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 …

Preparing a poster for Innovation and Improvement Sharing Days in April? Take our PowerPoint class February 24!

Sign up for a Powerpoint class on Tuesday, February 24 at 3pm and pick up some tips for preparing posters. Not able to make it? Rebecca Graves, education and instruction librarian, has created a guide with step-by-step instructions for using PowerPoint to create a poster.

Congratulations to Shelly McDavid!

Congrats to our very own Shelly McDavid! Shelly, Library Information Assistant at Zalk Library, and Rebecca Graves, education librarian at the Health Sciences Library, have recently published two chapters, “Introduction to Learning Theory” and “Introduction to Instructional Techniques,”  in Curriculum-Based Library Instruction: From cultivating faculty relationships to assessment (Medical Library Association Book Series), 2014.

MU Librarians Author Chapters in New Library Instruction Book

Shelly McDavid, a library information assistant a the Veterinary Medical Library, and Rebecca Graves, the educational services librarian for the Health Sciences Library, co-authored two chapters, "Introduction to Learning Theory" and "Introduction to Instructional Techniques," which appear in Curriculum-Based Library Instruction: From cultivating faculty relationships to assessment (Medical Library Association Book Series), 2014. The book has just been released and was …

Friday Workshop, Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact

Oct. 3 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Room 117, Health Sciences Library 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