Web tip of the week, April 30, 2018
Shannon Cary
Goodbye to Mary McFillen and Noah Hartsfield
Mary McFillen has accepted a new position with the MU Veterinary Health Center. Her last day at the Journalism Library will be Friday, May 18.
Noah Hartsfield has accepted a new position as a Sourcing Specialist with University of Missouri System HR. His last day in Ellis Library will be Friday, May 18.
In the News
“Looking back on Spanish flu: ‘A serious epidemic of influenza is impending’”
Columbia Missourian, May 3, 2018
Choose Privacy Week, May 1-8
Every year, the American Library Association designates the first week of May as Choose Privacy Week. This event “promotes the importance of individual privacy rights and celebrates libraries and librarians’ unique role in protecting privacy in the library and in society as a whole.” This year’s theme and featured article is “Big Brother is Watching You: The ethical role of libraries and big data.” Because libraries and librarians operate under a code of ethics, they have become trusted protectors of privacy that are constantly under assault.
The University Libraries protects your privacy. We will not provide information about one borrower’s circulation records to another person except in the event of the death of the borrower. You can find more tools and information about privacy below:
Marketing Highlights
Check out the latest Mizzou Made story from the Libraries: Asking the Right Questions Pays Off
New MUSE Posts
PeopleSoft Upgrade, April 27-30
In order to execute a minor upgrade and some bug fixes to PeopleSoft 9.2, MyHR and PeopleSoft HR will be unavailable from Friday, April 27th at 5pm to the morning of Monday, April 30th. If you would normally access either system over the weekend you will be unable to do so during the downtime. Please record any time worked during the outage in another format and enter it once the system is live again on Monday. Supervisors, please be sure that your staff and students are all aware of the outage. If you have any questions, please contact Noah Hartsfield.
MU Librarians and Archivists Council Minutes, 3/21/18
Missouri Self-Taught: Lanford Wilson and the American Drama Conference
The University of Missouri Theatre Department presents an interdisciplinary conference titled “Missouri Self-Taught: Lanford Wilson and the American Drama,” to focus on Missouri’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Lanford Wilson. The conference will be held April 26-29 at Ellis Library and the Rhynsburger Theatre and features an MU production of The Rimers of Eldritch directed by Dr. David Crespy.
The conference and all the events scheduled are free and open to the public, with a goal to encourage students and scholars to avail themselves of the Lanford Wilson Collection located in the University of Missouri Libraries Special Collections and Rare Books. Both the production of The Rimers of Eldritch and a new book edited by David Crespy, Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems, have been supported in part through research in the Lanford Wilson Collection. The conference also features onstage interviews and master classes with guest artists Marshall W. Mason, Lanford Wilson’s Tony® Award-winning director; Tanya Berezin, the former artistic director of New York’s Circle Repertory Company, where Wilson’s plays were first produced; Danny Irvine, founding director of its Circle Rep Lab; and Mary Sue Price, an Emmy award-winning Circle Repertory playwright and protégé of Lanford Wilson.
A full conference schedule and additional information can be found on the Missouri Self-Taught conference website.
Reminder About Ice Machine in Staff Lounge
Please remember to clean up any ice that falls out of the ice machine in the Ellis Library staff lounge. The melting ice makes the floor slippery and dangerous.