Five new study rooms have been built in the Engineering Library and Technology Commons. Above is a picture of the white wall board, which is painted with a compound that makes the entire wall (or most of it) a white board. The students really enjoy using it. The five rooms feature thirty new chairs on wheels and a locking rolling cabinet for the use of company interviewers during the career fair week.
On December 20, 2008, Judy Maseles, head of the Engineering Library and Technology Commons (ELTC), accepted an award on behalf of the ELTC staff at the College of Engineering Graduation Ceremony. The award, which was presented by the Dean on behalf of the students of the College, was “For exceptional professional service rendered to the students of the University of Missouri College of Engineering from January 1992 to December 2008.”
The certificate awarded to the ELTC staff reads, “Your understanding of the problems and concerns that are unique to engineering students has enhanced their learning experiences, bolstered their career opportunities and quality of life at the College of Engineering. This accomplishment has also enabled the College of Engineering to increase student retention and graduation rates as well as enhance their learning experience.”
Congratulations to Judy, Michelle Bagget and Nora Tamm!
Thanks to the quick work of the Engineering Library staff no damage occurred to any books.
To get into the Easter and Spring Break frame of mind, Michelle Baggett put together an Easter egg hunt for the Engineering Library patrons.
The event took place the Wednesday before Spring Break. It went well and wasn’t hard to plan. Michelle found pre-packaged plastic Easter eggs with candy inside and hid 55 eggs. She hid half of the eggs in the book stacks and half on the journal/circulation side of the library. Michelle put up signs letting the students know that there were eggs hidden in the library and if they found one, they would get a “sweet” surprise.
Quite a few of the students were nice enough to bring the empty eggs back and said they really enjoyed the treat. One student commented that it was the highlight of his day.
If we were to do something like this again, we would probably save half of the eggs and put those out towards the end of the day so that the evening students would have a chance to find an egg and also have the eggs brought back to us, because several students were upset when they found empty eggs.
All in all, the event went very well, and the students seemed to appreciate the little distraction from their class work.