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On December 10-14, the first floor will be restricted to first and second year medical students for testing between the hours of 7:30am to 5:00pm.
If you need a book from the first floor, please visit the Service Desk.
Remember, if you need to print, use the Health Sciences Library Copy Room printers located on the main floor of the library.
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion. At the end of each month, we will have an open forum for those who are interested in debriefing about the workshops/sessions/trainings you attended.
Imposter Syndrome: What is it? How do we Deal with it?
Thursday Dec. 6th, 10:30-11:15 am
Lafferre Hall W1005 Ketchum Auditorium
This interactive session will explore how biases can be internalized in the form of stereotype threat and imposter syndrome. Participants will discuss what these terms mean, the negative impact that they can have, strategies to overcome them within ourselves and ways to avoid triggering them in others. Mara Inge will be attending this. Email her if you want to join her!
Rich Rexroat started at the Health Sciences Library in 1979. That year:
Check out this month’s new books at the Health Sciences Library. You can use the drop down menu to see previous month’s additions.
Have a purchase recommendation? You can request a book for your teaching or research using this form.
On November 20-21, the first floor will be restricted to third year medical students for testing between the hours of 7:30am to 5:00pm.
If you need a book from the first floor, please visit the Service Desk.
Remember, if you need to print, use the Health Sciences Library Copy Room printers located on the main floor of the library.
We have no campus events to recommend this week, but there is no shortage of cultural enrichment to be had, related to many aspects of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Check out What’s Cooking?, viewable online on tubitv.com, if you want to see some family drama in four very different yet interrelated American families.
Want to see Thanksgiving celebrations in historical context in U.S. history, including colonial-era instructions on stuffing and roasting turkey? Your Library of Congress has quite a bit.
Ever thought about how Native Americans today feel about Thanksgiving? See this writeup from the National Museum of the American Indian. Want to find out about the role the late-fall/winter staple wild rice’s cultural and historical significance for the Ojibwe people? Look at some of the Youtube videos on “Manoomin,” the Ojibwe name for wild rice, like this short documentary.
And for fun and exciting dinner conversation, how about this? https://www.history.com/news/thanksgiving-history-trivia-facts
Wishing all our colleagues a happy weekend away from work, however you celebrate,
-The Diversity Committee
Our hours will be different during the Thanksgiving holiday break:
Fri, 11/16 : 7:00am-6:00pm
Sat, 11/17: 10:00am-7:00pm
Sun, 11/18: 2:00pm-11:00pm
Mon, 11/19: 7:00am-11:00pm
Tues, 11/20: 7:00am-11:00pm
Wed, 11/21: 8:00am-5:00pm
Thurs, 11/22: Closed
Fri, 11/23: Closed
Sat, 11/24: 10:00am-7:00pm
Sun, 11/25: 12:00pm – 12:00am
Enjoy your well deserved week off!
This past year, Kate Harlin, a PhD student and graduate instructor, won the Gus Reid Award from the English Department. Gus Reid, having taught composition within this program, donated funds to support an award for graduate students and other instructors who teach exploratory/persuasive writing. The award stipulates that each recipient “should not only be a good writer but an even better critic—one who views the job and self with both discipline and light-heartedness.” Kate applied with materials created from her international composition course, a course that greatly benefited from Kelli Hansen‘s Special Collections assistance.
Kate and Kelli collaborated on an assignment designed so students could choose an object in Special Collections that they wanted to learn more about, generate questions and use as an object to springboard into an exploratory essay. From the get go, this open ended assignment was ambitious, but Kate says, “Kelli was so open and flexible with us that she was able to pull items that got every student in the class excited.”
Kelli pulled a Physics textbook from the 1920s written in Arabic, which one of Kate’s students from Saudi Arabia was able to identify as a translation written by Mizzou professor Oscar Stewart. She also found a poetry manuscript, by Li He of the Tang Dynasty, written in Chinese that many of the Chinese speaking students were thrilled to look through. One of her students even submitted her work for the Mahan Freshman Essay Award and received an honorable mention.
“The best thing about these two examples is that it helped the international students to see themselves as experts and knowledge-producers, which can be hard for any first year college student, but is even more difficult when in a class that is all about a writing in a language that you’re still learning to master,” Kate says.
Kate suggests figuring out a way to incorporate Special Collections in your syllabus and if you don’t know how, reach out to your librarians.Special Collections provided examples that truly inspired Kate’s students and is one of the many reasons why she will continue to collaborate with Kelli for future classes.
“Every semester that I have brought students to Special Collections, I have received feedback that it was a major highlight of the semester! I value inquiry and discovery in the classroom, and there is no better venue for it than Special Collections.”
Cycle of Success is the idea that libraries, faculty, and students are linked; for one to truly succeed, we must all succeed. The path to success is formed by the connections between University of Missouri Libraries and faculty members, between faculty members and students, and between students and the libraries that serve them. More than just success, this is also a connection of mutual respect, support, and commitment to forward-thinking research.
If you would like to submit your own success story about how the libraries have helped your research and/or work, please use the Cycle of Success form.
Looking to conduct research, develop guidelines, or write for publication and finding yourself spending too much time looking for evidence based literature? The Health Sciences Library expert search service is the time saver you didn’t know you needed.
With this service, you provide the details of your project and your librarian does the rest. They will search multiple appropriate databases, find the best evidence for your project, and package the results in an easy to read format. While your librarian expertly searches your topic, you have more freed up time to work on another aspect of your project.
Searches taking under an hour to complete are free. Any additional time spent is heavily discounted to $10/hour.
Did you know that the Health Sciences Library conducted more than 760 expert searches for our users in 2017? Our librarians have a lot of experience and want to help you.
Want to take advantage of our expert search service? Fill out this form: http://library.muhealth.org/forms/bibsearch/
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion. At the end of each month, we will have an open forum for those who are interested in debriefing about the workshops/sessions/trainings you attended.
Sounds of Japan
Saturday, Nov. 10th, Missouri Theatre.
The University of Missouri (MU) Asian Affairs Center and the Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri (CAAM) are organizing “Sounds of Japan” at the Missouri Theatre at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 10, 2018. CAAM will be performing with the iconic St. Louis Osuwa Taiko drummers for our Sounds of Japan concert! Partnering to celebrate the Asian Affairs Center’s 20th anniversary and CAAM’s 40th anniversary, the music will take the audience on an aural journey to Japan! General Admission $20 at the door or Buy Online for Advanced Ticket Pricing 15.00; $5 students with ID. You can buy tickets here.
When Sports Met Politics: A Love Story
Monday, Nov. 12th, 6:30pm, Stotler Lounger, Memorial Student Union
Come hear Jemele Hill, staff writer for the Atlantic and former ESPN correspondent and columnist, speak.
This event is sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Film screening: From the Land of Ghandi
Nov. 13, 5–7 p.m. Student Leadership Auditorium, Student Center.
A viewing of “From the Land of Ghandi,” a film on U.S. high-skilled immigration. Stay after the film for discussion. Sponsored by the MU International Center, Gradaute Professional Council and the Post-Doctoral Fellow Association. The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in the film belong solely to those featured in the film and are not necessarily those of the MU International Center or the University of Missouri.
Core Concepts Series: Interactive Theater: “Identity Politics”
Nov. 14th, 12-1:30pm, Townsend Hall 206
Join IDE’S Office of Inclusive Engagement for our Core Concept Series in collaboration with the College of Education. Diversity and inclusion are labels used to express complex, multi-faceted organizational strategies, goals and values. The purpose of the Core Concepts Series is to provide members of the Mizzou community with a foundational understanding of essential ideas to promote diversity and inclusion at Mizzou.
To register, you can email Alejandra Gudiño .
Discover Islam: Islam and Public Health
Nov. 15, 6–7:30 p.m, 114 Strickland Hall
Discover Islam is a lecture series organized by the Islamic Center of Central Missouri. The series offers the opportunity to learn about Islam from local community members. Sponsored by the MU International Center.