Drury F.W. Olin Library

It's Bastille Day - well almost. A few more hours. Greetings to all our French friends.
Photo from the Musee d'Orsay, Monet's "Rue Montorgueil, Paris, Celebration of June 30, 1878"

The Institute for Lifelong Learning will hear from Mr. David Eslick on Tuesday, July 11, 2-3 PM in the Olin Room. Eslick, a local historian, will detail the unique history of Springfield grocery stores.
Photo credit: SGCL Digital Darkroom Collection from the Springfield News-Leader. Gerald Bessey's Grocery at New & Madison when a car drove into it in 1960.

With stunning covers to capture your imagination, our bestseller book display at the Library Center is great to check out if you need help deciding what to read next.

The Institute for Lifelong Learning will hear from Sue Schuble at 2:00 Tuesday, June 27th in the Olin Room. Schuble traveled in 2022 to Norway’s Archipelago on a Lindblad/National Geographic ship. Sites visited included those along the western coast of Norway, then they circumvented the archipelago, seeing several polar bears, other Arctic animals and thousands of seabirds. Schuble is an avian volunteer at the Dickerson Park Zoo and is active in the Greater Ozark Audubon Society.

Juneteenth, from the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-19/ #:~:text=Juneteenth%20commemorates%20June%2019%2C%201865,of%20legalized%20slavery%20in%20Texas.

The Institute for Lifelong Learning will hear from Dr. Steve Berkwitz, Prof. Religious Studies, MSU on Tuesday June 20th at 2:00 in the Olin Room. His lecture is titled "Reading Buddhism in America".