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Spring 2022 Research Rewards

Improve your research. Win some coffee. UMKC students enrolled in spring 2022 courses can schedule a meeting with a librarian to discuss their research! We can help you form a research question, plan a literature review, manage your citations, find sources for an assignment, and more.
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Becky Briggs Becker

New University Archivist

The UMKC Libraries are excited to welcome Becky Briggs Becker as our new University Archivist.
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Claude “Fiddler” Williams Collection Now Available

Noted Kansas City jazz violinist and guitarist Claude “Fiddler” Williams is highlighted in this newest digitized entry in the UMKC Digital Special Collections. The photos range from the 1960s through the 2000s and cover the gamut of Williams career, personal life, and local ties to Kansas City. 
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Digital Projects Receives Gift Funding

The UMKC Libraries are excited report that we have received a gift totaling $30,942 from the Herbert Vincent Jones Jr. Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, to fund a term-limited appointment for a Senior Academic Digital Projects Fellow.
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Faculty Purchase Requests Due January 28

UMKC faculty who would like the Libraries to order materials for courses you are teaching in spring or summer 2022 should place your purchase requests with the library by January 28, 2022.
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Libraries Closed December 24 – January 2

Miller Nichols Library and Health Sciences Library will be closed December 24, 2021 - January 2, 2022 for winter break, reopening and resuming regular intersession hours on January 3.
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Winter Wishes from the UMKC Libraries

As the hustle and bustle of the fall semester gives way to the respite of the winter break, we are all looking forward to finding some moments of peace.
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Library Makes Changes to Checkout Policies

The staff in Circulation Services reviewed our use policies in order to ascertain if changes could be made that allowed easier use of these items while still making items available to most users.
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EXHIBIT DISPLAY TABLES

Case dimensions: 5’ long x 30” wide x 9” high sitting atop 3’ legs

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FIRST FLOOR GALLERY

The First Floor Gallery is located just inside the main entrance of the Miller Nichols Library.

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Conference Room 325

Located on the Third Floor of Miller Nichols Library. For access, enter the library at the north ground floor entrance or the west first floor entrance. Then take the stairs or the elevator to the third floor..

Map of third floor of Miller Nichols Library