on Display at the Health Sciences Library

Phil Williams’ Abstracts on Display at the Health Sciences Library

By Terri Hall   Posted in Events and Exhibits J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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Leave realism behind when you view abstract acrylic paintings created by artist Phil Williams. His colorful canvases were painted using a splash technique. The examples shown here reading from left to right, then down, are called Mood, Unnecessarily Deliberate and Distorted Transmissions. Do you find a correlation between the paintings and their titles? What do you see when you look at them? What do you think the artist was feeling when he painted them?

If modern art is your thing and even if it isn’t, come by to experience the impact of textures and patterns created by the artist. Wouldn’t you just love to let go of your emotions by dripping paint on canvas, too? Inspired – check! This display will remain at the Health Sciences Library throughout the summer.

home Ellis Library, Resources and Services West Stacks Closure: How to Request Materials

West Stacks Closure: How to Request Materials

By Shannon Cary   Posted in Ellis Library Resources and Services
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The west stacks of Ellis Library will be closed starting June 7 due to work on the foundation of the building. In order to access materials located in the west stacks, you will need to make a request through the MERLIN library catalog. For detailed information about this process, visit http://library.missouri.edu/inthelibrary/borrowing/requestretrieval/.

If you have additional questions, you may get help in person at the Research Help desk or Circulation desk. Online help is available at Ask the Librarians!

The stacks will open again during the winter semester.

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Digitized slides from Hiller Collection are now available in MU Digital Library

Digitized slides from Hiller Collection are now available in MU Digital Library

By Ying Hu   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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Digital Services is excited to share that about 250 photographs from the newly acquired Hiller Collection are now available in MU Digital Library. A description of the collections and list of contents can be found in the Hiller collection library guide.

This collection is a valuable resource for students’ and faculty’s research. Yueheng Lyu, a spring 2019 history intern, worked with Special Collection and Digital Services to make part of this collection available online. She chose to digitize slides about two cities in China, Nanking and Soochow. She conducted research on the content of the photographs and curated a digital exhibit with some images that she had digitized. A professor in MU History Department also showed research interests in these slides, especially the ones related to the hardship that Chinese people experienced during the Chinese Civil War.

So far, about 370 slides have been digitized and 250 are available in MU Digital Library. We will continue working on digitizing the rest of the slides in the Hiller Collection and making them digitally available, accessible, and discoverable to more people.

Here are a few examples of the digitized slides:

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Health Sciences Library New Books

By Taira Meadowcroft   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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Check out this month’s new books at the Health Sciences Library. You can use the drop down menu to see previous month’s additions.

Have a purchase recommendation? You can request a book for your teaching or research using this form.

home Resources and Services Congratulations to the Class of 2019!

Congratulations to the Class of 2019!

By Shannon Cary   Posted in Resources and Services
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After you graduate, the University Libraries will still be here to serve you. To find out more about the resources available to alumni, visit Library Resources for Alumni.

All of us at the University Libraries, wish you the very best in your future endeavors!

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: April 2019

Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: April 2019

By Taira Meadowcroft   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article from a School of Medicine author with the highest journal impact factor.

This month’s featured article:

“A lipid-based partitioning mechanism for selective incorporation of proteins into membranes of HIV particles” was co-authored by Dr. Marc Johnson of the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology. The article was published in Nature Cell Biology (impact factor of 19.064 in 2017).

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: http://library.muhealth.org/resourcesfor/faculty/faculty-publications/apr2019/

Subscribe to Health Sciences Library News to receive the monthly recent publications update in your email.

 

*This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

Did we miss something? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu and we will add your publication to the list.

home Ellis Library, Resources and Services Quiet Study Space with Computers Available During Finals

Quiet Study Space with Computers Available During Finals

By Shannon Cary   Posted in Ellis Library Resources and Services
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Looking for a quiet study space with access to computers. Check out room 213 and 4D11 of Ellis Library. The rooms will be available from the morning of Friday, May 10, to the afternoon of Friday, May 17.

You can find a complete list of library study spaces at http://library.missouri.edu/about/studyspaces/.

home Government Information, Resources and Services Take a Look at the Fashions of the First Ladies with Government Documents

Take a Look at the Fashions of the First Ladies with Government Documents

By Lindsay Yungbluth   Posted in Government Information Resources and Services
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With the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibition coming up next week (accompanied, of course, by the opening celebration Gala on Monday), May means fashion. To add to this month’s conversation on fashion and its place in society, we are excited to showcase the delightful government publication The Dresses of the First Ladies of the White House by Margaret Brown Klapthor.

Published in 1952 by the Smithsonian Institution, this book contains images of dresses worn by First Ladies, from Martha Dandridge Curtis Washington to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, lovingly displayed on a plaster figure with the appropriate accessories, coiffure and posture of the woman who wore them.

Detailed descriptions of each dress, as well as a portrait and brief biographical sketch of each woman, are also included. The gowns, which belong to a collection of the United States National Museum, “represent the changes in fashions in this country from the administration of President George Washington through the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt” as Klapthor says in her introduction.

Klapthor authored two supplements to this title, The Gown of Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1958) and The Gown of Mrs. John F. Kennedy (1963), to extend her survey of fashion through the Kennedy administration.

To view the gown of your favorite First Lady, visit the Government Information department at Ellis Library.

 

All images from Dresses of the First Ladies of the White House, by Margaret B. Klapthor, 1952.

home Ellis Library, Resources and Services, Staff news Purchase Supplies in Vending Machine at Ellis Library

Purchase Supplies in Vending Machine at Ellis Library

By Shannon Cary   Posted in Ellis Library Resources and Services Staff news
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As final exams approach, stress levels rise high and supplies dip low. Prepare in advance by acquiring what you need from the supplies vending machine inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. Stocked and maintained by the Mizzou Store, the supply machine is an oasis of study supplies in study spaces. Current items include those listed below, however availability fluctuates depending on demand.

  • Blue Books – FREE (courtesy of Mizzou Store)
  • Highlighter Sharpie – $1.60
  • Witeout Correction Pen – $3.00
  • Binder Clips – $2.20
  • Sharpie – $2.20
  • G-2 Pen Blk – $2.20
  • G-2 Pen Blue – $2.20
  • Bic Pencil .7mm – $2.70
  • Bic Pencil .5mm – $2.70
  • AA Batteries – $5.35
  • AAA Batteries – $5.35
  • Mini Stapler – $2.20
  • Post-it Flags – $3.55
  • 4 Function Calculator – $3.20
  • Envelope 5 Pack – $0.55
  • Flash Drive 8g – $10

If what you are looking for is not in the vending machine, you can find these and other study supplies at the Mizzou Store. The vending machine accepts fresh bills, coins and student charge with student ID cards issued as of Fall 2017. If issues with the machine arise, please fill out a question/problem form (located on the vending machine) and give to the circulation desk staff.

home Resources and Services Celebrate National Poetry Month with MOspace

Celebrate National Poetry Month with MOspace

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April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate with MOspace! MOspace includes audio recordings of poets reading their poetry. Here are a few podcasts from The Missouri Review to get you started.