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Welcome to MTSU and the James E. Walker Library. This building, one of the most attractive on campus, was built in 1999 and was named after the 8th president of MTSU, Dr. James E. Walker. The library does have a lot of services, and does have a collection of well over a million volumes on the shelves and at least that much online, but we are dedicated to helping students feel successful and help break down any feelings of being overwhelmed by the size and scope of not only the library, but the whole college experience.
The Walker Library has over 1 million volumes, 33,134 serials and annual expenditures of $7,547,687. There are 26 faculty, 7 professional administrative staff and 34 classified staff working for the library.
In addition to our many services in the building and electronically, we also have this repository collection that provides free, open access to educational resources, research done in the library, and other library information.
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ItemA Biographical Sketch of Julian Wehr (1898-1970): American Master of the Movable Book(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2024-02-27) Boehm, Alan ; Ziegler, RoyIn the emerging popular and scholarly attention given to movable books, the name Julian Wehr often figures as an outstanding illustrator and paper engineer who in the 1940s and early 1950s published over 40 children's books notable for their appealing illustrations, but remarkable for their innovative pull-tab animations. Cleverly simple in design and widely imitated at the time, Wehr's approach to animated illustration revived a children's book format that had all but vanished from publishers' trade lists after the First World War because of production impracticalities. For although animated books had enjoyed considerable popularity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they were typically lavish and expensive novelties that involved the manual assembly of an elaborate array of paper parts and minuscule hardware. By contrast, Wehr's animation technique--yielding pictorial movement as complex as any achieved by earlier methods--relied on only one or two pieces of paper and, moreover, his animated books were easily adapted to low-cost mass production. And mass-produced they were, for it is likely that upwards of nine million copies of Wehr's various titles--some translated into Spanish, French, German, and Icelandic--were sold in the United States, Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Iceland, and elsewhere. Accordingly, we offer in this essay a brief biographical sketch of Wehr's life and career. It is based chiefly on interviews conducted across the spring, summer, and autumn of 2001 with his four children, Camilla West Molinari (Wehr's daughter from his first marriage), David Wehr, Paul Wehr, and Jeanine Wehr Jones (Wehr's sons and daughter from his second marriage). The Wehr children also have made available to us their father's art work, letters, and other materials.
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ItemA book of letters for young people(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1924) Center, Stella S. (Stella Stewart); ; Saul, Lilian Margaret
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ItemA brief course in the teaching process(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1923) Strayer, George D. (George Drayton)
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ItemA broader elementary education(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1903) Gordy, John Pancoast
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ItemA century of Maryville college, 1819-1919, story of altruism(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1919) Wilson, Samuel Tyndale
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ItemA comparative study of directed and undirected teaching(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1922) Shreve, Francis
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ItemA complete Latin grammar(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1898) Harkness, Albert
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ItemA conduct curriculum for the kindergarten and first grade(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1927) Burke, Agnes; ; Conard, Edith Underwood; ; Dalgliesh, Alice
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ItemA first book in education(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1925) Heinmiller, Louis E
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ItemA first book in Old English(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1903) Cook, Albert S.
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ItemA first book in psychology(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1914) Calkins, Mary Whiton
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ItemA foundational study in the pedagogy of arithmetic(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1914) Howell, Henry Budd
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ItemA guide to longer plays(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1925) Shay, Frank
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ItemA handbook of vocational education(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1914) Taylor, Joseph Schimmel
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ItemA history of Amherst College during the administrations of its first five presidents, from 1821 to 1891(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1895) Tyler, W. S. (William Seymour)
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ItemA history of Columbia university, 1754-1904; published in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of King's college.(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1904) The Columbia University Press
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ItemA history of education before the middle ages(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1918) Graves, Frank Pierrepont
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ItemA history of education during the middle ages and the transition to modern times(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1918) Graves, Frank Pierrepont
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ItemA history of education in modern times(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1917) Graves, Frank Pierrepont
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ItemA history of education in the United States(James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 1914) Dexter, Edwin Grant