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Staying Ahead of the Curve:
Be Aware of What Your Library
Offers You
Aug. 29 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 213, Ellis Library
Learn how other faculty and students are using the Library’s
services and find out about the newest tools and information
sources.
Goodie Bhullar, Library Instruction Coordinator
Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian
Registration Preferred. http://tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
Is ‘Liberal’ Education Out of Style? – a conversation with former Chancellor Richard Wallace, UM President Emeritus Mel George and Interim Deputy Provost Patricia Okker
Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union
3-4 pm, September 16, 2014
Reception of light refreshments immediately following
This event is sponsored by the MU Libraries on the occasion of the 175th Anniversary Commemorative Week.
The word “liberal” has a nomenclature problem – it carries baggage for some people because of its political connotations. What does a “liberal education” really mean? The origin of the word is the Latin word “liber” (free), and the history of the concept goes back at least as far as ancient Greece. A common misunderstanding is that the concept describes specific subject matter (such as “Great Books”); but a liberal education is less about specific subject matter content than about the goals and emphases of the education. For example, a liberal education carries public benefit, not simply private benefit.
There are many threats and challenges to liberal education today, including financial pressures and vocationalism. In this conversation, two highly regarded MU educators lay out compelling reasons suggesting that a liberal education is even more important today than in the past and promote the idea that its continued vitality and central role in American higher education should be ensured.
Friday, August 22 11:00 am
Monday, August 25 9:00 am
Tuesday, August 26 10:00 am
Wednesday, August 27 11:00 am
Thursday, August 28 Noon
Friday, August 29 1:00 pm
Tuesday, September 2 4:00 pm
Wednesday, September 3 3:00 pm
Thursday, September 4 2:00 pm
Friday, September 5 1:00 pm
Monday, September 8 Noon
Tuesday, September 9 1:00 pm
Wednesday, September 10 2:00 pm
Thursday, September 11 3:00 pm
Friday, September 12 4:00 pm
Tours start at the West Entrance of Ellis Library, Ground Floor, near the Security Desk.
Books with Personality Exhibit, August 1-29, 2014
Ellis library Colonnade
Brought to you by the Special Collections Department of Ellis Library
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage though time”
-Carl Sagan
The books on display, from the Special Collections Department of Ellis Library, all carry traces of their former owners. Some contain notes in the margins; others hold mementos between their pages. In either case, these traces tell stories not only about the books’ reception but about the lives of those who read them.
COLUMBIA, Mo.− The University of Missouri (MU) Libraries have received $400,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support remediation or content replacement of materials damaged by an extensive mold outbreak in an off-site storage facility. This outbreak, discovered in October 2013, is presumed to have contaminated all of the approximately 600,000 volumes housed in that facility.
Partnerships with Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) and Missouri State University (MSU) will provide access to replacement copies of federal government documents and inter-library loan access to Missouri state materials, respectively. Subcontracts with these universities through this project will support the cataloguing, retrieving and preparing of relevant materials to share with MU Libraries on an as-needed basis. The funding also will help MU review the availability of online or print-ready copies of needed replacements through cooperation with membership organizations. WUSTL will benefit by regaining space vacated by federal documents transferred to MU, while MSU will benefit by having its Missouri state materials catalogued in order to provide access to MU and other area libraries.
“The MU Libraries are deeply grateful to the Mellon Foundation for their support of this project that leverages tools of digital librarianship to help preserve scholarship in traditional formats,” said MU Libraries Director Jim Cogswell. “Institutional partnerships will enable the preservation of regional documents collections. The Mellon Foundation funding will allow MU Libraries to remediate mold for key groups of materials, work effectively with partner institutions for resource sharing, provide continued access to needed content of the damaged materials, and support part of the recovery effort.”
MU Libraries also will spend up to $600,000 from a self-insurance fund; additional sources are being explored. MU Libraries has contracted with a company for remediation services and negotiated for rental of two storage spaces, one in which pre-treated materials will be stored until they are cleaned, and one for storage of the remediated materials. As a longer-term solution, the Libraries are working with University of Missouri (UM) System's risk and insurance management department to develop a new strategy for fully insuring all collections, including those in storage, and will work with campus and UM System leadership to restore a plan for building an expansion to an existing storage facility and to accelerate fund allocation for its construction.
Starting July 7th, you can reach a librarian anytime from 9am to 5pm. However, there will be some changes at the information desk:
From 9am to 5pm, you can instantly reach a librarian via email, chat, or by phone–see contact details below.
From the hours of 10am to 2pm, you can additionally get in touch with a librarian in person at the information services desk. Outside of these hours, feel welcome to ask for a librarian at the circulation desk–we will be happy to assist you as we are available or by appointment.
This is planned to continue until the end of the summer term. For updates to this schedule, please keep an eye on the news feed on the HSL webpage.
Need help with a search? Stuck with an Endnote concern? The Health Sciences Library is here to help you:
Phone: (573) 882-0471
Email: AskLibrary@health.missouri.edu
Feeling chatty? Talk with us here: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/contact
Have a wonderful and safe Independence Day Holiday!
Thursday, May 29 & Friday, May 30, 2014
REGISTER: To register click on specific workshop: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/upcomingclassesworkshops
Thursday & Friday: All Workshops take place online using Blackboard Collaborate
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Thursday May 29, 9:00-10:30 AM [ONLINE]
· Literature Review & Beyond: Tips & Tricks for Research
Learn some of the more sophisticated features of database searching to yield the results you want. Using a variety of databases, we'll focus on practical techniques that can save you time and effort.
Goodie Bhullar, Library Instruction Coordinator; Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian
Thursday May 29, 11:00-11:30 AM [ONLINE]
· Stay Current with Browzine!
Easily read and follow your favorite scholarly journals from the MU Libraries with Browzine from your iPad or Android tablet.
Rhonda Whithaus, Electronic Resources Coordinator
Friday May 30, 1:00-2:30 PM [ONLINE]
· Creating Bibliographies with Zotero
Zotero is a free, simple, open-source tool for organizing, managing and formatting bibliographic citations. Learn to extract citations from PDFs and web pages at the click of a button, and create in-text references and bibliographies.I I
Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian
Friday May 30, 3:00-4:30 PM [ONLINE]
· Creating Bibliographies with EndNote
EndNote is a powerful program for storing citation data and producing in-text citations and bibliographies in a plethora of formats. Learn how to put this tool to work for your academic writing.
Mike Muchow, Humanities Librarian; Ashley Nelson, Science Librarian
Questions: Goodie Bhullar, bhullarp@missouri.edu
The Bookark Café will be closed for renovation from May 19th to June 2.
After you graduate, the MU Libraries will still be here to serve you. To find out more about the resources available to alumni, visit Library Resources for Alumni.
All of us at the MU Libraries, wish you the very best in your future endeavors!
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