Mizzou LISGSA

05/22/2022

Sorry for the slight delay with end-of-semester madness, but here's the recording of our May 4th event with Dr. Offord! Thanks for viewing. See you in the fall!

04/10/2022

Especially the latter, I'd say...

It's National Library Week, and Neil Gaiman has some thoughts...

04/02/2022

In response to new legislation and customer requests, Follett was working on optional features that would allow parents to request to be notified what book their child has checked out of the library and limit their access to materials. They will no longer be creating those options.

03/13/2022

Originally written by Danielle Gorman in Spring 2021 From Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, how many books do you know that barely pass the Bechdel-Wallace Test?…

03/09/2022

One bundle of homemade camouflage netting was packaged with a note reading, "Death to enemies." The libraries are also sending Ukrainian books out of the country, to refugees who have fled.

03/08/2022

The president of the American Library Association and others respond to an essay claiming that “woke librarians” have an agenda. Also: “Acts of loving service.”

03/05/2022

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden talks about primary source documents, media literacy and the role of community libraries.

03/01/2022

An article on a current trend in YA literature for anyone who might be working with teens.

Retellings in YA are perennially popular, but Greek mythology has especially had a moment in recent years.

02/26/2022

MU Libraries is pleased to provide access to British Literary Manuscripts Online. British Literary Manuscripts Online provides facsimile images of literary manuscripts, letters, diaries, drafts of …