About two weeks ago a new custodial service, ISS/BG Services, began working at Ellis Library. There is now a day porter on duty from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m and a night porter from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. everyday except Saturdays. Please contact Pat Jones if you have any questions/comments about the new custodial service.
Some of you may have noticed the new container recycling bins in Ellis Library. Most of the bins were provided by campus recycling (some were purchased by MU Libraries awhile back). The student workers in Administrative Services will be emptying the bins each week. We may also need to call on staff volunteers to help with this effort during breaks or exams when student workers aren’t available.
Our new recycling efforts are in an early stage and adjustments can still be made. Please contact Shannon Cary or Pat Jones if you have any questions or suggestions.
Thanks to everyone who has worked to make container recycling at Ellis Library a reality, especially the members of the Greener MU Libraries Task Force, Steve Burdic (the campus recycling coordinator), Pat Jones, Mark Ellis and the Admin student workers.
Hello to Karen Marshall, LIA and night supervisor at the Journalism Library. Karen’s duties include assisting the student workers with any questions or concerns and helping patrons. Karen graduated from MU in 2007, and before making the transition to the Journalism Library, worked in the catalog management unit of the Ellis technical services department for a little over a year, and worked in Ellis circulation for a time.
Hello to Cara Blome, part-time LIS I, UMLD. Cara was promoted from student assistant into the LIS position.
Goodbye to Ricky Kerns, LIA, Access Services, ILL. He is relocating to Colorado.
September 14, 2008
Nice Work if You Can Get It: Comic Artists in the Digital Age
Speakers: Artists Matt Kindt, Mardou, Ted May, Jeff Zwirek & Moderator: Dr. Kristin Schwain
Location: Columbia Public Library
Time: 2:00 PM
Co-Sponsor: Columbia Public Library
September 17, 2008 See You In The Funny Papers: The Rich Tradition of St. Louis Cartooning
Speakers: Dan Martin
Location: Ellis Library Colonnade
Time: 2:00 PM
September 18, 2008 From Gags to Graphic Novels: Alley Oop in the History of Narrative Comics
Speakers: Dr. Andrew Hoberek
Location: Ellis Library Colonnade
Time: 1:00 PM
Co-Sponsor: MU Libraries Faculty Speakers Series
There will be a baby shower for Nora Tamm on October 16th from 2-4pm. More details to come.
The MU Library Science program has received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to prepare tomorrow’s academic library leaders. This funding supports a total of 20 students through the master’s program. In the first year (beginning in Fall 2008) eight students were admitted as Academic Library Fellows. Two students are provided with support to work at MU, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Missouri State University. Anthony Strand and Ashley Nelson are the current fellows working at MU Libraries . For more information about this program, visit http://education.missouri.edu/SISLT/LIS/LIS_Fellows_Program.php.
Anthony is originally from Hatton, North Dakota. He received his undergraduate degree in History and English Secondary Education at Mayville (ND) State University. He developed an interest in LIS while working as a student assistant at the university library in college. He has not decided what type of library work to go into, although he’s leaning towards reference or special collections and is fairly certain he wants to work in an academic library. In his free time, he enjoys watching movies and television and reading comic books, as well as over-analyzing all of those things.
Ashley Nelson has lived in Columbia for three years but is originally from Washington State. She graduated from Westminster College in Fulton with a major in English and a minor in Mathematics. For her English thesis project, she wrote a novel for 9-12 year olds and is trying to get it published. She knows American Sign Language fairly well, and this summer, she biked the Katy trail both ways (aprx. 500 miles).