JCK Library News

Volunteers Needed for the 2009 Children’s Literature Festival

The James C. Kirkpatrick Library seeks volunteers to host the 41st Annual Children’s Literature Festival. Every year, the library hosts the annual Children’s Literature Festival. More than 6,000 children and 1,300 adults attend the festival during the first Monday and Tuesday of spring break, to hear over 40 nationally recognized children’s authors and illustrators discuss their craft. Come join in the fun!

Volunteers are needed most on Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17. You may volunteer for one day or both!

Here’s how it works:

• Volunteers arrive between 8:00-8:30am, and are normally finished by 2:30-3:00pm.
• Volunteers help get children seated, introduce authors to the audience, help manage autograph lines, and do anything that may be necessary to support an author’s speaking session.
• We provide you with a modest breakfast snack, a full lunch, and beverages throughout the day.
• Volunteers enjoy a discount on books purchased at the festival (these can be autographed!)
• Volunteers are given a certificate of appreciation.
• If there is a particular author you’d like to support, please let us know, and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

The festival couldn’t take place without the assistance of our many volunteers, so we do hope you can participate!

To volunteer, please contact:
Carol Smith Assistant Professor of Library Services
csmith@libserv.ucmo.edu
660-543-8639

2009-01-30 14:33
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DVDs at JCKL - Check It Out for Yourself (literally!)

If you’ve been in the library recently, you’ve probably seen the popular new self-checkout DVD Center (first floor, north side of circulation desk). If you haven’t, come give it a spin and save yourself some rental fees. All DVDs can be selected and checked out automatically using your UCM ID card.

The borrowing period for most titles is one week. Current popular releases (Tower A) may be taken out for 3 days only, and only two popular releases may be borrowed at a time. DVDs may not be reserved or renewed.

To peruse what’s available, from recent Hollywood blockbusters to foreign classics, click here.

Browsing for DVDs

Using the new self-checkout system

2009-01-20 18:35
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All Day Inauguration Coverage in the JCKL News Center

Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009.

We invite you to join us in the library’s News Center (2nd floor NE) for all day coverage of inauguration events on a flat-screen TV, beginning at 9am CST.

Coffee and cookies will be served at 10:30am, and you are welcome to bring your own lunch to watch the historic event.

Schedule and order of inauguration events (times are approximate)

9am CST: Festivities commence on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building.

• Musical selections: The United States Marine Band, San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus
• Call to order and welcoming remarks: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California
• Invocation: Dr. Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback megachurch in Orange County, California
• Musical selection: Aretha Franklin
• Vice President-elect Biden will be sworn into office by John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the Supreme Court
• Musical selection: John Williams, composer/arranger, with Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero and Anthony McGill

10:30am CST:

• Administration of the oath of office
• Inaugural address by President Obama
• Poem: Elizabeth Alexander
• Benediction: The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery
• The national anthem: The United States Navy Band “Sea Chanters”
• After President Obama gives the inaugural address, he will escort outgoing President George Bush to a departure ceremony before attending a luncheon in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.
• The 56th Inaugural Parade will then make its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House.

2009-01-13 10:06
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New Issue of InfoOne JCKL Newsletter

InfoOne is the newletter of the James C. Kirkpatrick Library. The Fall 2008 issue is now available for your reading pleasure.

2009-01-13 09:48
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Spring 2009 JCKL Welcome Tours

The James C. Kirkpatrick library offers tours of the library during the first several weeks of eachsemester. Tours not only let us show off our building;  after a tour you will have a good idea where library services are located, and know who will help when you have a question or problem with your research. Tours are an excellent introduction to the JCKL library! Come join us!

Tours meet just inside the west doors (front entrance).

The library will conduct tours of its facilities, services, and resources on these dates and times:

2009-01-13 09:32
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