July 3 (Tuesday)           8am to 5pm

July 4 (Wednesday)     Closed

July 5, Resumer Summer Semester Hours

The J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library has been awarded a 1-year license for the English/Spanish software Package, Health Literacy Advisor from Health Literacy Innovations, Inc. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine /Midcontinental Region awarded licenses to regional libraries to improve health information literacy.  Described on the HLA website “[a]s a health literacy checker, the HLA streamlines the review and simplification process by allowing users to assess the health of their documents and then fix it using plain language principles.”

 

Documents can be reviewed for readability level and stamp the results in the footer. The software will scan the document and highlight words that compromise the readability. It will then suggest easier to read alternatives. Spanish documents can also be checked.

 

The Health Literacy Advisor program will run for 1 year from the end of April 2012 through the end of April 2013. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00006-C with the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.

 

For more information about how to have your materials checked, feel free to contact Darell Schmick at the Health Sciences Library at 884-3575 or SchmickD@health.missouri.edu.

 

• Of over 1,200 participating libraries, MU is the 15th oldest in the nation
• We are the 6th oldest academic library in the FDLP
• U.S. Superintendent of Documents/Assistant Public Printer Mary Alice Baish will be flying in from Washington to present our library with a150-year certificate
• U.S. Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer willpersonally deliver a message of congratulation
• Refreshments will be served
• A display of historic government documents willbe exhibited in Special Collections

Thursday, May 3
1:30-2:30
Ellis Library Colonnade

“A Glimpse at Science in the Antarctic”
April 19, 2012
1 pm
Ellis Library Colonnade

The presentation will take a look at some of the USA’s Antarctic science activities operated under the National Science Foundations Polar Programs, how to do science in the Antarctic,  the McMurdo logistics facility, a  look at the new South Pole Station and a brief tour of some of what is seen around the US facilities.

 

Monday, 16 April
2-3 p.m.
Ellis Library Colonnade

1^st Place:
Nathaniel Schuster
Alma’s Betrayal and Mahler’s Unfinished Symphony No. 10
Written for Music 3085: Problems in Music
Teacher: Professor Judith Mabary

2^nd Place:
Donald Glen Cole
“…In View of Impending Conflict…” The Role of Southern Christianity in Sectionalism, Secession, and Southern Defeat
Written for English 4310: Civil War and Memory
Teacher: Professor Maureen Konkle