Gawker Is for Sale and Its Articles Could Be Deleted – WSJ
Oct. 2, 2017
“4-Year Institutions With the Most Interlibrary Loans, 2014-15”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct.1, 2017
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Gawker Is for Sale and Its Articles Could Be Deleted – WSJ
Oct. 2, 2017
“4-Year Institutions With the Most Interlibrary Loans, 2014-15”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct.1, 2017
Barb Jones is a co-author in the following publications:
Zipperer, L., Jones, B., Esparza, J and J. Wahr. “Evidence, Information and Knowledge: The Basic Elements of Safe Surgical Care” Surgical Patient Safety: A Case-Based Approach. P. Shahel, editor. 2017.
Mark L. Graber*, Diana Rusz, Melissa L. Jones, Diana Farm-Franks, Barbara Jones, Jeannine Cyr Gluck, Dana B. Thomas, Kelly Gleason, Kathy Welte, Jennifer Abfalter, Kathleen Westerhaus, Ginny Adams, Michael Laposata, Quentin Eichbaum, Tina Nabatchi and Margaret Compton. “The New Diagnostic Team” Diagnosis 2017 (accepted for publication September 8, 2017)
Hello everyone,
Some changes are coming—next month all the library staff and faculty will need to get new ID cards. There is NO CHARGE to anyone; the Libraries are covering cost because we are changing to a new card swipe system at all the building entry doors. The whole campus will be changing eventually, and we are going to be one of the first buildings. This will help with security, and will be especially important for people who come early or stay late. We will talk more about it at coming meetings, but you all need to know it’s happening. We will set up special times for library people and make getting a new card as easy as possible. Each person will have a new photo taken for the new card. (I hate that part but we do change in appearance over time.)
Also, we have long talked about name tags/badges for everyone. The Libraries will be supplying OPTIONAL name badges for all full-time and part-time personnel except student workers. Some of you will be contacted if there is question on your preferred name. No one is required to wear a name badge, but many have asked for them. Most staff in other areas wear them, including administrators, who really appreciate us wearing them. Again, though, there is no requirement, just a preference. They will be metal and held on by magnets. (You can see many people wearing the same style in Jesse Hall and we should have an example at the next Staff Advisory Group meeting).
Work continues to install additional lights and cameras outside Ellis Library as part of our commitment to safety for all our staff and users, especially during our extended hours.
Work also continues to complete the planning and paperwork needed to begin construction on the expansion of UMLD. This will benefit the whole library system and we should have a firm date soon.
And of course Lowry Mall is still torn up; we hear that the east end will be done by Homecoming (Oct 21) but that then they will tear up the west end.
Enjoy our newly-cool fall days, and don’t hesitate to call or email with questions.
Ann
The Libraries have immediate openings for the following positions:
For additional information, including the job description, salary, and shift, please visit the Libraries webpage at http://library.missouri.edu/about/employment/employopp/#staff_job_openings.
Hope everyone has a great weekend! Here are a few notes from the Marketing Team.
It’s time to get ready for Mizzou Homecoming, now just one month away. Many events are happening even sooner, so mark your calendars:
In August we announced our intent to survey faculty and graduate/professional students about how the libraries can best support their research, teaching, and learning needs. We are using survey instruments created by Ithaka S+R, a national non-profit that works with many libraries to gather evidence for use in strategic planning. Ithaka S+R is particularly well-known for their US Faculty Survey.
Our goal is to better understand faculty and graduate/professional student research, teaching, and study needs and their perceptions about how the libraries support these needs in order to make strategic decisions about services.
The surveys will launch Monday, October 2nd and run through Friday, October 27th. We expect the survey to take 15 to 20 minutes to complete. Ithaka will distribute the surveys to the survey populations via e-mail. Each recipient will have a customized link to the survey that will allow respondents to stop and re-start the survey where they left off if needed. Ithaka will also be able to send reminders. Survey results will be anonymous and we will not be able to track any data back to specific respondents.
Our Marketing Team will help us promote the survey by encouraging faculty and graduate/professional students to look for the e-mail sent to them with the survey link. We will also need everyone in the Libraries to encourage faculty and graduate/professional students to complete the survey. We need as many survey responses as possible to ensure our data truly reflects the needs of our users.
The Ithaka Survey Team is Shannon Cary, Mardy Eimers (from MU Institutional Research), Gwen Gray, Jeannette Pierce, and Caryn Scoville. Thanks so much to this group for all of the work done thus far. Let us know if you have any questions.
Jeannette