Check out the CoMo Preservation: CommunityMade List, a new resource designed to help you explore historic preservation and Columbia and Boone County’s history.

The List consists of online resources and 34 books and materials selected from the library’s extensive holdings by CoMo Preservation volunteers Nina Sappington and Dianna Borsi O’Brien. 

Join us to learn about the construction of the original buildings on the campus of the University of Missouri. We often hear about the landowners who donated money and land to found the University of Missouri, but we don’t often hear about who actually constructed the buildings on the university campus. Our guest speaker, Zachary Dowdle, will take us behind the scenes with his research into the role of enslaved people in the construction of the oldest buildings on the campus of the University of Missouri. Our 6 pm meeting on Tuesday November 19 is free and open to the public in the Friends Room of the Columbia Public Library.