Drury F.W. Olin Library

07/13/2023

It's Bastille Day - well almost. A few more hours. Greetings to all our French friends.
Photo from the Musee d'Orsay, Monet's "Rue Montorgueil, Paris, Celebration of June 30, 1878"

07/10/2023

07/10/2023

The Institute for Lifelong Learning will hear from Mr. David Eslick on Tuesday, July 11, 2-3 PM in the Olin Room. Eslick, a local historian, will detail the unique history of Springfield grocery stores.
Photo credit: SGCL Digital Darkroom Collection from the Springfield News-Leader. Gerald Bessey's Grocery at New & Madison when a car drove into it in 1960.

06/30/2023

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06/28/2023

Area high school removes four more books from their library due to new state law.

Four titles were brought to the school board's attention by citizens seeking to have them removed over content concerns.

06/28/2023

With stunning covers to capture your imagination, our bestseller book display at the Library Center is great to check out if you need help deciding what to read next.

06/26/2023

In 1953, ALA and the Association of American Publishers signed an historic statement affirming every American's Freedom to Read. https://bit.ly/3JxOeJY
Today we celebrate this anniversary by recommitting to this core value. Join us & sign on in support of everyone's right to read:

06/26/2023

The Institute for Lifelong Learning will hear from Sue Schuble at 2:00 Tuesday, June 27th in the Olin Room. Schuble traveled in 2022 to Norway’s Archipelago on a Lindblad/National Geographic ship. Sites visited included those along the western coast of Norway, then they circumvented the archipelago, seeing several polar bears, other Arctic animals and thousands of seabirds. Schuble is an avian volunteer at the Dickerson Park Zoo and is active in the Greater Ozark Audubon Society.

06/22/2023

Our newest bronze sculpture on campus is "Turning Point", the centerpiece of Panther Plaza, gifted to us by Tom Cray '77. By artist Jocelyn Russell of Friday Harbor, WA. See the details here: http://artcollection.drury.edu/items/show/2320

06/20/2023

David Dean Lewis is freshly waxed and ready to meet future Panthers outside Bay Hall. Mr. Lewis was a champion of higher education for rural students, giving a sizeable scholarship fund to Drury, OTC, and College of the Ozarks for students from Taney County, MO. James Hall III is the sculptor of this bust, and Tom Ehlers created the plinth. Hall also created Dr. Stephen Good, who sits reading in front of Olin Library.

06/19/2023

Juneteenth, from the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-19/ #:~:text=Juneteenth%20commemorates%20June%2019%2C%201865,of%20legalized%20slavery%20in%20Texas.

06/19/2023

The Institute for Lifelong Learning will hear from Dr. Steve Berkwitz, Prof. Religious Studies, MSU on Tuesday June 20th at 2:00 in the Olin Room. His lecture is titled "Reading Buddhism in America".