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Library Connections Library Connections February 2007 • Volume 3, Number MU Libraries • University of Missouri-Columbia Philanthropy Plants Seeds of Growth urrounded by the results Jo Ann Trogdon are significantly William Trogdon, who writes of their generosity, 8 increasing their giving to the MU under the name of William Least Sindividuals and three orga- Libraries, elevating them to the Heat-Moon, holds four degrees nizations were honored Oct. 27 level of Jefferson Club Ambassador. from MU. He is the author of Blue at the unveiling of the MU Highways, Prairyerth, Libraries Donor Wall in and River-Horse. the James B. Nutter Family William Stauffer, Information Commons at chair of the MU Ellis Library. Libraries’ For All Approximately 00 people We Call Mizzou attended the unveiling of campaign steering the donor wall, created by committee, and Thomas D. Osborn of Boston. Director Jim The wall honors the donors Cogswell expressed who contributed to the James their gratitude for the B. Nutter Family Information generosity that trans- Commons. forms the libraries Following the unveiling, The names of Barbara and Donald Hiatte, left, and Nell and into vibrant areas of Chancellor Brady Deaton Tom Lafferre, right, and other donors are inscribed on the scholarly engagement. announced that William and new James B . Nutter Information Commons Donor Wall . Cups We Love to Admire Table of Contents The late John Schweitzer, BS BA ’52, and his Where Discovery Begins . 2 wife, Jo Ann, donated their collection You Can Adopt a Book . 2 of Royal Doulton loving cups to the Delving into Fashion . 3 libraries . Loving cups originated Save the Date . 3 from an old English custom of passing a spiced Exhibit Extends beverage from person to Libraries’ Reach . 3 person to ensure good 16th Century Treasures . .4-5 crops and health . These Queen Greets commemorative cups Library Society . 6 feel right at home at Ellis Book Exhibit Library: Most have literary Catalogs Available . 6 themes, from Dickens to Harvard Hosts Cogswell The Three Musketeers . Conversation . 7 The cup illustrated features an apothecary and the quote Calendar of Events . 7 from Romeo and Juliet: “O true Upcoming Luncheon apothecary Thy drugs are quick ”. The April 14 . 7 new loving cups will be dedicated in a Archiving Family Memories . 8 ceremony April 14 . Library Connections • Save This Date— MU Libraries — Where Discovery Begins Interlibrary Borrowing March 20, 2007 Upon announcing his legacy gift to the manuscript had been in Ellis Library a world-class library, and that the Connecting with the MU Libraries, Will Trogdon recalled since 928, most recently in the University of Missouri at Columbia Department to the Rescue “Wired” Generation his fondness for the University’s Western Historical Manuscript has such a resource. It has that aime Minard, a graduate Information technology is libraries. His remarks follow: Collection annex. How wonderful distinction because of the work student in Textiles and exploding. The millennial that something so rare, so valuable, and contributions of those who Apparel Management, hen I came to the J generation expects a wide array was lying there for all to see, yet have gone before us. I believe had a problem. She needed University in 957 as of information delivery systems, no one had. That surely is evidence it’s incumbent on us to continue to read 500 issues of Women’s a freshman, I had little from text messaging to video W that many more such works lie building on what others have done. Wear Daily for a research paper. idea how important the library phones. How do libraries, faculty undiscovered within the confines I also consider the cost of my The Interlibrary Borrowing would become in my life. The and support units address their of Ellis Library. It is still a place undergraduate education at MU Department of the Access building was then called simply the demands while serving traditional (as it was then) the greatest bargain Services Division helped University of Missouri Library, and users, too? I’ve ever known: my four years of Minard obtain the magazines. Elmer Ellis was president of only The 2007 Scholarly tuition in the 950s cost less than The oversized bound the Columbia campus. Because a Jaime Minard, MU graduate student, Communications Conference seven hundred dollars. Today, I want volumes, many with brittle examined old volumes of Women’s Wear rule then did not allow freshmen will offer answers March 20 in to repay a small percentage of what paper, arrived from the Daily for her research on the St . Louis — except those admitted to Honors Columbia at a session titled “The I believe I owe my university, and Center for Research Libraries. fashion industry from the 1930s-1960s . courses — into the closed stacks, Millennial Dilemma: Convergence we’ve chosen to do that through a Interlibrary Borrowing staff they became for me an “inner and Divergence in Meeting the bequest to the library, the soul of the provided a room to house them and June DeWeese, head of Access sanctum,” a place to study and Needs of Higher Education.” university. helped Minard scan selected pages. Services, notes that primary source explore. For the first time, I saw how Keynote speakers will help Will and Jan Trogdon expressed their We have recently announced an Minard researched fashions from materials abound at Ellis, but if immense and complex was the world conference participants explore gratitude for the scholarly resources enlarged bequest and the eventual the 930s through the 960s for her specific resources are not available, of books. It was a realization that has ways to better meet the needs of available at Ellis Library during the donation of our books about project, which led to an article in Interlibrary Borrowing can help never left me. their own students and faculty. announcement of their significant gift exploration and travel in America; Focus, the newsletter of the Center obtain them. The library later provided to the MU Libraries Oct . 27 . They are: we believe these 3,000 books to be for Research Libraries. sources for my writing. Even more • Betsy Barefoot, co-director for importantly, in a roundabout way, for discovery. That William Clark one of the premiere collections of its manuscript led Jan to introduce type in the world. We hope what we the Policy Center on the First it brought my wife, Jan, and me Year of College and associate together. Several years ago, before herself and her project to me. She are doing now will encourage others sees Clark now not just as the to think about the Library in their professor of educational I met her, she discovered a virtually leadership, Brevard College, unknown manuscript by William subject of the book she is writing, to long-range estate planning as well as be published next year we hope, but an institution deserving immediate North Carolina; Clark about his trip down the • Chris Dede, Timothy E. Ohio and Mississippi rivers a few also as a matchmaker. We toast gifts. him regularly. We hope the MU Libraries will Wirth professor of learning years before he joined Meriwether technologies at the Harvard Lewis on their great voyage and Jan and I believe that at the go to people’s minds and hearts, as it heart of every great university is has to ours. Graduate School of Education; trek to the Northwest coast. The • Carie Windham, author of Getting Past Google: Book Conservation Gets Boost Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millennial U Libraries house many A $200,000, three-year grant from and other expenses for the initial Mind and Father Google and rare and unique books. the Kemper Foundation comple- phase of a comprehensive new plan Mother IM: Confessions of a MBecause of their age, these ments a new Adopt-A-Book program to provide for the preservation and Net Gen Learner; and materials require special care. The unveiled by the Friends of the MU restoration of endangered artifacts. • A panel of Missouri experts. William T. Kemper Foundation of Libraries. The program will allow You can join the effort to ensure Kansas City, Mo., and the Friends donors to sponsor a specific book continued access to rare books Registration forms and of the MU Libraries will combine or books. Their donations will be by future generations of scholars. additional information will be efforts to preserve these rare matched with Kemper grant funds. Contact Sheila Voss at vosss@ The Queen Elizabeth I exhibit attracted hundreds of viewers during its display available in February 2007 at at Ellis Library last fall . Community programs and presentations covering the resources. The grant will also fund staffing missouri.edu or 573-882-968. mulibraries.missouri.edu art, music, theater and other features of Elizabethan culture accompanied the Questions and comments exhibit . Director Jim Cogswell said the exhibit was one of the libraries’ most may be sent to June DeWeese at 2 • University of Missouri-Columbia successful outreach efforts in recent years . Library Connections • 3 [email protected] New and Rare Acquisitions HONOR with BOOKS elebrate a special occasion. • Favorite professor By Alla Barabtarlo, senior librarian, issued by Sebastian (554) and his The name Gryphius is a CHonor a friend, family • Memorial tributes Rare Books and Special Collections illegitimate son, Antonius, in 574. Latinized form of Greif, or griffin, member or favorite professor. The Gryphius family of printers sometimes spelled “gryphon,” the • Graduations The libraries have recently was very colorful and industrious. mythical animal with the head and Acknowledge an accomplishment. acquired some rare and wonderful According to the Bibliographie wings of an eagle and the body of a • Birthdays 6th century Lyonnaise, Sebastian Greif was lion. One of the most characteristic An MU Libraries Honor with • Anniversaries books by born in Würtemberg, Germany in features of this printer’s house is Books donation is the perfect Ovid, adding 493 and came to Lyon after some their printer’s device and a motto: way to provide a lasting tribute to • Retirements to the already time spent in Italy with his father, Virtute duce, comite fortuna — Bartholomeus Merula, published remarkable Michel, also a printer.
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