New Posts, March 19-23

  1. Director’s Calendar: March 26-30
  2. MU Libraries Events Calendar
  3. Celebrate National Library Week, April 10
  4. MU Libraries in the News
  5. HSL Librarians Published in Consumer Health Journal
  6. Diane Johnson Appointed to Editorial Board of JMLA
  7. Current MUSE Posts
  8. Reminder DAC Invitation: Safe Spaces Training
  9. Competency Level Increase Request Deadline, March 30
  10. Faculty Lecture Series: Dr. Carol Ward, April 4

Director’s Calendar: March 26-30th

Notable meetings from the calendar of Jim Cogswell, Director of MU Libraries

Monday, March 26th
Out of the Office – Attending Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) Meetings in San Diego, CA

Tuesday, March 27th
Out of the Office – Attending Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) Meetings in San Diego, CA

(Jim will be back at Ellis Library Wednesday, March 28th)

Thursday, March 29th
Out of the Office – Visiting Kansas City to introduce Library Contacts and Supporters to Director of Development Nathan Marticke

MU Libraries Events Calendar

2012
April — National Poetry Month

April 4 – Faculty Lecture Series, Carol Ward; contact: Brenda Graves-Blevins
1-2 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

April 8-14 — National Library Week

  • April 10, 11:30 am-10:30 pm, National Library Week Celebration (colonnade); contact: Shannon Cary
  • April 13, 6 pm, Nicholas Basbanes – Library Society dinner and lecture (Room 201); contact: Shannon Cary
  • April 14, 10: 30 a.m., Donor Appreciation Ceremony (colonnade); contact: Shannon Cary
  • April 14, noon, Ragtime musician- Friends of the Library luncheon (Room 201); contact: Sheila Voss

April 16—Undergraduate Research Contest paper readings; contact: Anne Barker
2-3 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

April 17—Holocaust Survivor talk; contact: Leo Agnew
2-3 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

April 19 – Faculty Lecture Series, Doug Randal; contact: Brenda Graves-Blevins
1-2 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

April 24 — Toi Derricotte poetry; contact: Chris Montgomery
10: 30-11:30 am
Ellis Library Colonnade

May 3 — 150th anniversary of Gov Docs; contact: Marie Concannon
1:30 pm
Ellis Library Gov Docs area

*May 15-17 – Staff Recognition Week Arts and Crafts Showcase; contact: Sheena Waggoner
8 am-5 pm
Ellis Library Grand Reading Room

May 24 – Celebration of Service, contact: Mark Ellis
11:30 am-1:30 pm
Ellis Library Grand Reading Room

November 1—Flu Shot Clinic, contact: Deneal Sullivan
10 am to 2 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

November 11-13 — Ediciones Vigia; contact: Alla Barabtarlo

2014
August/September — Exhibit in Colonnade “Lincoln – the Constitution and the Civil War”; contact: Paula Roper

2016
Ellis Library Centennial


Internal Events

March 28th – 2nd Annual MULSA Branch Open House – ENGINEERING, 2:30-4 pm

June 8th – MULSA Annual Picnic, 5-9 pm

HSL Librarians Published in Consumer Health on the Internet

Darell D. Schmick, E. Diane Johnson, Caryn L. Scoville & Prasanna K. Vaduvathiriyan (2012)
“Building a Google™ Custom Search Engine (CSE) for Foreign Language Health Information: One Library’s Effort to Create a New Tool for Health Professionals”
Journal of Consumer Health On the Internet, 16:1, 27-36

Our access to this journal has a 1 year embargo in EbscoHost, but anyone who would like to see a copy can email Darell.

Reminder DAC Invitation: Safe Spaces Training

The MU Libraries’ Diversity Action Committee invites you to learn to be a resource for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) and ally students, faculty and staff on campus. Safe Space is a training designed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to be an effective ally. This training session will be conducted by Struby Struble, coordinator of the LGBTQ Center. The session will take place March 29, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. room 4F51-A Ellis Library.

What is Safe Space? Participants in the training learn about the challenges of homophobia, campus resources, and how to be supportive to members of the LGBTQ community. At the conclusion of the training, participants have the option to display a Safe Space symbol as a signal to LGBTQ individuals that they maintain a safe and affirming environment. Homophobic and heterosexist comments, language, and actions will not be allowed in a Safe Space, but they will be addressed in an educational and informative manner.

The Safe Space symbol sends a message to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students, faculty, and staff that people displaying it are understanding and supportive resources for LGBTQ or ally individuals who are seeking help, advice or simply someone with whom they can talk. Those who identify as LGBTQ are members of often invisible minority groups and so are their allies and friends. The Safe Space Program is designed to help LGBTQ people identify supportive people and offices. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to become Safe Space allies in order to make the allies of the LGBTQ community more visible so that LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff can easily identify places where they can feel at ease because they know that they will not face discrimination due to their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

RSV’s are requested for head count purposes; send to Leo at AgnewL@missouri.edu.