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Century-old Soil Survey Maps Also Reveal the Built Environment
Have you seen our latest display in the Bookmark Café? From a distance, these maps–neither paintings nor drawings–look like antique marbleized papers with amorphous shapes in a dreamy blending of...
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Knowledge of Sailors’ Wages Enhances Tours of Only Above-Water Whaleback Ship...
This guest post is written by Martin Karpa, Volunteer with the Superior Public Museums in Superior, Wisconsin. My first job after graduating high school was on a ship sailing the Great Lakes. I worked...
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University Libraries Provide Access to Online Data Fair
The University of Missouri Libraries are not just places to find books and journals – we also make available data that is ready for quantitative analysis. Through the University Libraries, all of our...
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Government Documents give a glimpse at the beginnings of Daylight Saving Time...
“This daylight-saving plan will afford an opportunity to many thousands of working people, those who work in offices and in factories and in mills and probably in mines, and on railroads, so that if...
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Government Information takes you behind the scenes of Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
The 2019 Oscar nominations get one thinking of all the great films that came out in 2018. What were some of your favorites? Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville’s documentary about Mister...
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Historic climatological publications available from the National Centers for...
This winter has certainly been one for the history books when it comes to weather—it is a rare event indeed for Chicago to be colder than the North Pole! Weather data is fascinating, but knowing where...
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Take a Look at the Fashions of the First Ladies with Government Documents
With the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibition coming up next week (accompanied, of course, by the opening celebration Gala on Monday), May means...
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State Documents Detail Missouri Beer Production and Consumption from the...
While their covers and titles can be on the generic side, annual reports of State Agencies are filled with interesting information that can be hard to find anywhere else. A great example of this is the...
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Mizzou Homecoming Goes to Washington
With the whole campus community excitedly gearing up for the 108th Homecoming, Ellis Library’s Government Documents department decided to bring their own unique spin to the preparations. Certainly,...
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PEGI Project Report Now Available
The Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project, a grant-based endeavor spearheaded by the University of North Texas in partnership with the University of North Carolina at...
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Apollo 11 Smithsonian Exhibit on Display at Ellis Library
Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission It was a moment that enthralled and inspired: humanity’s first steps on another world. It was the realization of centuries of dreams, and the fulfillment of...
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The U.S. Tax Code as Used by a Stock Market Expert
While leafing through the pages of the Wall Street Journal this holiday break, the obituary of Robert N. Gordon caught our eye. The article, with the fascinating headline “College dropout made name as...
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2019 Tax Information Is Now Available
2019 tax information is available at libraryguides.missouri.edu/tax. The deadline for filing is Wednesday, April 15, 2020.
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Forbidden Fashions of the Nineteen Forties
This week is New York Fashion Week, a grand tradition in the world of fashion that can trace its roots, interestingly enough, to World War II. Started in 1943 as “Press Week,”, the goal of the event...
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Interesting Marital Statistics for Valentine’s Day
Nestled in the the many pages of the Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 35th Annual Report for the 1912-1913 fiscal year is an entry that is quite fitting for Valentine’s Day. Under the headline...
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Spotlight: Prices and Wages Guide Illuminates a 1920 Cartoon
Boy tells girl “Jes’ you wait, Susie—I got six seventy-one saved up. Soon as I get nineteen dollars I’m gonna git me seventeen white collars and a swell suit; then I’m gonna git a job as office boy in...
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Update on Library Services
As part of our phased-in plan to increase library services, the book drop at the west entrance of Ellis Library (near Speaker’s Circle) is open. You may return or renew library books. Because we have...
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State Documents Detail Missouri Beer Production and Consumption from the...
While their covers and titles can be on the generic side, annual reports of State Agencies are filled with interesting information that can be hard to find anywhere else. A great example of this is the...
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A Government Document explores the history of that summer staple, the swim suit!
Summer officially arrived a couple of weekends ago, and with it the promise of many hot, sunny days — days just right for a nice dip in a cool body of water. As you gather up your swimming gear for a...
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Mizzou Librarian Co-Authors Award-Winning Report on Preservation of...
In the pre-internet age, most government information was distributed through the U.S. Government Printing Office, and public and college libraries throughout the United States were responsible for...
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