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A view of the West Addition from 1937, shortly after it was completed. The door in the middle is the entrance to Ellis Auditorium. The sign above the door says "Library," just as it does on the north. https://buff.ly/3nS0gSs

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RJI Executive Director Randy Picht speaks with Edward McCain, RJI digital curator for journalists, about the urgency of preserving born-digital news content and... the results of a new study, "Endangered But Not Too Late: The State of Digital News Preservation." #PreservingNews University of Missouri Libraries The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation See more

To the right you can see dark bricks from the old Central Stacks. You can see the bricks of the old Central Stacks to the left of the doorway on every floor. To the left of this brick you see a wall with white tile. Notice how the tile has eight horizontal courses from the floor but then has bricks on end. Above those bricks, the pattern reverts to horizontal courses, but the color of the mortar is lighter colored. The section with lighter colored mortar marks where a window used to be. Directly opposite every south window was a corresponding north window. Check out our website for more information https://buff.ly/3cuOOYV.