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Clifford Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked Information, discusses the special qualities of born-digital news and why it should be preserved for the benefit of all society.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Saving born-digital news: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
You probably have already heard about the cut to the MU Libraries Collections planned for the coming year . Here’s what we know as of now about what it will mean for the Health Sciences Library:
Our collections allocation will be reduced about $150,000 compared to last year – a 20% reduction.
Meeting this target will require us to:
A list of all journal subscriptions under review, with prices and publishers listed, is now live on the Health Sciences Library web site, along with additional details about the budget challenges facing our library. The list will be a continually updated with cancellation information until we reach our budget reduction goal.
Please let us know if you have questions and concerns.
Journalists take note: the internet eats your stories for lunch. News professionals who assume someone else is saving their digital output are often shattered to find they have little or nothing to show for years of stressful work on deadline.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: Learning to JAM in 5 steps: New initiative reminds journalism students to archive their digital work
An early introduction to the library helps students understand that the library is there to support research needs both online and onsite, with resources beyond what existed in high school libraries. The MU Libraries can help you achieve your goal of ensuring a smooth transition from high school to college, by introducing resources, skills, and habits which foster academic success.
The MU Libraries Scavenger Hunt is designed to introduce you to Ellis Library’s spaces and services – and to make the building a little less intimidating. It takes about 30 minutes to complete, so will easily fit into any break in your schedule. Students can take the Scavenger Hunt on their smart phone (http://library.missouri.edu/ScavengerHunt), or stop by the reference desk to pick up a paper copy.
You may notice some changes on the MU Libraries homepage. Over the summer, our team of electronic resource specialists implemented a new discovery tool: a simple and fast search engine that helps you find relevant information on any topic from the University of Missouri Libraries’ collections. Results contain citations for scholarly journal articles, books and e-books, DVDs, magazines, newspapers, dissertations, and many more resources. Give Discover @ MU a try, and if you have any questions, please contact the Ellis Library Reference Desk (ask@missouri.email.libanswers.com).
Want to be more productive, research more effectively, and be more innovative in your teaching? Your Libraries can help with that! Add these three steps to your to-do list, and let us help you and your students on the path to success.
Extra credit: take a look at our new and improved Research Services page, and let us know what you think.
The University of Missouri Libraries are creating the library of the future as a partner in the HathiTrust, an international community of research libraries committed to the preservation and availability of the cultural record. By digitizing and curating rare, fragile, and valuable scholarly materials, the University Libraries are helping to build an open access digital library available to scholars all over the world. The HathiTrust Digital Library is online at https://www.hathitrust.org/.
Among the University of Missouri’s contributions to the project are seven volumes of the Vetusta Monumenta, a landmark publication held in fewer than twenty libraries worldwide. Vetusta Monumenta provides important historical and cultural documentation of British antiquities, including the first published accounts of important single artifacts such as the Rosetta Stone, as well as visual evidence of monuments that have since been damaged or lost. The Libraries’ high-resolution scans of this lavishly illustrated, large-format work reveal the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copperplate engravings in minute detail. Dr. Noah Heringman, a professor of English, collaborated with the Libraries on this project and is currently using the scans as the basis for a new scholarly edition of the work.
Dr. Nathan Beucke, MD., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Health at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. His research interests include General Pediatrics, Newborn Care, and Pediatric/Childhood Obesity. If you would like to learn more about Dr. Beucke, click here.
Dr. Beucke, along with several MU medical and graduate students, recently published in BMC Medical Education, an “open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.” Dr. Beucke’s article, Out of the classroom and into the community: medical students consolidate learning about health literacy through collaboration with Head Start, discusses the Eat Healthy, Stay Active! program, a pediatric obesity prevention program implemented at Head Start, over an academic year.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL), of which MU is an institutional member, is hosting a one hour webinar at 2:00 PM on August 24.
Some member benefits for belonging to CRL, such as its generous interlibrary loans and joint purchase program, are accessed through Ellis Library, but others, like research consultations, purchase on demand and digitization on demand, are available straight from CRL to you, the researcher.
Attend the webinar online to find out more about ALL the ways CRL can support your work! To register, click here.
Topics to be addressed in the webinar include:
