NDSA Update

  • Call for Posters: Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II
    Dates: November 18-20, 2013
    Location: Biblioteca de Catalunya (Barcelona) Conference Website: http://educopia.org/events/ANADPII
  • Announcing the first AMIA/DLF Hack Day!
    Register here.
  • Join the NDSA infrastructure for a presentation/discussion about Bitcurator.

    As part of an ongoing series of discussions with individuals behind open source projects Call Lee of UNC will brief us on ongoing work on Bitcurator “an effort to build, test, and analyze systems and  software for incorporating digital forensics methods into the workflows of a variety of collecting institutions.” http://www.bitcurator.net/

    Feel free to invite colleagues at your NDSA organization to join.

    Call information:

    September 17th, 2:00 PM Eastern

    Call-in number:  866-469-3239

    Participant access code:  21408589

MU Libraries Birthday Card Photo Contest

The MU Libraries development office sends birthday cards to many of our donors and supporters.
We are encouraging staff members to submit photos that highlight the state of Missouri. These photos need to be high-resolution and color. The winning image will be used on our personalized birthday cards.

Please limit your submissions to five photos per person.

The photographer who submits the winning image will receive two Concert Series tickets or a $25 gift certificate to the University Bookstore.

The deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20. Send submissions (or questions) to Shannon Cary at carysn@missouri.edu.

Divided Loyalties Lecture, Sept. 10

In conjunction with the Civil War exhibit, Divided Loyalties, which is currently on view at Ellis Library, Dr. Joan Stack will give a talk entitled Dressing a Civil War Heroine: Clothing, Gender and the Implications of Costume Change in George Caleb Bingham’s Painting, “General Order No. 11.”  Dr. Stack is the Art Curator at the State Historical Society of Missouri. She will speak in the Ellis Library Colonnade on Sept. 10 at 2. p.m. This event is free and open to the public.