MOBIUS and ILL Borrowing Resumes August 3rd

We are pleased to share that MOBIUS and traditional Interlibrary Loan (ILL) borrowing resumes as of August 3rd.  The service may be slower than in past years as most libraries are allowing time to quarantine books and some libraries remain closed or are open with limited staffing. With the resumption of interlibrary borrowing and lending, …

Spotlight: Prices and Wages Guide Illuminates a 1920 Cartoon

Boy tells girl “Jes’ you wait, Susie—I got six seventy-one saved up. Soon as I get nineteen dollars I’m gonna git me seventeen white collars and a swell suit; then I’m gonna git a job as office boy in a bank and git a four thousand dollar bonus an’ buy you that there Soudan.” The …

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 …

Employment Opportunities

ACQUISITIONS LIBRARIAN – Job ID# 31770 The University of Missouri Libraries (Columbia, MO) has an immediate opening for an Acquisitions Librarian. Primary function is to administer and provide leadership for the Acquisitions unit of Acquisitions, Collections, and Technical Services (ACTS), in University Libraries. Apply online at http://hrs.missouri.edu/find-a-job/academic with Job ID 31770.   LIBRARY SPECIALIST — Job …

Digital Services Looks Back at 2018

Digital Services at the University Libraries was a busy time for us in 2018. We worked with MU students, faculty and staff to add their works to MOspace, the online institutional repository for MU. We managed MOspace by making those resources widely available to researchers around the world. We juggled a lot of projects with …

Staff Advisory Group, 2/6/18

Vice Provost Ann Campion Riley Budget – No conclusive information on budget next year.  We should get the budget projections in the next week.  Unfortunately, we do expect some more cuts to collections. Some have wondered if the Program Evaluation Report that came out with the recommendation to drop some graduate programs would help us …

Cycle of Success: Librarian Finds Century-Old Line Drawing in Digital Library

Cycle of Success is the idea that libraries, faculty, and students are linked; for one to truly succeed, we must all succeed. The path to success is formed by the connections between University of Missouri Libraries and faculty members, between faculty members and students, and between students and the libraries that serve them. More than just …

The Odd-Fellows’ Offering, vol.11 (1852)

We’re often awed by the beautiful bookplates and illustrations we find at the University of Missouri Library Depositories, and some of the most impressive we’ve come across of late are from volume 11 of The Odd-Fellows’ Offering. Published in 1852, this volume is part of the series collecting “gems of American literature by distinguished members …

Learn about historic eclipses in Special Collections

To celebrate the upcoming solar eclipse, Special Collections and Digital Services have teamed up to digitize selections from materials on eclipses and astronomy from the collections of Mizzou Libraries.  From sermons on eclipses as symbols of divine judgment to early works on physics and astronomy, you can find a wide range of attitudes and ideas …

Friends of the Libraries Hold Successful “Evening at the Library” Fundraiser

On Friday, June 16, 2017, over 70 library supporters gathered for an event sponsored by the Friends of the University of Missouri Libraries. The event included drinks, hors d’doeuvres, a library scavenger hunt, and a silent auction. The program included a talk from local authors Jill Orr and Alex George. Jill, an MU alum, writes …
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