Bookmark Cafe Spring Break Hours, March 28-April 1
Mon 7:30am-1pm
Tues-Fri 7:30am-2pm
Bookmark Cafe Spring Break Hours
Shannon Cary
Friday Workshop, March 25
Introduction to Mendeley
(in-person only)
March 25 1– 2 p.m.
Mendeley is a free reference manager. It can produce citations and bibliographies in a number of styles. It organizes your PDFs into a fully searchable database and easily allows you to annotated those PDFs. Though its “groups” feature, it lets you easily share PDFs, notes, and annotations with your colleagues. Mendeley is also a social network, helping you discover
researchers that share your interests and allowing you to see the papers that interested them.
Michael Muchow, Humanities Librarian
All workshops are offered simultaneously in two formats:
Face-to-face in Rm. 213 Ellis Library and live online.
To Register: tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
(click on gold calendar entries for face-to-face workshops and pink calendar entries for live online)
Friday Workshop, March 18
Introduction to Endnote (in-person only)
March 18 1– 2 p.m.
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.
Michael Muchow, Humanities Librarian
All workshops are offered simultaneously in two formats:
Face-to-face in Rm. 213 Ellis Library and live online.
To Register: tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
(click on gold calendar entries for face-to-face workshops and pink calendar entries for live online)
Learning From the Past, April 15, 2016
“Learning from the Past”
David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
April 15, 2016 | 3-4 p.m. |114A Ellis Library
David Ferriero is a librarian, a library administrator, and the 10th Archivist of the United States. He was director of the New York Public Library, and before that, the university librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University. Prior to his Duke position, he worked for 31 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology library. Ferriero is the first librarian to serve as Archivist of the United States.
Seeking input on journal subscription renewals
With the prospect of a possible shortfall of $1 million to the MU Libraries collection budget in FY2017, we are seeking input on some lower-use journals, particularly the titles in the bundles purchased through publishers Elsevier and Wiley.
Follow this link to provide your input on specific journal titles between now and April 4.
We are beginning with these bundles because:
- they consume a large portion of the library collections budget, amounting to about $2,000,000 annually
- similar to a “cable tv model”, these bundles contain many titles which were never selected for our library, (e.g. dentistry)
Also included are some high cost/low use journals from other publishers in a variety of disciplines.
Learn more about the campus-wide collections review process and the reasons for it.
Friday Workshop, March 11
Open Educational Resources
March 11 1– 2 p.m.
Are your students struggling with high textbook costs? Consider using free and openly licensed educational materials. Open Educational Resources are an accessible and equitable alternative to traditional instructional materials. Learn more about where and how you can find high-quality OERs to use in your courses.
Grace Atkins, User Engagement Librarian
All workshops are offered simultaneously in two formats:
Face-to-face in Rm. 213 Ellis Library and live online.
To Register: tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
(click on gold calendar entries for face-to-face workshops and pink calendar entries for live online)
Friday Workshop, March 4
Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact
March 4 1– 2 p.m.
Utilize ORCID, Google Scholar Profile, MOspace, h-index, impact factors and more to maximize your professional impact. Learn how to set up accounts and make these tools work for you!
Janice Dysart, Science Librarian
Rebecca Graves, Health Sciences Librarian
All workshops are offered simultaneously in two formats:
Face-to-face in Rm. 213 Ellis Library and live online.
To Register: tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
(click on gold calendar entries for face-to-face workshops and pink calendar entries for live online)
Friday Workshop, Feb. 26
African-American Family History: Key Sources and New Developments
Feb. 26 1– 2 p.m.
In recent years, the resources available for learning detailed information on African-American ancestors, during slavery and freedom, have expanded tremendously. Challenges and erasures remain, but more light is shed all the time. Gary Kremer of the State Historical Society will explore key search tools and strategies.
Gary Kremer, Director, State Historical Society of Missouri
Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian Maximizing Your Research
All workshops are offered simultaneously in two formats:
Face-to-face in Rm. 213 Ellis Library and live online.
To Register: tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
(click on gold calendar entries for face-face workshops and pink calendar entries for live online)
ICPSR Summer Program
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program registration is now open. Choose from any of a number of short courses which cover methodological strategies along with theoretical and practical issues. This recorded webinar tells more about Summer Program courses, scholarships, and more.
Friday Workshop, Feb. 19
Creating Bibliographies with Zotero (in-person only)
Feb. 19 1– 2 p.m. Rm. 213 Ellis Library
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.
Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian
To Register: tinyurl.com/MULibrariesworkshops
(click on gold calendar entries for face-to-face workshops and pink calendar entries for live online)