Digital Services update: Current digitization projects

Digital Services is carrying out several digitization projects to meet the needs of different units in the library and on campus. This is a quick overview of most of our current projects, several of which are long-term. Typography books. The Journalism Library reviewed the University Libraries collections and identified books on typography which were not …

PEGI Project Report Now Available

The Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project, a grant-based endeavor spearheaded by the University of North Texas in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of Missouri, Stanford University, Arizona State University, Yale University and the Center for Research Libraries, has concluded the first phase of its work to gather thoughts …

Fulbright Scholar Appreciates Journalism Library Resources

By Christina Mascarenas Going to America was more a dream than reality to Indah Setiwati, a 30 hour plane ride dream. Indah was the deputy editor for the Jakarta Post in Jakarta, Indonesia when she decided to make a change and apply to graduate school. In the beginning, Indah only applied to local scholarships even …

Rare Materials Essential to Understanding History

Colton Ochsner, a history doctoral student at MU, does research on the origins of fantasy and science fiction films in modern German history. Colton chose the German cinema as his concentration because German films have become very influential. “They made a lot of movies that have spread across the world and influenced film, especially to …

Celebration of Service Comments

Congratulations to everyone celebrating a service anniversary this year. The comments posted by supervisors about these employees are posted below. 5 Years Corrie Hutchinson: Corrie has become an invaluable member of the Libraries’ leadership team since she joined us as Acquisitions Librarian five years ago. She has managed cutting huge amounts of money from our …

Recent CVM Publications (May update)

2 May 2019 Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database in the last 30 days. PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2019 Congratulations to all the recently published authors! Journal Articles Neeff DV, Carao ACR, Goncalves BL, Bordin K, Corassin CH, Ledoux DR, Rottinghaus GE, Oliveira CAF. Natural antioxidants as detoxifying agents …

Thank You to Show Me Mizzou Day Volunteers

Thank you to the following graduate students, staff members and librarians who volunteered to work at last weekend’s Show Me Mizzou Day activity at Ellis Library: Grace Atkins Tyler Blood Shannon Cary Cindy Cotner John Fifield Kelli Hansen Haley Gillilan Trevor Hook Jefferson Hulbert Nav Khanal Taira Meadowcroft Amanda Sprochi Kelsie Wilkins Michelle Zigler Around, …

Upcoming Diversity Opportunities, April 27th-May 3rd

The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion. StuffToDo – FREE Weekend Film: If Beale Street Could Talk Saturday April 27th 8:00pm-11:00pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union) A woman …

Upcoming Diversity Opportunities, April 20th-April 26th

The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion. UnBound Book Festival Friday-Saturday April19th-April 20th, Stephens College Nationally-recognized and bestselling authors across many different genres will come to mid-Missouri …

Notes From the Director, April 22

Hello everyone, So much is happening all of a sudden that it’s hard to know where to start. All of you have heard about our space planning consultants for the Libraries who are coming for their first visit on April 3-4. The firm is Shepley Bulfinch, who are very well-known among research libraries.  I encourage …