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Date: Friday, October 11, 2024
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Online via Zoom
Registration
The Introduction to Dimensions webinar will showcase how researchers can use this powerful database to find collaborators, track funded activity, identify trends and more.
Division of Research, Innovation & Impact
Below are a few of the jounalism and communication ebooks we’ve recently added to our online collection. You can see the rest of our new ebooks here.
These ebooks were purchased with student success grant funds awarded by the Office of the Provost.
What is the influencer lifestyle? How do influencers win their fight for relevance and create a brand that catches fire, while still leading an authentic, healthy life? Influencing is a business built around likes and hate, which can take a huge psychological toll on those who choose to play the game. An Influencer’s World pulls back the curtain and shines a light on the often-misunderstood realities of this dynamic industry.
Childhood and Celebrity brings together international scholarly writing and research about famous children, and representations of childhood, from a range of disciplines including Childhood Studies, Celebrity Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies in order to open up a theoretical space in which to explore and understand the complex relationship between contemporary childhood and celebrity culture.
Disaster Communications in a Changing Media World
The emergence of new media like the Internet, email, blogs, text messaging, cell phone photos, and the increasing influence of first informers are redefining the roles of government and media. The tools and rules of communications are evolving, and disaster communications must also evolve to accommodate these changes and exploit the opportunities they provide.
Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry–including profound financial instability and public distrust–is for journalists to improve their relationship with their audiences. This raises important questions: How do journalists conceptualize their audiences in the first place? What is the connection between what journalists think about their audiences and what they do to reach them? Perhaps most importantly, how aligned are these “imagined” audiences with the real ones?
Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers
Who makes the news in a digital age? Participatory Journalism offers fascinating insights into how journalists in Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclusion of content produced and published by the public.
If you need journal articles, book chapters, proceedings, technical reports, government documents, and any part of other printed publications found within the libraries, simply request that the item be scanned and delivered to you via email. This includes items in any library building, and our off-site depository.
There are many ways you can request items from the libraries:
There is no charge for MU Faculty, Staff, and Students. For more information on our Scan & Deliver service, please visit our Scan & Deliver page.
Did you know both Ellis Library has all-gender restrooms? And for our other libraries that don’t, there are several all-gender restrooms located near them.
We want Mizzou Libraries to be a welcoming space for students of all gender identities and expressions.
Ellis Library: Rooms 203 & 412
Engineering Library (Lafferre Hall): Room C1211
Geology Library (Geological Sciences Building): Rooms 16, 212A & 315A
Journalism Library (Neff Addition & Neff Hall): Rooms 061, 137D & 106
Math Library Mathematical Sciences Building): Room 332
You can find the full list of all gendered restrooms on campus here.
From discovering new resources to tracking your impact, MU Libraries is here to support you every step of the way!
We offer a range of services covering all aspects of the Research Lifecycle, such as:
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Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Time:3:00pm – 4:00pm
Online via Zoom
Registration
Get to know the capabilities, limitations, and use cases for Zoterobib, a fully online, non-login tool that will help you format your bibliography using your phone, tablet, or computer.
Mizzou Libraries has access to many ebooks and we have an easy way for you to search for them.
Go to library.missouri.edu and type out your topic or the name of the book (put the title in quotation marks for best results) you are looking for in the search box. Click the search button (see the image below for an example).
For books in health sciences, take a look at the Health Sciences Library ebook page.
For books in veterinary medicine, take a look at the Zalk Library ebook page.
For books in journalism and communication, take a look at the Journalism Library ebook page.
If you get stuck or have a question, our 24/6 chat is on the right hand side of the screen. We are here for you.
Scroll down through the search results until you see Filter by Format on the left hand side. Choose Ebook. If Ebook doesn’t show up as an option, choose Show More, then click Ebook.
Date: Monday, September 30, 2024
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Online via Zoom
Registration
Zotero is a reliable tool for in-text and bibliography citation formatting. Zotero also helps organize sources, PDF’s, and notes, and facilitates collaborative research. This workshop will cover the most effective methods of getting citations into Zotero, using Zotero’s Word integration to create formatted bibliographies, and a use case for the Zettelkasten note-taking method using Zotero’s standalone notes.
An interfaith meditation and prayer space is designated for use at the southeast corner of the first floor that offers a secluded space in Ellis library.
We’ve placed signage in the area that requests respect for those engaged in meditation or prayer. In less busy times, you might be able to reserve an open study room for a more private space.
The Division of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity maintains a list of spaces on campus that can be used for meditation and prayer.
The University of Missouri Libraries are pleased to share the appointment of Kara Whatley as vice provost for libraries and university librarian, effective Sept. 16, 2024. Whatley comes to us from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where she served as the chief executive of the Caltech Library system.
Whatley’s previous roles include positions of increasing leadership at Texas Tech University Libraries and New York University Libraries. Throughout her career, she has shown a consistent strategic focus on catalyzing information discovery, preservation and sharing to support the university mission.
She is a member of the Association of College Research Libraries (ACRL) and is currently serving as the ACRL Division Councilor and the ACRL representative to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Science and Technologies section. She also currently serves as a member of the Elsevier North American Library Advisory Board, the EBSCO North American Deans and Directors Library Advisory Board and the Springer Nature Library Advisory Board.
The Libraries are also thankful to Jeannette Pierce, who served as interim vice provost for libraries and university librarian after Deb Ward’s retirement in May. Please join us in welcoming Kara Whatley to Mizzou and congratulating Jeannette Pierce.