MSU Library News Archive
2024 - 2025 Academic Year
September 30, 2024 - Novelist Carl Hiaasen to deliver MSU Library’s annual Trout Lecture on Oct. 10
September 26, 2024 - MSU Library acquires papers of longtime employee who won a judgment against MSU in 1990
September 26, 2023 - Celebrating the right to read with Banned Book Week
September 1, 2024 - Novelist Carl Hiaasen chosen to give MSU Library's annual Trout Lecture
2023 - 2024 Academic Year
June 4, 2024 - Researcher receives Montana State’s Distinctive Collections Travel and Access Award
May 28, 2024 - Montana State University Library public relations materials win awards at national competition
April 30, 2024 - Library display marks 50th anniversary of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’
April 30, 2024 - Library student employee publishes children’s book in collaboration with university
professors
April 19, 2024 - New Montana State University Library digital collection features history of Intermountain Opera
April 11, 2024 - Montana State, Gallatin College MSU professors named MUS Teaching Scholars
March 20, 2024 - MSU Library introduces the new sensory seeking space
February 1, 2024 - MSU Library and DISC advocate for health equity
November 20, 2023 - Papers from Montana-based author Thomas McGuane now available to public at MSU Library
November 7, 2023 - ‘Meet the Animal Ambassadors’ set for Nov. 8 at the MSU Library
October 13, 2023 - Doralyn Rossmann selected as new dean of Montana State University Library
October 5, 2023 - Banned Books Week Coverage
September 22, 2023 - The "Sorting Out Race" exhibit received coverage in The MSU Exponent, MSU's student newspaper
- “Sorting Out Race” exhibit educates about racial depictions through thrifted items
- Visit the MSU Library “Sorting Out Race” Exhibit to Explore Racial Bias
August 16, 2023 - The History of Western fly fishing to be discussed Sept. 14 at annual Montana State Trout Lecture
July 25, 2023 - Montana-based author Thomas McGuane donates papers to Montana State University Library
July 5, 2023 - MSU Library hosting traveling exhibit from Kaufmann Museum on racial imagery in thrift store donations
2022 - 2023 Academic Year
June 2023 - Jodi Allison-Bunnell has been named a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists
- Click here to read view her profile on the Society of American Archivist's webpage.
- Click here to read the MSU News press release.
May 30, 2023 -Antonie Dvorakova receives Montana State’s 2023 Distinctive Collections Travel and Access Award
April 12, 2023 - Four new citizen science kits available for checkout at Montana State University Library
March 21, 2023 - Montana State University research will be more accessible thanks to new partnership
February 9, 2023 - Montana State University Library receives grant for Tribal College Librarians Institute
December 22, 2022 - Metalwork exhibit to display at Montana State Library through Jan. 18
November 29, 2022 - Professor Eric Funk donates historic papers to Montana State
November 10, 2022 - Montana State University Library to host discussion about Montana Modernism
October 24, 2022 - Montana State receives $250,000 grant to examine use of artificial intelligence in libraries
October 14, 2022 - New Montana State library partnership to expand reach of MSU research publications
September 2022 - Trout Lecture Coverage
Jim Goetz to discuss Montana stream access cases at MSU Library’s Trout Lecture set for Sept. 22
Attorney behind Montana's stream access cases discusses career at Montana State University event (Open in an Incognito window if you do not have a Bozeman Daily Chronicle digital subscription.)
2021-2022 Academic Year
June 2, 2022 - MSU Library Dean Kenning Arlitsch leaving for position at Central European University, Doralyn Rossmann named interim dean
June 2022 - Conversations on Collecting Yellowstone conference coverage on Wyoming Public Media
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- https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2022-06-10/on-yellowstones-150th-anniversary-documentarian-looks-at-the-happenstance-of-history
- https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/arts-culture/2022-05-26/a-conference-on-yellowstone-brings-together-historians-librarians-and-the-public-to-celebrate-150-years
May 9, 2022 - Public events open to the public as part of the Conversations on Collection Yellowstone conference
May 5, 2022 - 2022 Distinctive Collections Travel and Access Award recipient
April 18, 2022 - Tickets on sale for event with Dayton Duncan
March 3, 2022 - MSU Library partners to host reading and book discussion with Patricia Cutright
March 1, 2022 - MSU Library, MSU Bookstore work to reduce textbook costs for students
February 10, 2022 - Celebration of the 1972 Constitutional Convention
January 25, 2022 - Library professor Doralyn Rossmann to deliver next talk in MSU’s provost’s lecture series
October 12, 2021 - Friends of MSU Library book group announces its reading list
August 26, 2021 - Bob and Gennie DeWeese papers open for research at MSU Library
August 5, 2021 - Conversations on Collecting Yellowstone Conference
2020-2021 Academic Year
May 20, 2021 - Frank Craighead papers now available to the public.
May 10, 2021 - Library employees recognized by Montana Library Association
March 18, 2021 - Stories of the Windy West
March 5, 2021 - Ivan Doig Podcast Series
November 21, 2020 - Building data science capacity grant partnership
October 8, 2020 - Archives and Special Collections acquires Ian van Coller books
August 19, 2020 - Partnership with Cambridge University Press
2020 Library News
Associate Dean Brian Rossmann selected for UCLA Library Senior Fellows Program - https://www.montana.edu/news/19744/msu-s-brian-rossmann-selected-for-ucla-library-senior-fellows-program
Jim Goetz to speak at the Trout Lecture - https://www.montana.edu/news/19712/goetz-to-discuss-montana-stream-access-cases-as-part-of-msu-s-annual-trout-lecture
Library acquires collection from filmmaker and writer John Heminway - https://www.montana.edu/news/19629/msu-library-acquires-collection-of-materials-from-filmmaker-and-writer-john-heminway
Library becomes an institutional member of Dryad - https://www.montana.edu/news/19479/msu-library-joins-new-service-to-support-researchers
Mary Anne Hanson receives the "I Love My Librarian" Award - https://www.montana.edu/news/19450/msu-librarian-recognized-with-national-public-service-honor
2019 Library News
Fall Special Collections and Archives Acquisitions
Frank Craighead- https://www.montana.edu/news/19000/msu-library-acquires-collection-of-papers-from-noted-conservationist-frank-craighead
Greater Yellowstone Coalition - https://www.montana.edu/news/19026/msu-library-acquires-collection-of-greater-yellowstone-coalition-materials
Fly Fishers International - https://www.montana.edu/news/19204/msu-library-acquires-collection-of-materials-from-fly-fishers-international
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections grant - http://www.montana.edu/news/18442/msu-library-receives-grant-of-more-than-300-000-to-digitize-records-related-to-fish-and-aquatic-insects
Open Textbook Workshop - http://www.montana.edu/news/18252/training-workshop-on-building-open-educational-resources-set-for-feb-1-at-msu
Algorithmic Awareness grant - http://www.montana.edu/news/18360/msu-researchers-receive-grant-to-build-algorithmic-awareness-as-form-of-digital-literacy
Scott Young named to Library Journal’s 2019 list of Movers and Shakers - https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=scott-w-h-young-movers-shakers-2019-innovators
2018 Library News
Fall 2018 Paws to De-stress - http://www.kbzk.com/story/38079109/four-legged-friends-help-msu-students-de-stress-during-final-exams
International Snow Science Workshop proceedings housed digitally at MSU Library - http://www.montana.edu/news/18177/with-msu-roots-snow-workshop-makes-the-world-safer-from-avalanches
Center for Western Lands and People renamed the Ivan Doig Center - http://www.montana.edu/news/18186/msu-center-to-be-renamed-in-honor-of-the-late-ivan-doig-dean-of-western-writers
MSU Honors 125 ‘Extraordinary Ordinary Women’
Fall 2018 Friends of MSU Library event, An Evening of Conservation and Conversation - http://www.montana.edu/news/18037/four-to-speak-on-conservation-at-fall-fundraising-event-for-msu-library
Library Hosts National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics- http://www.montana.edu/news/17926/msu-library-to-host-national-forum-on-web-privacy
MSU Library acquires letters written to and from Robert Pirsig - http://www.montana.edu/news/17555/msu-library-acquires-collection-of-letters-written-to-and-from-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author
Former head of Greater Yellowstone Coalition donates papers to MSU Library - http://www.montana.edu/news/17365/former-head-of-greater-yellowstone-coalition-donates-papers-to-msu-library
Angling Oral History projects collects stories from anglers - http://www.montana.edu/news/17505/msu-library-project-collects-and-shares-oral-histories-of-more-than-150-anglers
MSU Library named Library of the Year by Montana Library Association - http://www.montana.edu/news/17646/msu-library-named-library-of-the-year-by-montana-library-association