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Please help me wish Renita Richmond, our long time LIA in Health Sciences, a fond farewell as she heads off into retirement. Renita’s retirement starts today, so we won’t get to have a formal send off. Renita has been an absolute gem to work with and has been the rock holding tech services at HSL together for many years. We are very happy for her but very very sad for us.
Renita, we will miss you so much!
–Amanda Sprochi
While the size is relative to the individual, work from home is an obstacle for all of us. Away from important scanners and physical materials, the Digital Services Department has kept on its toes with other digitization opportunities. One current project involves processing and uploading title stories from MIZZOU, the magazine of the Alumni Association, enhancing their availability as individual articles in MOspace and enhancing discoverability through tools like Discover@MU or Google Scholar. The magazine, formerly titled Missouri Alumnus, has chronicled University life, challenges, academic pursuits, and athletic accomplishment for over one hundred years. Through this project, Digital Services staff have been rediscovering the legacy of obstacles, successes and highlights, for instance:
The articles – currently numbering 982 — are available in the Mizzou Alumni magazine feature stories collection.
Thanks to Diane Johnson and Ali Sauer for these great library memes!
As part of our phased-in plan to increase library services, the book drop at the west entrance of Ellis Library (near Speaker’s Circle) is open. We cannot accept books at any other book drops. You may return or renew library books. Because we have limited staff in the building, there will be a delay in staff checking in your items, and returned items may not be removed immediately from your account.
Currently, we cannot accept donated materials that have not already been approved.
Starting June 1, we will resume our scan and deliver service. The Libraries will retrieve and scan periodical articles, book chapters, proceedings, technical reports, government documents and any part of other printed publications held in the Mizzou Libraries.
The Libraries plan to offer pre-arranged check out of books, with curbside pickup, on July 1.
Even though the buildings will remain closed for awhile, the Libraries will continue reference chat, remote consultations and instructional support throughout the summer.
Plans are being made for how to safely open Ellis Library and the specialized libraries for the fall semester.
Ok, we didn’t get a lot of memes submitted, so I’m going to give you another week for this one.
They say laughter is the best medicine! This week’s challenge is to share your favorite meme! Send me the meme that makes you laugh the most. Bonus points if it’s library related. ?
Today and tomorrow we will be congratulating our graduating student workers on social media. Follow Mizzou Libraries on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Several of the specialized libraries will also participate.
Also check out our finals “study break” posts!
Take a #studybreak and color some of our collections. @MUSpecColl created coloring pages featuring items from the collection. There's even a #Mizzou edition to get you into the tiger spirit https://t.co/amaKBp7sNE pic.twitter.com/rNwdTPHpAG
— Mizzou Libraries (@MizzouLibraries) May 12, 2020