The next chapter in the “Living Stories” initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries will be held on Thursday, April 26th in MSU’s Plaster Student Union, Room 312, from 1:30 to 3:00 and from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. The MSU Libraries and MSU’s Diversity and Inclusion division are collaborating to host our second Living Stories project at the Collaborative Diversity … [Read more...] about LIVING STORIES: Facing racism in 2018 and beyond
Beginning April 1, the Duane G. Meyer Library will host a photography exhibition by Polish-born artist, Jacek Fraczak. Featuring the artist’s landscape photographs of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, the exhibition lends visual support to the 2018 Public Affairs theme of sustainability. In program notes to the exhibition, Fraczak writes, “In August 2017, my wife, … [Read more...] about I love where I live – Photo Exhibit
Starting at midnight on Saturday, March 10th entering the Duane G. Meyer Library building between the hours of midnight and 7:00 a.m. will require building visitors to swipe their BearPass Card at the main entrance. All entrance doors will be locked at midnight and access for current students, faculty, and staff with a valid BearPass Card will be via the powered door at the … [Read more...] about Meyer Library overnight access
The MSU African & African-American Studies Committee and the MSU Libraries are collaborating to bring a national speaker to campus next month. Dorothy Berry, an Archivist at the University of Minnesota who currently is serving as the Digitization and Metadata Lead for the Umbra Search African American History Project, involving dozens of partner organizations, including … [Read more...] about Giving Voice to Archival Silences: Amplifying Black History Through Research and Technology
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 noted children's and young adult author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley will speak in Carrington Auditorium from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Her 2016 book, The War That Saved My Life, her seventeenth published book, was a Newbery Honor Book. The novel is set in 1939 in London and the surrounding countryside, as children are sent out into the country to avoid German … [Read more...] about Kimberly Brubaker Bradley to Speak