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Pulitzer Prize-Winner Powers Speaks at Friends of the Libraries Luncheon MU LIBRARIES Pulitzer Prize-winner Powers Speaks at Friends of the Libraries Luncheon University of Missouri Ron Powers, Doug Crews, Columbia r 1963 graduate of Friends of the Libraries the University of president, led the July 2007 Missouri School luncheon meeting and Volume 3, Number 2 of Journalism and announced the winners a Pulitzer-prize of the 2007 Robert J. winning journalist, Stuckey Essay Contest. told Friends of the Kelly Bouquet, St. MU Libraries about Louis, won first place Table of his childhood love of in the contest with a Contents reading at their 17th monetary award of annual luncheon Ron Powers, BJ ’63, author of $1,500 for her essay, Flags of our Fathers and other r April 14. “Bon Appètit.” Kristy books, described how libraries Powers said his Bass, Jefferson City, FACULTY LECTURE SERIE S influenced his life and career 2 hometown library at the Friends of the Libraries won second place in Hannibal, Mo., Luncheon April 14, 2007. with a $750 award for THE “FARMER S WI F E ” 3 revealed a world of her essay, “Bound to stories to him and helped inspire him be Best Friends.” The teachers of ENDO W MENT GI F T S to become a writer. He signed his two both students received $250 each for HELP STUDENT S 4 recent books, Mark Twain: A Life and encouraging excellence in reading and Flags of Our Fathers, for the group. writing. ABRAHAM LINCOLN EXHIBIT Flags of Our Fathers was recently made Read the award-winning essays on 7 into an award-winning movie directed the Web at mulibraries.missouri.edu/ LOVIN G CUP S GET by Clint Eastwood. His remarks are about/friends/ ROYAL DEDICATION included in this newsletter. 7 r Gift Buys Internet Books to Boost Library Research SPECIAL SECTION : The Internet continues to “A single search can cover the revolutionize research, and MU complete contents of hundreds or RON PO W ER S REMARK S Libraries are keeping up with thousands of E-books,” Kevil says. “A technology, thanks to a little help from professor can also e-mail a link to a our friends. specific chapter to his class, and they This spring, Robert and Marlese can all access it at the same time.” Save the Date Gourley of Lee’s Summit, Mo., made One of the E-books purchased 22 “internet books,” or E-books, through the Gourley gift is Mark your calendar for available to Ellis Library users. the Springer Handbook of Nov. 3, 2007, a special Internet books are more expensive Nanotechnology, a useful reference fundraising event for to purchase than print volumes, on a topic that relates to medicine, MU Libraries. (page 6) according to Hunter Kevil, Collection engineering, chemistry, consumer Development librarian, but they have goods, the environment and many many advantages over print. other fields. “We select E-books based (Continued to page 6.) Library Donor Support Soars The “Farmer’s Wife” Dear Friends, In July 2005, I noted that the These statistics are proof that Nadezhda’s Round Dance completion of the James B. Nutter modern library facilities with up-to- I have wonderful Family Information Commons date technology result in greater news to share with in Ellis Library resulted in a 40 use by students and faculty. We By Alla Barabtarlo opera and the arts, and presented became one of the leaders of the you! Between July percent increase in use by students have been fortunate to have many Senior Librarian, Rare Books her to the Russian Imperial court. anti-Bolshevik Russian All-Military and Special Collections There she made a great impression, Union. Upon emigration, he and his Bill Stauffer 1, 2006 and June and faculty. Today, that figure is very generous friends. Thank you 30, 2007, the MU more like 60 percent. Ellis has for the gifts that have been used to Some time ago the MU Libraries and she became the highest paid famous wife became a very popular Libraries development program become so popular that its hours expand and improve MU Libraries. acquired a small collection Russian folk singer couple in Paris. enjoyed a record-breaking year, have been expanded to 2 a.m. We welcome all alumni and of rare Russian books. of her time. A series Russian expatriates in Europe raising over $2.8 million in planned Monday through Thursday to meet friends to visit the new, exciting Among them was one of romantic relations were understandably shocked when and cash gifts for Ellis Library and demand. This spring, a head count library improvements at MU. We whose English in 1938, Plevitskaia the eight branches. Over the course of Ellis Library users at 1 a.m. will be happy to explain the variety title might read: went to trial on charges of the “For All We Call Mizzou” recorded 200 students and faculty of opportunities still available to “Nadezhda’s Round of complicity, with Campaign, the Libraries have using that facility. Wow — this is help MU Libraries reach our goal: Dance — My Path to her husband, in the received more than $6.8 million in truly amazing! to become one of the country’s the Song”. The author, kidnapping and murder gifts from individual donors, private Another “wow” example of finest university library systems. Nadezhda Plevitskaia, of several leaders of foundations and corporations. how improved library facilities (1884-1940) was a the Russian White This puts us at 86 percent of our appeal to students is the renova- famous Russian folk movement under orders $8 million goal. tion of the Engineering Library singer. of the Soviet secret We spend a lot of time talking and Technology Commons. Its use Bill Stauffer, BJ ’52 Published in Berlin police. While she was about dollars and goals, so I want has increased by 150 percent since Chairman, MU Libraries campaign in 1925, this red convicted and sentenced you to know how your generous the fall 2005 semester. The hours steering committee paperback is very to 20 years in prison, gifts are transforming MU of access have been extended to elegant, with a book Skoblin vanished amidst Libraries. midnight to accommodate users. title hand-pasted and wild rumors spotting illustrated by the artist him everywhere from Disciplines Converge at MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series Nikolai Zaretskii, and Barcelona to Khabarovsk, with several portraits of or reporting him being From crime fiction to water wars, series, Dr. Ron Harstad professor of English; the author. poisoned, drowned, or faculty from many disciplines shared his take on the and “Crime Fiction: The book tells an shot by his colleagues presented their original scholarship policy implications of Theory & Practice,” unusual tale of the life from the Soviet secret and creative work at the 2006-07 economics in a lecture by Richard B. and fate of Nadezhda police. Upon later MU Libraries Faculty Lecture titled “Devils in Details: Schwartz, professor of Plevitskaia. Born into examination, the KGB’s Series, which began October 2006 at A Game-Theoretic English. a peasant family, the secret files revealed Ellis Library. Approach to Public The series will girl had only two years both the sums paid to “MU Libraries is excited to Policy Analysis.” continue in 2007-08. of primary schooling the couple for services provide a forum for our faculty to Other lectures in the The coming year’s English Professor because her mother was rendered and their share their compelling and diverse series were “Technology series will include a Richard B. Schwartz fiercely opposed to her operatic code names “the research interests with the campus for Successful Aging,” traced the evolution of talk by Carol Lazzaro- education. However, Cover for the book “Nadezhda’s Round Dance”. Portrait of Farmer” and “Farmer’s and the community,” says Geoffrey by Marjorie Skubic, crime fiction during the Weis, professor of her uncommonly Nadezhda Plevitskaia in a Russian folk costume. Wife.” However the Swindells, coordinator of the lecture associate professor “Crime Fiction: Theory French and Italian, beautiful voice and love of singing led to a succession of marriages. dossiers revealed nothing of her series and government documents of electrical and & Practice” discussion tentatively titled on March 19. The lecture brought her to the Holy Trinity Her fourth and last came at the husband Skoblin’s fate. librarian. “This is the second year computer engineering; “Tixier’s Travels: The was part of the MU monastery choir, where she spent end of the Russian Civil War when In 1940, Plevitskaia mysteriously that the libraries have hosted this “International French and the Osage Libraries Faculty Lecture two years as a novice. Eventually she was captured during a cavalry died in a French prison just when series, which we feel is an important Conscience, the Cold Series. after the Louisiana she became a professional singer raid by Nikolai Skoblin along with intelligence officers from the venue for disseminating the War and Apartheid,” by Purchase.” For a and worked in provincial theatres, some soldiers, who immediately invading German army arrived to knowledge that is created on this Carol Anderson, associate professor complete list of lectures offered in where she was noticed by the recognized the singer in her Red interrogate her. campus.” of history; “Los Angeles vs. the the series, visit mulibraries.missouri. famous tenor Leonid Sobinov, who nurse’s uniform. An ambitious young This fascinating book is available At the first lecture of the 2006-07 Paiutes,” by Karen Piper, associate edu/about/faculty-lecture-series/ introduced her to the world of White Army general, Skoblin soon in Ellis Library Special Collections. 2 • University of Missouri-Columbia Library Connections • 3 Endowment gifts help students U Libraries supporters Simpson, Geoffrey Peterson and Sherry live in Joplin, where Bill know their gifts help Christopher Pullen.
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