Celebrate Banned Books Week at the Livingston Lord Library

Join the Library in celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Banned Books Week during the month of October. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. The Library has some of the most often banned or challenged books on display in the front lobby. These books are cleverly hidden in brown paper bags to disguise their titles. […]

Children’s Book Award Committee members needed

The Livingston Lord Library is looking for faculty/staff who are interested in serving on our children’s 2012-13 book award committee. Committee work includes evaluating new picture books, attending committee meetings and ultimately selecting the best read aloud picture books of 2012. To receive an application form for committee membership, contact Korella Selzler [selzler@mnstate.edu]. Application deadline: Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Additional […]

Upgrade to Library system Sept. 22-23

This weekend, the MSUM Library will move to a new version of its online system called Aleph. During this downtime, users will not be able to submit interlibrary loan requests and may notice some minor discrepancies in MnPALS (online catalog) records. Users will be able to access databases from off-campus through the Library’s proxy server service. The system will be […]

Benjamin Smith named Dille Award winner

Benjamin Smith has been selected as the 2012-13 recipient of the Dille Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Smith will present “The Gift of Language” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18 in Room 103 of the MSUM library. The lecture will address the unique human ability to choose what language we use in a given context based […]