Thanks to everyone who sent in photos of their pets for pet grams! We had 78 people request pet grams. Below is one of the pet grams we sent.
Staff news
Welcome to Emilee Flores
Welcome to Emilee Flores. Emilee moved to Missouri from Louisiana, where she previously worked in the circulation and ILL units for several years in Sims Library at Southeastern Louisiana University. She hopes to eventually enroll in the School of Information Science and Learning Technology here at Mizzou.
Welcome to Ana Gutierrez-Ramos!
We are pleased to welcome Ana Gutierrez-Ramos to the Health Sciences Library! Ana joined us at the beginning of October and we are so happy to have her here.
Ana is a senior journalism student who is also minoring in political science and middle east studies. When she isn’t working or studying, Ana enjoys creative writing, reading, and spending time with friends and family.
When asked why she liked libraries, Ana said “I like that libraries are a place where curiosity and learning are fostered. When you are in a library you are surrounded by all sorts of knowledge, and it is up to you to discover it and grow.”
Welcome to the Health Sciences Library team, Ana!
Staff Development Week – Registration is open!
Great news! Registration is open for Staff Development Week 2022, the semiannual training conference sponsored by the Office of Human Resources. Join us October 31, November 1, 2 and 3 for this professional and personal development opportunity that that has become a valuable resource for participants. Register for any of the 30+ sessions in Percipio now. You can register for sessions here.
New Muse Posts
HathiTrust Research Center Fall Workshops
Fall 2022, HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is offering 3 virtual workshops, aimed especially at people new to HathiTrust and text and data mining.The workshops will be held via Zoom and will include a mix of hands-on, discussion, and presentation. We will utilize breakout rooms to support hands-on activities. You will not be required to install any software to participate in the workshops.
Workshop 1: Introduction to HathiTrust and HTRC
Date: Thursday, November 3
Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT
Duration: 2 hours
This workshop will introduce attendees to the data and computational tools of HathiTrust. HathiTrust operates a repository of over 17.5 million items digitized at a network of partner libraries. This massive collection is available for computational analysis primarily through the tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Attendees of this workshop will be introduced to the HathiTrust and HathiTrust Digital Library as well as the HTRC and its data and analytical tools, including hands-on practice with HTRC Analytics.
No experience is required for this introductory workshop.
Workshop 2: HTRC Extracted Features
Date: Thursday, November 10
Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT
Duration: 2 hours
An introduction to the HTRC Extracted Features Dataset, including the motivation for its creation, the data model, and the kinds of research it enables. This session will include a hands-on activity using the dataset, Google Colaboratory notebooks and Python code.
No experience is required–your level of participation is up to you! However, familiarity with Python is helpful.
Workshop 3: Introduction to HathiTrust and HTRC (repeat)
Date: Thursday, December 1
Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT
Duration: 2 hours
This workshop will introduce attendees to the data and computational tools of HathiTrust. HathiTrust operates a repository of over 17.5 million items digitized at a network of partner libraries. This massive collection is available for computational analysis primarily through the tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Attendees of this workshop will be introduced to the HathiTrust and HathiTrust Digital Library as well as the HTRC and its data and analytical tools, including hands-on practice with HTRC Analytics.
No experience is required for this introductory workshop.
Please contact htrc-help@hathitrust.org with questions.
Thanks to Everyone Who Helped With the TEAM Escape Room!
We put on the escape room again for TEAM. It’s a group that helps to build relationships with transfer students. Lexi Wolkow, who spoke at our SAG meeting last week, contacted us a few weeks ago to see if the escape room could be one of their activities. The students had an absolute great time and thank you to all the volunteers during the event and those who helped with different parts of the prep work!
Skylark Bookshop Event: Devoney Looser Discusses Sister Novelists
Thursday, November 10, 2022
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
It is the nature of life in a college town like Columbia that people come and go.
And while we’re sad to say goodbye to folks, it does at least mean that we have the pleasure of welcoming them back again. So it is that we’re thrilled to welcome Devoney Looser back to Columbia to talk about her brand-new book, Sister Novelists. For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, this is a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. In a starred review, Kirkus describes the book like this: “a triumph of literary detective work and storytelling, this is a must-read for the Austen and Brontë crowd,”
Devoney will be appearing at Skylark in conversation with another well-known Austen aficionado, Janet Saidi of KBIA. It’s going to be a dazzling evening!
Safe Space Training
Thank you to everyone who came to Safe Space Training! We had 14 people attend in person and 23 people online. We appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to engage in such important conversations.
And mark you calendars for a presentation by Lily Hunter on October 25th. This presentation will focus on being disabled in the work place. Once we solidify more details, we will send out another email and a calendar invite.
-IDEA Committee (Amanda Sprochi, Lily Hunter, Paula Roper, Taira Meadowcroft)
Popular Reading Collection Now Available in Ellis Library
Ellis Library isn’t just for study and work anymore. Because the Mizzou community needs leisure reading too, the MU Libraries in partnership with the Daniel Boone Regional Library (DBRL) are proud to announce the debut of a Popular Reading Collection in the Lounge, which is located on the first floor of Ellis Library in the Information Commons.
The Popular Reading Collection consists of books, magazines, comic books and some graphic novels that have been donated from DBRL. Library users may read these materials in the library or take them home. When they are finished, materials should be returned to Ellis Library, the Columbia Public Library, or dropped in any MU Libraries or DBRL bookdrop. The collection will be restocked once a month.
“We have heard from students over the years that they would like access to popular reading materials in Ellis Library. We are so grateful to the Daniel Boone Regional Library for collaborating on this project to make this material available to our users,” said Deb Ward.
The items in this collection are not part of the regular MU Libraries or DBRL circulating collection. You will not be able to search these books in either library’s catalog, and you do not need to check them out.
Follow the MU Libraries on Instagram @mizzou.libraries for updates on what is available in the collection.