Charla Kleopfer, 1947-2021
Charla Kleopfer was a librarian at the Health Sciences Library in the late 70s and early 80s.
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Marketing Highlight- Bernie Sanders in Places
The Marketing Team joined the fun and created their own Bernie Sanders in places meme. It’s gotten a lot of engagement on twitter, instagram, and facebook.
"I am once again asking you when the reading room will be open."
We hope you can use the reading room soon! The window restoration project is taking a bit longer than anticipated, but our over 100 year old building needed it. pic.twitter.com/Sw73PnL2mb
— Mizzou Libraries (@MizzouLibraries) January 21, 2021
Library Management Team Action and Information Items 1/12/21
Library Management Team Action and Information Items 12/1/20
SDC and WPD Resource Pick: UM System Employee Assistance Program is Here to Help
The University Libraries Staff Development Committee and MULAC Wellness and Professional Development Committee will be sharing information about resources available on campus and in the local community. Our first Resource Pick is the UM System Employee Assistance Program and here is more information provided by James Hunter, Director of the UM System EAP office. If you have suggestions for future resource picks, please contact either SDC or WPD.
The UM System EAP offers up to five sessions of counseling for employees, members of their immediate families and retirees. Services are provided at no-cost and are confidential. The counseling service also includes referral to or linkage with a wide variety of community resources based upon assessment and intervention planning. Our counseling service is an avenue to assist employees in effectively coping with stressors in their lives away from the organization such as parenting, caring for a relative in need, maintaining a healthy marriage and family, developing positive social connections, and managing economic stressors. Employees also utilize the counseling service to manage a multitude of work-related stressors.
Often, employees seek the consultation of our EAP to address the complex intersection of personal or life stressors with adjoining work demands. Our counseling interventions aim to promote effective employee role functioning within and external to the workplace as well as address the context in which their stressors are embedded. Effective workplace counseling provided by an EAP may reduce absenteeism, turnover and health care utilization, and may improve work role performance, enhance employee engagement and serves to moderate existing health conditions such as anxiety, depression, alcohol or other substance use.
EAP Work – Life Resources are located here: https://www.umsystem.edu/totalrewards/benefits/eap/eap_training_programs
EAP Occupational Stress Programs are summarized here: https://www.umsystem.edu/totalrewards/benefits/eap/eap_occupational_stress
EAP Services for administrators are reviewed here: https://www.umsystem.edu/totalrewards/benefits/eap/eap_administrator_services and https://www.umsystem.edu/totalrewards/benefits/eap/eap_org_consultation
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Help Us Build a Better Future
We’ve been through a lot in 2020. And we still face significant uncertainty in the coming months and years. But this moment is also an opportunity to build a better future. One that includes every person in our community.
As our country and community recovers from the pandemic, we will see greater need for years to come. Consider this:
- 11 million Americans are unemployed (U.S. Department of Labor)
- 7% of the population of Columbia lives in poverty (Boone Indicators Dashboard)
- More than 1 in 10 don’t know where their next meal is coming from (Feeding America)
- 5% of Boone County residents are food insecure (Feeding America)
- 38% of Boone County residents experiencing food insecurity are above the income threshold for nutrition assistance programs (Feeding America)
- At least 30 million people are at risk of eviction (Aspen Institute)
- 1 in 7 students don’t graduate high school (National Center for Education Statistics)
Addressing these challenges will take every one of us. Every day Heart of Missouri United Way helps chip away at these problems. The progress we make is only possible because of donors like you. Please help us do more by giving today.
The future will be different than we once imagined. But it can also be better than we ever dreamed it could be.
Sincerely,
Andrew Grabau
Executive Director
Heart of Missouri United Way
P.S. Did you know that for most taxpayers, up to $300 of donations to charity are deductible in 2020? Please, give to Heart of Missouri United Way now.
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Library Management Team Notes
We got a little behind on posting notes from the Library Management Team notes. Here are the action and information items from the last several meetings.
Supply Requests
Please send any supply requests to mulibraryadmin@missouri.edu.
Coming Soon: Symptom Check Required to Access Ellis Library and Other Buildings on Campus
MU has made the decision to require symptom checks through the #CampusClear app in order to enter some buildings on campus. The complete list of buildings hasn’t been made public, but Ellis Library will be one of the buildings. We believe the Rec Center and the Student Unions will also have this requirement. The campus-wide implementation is underway, and Kathy Peters is working with SOS staffing services to manage the screening station, which will be at the west entrance. Although a date hasn’t been confirmed, this will probably start at the beginning of October. All patrons and staff will be screened during all normal business hours of Ellis Library. Staff who come in when the library is not open to the public will not be screened, but remember that supervisors are allowed to ask you if you have checked your symptoms. If someone chooses not to use the #CampusClear app, there will be an alternative symptom check method.
We will keep you updated as we receive further information about this new procedure. In the meantime, you should download the app and check your symptoms daily.