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News From User Services Department Heads

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  • The number of computers available for use in the Information Commons has been increased by 25%.  For more information, contact Ernest Shaw, Mary Ryan or Wayne Barnes. 
  •  The Engineering Library has 19 additional computers and 2 large screen plasma monitors, one for each study room.  For more information, contact Judy Maseles.
  •  On behalf of the Engineering Library staff, Judy Maseles will accept an award at the Engineering Graduation Ceremony on Saturday.  For more information, contact Judy Maseles. (A full press release will be issued shortly.)
  •  The Journalism Library is sponsoring an Asian Affairs student next semester.  For more information, contact Dorothy Carner or Leo Agnew.

–Submitted by Sarah Cron.

How’s Your Grapevine?

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…Kathy Peters is playing for a Christmas Carol sing? Shannon Cary has poinsettias for sale? Karla Geerlings is singing a feature on Christmas Eve? Who knew?

Well, we did! You can find these and other not-work-related information on the MUSE blog! Visit http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/muse/ to get the scoop. Or post your own information—events you’d like to invite everyone to, reviews on restaurants, movies, books you’ve experienced lately, even poetry, prose, or short works of fiction!

Everyone who works at MU Libraries is classified as a contributor; just click on the Login toward the bottom of the right-hand column. Use your regular pawprint (the portion of your email address before @missouri.edu) and the password Mus3. If this doesn’t work for you, contact Karla Geerlings at geerlingsk@missouri.edu or Rebecca Schedler at schedlerr@missouri.edu -we’ll get you plugged up!

MUSE Co-Editors
Karla Geerlings
Rebecca Schedler

Depository Directors Weigh in on the Value of their Depository

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In August 2008, Ric Davis, the Acting Superintendent of Documents, sent a letter to all depository library directors, asking them to submit letters that describe the value users find in their depository library.

The responses that GPO received were unique and thought-provoking and are so important as we embark on the strategic planning process for the FDLP and design our path for the next ten years.

View the collection of depository library director responses and learn more about the value of the FDLP at <http://www.fdlp.gov/home/about/fdlvalue.html>.

–Announcement from the Federal Depository Library Program
–Submitted by Felicity Dykas

Wayne Sanders Attends Workshop on Cataloging Rare Books

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Wayne Sanders, attended the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscript Section’s Workshop on Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) given by Deborah Leslie of the Folger Shakespeare Library at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Dec. 12th. Through lectures, visual aids and in-class exercises, workshop participants were introduced to and gained practical experience in using Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) (DCRM(B)).