Librarians Serve on Award-Winning AI Task Force

Rebecca Graves and Kimberly Moeller served on the MU Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the Learning Environment. MU Faculty Council on University Policy awarded this task force the group category of its Shared Governance Award. Comments from the nomination include: The Task Force’s efforts to make sure faculty and staff have a seat at …

Search Committee for Head of Veterinary Medical Library

Chair: Kara Whatley CVM Faculty: Cindy Cravens HSL Librarian: Rebecca Graves RAIS Librarian: Jill Kline Libraries Staff Member: Katy Emerson

Laying the Research Foundation

This guest post is written by Dr. Jennifer O’Connor, Associate Teaching Professor and Dr. Becky Largent, Assistant Teaching Professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing. What do you do with 60+ brand new doctoral students to get them on the right track as they begin their research? Talk to your librarian, of course. Navigating MU’s …

Mizzou Libraries’ Favorite Female Authors

National Women’s Month may be coming to an end, but there are still many ways you can support female voices throughout the rest of this month and beyond! Whether you chose to donate to a nonprofit organization or decide to learn more about women’s history through sites such as https://womenshistorymonth.gov/, here at Mizzou Libraries, we encourage …

Stay At Home Challenge #3: The Libraries Playlist

Here’s what your co-workers are listening to while they stay at home! Michelle Baggett: “Wouldn’t It Be Good” by Nik Kershaw  I absolutely love and replay over and over again…. ? Cindy Bassett: “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles For  me and my son, Nathan, we are singing the  Beatles version of Here Comes …

Providing Access to Resources Directly to Students

This guest post is written by Dr. Marilyn James-Kracke, Associate Professor of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology. With the help of Rebecca Graves, Educational Services Librarian, and Mike Spears, System Support Analyst, my students in medical pharmacology are included in the list of students who can use UpToDate and its Lexi-comp drug database for 15 assignments that …

Cycle of Success: Nursing Student Obtains Invaluable Assistance with Literature Review

My name is Erin, and I am a second year distance student in the BSN-to-PhD program at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing. My interest in researching type 1 diabetes (T1D) began three years ago, when my son (who was 9 years old at the time) was diagnosed with T1D. I have particular interests in …

Cycle of Success: Dr. Dannecker and Physical Therapy Evidence-Based Practice

Erin Dannecker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy. Since 2004, she has been teaching Evidence-Based Practice to between 44 to 60 Doctorate of Physical Therapy students with Rebecca Graves’ assistance. “Health professionals must learn how to search literature databases quickly and efficiently because they have little time in between treating patients. …

Friday Workshop, Oct. 16

Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact Oct. 16 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Utilize ORCID, Google Scholar Profile, MOspace, h-index, impact factors and more to maximize your professional impact. Learn how to set up accounts and make these tools work for you! Janice Dysart, Science Librarian; Rebecca Graves, Health Sciences Librarian Workshops offered simultaneously in two formats: Face-to-face: Rm. …

Friday Workshop, Feb. 27

Mendeley for First Timers Feb. 27 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Room 213, Ellis Library This hands-on session is intended to introduce Mendeley to first-time users. It will focus on using Mendeley to build your database of citations from journal articles, books, and other publications and use entries to cite in your own documents. Mendeley is free to download and use …