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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.
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.
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/
Are you presenting at Health Sciences Research Day? Add your poster to MOspace to help boost your resume.
MOspace is the freely available online repository for scholarship and other works by University of Missouri faculty, students, and staff.
You retain copyright, and we provide access.
Once items are submitted, the platform can provide statistics like number of downloads, and from which countries.
Currently, all Health Sciences Research Day posters in MOspace have a total of 9,739 downloads from over 100 countries worldwide.
Interested in seeing the worldwide impact of your research? Submit your poster using our online form today.
Interested in learning an easy way to create graphics on your own? The Marketing Team is hosting a workshop, Nov.13th 10-11am in Ellis 213, to teach you how to use Canva. The Marketing Team uses Canva to help create most of the images we need for Newshub stories.
Canva is a free, online graphic design platform that makes creating beautiful images a breeze! Design effective social media posts, blog graphics, presentations, posters, flyers or create your own custom dimension design.
The Marketing Team will take you through how to create an image using Canva. We will go over fonts, colors, uploading and editing images, applying backgrounds and working with the Canva templates.