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Campus Community:
Thank you for your diligence in helping Mizzou curb the number of active COVID-19 cases in our community. In an effort to further encourage this downward trend, we are reminding you to download the #CampusClear app on your smartphone if you haven’t already. Students, staff and faculty are required to monitor their health on a daily basis. The #CampusClear app helps support this healthy habit.
To encourage app usage, the university will begin checking your #CampusClear app with monitoring stations at Ellis Library and MizzouRec beginning Monday, October 19. You will need to show your “Good to Go!” screen at these locations to indicate you are cleared for campus. The university plans to phase in additional screening locations in the coming weeks.
In addition, faculty have been encouraged to take a moment at the beginning of class and remind students to complete symptom monitoring with the #CampusClear app. This practice, along with our monitoring stations, will further reinforce valuable habits that help protect the health and safety of our campus community.
If you are unable to access or use the app, you can complete a manual screening at these locations. The screening will include having your temperature taken and verbally confirming you do not have any symptoms associated with COVID-19. Remember, downloading the app or completing the screening process can take a few extra minutes, so please plan accordingly.
As always, you should maintain social distancing, wear your face covering and follow other Show Me Renewal precautions in addition to monitoring yourself for symptoms. Thank you for doing your part to keep yourself and other members of our campus community safe.
Tigers support Tigers!
Mark Diedrich
Incident Commander, MU Incident Command Team
Director of Emergency Management, UM System
Due to increasing costs, the University of Missouri Libraries must reduce collections expenditures significantly this year. We need your cooperation in identifying the resources you rely on most, so we can explore ways to adjust our purchasing over the next few years to better support you. We would like to hear from you, so we are inviting all faculty and graduate students to attend one of these sessions:
Thursday, October 15, 2:00 PM, at https://umsystem.zoom.us/j/96586506251
Wednesday, October 21, 2:00 PM, at https://umsystem.zoom.us/j/93095286723
We have posted additional information on the Libraries’ Collection Development & Management web page, where you can learn more about the issues and leave feedback for us.
We have appreciated the supplemental support from the Provost and the Chancellor in previous years to maintain subscriptions based on research needs and usage. Unfortunately, this year’s funding situation is full of uncertainty. Not only are campus funds falling short, the funding for the subscriptions purchased as a four-campus system has also diminished, and we can no longer commit to the increasing costs of our large journal publisher package subscriptions, i.e. “Big Deals” with the leading publishers: Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Sage, and Oxford.
Our bundled subscriptions, those that work much like the cable TV bundles, will end December 31st. For 2021, we will shift to a title-by-title selection model. This action will severely reduce our total number of journal subscriptions. Our subject librarians are doing their best to identify the most essential titles to keep, and will consult with interested departments and faculty about these difficult decisions.
Information about the issues and the list of serials to be maintained will be posted on the Libraries’ Collection Development & Management web page. Please be aware that this year’s cut will include highly used journal titles across all disciplines, since we have already made substantial cuts over the preceding several years. We are reducing collection expenditures by $1.2 million, which is approximately 20% of our total collections budget. This action will likely not affect book purchasing because it is a small percentage of the collections budget.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and document delivery will remain an effective, efficient means of acquiring materials not held by the Libraries. Most articles requested via ILL are received within one to two business days, but please note that we can experience instances of slower service due to COVID-19 disruptions. We remain committed to obtaining articles for you from all sources, even though this also incurs costs.
The Libraries support collections that are used for teaching, scholarship, research, and professional practice. The intent is to offer the most comprehensive array of resources that is feasible with our available financial resources. The Libraries Collections Steering Committee and the Subject Selectors meet regularly to deal with the complex issues surrounding the collections that are vital to the success of our students, faculty, researchers, and other professionals in the academic community. Many institutions are experiencing these difficulties, and we continue to monitor national and worldwide trends in open access publishing and library-publisher negotiations to identify opportunities for change.
We share your concerns for ready access to the content you need in order to excel. As in the past, we encourage you to talk with your subject librarian. To ensure that you have the opportunity to learn more about the issues and participate in the conversation, we are scheduling open meetings for you to attend with Matt Martens, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs; Deb Ward, Interim University Librarian; and members of the Libraries Collections Steering Committee.
Lean times can sometimes lead to surprising solutions when people work together. We look forward to the day when we will have the ability to sustain access to needed collections through new partnerships and new, lower-cost models of published scholarship. Let’s keep the conversation going.
Deb Ward, Interim University Librarian
Are you ready to explore more affordable textbook options for your students? Do you need help customizing existing OER or creating and sharing your own open materials? Request a team consultation! We can match you with MU librarians, instructional designers, and bookstore administrators who can guide you through the process of locating, evaluating, and using affordable and open educational resources. Click here to request a team consultation.
Do you want to know more about OER before diving into planning for your course? You can meet with your subject librarian one-on-one or if you would like to recruit a few colleagues to join you, we’ll create a custom OER workshop for your group that will help you know more about how to find, create and use high-quality OER. Contact Joe Askins, Head of Instructional Services, at askinsj@missouri.edu for more information.
Whether you want research help in person while social distancing or remotely from the safety and comfort of your home, the Mizzou Libraries will stay connected with you!
Many library services — including consultations and assistance, library instruction, reserves and events — will continue remotely online through the fall with some in-person options. The emphasis on remote library services will allow faculty and students to continue their work, regardless of location.
“We want Mizzou students and faculty to have a successful fall semester! That begins by doing everything we can to keep people safe,” said Deb Ward, interim vice provost for University Libraries and University Librarian.
Among the changes that library users will find this semester:
Library personnel will carefully assess how the new service models are working and will determine whether services can be gradually scaled up or, conversely, whether conditions will require a return to delivering more services remotely. For the latest information on library services and hours, visit library.missouri.edu. You may also subscribe to one of our weekly email newsletters to stay up to date.
Additional Information Regarding Specialized Libraries
Zalk Veterinary Medical Library
J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library
Engineering Library and Technology Commons
Need research help? You can ask a librarian for help using our chat service– almost 24 hours a day.
During the day you can chat with Mizzou librarians and library staff. At night, we offer access to a chat reference service called ChatStaff. They will be able to answer most research questions, except for some that are Mizzou-specific.
To access the chat service and see what hours chat reference is available, visit libraryanswers.missouri.edu.
Some of the donors to the Mizzou Libraries prefer to remain anonymous. We know alumni and friends are interested in the stories behind the gifts; so we are sharing this story while respecting the donor’s wishes.
Beginning in the spring of 2018, thanks to an introduction from our friend and conservator James Downey at Legacy Book Bindery, we met a gentleman with a unique collection of rare books and manuscripts. For two and a half years our special collections librarians have been working with this extremely rare collection of medieval materials – digitizing, cataloging and sharing it with faculty and students. In the past year, our anonymous donor has given the Libraries $60,000 worth of early-printed books and two separate gifts of $100,000. The first gift established an endowment for the study of the book, and the second gift will help us improve our special collections storage spaces. This relationship is among the most important and exciting the Libraries have known. It wouldn’t feel like a celebration of our successful campaign without an anonymous shoutout. In the years to come there will undoubtedly be more written about this collection and the impact this donor has made. Today our big message is THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone that made our campaign a success and helps to further the mission of the University of Missouri and the Libraries.
We got a little behind on posting notes from the Library Management Team notes. Here are the action and information items from the last several meetings.
This year’s MU Remembers ceremony, commemorating students who have passed away in the last year, was held virtually on September 4. A book in honor of each student will be added to the University of Missouri Libraries’ collection. Commemorative bookplates are placed inside the books, and students are listed as honorees on the books’ library catalog records. For more information about our Honor with Books program, click here.
The students’ names and the books selected in their memory are listed below.
Students
Freddie Abney (Mizzou Online): Lambert, Heath. (2016). A theology of biblical counseling: The doctrinal foundations of counseling ministry.
Kris Ahn (College of Arts and Science): Shank, Gary D., & Pringle, Janice, & Brown, Launcelot. (2018). Understanding education research: A guide to critical reading
Mark Auden (College of Arts and Science): Beineke, Jennifer, & Rosenhouse, Jason (eds.). (2016). The mathematics of various entertaining subjects: Research in recreational math.
Steven Bailot (School of Law): Dias, Gonçalo, & Couciero, Micael S. (2015). The science of golf putting: A complete guide for researchers, players and coaches
Marcia Berry (College of Arts and Science): Mason, Clifford. (2020). Macbeth in Harlem: Black theater in America from the beginning to Raisin in the Sun
Kevin Bowers (College of Engineering): Miles, Matt. (2017). Missouri: Wild and wonderful
Christopher Butler (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources): Mercier, Stephanie, & Halbrook, Steve A. (2020). Agricultural policy of the United States: Historic foundations and 21st century issues
Arthur DeQuire (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources): Berger-Tal, Oded, & Saltz, David (eds.). (2016). Conservation behavior: Applying behavioral ecology to wildlife conservation and management
Kaleb Hong (College of Arts and Science): Knapp, Samuel J. (2020). Suicide prevention: an ethically and scientifically informed approach
Raina Knight-Denton (Trulaske College of Business): Goodman, Ken, & Fries, Peter H., & Strauss, Steven L. (2016). Reading: The grand illusion: How and why people make sense of print
Tyler Kurtz (Trulaske College of Business): McManus, Sam. (2019). Running to glory: An unlikely team, a challenging season, and chasing the American dream
Merryum Munir (College of Arts and Science):Papadopoulos, Irena. (2018). Culturally competent compassion; A guide for healthcare students and practitioners
Cassidy “Graham” Pelchat (College of Engineering): Kumar, Kaushik, & Zindani, Divya, & Davim, J. Paolo. (2020). Mastering solidworks: Practical examples
Erik Severson (Trulaske College of Business): Goodavage, Maria. (2019). Doctor dogs: How our best friends are becoming our best medicine
Alyssa Turner (School of Health Professions): Hemphill, Barbara. (2020). Occupational therapy and spirituality
Logan Warnecke (Trulaske College of Business): Burkitt, Hugh. (2014). Marketing excellence 3: Award-winning companies reveal the secrets of their success
Faculty
Napolean Chagnon (College of Arts and Science): Schmidt, Peter R., & Kehoe, Alice B. (eds.). (2019). Archaeologies of listening
Mark Hinjosa (School of Journalism): Christ, William G., &n De Abreu, Belinha S. (eds.). (2020). Media literacy in a disruptive media environment
William Salzer (College of Medicine): Baker, Carol J. (ed.). (2020). Red book atlas of pediatric infectious diseases
Rachel Wilson (Trulaske College of Business): Ting, Anthony. (2013). The taxation of corporate groups under consolidation: An international comparison
Staff
Wesley Barnes (Campus Facilities): Holmstrom, Darwin. (2016). American muscle cars: A full throttle history
Melissa Connor (Student Affairs): O’Neill, Dan. (2019). When the blues go marching in: An illustrated timeline of St. Louis Blues hockey (Championship ed.)
Willie Cox (Intercollegiate Activities): Rios, Bernardo Ramirez. (2019). Transnational sport in the American west: Oaxaca California basketball
Paul Ellifrit (College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources): Koprowski, John L., & Krausman, Paul R. (eds.). (2019). International wildlife management: Conservation challenges in a changing world
Paula Fleming (College of Arts and Science): Gilmour, Rachael. (2020). Bad English: Literature, multilingualism, and the politics of language in contemporary Britain
Judy Gentzsch (Hospital Nursing Services): Harris, James, & Roussel, Linda, & Thomas, Tricia (eds.). (2018). Initiating and sustaining the clinical nurse leader role: a practical guide
Charles Graham (College of Human Environmental Sciences): Heyer, Katharina. (2015). Rights enabled: The disability revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations
Nicole Guillames (School of Medicine): Higgins, Robert S.D., & Sanchez, Juan A. (2018). The multi-organ donor: A guide to selection, preservation and procurement
Melissa Johnson (MU Hospital): The American Cancer Society (ed.) (2018). The American Cancer Society’s principles of oncology: Prevention to survivorship
Wayne McDaniel (Office of Research): Cunningham, James A, & Harney, Brian, & Fitzgerald, Ciara. (2020). Effective technology transfer offices: A business model framework
Aaron McGee (College of Education): Menickelli, Justin, & Pickens, Ryan “Slim.” (2016). The definitive guide to disc golf
Edward McKane (Campus Operations): Rizzo, Albert “Skip,” & Bouchard, Stephane (eds.). (2019). Virtual reality for psychological and neurocognitive interventions
Emily Meyer (College of Veterinary Medicine): Wynne, Clive D. L. (2019). Dog is love: How and why your dog loves you
Sherrie Neff (Office of Research): Stewart, Nikita. (2020). Troop 6000: The girl scout troop that began in a shelter and inspired the world
Christy Old (School of Medicine): Jespersen, Elias A. (ed.) (2019). Exploring the opportunities and challenges of medical students
Gordon Phillips (MU Hospital): Chan, Emily Ying Yang. (2020). Disaster public health and older people
Asia Plagman (Student Affairs): Harper, Graeme. (2020). Discovering creative writing
Michelle Robinett (Pharmacy and Laboratory Services): Dasgupta, Amitava, & Sepulveda, Jorge. (2019). Accurate results in the clinical laboratory: A guide to error detection and correction
Alyssa Schell (Campus Operations): Casey, Sarah, & Davies, Gerry. (2020). Drawing investigations: Graphic relationships with science, culture and environment
Connie Sprague (Intercollegiate Athletics): Qiande, Zhang, & Hondago, Yuan. (2018). Modern reader on the Chinese classics of flower arrangement: On vase flower arrangement & history of vases
Lawrence Vaught (Office of the Provost): Fox, Juliet. (2019). Community radio’s amplification of communication for social change. Cham, Switzerland
Timothy Whalen (Campus Facilities): Sablin, Ivan. (2018). The rise and fall of Russia’s far eastern republic, 1905-1922: Nationalisms, imperialisms, and regionalisms in and after the Russian empire
James Yeagle (MU Hospital): Cheng, Fanjun, & Zhang, Yu (eds.). (2020). The clinical diagnosis and treatment for new coronavirus pneumonia
Allen Yoder(Office of Research): Beauchamp, Tom L., & DeGrazia, David. (2020). Principles of animal research ethics
Mark Yount (Operations Auxillary & Service Operations): Raposo, Daniel (ed.). (2018). Communicating visually: The graphic design of the brand
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