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The St. Louis Mercantile Library, founded in 1846 in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was originally established as a membership library, and is the oldest extant library west of the Mississippi River. [1] Since 1998 the library has been housed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as a Special Collections library within the Thomas Jefferson ...
By 2005 the Libraries of the university housed more than one million volumes, including a Federal Depository Library, a computerized Library Research Commons, and the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. The Thomas Jefferson Library was one of the first of three new buildings constructed on the campus.
The impetus for a college campus in its current location began in 1957 when members of the Bellerive Country Club put their 53-year-old club house and 125-acre (50.6 ha) grounds on the market for $1.3 million as they planned to move to larger quarters in Town and Country, Missouri.
Viral photo of near-empty library shelves sends powerful message: 'We removed every book with content that could offend someone' Beth Greenfield November 17, 2021 at 12:28 PM
Dolly Parton visited Kansas City on Tuesday after Missouri became the 14th state to make Imagination Library available to every child age 5 and under.
View of the library's west entrance which faces Ninth Street and Conley. Constructed in 1915, [3] Elmer Ellis Library is the main library of the University of Missouri on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. It was named in 1972 for former university president Elmer Ellis. [4]
The Missouri State Library (MSL) is the official State Library of Missouri located in Jefferson City, Missouri. MSL provides library and reference services directly to the executive and legislative branches of the state's government. [ 2 ]
The Current's former office, in a house at 7940 Natural Bridge Rd., was damaged by an arsonist in 1997.; The Current broke a national story in September 1999 when it reported that the president of the Student Government Association was a convicted felon who had pleaded guilty to two felonies, stealing a credit device and fraudulent use of a credit device, shortly after he won the spring election.