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New Ebooks at Mizzou Libraries: Medicine and Health Sciences

Below are a few of the medicine and health sciences 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.

 

Emerging Pandemics : Connections with Environment and Climate Change

Pandemics are often associated with viruses and bacteria occurring in wildlife in natural environments. Thus, diseases of epidemic and pandemic scale are mostly zoonotic, some of which include AIDS, Zika virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and COVID-19. The book seeks to explore the documented history of pandemics and various epidemics that have the potential of turning into pandemics with the warming climate, pollution, and environmental destruction.

 

 

The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication

The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication presents a thorough overview of a dynamic field, bringing together entries by an international panel of contributors that address a comprehensive range of recent and emerging topics. With a global and interdisciplinary focus, this timely resource addresses cutting-edge digital technology, complementary and integrative healthcare, diversity and inclusion, health equity, COVID-19, and much more.

 

Artificial Intelligence for Neurological Disorders

The book discusses many machine learning techniques to detect neurological diseases at the cellular level, as well as other applications such as image segmentation, classification and image indexing, neural networks and image processing methods. Chapters include AI techniques for the early detection of neurological disease and deep learning applications using brain imaging methods like EEG, MEG, fMRI, fNIRS and PET for seizure prediction or neuromuscular rehabilitation.

 

 

 

The Hospice Heritage

Through The Hospice Heritage: Celebrating Our Future, physicians, nurses, social workers, and clergy will find unique examples to give patients the attention, care, and understanding they need at that time in their life. Since 80 percent of people who die do so without the support of a hospice program, this important book offers approaches designed to expand access to hospice and provide a solid foundation of treatment for patients with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses.

 

 

 

Ataxic Disorders

This volume’s primary goal is to provide a comprehensive understanding of recent developments and advancements in the study of ataxic disorders. Beginning with an examination of the cerebellar region, and then progressing to a fresh perspective on the clinical aspects of the various forms of ataxia, this handbook gives clinicians a state-of-the-art reference for the management of the many etiologies and neurological manifestations of ataxic disorders.

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New Ebooks at Mizzou Libraries: Sociology and Psychology

Below are a few of the sociology and psychology 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.

 

Interpersonal Development

This volume brings together for the first time the papers which have shaped and defined the field of interpersonal development. It celebrates the maturation of the subject by bringing together the best work by scholars who have been instrumental in furthering the field.

 

 

Social Skills Across the Life Span

Social skills are critical to psychological adjustment across the lifespan. These skills are necessary for attaining a variety of important social, emotional, and interpersonal goals. Social skill definits and resulting negative social interactions are associated with a wide variety of adjustment problems and psychological disorders.

 

 

 

 

 

Sibling Relationships: Their Nature and Significance Across the Lifespan

Since the emergence of developmental psychology early this century, theorists and researchers have emphasized the family’s role in shaping the child’s emergent social style, personality, and cognitive competence. In so doing, however, psychologists have implicitly adopted a fairly idiosyncratic definition of the family— one that focuses almost exclusively on parents and mostly on mothers. The realization that most families contain two parents and at least two children has occurred slowly, and has brought with it recognition that children develop in the context of a diverse network of social relationships within which each person may affect every other both directly (through their interactions) and indirectly

 

Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior

Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior: Handbook in Stress Series, Volume 1, examines stress and its management in the workplace and is targeted at scientific and clinical researchers in biomedicine, psychology, and some aspects of the social sciences.

 

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Haley Lykins Appointed Public Services Archivist

The MU Libraries are pleased to announce that Haley Lykins has been appointed permanent reference/public services archivist for University Archives after serving in this position on a temporary contract since June of last year. Haley previously served as the Samir Husni Magazine Collection processing coordinator for Special Collections from 2023-2024 and as a student assistant in Special Collections and Physical Processing from 2019-2023. Haley has a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Missouri’s School of Information Science and Learning Technologies with an emphasis in archival studies and a Bachelor of Art degree from MU’s School of Visual Studies.

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Veterinary Medical Library Space Project

The Zalk Veterinary Medical Library is undergoing an exciting transformation. Over the next six months, the library team will relocate thousands of infrequently used items to the UM Libraries Depository (UMLD). UMLD is a facility near campus that is designed to provide high-density storage in a climate-controlled environment.

There are two primary benefits to the project: long-term preservation of the library materials and an expansion of student study space. As the only veterinary library in the state, ensuring the longevity of the collection is a high priority. The books and journals will be housed in an environment designed to prevent deterioration and mold. Additionally, the decrease in shelving units will allow for double the amount of tables available for student use. As the College of Veterinary Medicine’s program continues to grow and thrive, the library can better serve as a dedicated study space to support student success.

And don’t worry: all relocated items will still be requested through the library catalog and picked up on campus!

 

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BYOBook Club at Mizzou Libraries

Do you want to join a book club but prefer to choose your own book? Join the BYOBook Club!

Our first meeting of the semester is Wednesday, February 19 at 4:00 pm in Ellis Library 114A.

This month’s theme is: read a book with a red or pink cover. Need a book recommendation? Check out our book club guide.

Registration is not required, but encouraged.

New Ebooks at Mizzou Libraries: Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Below are a few of the eterinary and Animal Sciences 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.

 

Animal Agriculture: Sustainability, Challenges and Innovations

This book discusses the land-based production of high-quality protein by livestock and poultry and how it plays an important role in improving human nutrition, growth and health.

 

 

The Origin and Early Evolutionary History of Snakes

Snakes comprise nearly 4,000 extant species found on all major continents except Antarctica. Morphologically and ecologically diverse, they include burrowing, arboreal, and marine forms, feeding on prey ranging from insects to large mammals. Snakes are strikingly different from their closest lizard relatives, and their origins and early diversification have long challenged and enthused evolutionary biologists.

 

 

 

Greene’s Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat

This book provides a comprehensive, clinically useful reference on the management of infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria (including rickettsiae, chlamydiae, mycoplasmas, and spirochetes), fungi, algae, protozoa, parasites, and other atypical agents

 

 

 

Next Generation Nanochitosan

Next Generation Nanochitosan: Applications in Animal Husbandry, Aquaculture and Food Conservation provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art-information on the application of nanochitosan for improving products, especially for the evaluation of biological active molecules, disease therapeutics, transport vehicle for DNA, targeted drug delivery, gene therapy, development of smart and high performance of fish, preservation of foods, tissue engineering, and improving the taste of aquatic and animal feeds as fish growth promoter.

Welcome to Piper Brown-Kingsley

The MU Libraries are pleased to announce the hire of Piper Brown-Kingsley as the Information and Data Services Librarian at the Health Sciences Library. She began over the summer. Piper is a May 2024 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School. In addition, she’s been working as a remote Data Curation Intern at the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) at the University of Michigan. We’re so excited to have her join the Information Services Team at the newly renovated Health Sciences Library.

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NOW OPEN: Health Sciences Library

After a little over a year and a half, the Health Sciences Library is OPEN.

We are so happy to be back and we can’t wait to see you in our new space!

Here are our hours for the rest of the semester:

Thanksgiving Break
Monday -Wednesday   8am-5pm
Thursday-Friday           Closed
Saturday                      12pm-6pm
Sunday                        12pm-9pm

Regular Hours (Dec. 2nd-13th)
Monday -Thursday      8am-9pm
Friday                          8am-6pm
Saturday                     12pm-6pm
Sunday                       12pm-9pm

Intersession Hours (Dec. 14th-24th; Jan. 2nd-Jan. 5th)
Monday -Thursday      8am-5pm
Friday                          7am-6pm
Saturday                     12pm-6pm
Sunday                       12pm-5pm

Christmas
Dec. 25th Closed
 
Winter Break
Dec. 26th-Dec. 31st Closed

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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Library Events and Resources for First-Generation Student Week

National First-Generation College Celebration Week is November 8-16. We will be celebrating 5,000+ First-Gen students, faculty, staff, and alumni at our 20+ events campus wide. Please visit the first-gen website and register today! Events open to all; faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.

We also want to share a few ways the MU Libraries will be participating in supporting First-Generation Students this week, and ways that we are working to support First-Generation students throughout the full year!

Library Events for First-Generation Student Week

Additional Ways the MU Libraries are Working to Support First-Generation Students, Faculty and Staff at MU!

  • A new list of library webpages for First-Generation students.
  • The NEW Wellbeing Collection that will be on the first floor of Ellis Library soon with resources for first-generation students and other campus groups as well as books for leisure reading.
  • Jill Kline, Student Success Librarian, is a member of the First-Generation Student Success Advisory Board. This board meets regularly to ensure we are continuing to best support our first-gen students, and promoting services, starting initiatives, and creating goals for the First-Generation Student Initiatives Board.
  • We are starting a Faculty and Staff First-Generation Initiative where any faculty and staff can join our reading group starting January 2025, we will meet over coffee to discuss articles on first-generation topics. At the end of the semester, we will discuss our thoughts on the chosen book, First Gen: A Memoir. Please fill out our doodle poll if you would like to join!
  • MU Libraries and our partnership with First-Generation initiatives were discussed on an episode of the FirstGenFM Podcast!
  • A new partnership with TRiO Student Support Services that allows any TRiO Student who meets with a librarian for research help to get an entry into their $500 scholarships. Learn how to meet with your librarian here.
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Free Equipment Checkout

Did you leave your laptop at home? Forgot your phone charger? Need a camera? The Checkout Desk at your library can help you out. Check out the available equipment here. All equipment is available with your student ID. Materials can be renewed in person at the desk. There is a $2 fine for every hour it is returned late.

So, the next time you are studying all day at the library and your phone dies, don’t worry! Just head over to the Checkout Desk at your library.