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Congratulations to Paula Roper on Her Retirement

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After 38 years with the MU Libraries, Dr. Paula Roper will be retiring on December 24, 2024. After working as a teacher and for some federally funded projects, Paula came to MU to pursue her M.A. in Library Science. While enrolled, she served as a teaching assistant for the libraries’ library skills course. While working as a librarian in Ellis, she completed her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis with an emphasis in Higher Education. During her career, Paula has had a tremendous impact on students, the libraries, and our community. As the Education and Black Studies Research & Instruction Librarian, she has long been lauded by students and researchers for her support in their successful academic endeavors. One scholar calls her The Oracle for her work in assisting with his development as a teacher and scholar and how she expertly integrated the libraries into the work of his students. Paula is well-known for her in-depth instruction sessions in which she provides students with clear guidance for their specific assignments and materials they can consult after class for further assistance. She is also always available for consultations and has come into the libraries to meet with students on evenings and weekends if that is what works best for the students’ schedules. Among those of us in reference, we are always amazed at Paula’s tenacity in tracking information to help users. Paula will follow every lead; call anyone she identifies to get the information the user is looking for. She is a true testament to doing whatever it takes to help our users be successful. In addition to her personal assistance to our students and researchers, Paula is a tireless advocate for community education and involvement. Over the years, she has coordinated several national traveling exhibits and events for the libraries, including Lincoln – The Constitution and the Civil War and Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation. She annually coordinates National History Day judges for the Strickland Memorial African-American History Prize and serves as a judge herself. As coordinator for Black History Month events, Paula develops amazing programs annually for the libraries, the campus, and the community. Each year, this month is capped off with Black History Month Trivia Night, a highly successful community event that Paula coordinates with the Daniel Boone Regional Library and MU Libraries. For her tremendous contributions to academic librarianship, Paula was awarded the 2024 Missouri Library Association Outstanding Professional Librarian award. You have been a wonderful colleague, mentor and friend, Paula. We will miss you!

A fun throwback interview with Paula as the December 2011 MULSA Spotlight Award Winner: https://library.missouri.edu/muse/december-2011-spotlight-award-winner-paula-roper/

When You Find Your Oracle at the Library: https://library.missouri.edu/news/ellis-library/when-you-find-your-oracle-at-the-library

In-Person Library Instruction Leads to Online Instruction: https://library.missouri.edu/news/cycle-of-success/cycle-of-success-in-person-library-instruction-leads-to-online-instruction

Paula Roper, Winner of MLA Outstanding Professional Librarian: https://library.missouri.edu/news/cycle-of-success/congratulations-to-paula-roper-winner-of-mla-outstanding-professional-librarian-2

If you are in Ellis Library, check out the wonderful display on the 2nd floor in honor of Paula’s MLA award.

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Sign/Poster Request Form

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If you need a sign or poster created, please fill out this form. This form is also available in the Communication box on the staff web page. If you have any questions signs, posters or other print jobs, contact Shannon Cary.

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Renovation at UMSL

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UMSL is undergoing a renovation which means a portion of their collection has been suppressed from EDS and the MOBIUS catalog, and certain items are not requestable. Currently, LC call number ranges: A-D, F-QC are largely unavailable. Most of these items fall under the two UMSL locations: UMSL TJL General Collection Level 1 and UMSL TJL General Collection Level 4. UMSL holdings for both of these locations have been suppressed from EDS and the MOBIUS catalog. In addition, these items have been given a temporary loan type of “non-circulating” to prevent patrons from requesting these items and to prevent these items from being selected to fill a request in FOLIO. If you currently have an item with one of these locations on your hold shelf, you can circulate these items to patrons even if the loan type is currently “non-circulating”. You will be required to enter an override. However, patrons will not be able to place requests for these two locations until further notice. New and returned items will be shelved in a new location UMSL TJL Renovation Stacks (Level 5), and they will be able to circulate

home Staff news Goodbye to Clare Starkey

Goodbye to Clare Starkey

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Clare Starkey will be leaving the University of Missouri Libraries on Friday, December 20th to begin a position with Westminster College as their Research and Engagement Librarian. Clare joined Special Collections as a student employee to help process the Husni Collection before being promoted to Library Information Specialist. Over the last semester, Clare has supervised research appointments, processed collections, and provided both instruction and reference support. She will be greatly missed.

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Workshop Showcase: Piecing Together Provenance

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Ellis Library Colonnade
From December 2024

A showcase from the new “Piecing Together Provenance” exhibit is now on display with research and creative works completed by students enrolled in the cross-listed Fall 2024 ARH_VS course, “Museum Studies: Theory and Practice.” Taught by art historian Dr. James van Dyke with contributions by archivist Dr. Sarah Buchanan, the course examines contemporary issues in museum and curatorial studies through project-based, object-based learning – the two crucial issues this semester are provenance and restitution. Provenance research in theory comprised the first third of course content with discussions about museum definitions, collecting, and object dispositions. Then students looked at existing provenance narrative structures and resources for researching provenance data; finally they team-workshopped their insights to create visually engaging panels that show their processes taken and tried – emphasizing both information found and gaps remaining.

Provenance stories enhance the visitor experience not only in art museums, but also in collections like the Enns Entomology Museum, which students visited as it marks its 150th anniversary year. Hearing directly from museum curators Kristin Simpson, Mackenzie Mallon, Candace Sall, Rima Girnius, and Benton Kidd about their everyday efforts to bring together provenance facts led students to develop the theme of clues gathered, pinned, and strung to corkboard for their exhibit. Do visit their fully detailed exhibit in the Bingham Art Gallery, where “Mind the Gap: Piecing Together Provenance” is on display through April.

Here in Ellis Library is provided a selection from the six artwork panels illustrated there with student research findings about the artistic legacies of 15th and 18th century Italian artists di Matteo and Joli, 17th century artists van Goyen (Dutch) and Neeffs (Flemish), a Roman-era Egyptian textile, and the early 20th century American artist Hirst. For their additional contributions to the success of the course we gratefully thank: Megan Ballengee, Daniel Eck, Amanda Harrison, Madeleine LeMieux, and Kristin Schwain. Solve the mysteries of history with provenance!

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Welcome to Piper Brown-Kingsley

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The MU Libraries are pleased to announce the hire of Piper Brown-Kingsley as the Information and Data Services Librarian at the Health Sciences Library. She began over the summer. Piper is a May 2024 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School. In addition, she’s been working as a remote Data Curation Intern at the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) at the University of Michigan. We’re so excited to have her join the Information Services Team at the newly renovated Health Sciences Library.

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Library Events and Resources for First-Generation Student Week

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National First-Generation College Celebration Week is November 8-16. We will be celebrating 5,000+ First-Gen students, faculty, staff, and alumni at our 20+ events campus wide. Please visit the first-gen website and register today! Events open to all; faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.

We also want to share a few ways the MU Libraries will be participating in supporting First-Generation Students this week, and ways that we are working to support First-Generation students throughout the full year!

Library Events for First-Generation Student Week

Additional Ways the MU Libraries are Working to Support First-Generation Students, Faculty and Staff at MU!

  • A new list of library webpages for First-Generation students.
  • The NEW Wellbeing Collection that will be on the first floor of Ellis Library soon with resources for first-generation students and other campus groups as well as books for leisure reading.
  • Jill Kline, Student Success Librarian, is a member of the First-Generation Student Success Advisory Board. This board meets regularly to ensure we are continuing to best support our first-gen students, and promoting services, starting initiatives, and creating goals for the First-Generation Student Initiatives Board.
  • We are starting a Faculty and Staff First-Generation Initiative where any faculty and staff can join our reading group starting January 2025, we will meet over coffee to discuss articles on first-generation topics. At the end of the semester, we will discuss our thoughts on the chosen book, First Gen: A Memoir. Please fill out our doodle poll if you would like to join!
  • MU Libraries and our partnership with First-Generation initiatives were discussed on an episode of the FirstGenFM Podcast!
  • A new partnership with TRiO Student Support Services that allows any TRiO Student who meets with a librarian for research help to get an entry into their $500 scholarships. Learn how to meet with your librarian here.
home Resources and Services Royal Society of Chemistry Added to Open Access Publishing Agreements Available to MU Authors

Royal Society of Chemistry Added to Open Access Publishing Agreements Available to MU Authors

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Publishing open access is a great way to keep research open and retain your copyright. We do understand that publishing open access comes with a financial commitment that you wouldn’t necessarily have with traditional publishing.

To help offset costs, Mizzou Libraries has agreements with several publishers to offer discounts and author processing charge support for the following journals.

Want to lean more? Talk with your Subject Specialist about open access in your area.

NEW AGREEMENT: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
The MU Libraries now has a Read & Publish agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry, starting in 2024 and continuing through 2025. All charges for publishing in Hybrid, Gold and RSC Advances journals are covered for MU corresponding authors. Articles published open access in RSC journals are downloaded more often, which helps raise the visibility of your work Here is a complete RSC Journal list. Find out more.

American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals
The American Chemical Society offers a discounted open access fee to MU affiliates since MU is a Subscribing Institution. Members of ACS receive an additional discount. ACS Open Access Fee Chart

Astronomy & Astrophysics: A European Journal
Starting in 2022,  the EDP Sciences journal Astronomy & Astrophysics will be published under the Subscribe to Open (S20) model.  MU affiliated corresponding authors can publish their articles Open Access without paying APC’s (article processing charges) as long as the University of Missouri Libraries continue to subscribe to this title.

BMJ Case Reports
The Health Sciences Library subscription to BMJ Case Reports includes a waiver of the individual membership fee of £273 normally required to publish cases. Submission instructions.

Cambridge University Press Journals
MU Libraries has entered into a transformational “Read and Publish” agreement with Cambridge University Press. This agreement greatly expands electronic access to Cambridge University Press journals and provides 10 APC waivers for MU corresponding authors to publish their work OA.

Because of the limited number of waivers available with this agreement, MU Libraries has decided to support authors on a first come, first served basis. If there are remaining waivers at the end of the year, MU Libraries can retroactively make other articles OA with the approval of the author. Read more about the agreement and see a list of eligible journals

Company of Biologists
From 2023 through 2025 MU is participating in the Company of Biologist’s Read & Publish Open Access Initiative. MU authors can publish OA at no charge. Some of the journals Company of Biologists publishes include Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology.

Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals
MU is a subscriber to ECS Plus, an agreement that allows MU faculty to publish their articles in Electrochemical Society (ECS) journals (Journal of the Electrochemical Society and ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology) as Open Access with no charge to the author. There are no limits on the number of papers that can be published in any given subscription year. Find out more.

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
The University of Missouri has joined the shareholder consortium of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. This open-access journal features interdisciplinary academic research and practice articles on all things food systems. The shareholder membership, good through April 2024, covers the University of Missouri-Columbia, including MU Extension. This membership waives the typical Article Processing Charge for publishing in this journal.

Proceedings of the National Academies of Science of the United States of America (PNAS)
MU researchers publishing articles in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) receive a discounted open access fee of $2,000, compared to the regular fee of $2,500, to make their papers immediately free online. Find out more.

home Resources and Services Celebrate Open Access Week: How to Increase Your Research Impact

Celebrate Open Access Week: How to Increase Your Research Impact

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Every year we celebrate a week of open access. It’s an opportunity for the academic community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make open access a new norm in scholarship and research. This year’s theme is Community Over Commercialization. For more information about Open Access, visit our website.

Celebrate Open Access Week with us by reviewing the Open Access Library Guide and attending a virtual workshop:

And if you have some additional time, be sure to check out some of our other blog posts about the different facets to consider when making your research open:

Want to lean more? Talk with your Subject Specialist about open access in your area or request a Zoom workshop for your department, team or lab. 

home Resources and Services Check Out Your Books 24/7 With Our Pickup Lockers

Check Out Your Books 24/7 With Our Pickup Lockers

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Did you know we have two locations on campus where you can pickup your library books 24/7?

Users can choose Ellis Locker or Lottes Locker as their pickup location when requesting MU Libraries materials. Once the item is ready, users will receive an access code to pick up their items.

Patrons who select the pickup locker location will receive an email saying they have three days to pick up their library materials. At this time, only regular library items will be included in the pickup lockers; no equipment, reserve materials or ILL materials.

The Ellis Library lockers are located inside the vestibule of the west entrance, which is near Speaker’s Circle. The Health Sciences Library Pickup lockers are located in the Medical Science Building, just across the courtyard from the Medical Annex.

Questions? Contact mulibrarycircdesk@missouri.edu.