Audubon’s Paper Menageries: Birds and Quadrupeds Walk-Through
August 29, 2015 1:30 p.m.
The State Historical Society of Missouri’s Research Center–Columbia
Join the State Historical Society of Missouri’s art curator Joan Stack at this free event to discover the stories behind the wildlife pictured in the SHSMO’s current exhibition, Audubon’s Paper Menageries: Birds and Quadrupeds. Over twenty original hand-colored engravings and lithographs from the 1820s through the 1860s showcase John James Audubon’s imaginative and engaging illustrations for his impressive multivolume works, The Birds of America and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Experience the wonder nineteenth-century audiences must have felt as life-size birds seem to flutter from the pictures and wild creatures glower and hiss at their human observers.
Oral History @ Your Library: A Beginner’s Guide
August 31, 2015
12:00 p.m.
American Library Association Webinar
This free webinar offered by the American Library Association will provide an introduction to the ways in which libraries can use oral history for everything from collection development and programming to community engagement. Presenters Mary A. Larson, associate dean for special collections at the Oklahoma State University Library, and the State Historical Society of Missouri’s oral historian Jeff D. Corrigan will begin with the basics and offer programming ideas for all ages, information about related technology (what type of equipment to use in which circumstances), and a wide range of resources for those who would like to follow up on the topic. At the end of the webinar, participants should have a better idea of how they might be able to utilize oral history in their libraries, and they will have a basic sense of what steps they would need to take to implement that vision. Details available at http://www.ala.org/onlinelearning/oral-history-your-library-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide.