summer 2014 volume 11, number 1

Welcome Letter from Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin Table of To the Mizzou family: The MU Libraries have always been a Contents place for students to study, to research course assignments and to discover hidden treasures in the stacks. To maintain this inspiring and stimulating atmosphere for an evolving student body, we must anticipate the needs of future students and provide them with tools to ensure their success. We must recognize how students are using Ellis Library and the other campus libraries to MU Libraries Director Jim Cogswell and Library Society Dinner attendees watch as Chancellor Meet Edward McCain anticipate our future needs. R. Bowen Loftin ties his brand new Library 3 Society bow tie. Photo by Scott Peterson. Group Study

University Archives Students increasingly seek out quiet and begin their studies late in the evening, and 4 secure study spaces that allow them to work they do not finish until the early hours of collaboratively with their peers. However, the morning. Introducing 24-hour study the number of group-study rooms currently Spring Events Photos spaces to Ellis Library will support students available to students is not sufficient to 6 who need extra time for academics and will meet the demand of students who need enable both individual and group study with to work together on class assignments or Friends of the Libraries a full range of technological options. research projects in the libraries. 7 Digital Collections Twenty-four-hour Space As the number of our online course MU students are engaged and active, offerings grows, and as students rely participating in sports, internships and a more heavily on electronic resources wide variety of extracurricular activities on that are easily accessed both on- and off- top of their schoolwork. Many choose to (continued on Page 7)

Ann Campion Riley to Lead Library Association

nn Campion Riley, associate association in July 2015. Adirector for access, collections and “I am thrilled to have the technical services at MU Libraries, opportunity to lead ACRL,” Riley has been elected vice president of the says. “The experience of working with Association of College and Research a future-oriented board of directors Libraries (ACRL), a division of the will be inspiring. ACRL members are American Library Association (ALA) hard workers and bring great spirits for academic librarians, which has of inquiry to the organization. ACRL’s more than 12,000 members. Riley current initiatives, such as promoting became president-elect after the June the value of libraries and studying 2014 ALA annual conference and will the role of research data curation, assume a one-year presidency of the (continued on Page 6) Library Connections • 1 News from A Meeting of Miles

the Stacks The MU Libraries have a history of keeping the Mizzou family in touch. • The Andrew W. Mellon This year, Miles Shearrer, a senior Foundation has awarded MU at MU who works at Ellis Library, Libraries $400,000 to support was reunited with the University of the recovery effort from last Missouri Health Care physician who October’s mold outbreak in saved his life 22 years ago. an off-site storage facility. The Shearrer and his family reconnected funding will allow MU Li- with physician Judith Miles at a braries to remediate mold for luncheon hosted by Les Hall, interim Library student worker Miles Shearrer key groups of materials and dean of the MU School of Medicine, (center) and his parents (left) were reunited will facilitate work with part- and Jim Cogswell, director of MU with his life-saving physician Judith Miles (2nd on right) at a luncheon hosted by Les ner institutions for resource Libraries, in January. sharing. Thanks to the sup- Hall, MD, interim dean of the medical school When Shearrer was an infant, (far right). Photo by Jim Cogswell. port from the Mellon Foun- his parents, David, BS Acc ’91, and dation, as well as our generous Kathy, BA, BS Ed ’91, experienced The family stayed in the intensive alumni and friends, total gifts a crisis many young parents fear but care unit for a week before returning and pledges to assist in salvag- few encounter. The young Shearrer home with a regimen of antibiotics. ing our damaged collections became fussy and inconsolable, Shearrer experienced no adverse have reached $430,680. A quickly losing his coloring and turning effects from his encounter with a contract has been awarded to gray. Kathy took her infant to the deadly infection. Today, he is studying restore the moldy books, and family’s local pediatrician, Hana economics and history at MU. materials have been moved to Solomon, who immediately told her Solomon, a 1986 graduate of a new environmentally secure to take her son to the University the MU School of Medicine who storage facility. For more in- Hospital emergency department. completed pediatric residency training formation, or to make a gift to By the time Kathy reached the at MU in 1989, still practices in the Collection Enhancement emergency room, infant Shearrer Columbia. Miles, an emerita professor Fund, visit library.missouri.edu. had stopped breathing, but the quick of child health and genetics, seeks to work of hospital staff and the care of find better treatments for childhood • The Renew Mizzou project attending physician Miles stabilized medical problems through her work at requires two large rooms in the newborn, who had contracted MU’s Thompson Center for Autism Ellis Library — the West sepsis, a severe bacterial infection. and Neurodevelopment Disorders. Reading Room on the second floor and the former Current Periodicals Reading Room Where in the MU Libraries? on the main floor — to be used as office space for staff relocated from . The two reading rooms were closed to students following spring commencement and will remain closed for up to one year until work in Jesse Hall is finished. The closure of the two study rooms will mean that 437 study spaces will be unavailable for stu- dents this summer and con- tinuing until the end of the spring semester next year. Do you know where this picture was taken in the MU Libraries? Find the answer at the bottom of Page 6. Photo by Shannon Cary. 2 • University of Missouri Meet the Librarian: Edward McCain, BJ ’79, digital curator of journalism

What led you to MU Libraries? sition is funded 50-50 by MU Librar- I grew up in Independence, Mis- ies and RJI. I work closely with Ran- souri, and began taking pictures for dy Picht, BJ ’80, the executive direc- the local newspaper at 15. My col- tor of RJI, and Michael Holland, the leagues at the paper recommended head of special collections, archives I attend the Missouri School of and rare books at MU Libraries. Be- Journalism. I took their suggestion, ing located at RJI allows me to be a earning my bachelor’s degree with part of RJI and the J-School opera- an emphasis in photojournalism. tions and culture, and I make an extra I worked at several daily newspapers effort to reach out to other archivists in the southwestern U.S. Eventually, I and librarians and look for ways that started my own photography business. I can contribute to efforts to curate I discovered the value of stock pho- and preserve digital collections, data tography, which allowed me to resell from research and valuable electronic Edward McCain is the digital curator of images I already had taken for new resources. Lately that has taken the journalism, which is a joint appointment purposes. In order to increase the effi- shape of working on the Digital Asset with the MU Libraries and the Donald ciency of my stock photography sales, I Management System Interest Group W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Photo provided by Edward McCain. began learning about controlled vocab- with Felicity Dykas, MA ’93. ularies, keywords, metadata, schemata, analog news content by digitizing it, databases, digital asset management What are some of the interesting very little has been done to preserve systems and other methods of organiz- aspects of your job? the born-digital resources, and there ing information. I found myself drawn This is a one of a kind position. I is strong evidence that this “first to this part of my business and finally haven’t met anyone else with the title rough draft of history” is disappearing made the connection to library science. or function of digital curator of jour- down what George Orwell called a Upon graduation from the School nalism. This speaks to MU’s strength “memory hole” in his book 1984. of Information Resources and Library as a center of interdisciplinary think- Because this is such a novel en- Science at the University of Arizona, ing and action. On any day, I might deavor, I’ve been given a fairly wide my internship at the Center for Cre- be working with student and faculty berth to explore how best to approach ative Photography (CCP) transitioned journalists at the , solving the enigma of born-digital into a full-time temporary position MBA students at the Trulaske Col- news preservation. I’ve chosen to use where I worked with improving the lege of Business, executives in private a model based on systems thinking. digital imaging workflow, assisted in enterprise, or other librarians and Based on my current understanding the migration of one collection man- archivists who are working to preserve of the state of born-digital news pres- agement system to a newer one, began digital collections. ervation, the BUILD initiative seems working with the digital collections to to offer a useful framework based on clean up and embed metadata at the What vision do you bring to your five broad areas: context, components, item level, and assist in preparing digi- position as digital curator? connections, infrastructure and scale. tal files for publication in books. Mizzou Advantage and MU Libraries The basic idea is that these kinds of While working at the CCP, I no- have assumed a leadership role in ef- systemic problems cannot be resolved ticed a job listing at MU Libraries forts to preserve news archives since by addressing any one specific issue or for digital curator of journalism. I the first Newspaper Archive Sum- using a single tactic. We need to work was drawn to the challenge of work- mit in 2011. I want to make sure the on multiple fronts if we are to achieve ing with and preserving digital news University of Missouri continues and sustainable results. content because it would require a builds on that role by advancing what Currently, my efforts include creat- blend of archive and library science I call the journalism digital news ar- ing a conference of major stakeholders and knowledge of journalism and chive agenda. Central to that agenda in the field of born-digital news pres- entrepreneurship. is preserving news content that was ervation, including memory institu- created by a keystroke on a computer, tions, government agencies, informa- How is your job a partnership be- by a sensor in an imaging device or by tion services providers and publishers. tween the MU Libraries and the software or other electronic means. The conference has been funded by Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI)? Although there has been some atten- Mizzou Advantage and the Donald W The digital curator of journalism po- tion given to preserving print or other Reynolds Journalism Institute. Library Connections • 3 PIECES OF THE

PASTUNIVERSITY ARCHIVES IS A MIZZOU TIME CAPSULE. Story by Genevieve Conti Photos by Shane Epping

any Tigers have Mizzou history highlights memorized by the time they don a cap M and gown: the birth of Homecoming, the story of MU’s iconic Columns, a sports rivalry that lasted more than a century and the leaders who shaped the university into what it is today. Take a trip to University Archives, and you’ll quickly realize how much more there is to Mizzou’s past. “The university is an institution with a 175- year history,” says Michael Holland, director of University Archives and head archivist at MU since 1997. “While students may be here for only a few

Above: This Remington-Smith Premier typewriter with years, they are part of a larger and longer history.” linotype key configuration is thought to have belonged to To document MU’s official functions and the Walter Williams, founder of the School of Journalism. The Mizzou community, the archives accept a variety of 16 mm film reel holds footage from the 1948 Mizzou vs. materials, many of which come from departments Navy football game and from the team’s visit with President Harry S. Truman at the White House. when their records are no longer in use.

4 • University of Missouri “The majority of what we have is on paper Gary Cox, public services archivist, says the because that’s how business has been transacted vertical files, or reference materials in the reading since the founding of the university,” says Anselm room in Lewis Hall related to broader topics Huelsbergen, technical services archivist. (Homecoming, admissions, academic departments, They also house some audio and video student life, etc.), are a good place to start. recordings and 3-D objects, which include the “Sometimes I’ll pull out a vertical file so they first university seal, a uniform from the first can get their secondary sources in line first,” Cox football team and what is believed to be Walter says. “You get your names and dates, and then it’s Williams’ composition typewriter. a lot easier to look through our finding aids.” The finding aids, searchable on the archives RECORDS IN THE DIGITAL AGE website, are short descriptions of the materials The entire collection takes up about 13,000 in each collection. cubic feet of space. (For reference, that’s about 383,468 quarts of Buck’s Tiger Stripe ice cream.) STRANGER THAN FICTION Some of the archives are housed in Lewis Requests for materials come from all over, Cox and Clark halls, where the University Archives says. Many records requests are routine, but offices are, but most live in the records center on some can be pretty unusual. LeMone Industrial Boulevard. One of the stranger requests he receives is “Currently, we’re still adding between 300 to about Jim the Wonder Dog, a Llewellin Setter 400 cubic feet of paper a year,” Huelsbergen says. from Marshall, Mo., who lived from 1925 to 1937. That number is down from a peak of about “He was supposed to be kind of a mind 700 cubic feet of paper per year, due, in part, to reader,” Cox says of the dog, who reportedly chose an increase in electronic records, which pose new the winner of seven Kentucky Derbies, could challenges for archivists. understand commands in foreign languages and “When you take a piece of paper and house could predict the sex of unborn babies. “Supposedly it in an acid-free folder and then in an acid-free he came to campus, and the veterinary professors container, your main concern is that something did a test on him, and it was supposedly filmed. happens physically to that room,” Huelsbergen I’ve never found anything about that, but people says. “When you write some bits to a computer always ask about him. It’s pretty strange.” disc, you need to be sure that computer disc “That is the beauty of archival work,” continues to spin, that you still have machines Holland says. “It takes a very unimaginative that can read it, that when they read it, they’re person to get bored.” reproducing it accurately.”

DO YOUR HOMEWORK Because the collection is so big, “you have to know a little about what you’re researching before you show up,” Holland says. “In the world of archives, as opposed to libraries, we don’t have a cataloging approach where you control everything by access through author, title and subject,” Huelsbergen says. “Our concern is really where the materials come from, and in what context were they created.”

Michael Holland, university archivist and head of special collections archives and rare books, appraises departmental records for potential inclusion into the University Archives collections. Calendar of Events Spring Events in the MU Libraries Sept. 16 Is Liberal Education Out of Style? A conversation with former Chancellor Richard Wallace and MU President Emeritus Mel George during the MU 175th Anniversary Commemorative Week 3 to 4 p.m. Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union

Sept. 17 to Oct. 31 American Library Association Exhibit: “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War” MU Law Library Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson speaking at the Library Society Dinner April 11. Photo by Scott Peterson. Oct. 25 Homecoming open house 10 a.m. to noon Ellis Library Colonnade

Nora Faris, winner of Where in the the 2014 Stuckey Essay Contest, receives her MU Libraries? award from Bill Carner. Photo by Gene Royer. Answer: This is the main floor of the Frank Lee Martin Journalism Library located in the Reynolds Library Society Dinner Journalism Institute. The attendees mingle at Journalism Library has been the reception in the providing critical resources to Ellis Library Grand students, researchers and working Reading Room. Photo journalists since 1908. A brand by Scott Peterson. new Journalism Library facility opened in the fall of 2008 in Ann Campion Riley to Lead Library Association the new Donald W. Reynolds (continued from Page 1) Journalism Institute (RJI). The library is named after the associate are continuing challenges. Looking from 2009–13 and has a long history dean of the Missouri School for the next set of challenges won’t of service to ACRL. Her knowledge of of Journalism, who enrolled a take long as ACRL looks forward and ACRL, academic librarianship and the group of students expelled from works to engage and serve new and higher education environment, along Louisiana State University in 1934 current members.” with her leadership in both ACRL and after they refused to allow their ACRL Executive Director Mary other organizations, will be an asset to student newspaper to be censored Ellen K. Davis is excited for Riley to the board as it continues to work with by U.S. Senator Huey Long. join the association’s board. “Ann was a members to meet their needs and to director-at-large on the ACRL board advance the plan for excellence.”

6 • University of Missouri Friends of the Libraries Update Awards and Recognition The Friends of the Libraries (FOL) a new SHS building. The design Council had their biannual meeting for the new SHS building has been April 12, 2014, in the Reynolds approved and will bear a resemblance Bernadine Abbott Alumni Center on the MU campus. to Ellis Library. The new building will The FOL Council agreed to create be located on the Heinkel Building Hoduski Founders Award a Nominations Committee to help fill lot between Fifth and Sixth streets Marie Concannon, BES open positions on the council. Mary near Elm Street. Land from the MU ’87, MA ’90, government Barile, MA ’05, PhD ’09, will head this campus and the city of Columbia has documents coordinator for committee with Gary Smith, M Ed been donated for the building. It will MU Libraries, is the recipient ’65, EdD ’71, and Robin Wenneker, cost $37 million to build. Kremer does of the 2014 Bernadine Abbott BS BA ’91, as committee members. not expect the construction to begin Hoduski Founders Award. Jody Feldman, BJ ’78, and Angie this year but hopes it will soon. Gwinner, BJ ’94, were approved as This year’s winners of the Robert This award recognizes new council members. J. Stuckey Essay Contest are Nora documents librarians who The FOL Council discussed Faris from Concordia High School have made significant the creation of a FOL Faculty in Concordia, Missouri, with her first contributions to the field of Subcommittee, consisting of faculty place essay “On the Road (and Read) state, international, local members from each MU campus Again – the Journey of a Roving or federal documents. This department, to advocate for the Reader,” and JoAnna Massey from award was presented to libraries to the campus leadership. Cass Midway R-1 School in Cleveland, Concannon for her talent Gary Kremer, executive director Missouri, with her second-place essay for turning challenges into at the State Historical Society (SHS) “The Importance of Gender in the win-win opportunities that of Missouri, spoke about plans for Young Adult Action/Adventure Genre.” have directly benefitted libraries throughout the state of Missouri. Welcome Letter DeWeese to Retire from Chancellor After 40 Years of Instruction Librarian R. Bowen Loftin Exemplary Service Goodie Bhullar Honored (continued from Page 1) Congratulations, Goodie campus, we must enable access to all June DeWeese, head of access Bhullar, MA ’77, MA of our library resources, both print services, who helped define the ’81, who received a and electronic. We must increase the MU Libraries for more than 2014 Writing Intensive number of digital resources available to 40 years, will be retiring on Teaching Excellence our students, and we must provide more Aug. 31. As a major figure in Award in recognition of of our print materials in digital format many campus activities, state and her contributions in serving to enable students to utilize the full national library associations, and on the Campus Writing range of our collections. in the founding of MOBIUS, Board, coordinating library DeWeese has been an important It can sometimes be difficult to look instruction for many writing presence in the academic library to the future, envisioning changes to intensive classes and being world. Her strong leadership and the libraries we love. As we contemplate an excellent teacher. She advocacy will continue to affect the changing needs of our students, was honored at a reception we remember that the cozy stacks and the MU Libraries for years. At her April 18 at the Benton the precious print collections of the retirement reception in April, more Bingham Ballroom in MU Libraries will remain. But with than 100 campus and community Memorial Union. your continued support, we can make friends came out to honor her. changes that will enhance the libraries’ She has also been honored by the functionality for our future Tigers. university by receiving the title of Librarian IV Emerita. M-I-Z! Dr. R. Bowen Loftin Chancellor Library Connections • 7 MU Libraries Office of Advancement University of Missouri 104 Ellis Library Columbia, MO 65201-5149

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