For the sixteenth year, children have chosen the best read aloud picture books in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Book Awards program. The 2020 winner of the Wanda Gág Read Aloud Book Award asks a simple but profound question: “If you close your eyes, what shape do you see?” Circle written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon […]
Pam Werre – Interim Executive Director for Library Services Congratulations, Pam on your new appointment!
MSUM staff member Karen Joan Kohoutek has published an essay in the peer-reviewed literary journal “The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies” (volume 11.1). The essay, “More Than Meets the Eye,” focuses on the female protagonists found in several of Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories. In addition to being a technician at the Livingston Lord Library, […]
OverDrive, our library’s digital reading platform, announced a new program called Black Lives Matter: Community Reads (https://bit.ly/3drclad). These #ownvoices titles will be made available to libraries at no cost and will be available for you to access instantly with no waitlists or holds: “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander “The Hate U […]
During the Livingston Lord Library’s COVID-19 closure, we will continue to provide Course Reserves service for faculty, but with new temporary procedures in place as physical reserves are no longer accessible for use. The library is limited to digitizing, providing ebooks, and searching for ebook alternatives for requested items. Processing and response times will be slower due to limited staffing […]