Effective Dec. 31, 2009, old copy cards are being phased out and will no longer work to pay for printing and copying at UMKC Libraries. Moving forward, users will pay for photocopying and any printing that exceeds their weekly print quotas by using their UMKC ID card with "OneCard" purchasing capabilities.

This change also applies to UMKC departments using department copy cards.Departmental OneCards are available from the OneCard office in the University Center between 8am-5pm, M-F. Existing old copy cards purchased with departmental accounts will need to be spent down by the end of 2009.
 

Questions? Call: 816-235-5828 or email Mark Mattison
 

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Stop by the Access Services area on the first floor of Miller Nichols Library and check out the new display featuring books by and about Nobel Prize winners. 

A new LibGuide has also been to our Web site including great information and links about the prize and prize winners in the categories of Chemistry, Economics, Literature, Medicine, Peace, and Physics.

Both the display and guides were created by our Graduate Student Assistants, the Graduate Teaching Assistant, and SISLT Fellow.

by Alexia Lang

With depth and complexity, William Burroughs penned his books.

Burroughs was born in 1914 to a prominent family. Throughout his life and his many troubles, he always had his family to bail him out.

He grew up in St. Louis, attended college at Harvard University and worked during the summers at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

In 1944, he began living with Joan Vollmer, who later became his common law wife. Burroughs developed an addiction to morphine, which caused a considerable number of problems with the law. Vollmer's drug of choice was Benzedrine. (read more)
 

Bring a lunch or pick it up from Café a la Carte on the library’s first floor.

Questions? Call: 816-235-5828 or email Mark Mattison
 

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by Alexia Lang

Back in the day, the happening, hip place was the Uptown Theater.

Joseph K. Redmond was the go-to man for all things pertaining to theater. As the theater manager for the Uptown and Tower theaters, Redmond collected materials about movie and stage theaters, primarily in Kansas City. (read more)
 

by Alexia Lang

It's a wild world out there full of vampires, goblins, spirits, angels and demons.In the days before All Hallows Eve, we must be on the lookout for suspicious, paranormal activity.But don't worry. The LaBudde Special Collections has exactly what you need to stay educated and safe during this haunted season. (read more)
 

Bring a lunch or pick it up from Café a la Carte on the library’s first floor.

Questions? Call: 816-235-5828 or email Mark Mattison
 

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by Alexia Lang

Some men and women are history makers. In 1938, Leon M. Jordan joined the Kansas City Police Department, became the first African- American to become a Lieutenant, (and in 1947) lived in Liberia, training its police force while his wife, Orchid, played a vital role in establishing the records bureau of the Liberian police department (read more)

The LaBudde Special Collections Department at the Miller Nichols Library houses the Leon M. Jordan Collection, which is comprised of photos, documents and other items belonging to the couple. For more information about the collection, visit the LaBudde Special Collections Department or online at http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col-collections/jordan.