- MU Libraries Summer Book Club
- MULSA Elections
- 2010 Celebration of Service
- Action and Information Items From LMT
- Update: Pay Phones in Ellis Library
- Openings for Ellis Library Yoga
- Goodbye to Katie Carr
- Update on Search for Delivery Attendant
- Tech Tip
- Scoville Presents at MLA Conference
- Healthy for Life Update
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
MU Libraries Summer Book Club
I am instituting a summer book club so that interested staff members can discuss a couple of books by authors that have been on campus recently.
The June selection is Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Die and Others Stick. Leo Agnew has a copy in his office that he will lend out.
The July selection is Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled–and More Miserable Than Ever Before. This book is also this year’s Mizzou Reads selection.
Please contact me if you are interested in joining the book discussion. You can join one or both. We will discuss each selection at the end of the month or beginning of the following month based on the participants’ schedules.
–Shannon Cary
MULSA Elections
Watch the MUSE blog for election and ballot proposal results from the MULSA Annual Meeting on May 28, 2010.
2010 Celebration of Service
Congratulations to the MU Libraries employees who were honored at this year’s Celebration of Service!
(photo courtesy of Sharon Gaughan)
5 Years of Service
Kate Anderson
Kris Anstine*
Caroline James
Alan Jones
Will McCrary
Amanda Sprochi
10 Years of Service
Adam Banning
Karen Darling*
Daniel Dodd
David Walsh*
Karen Witt
20 Years of Service
Jack Batterson
Katie Dodson*
Jerri Eldridge
Suzanne Lippard*
Sue Schuermann*
25 Years of Service
Karen Eubanks
Ruthe Morse
30 Years of Service
Wayne Barnes
Diane Johnson*
Judy Maseles*
Bette Stuart
35 Years of Service
Ellen Blair
40 Years of Service
Trenton Boyd
*Not Pictured
A wonderful buffet lunch (with cupcakes!) and door prizes were provided by MULSA. Music was provided by harpist Patrice Vale (AKA Michelle Baggett’s mother). Ann Riley acknowledged the IMLS workers who graduated this year–Ashley Nelson and Anthony Strand. Leo Agnew and Shannon Cary read comments about each employee being recognized for service this year. And Jim Cogswell read his annual list of the Top Ten accomplishments of the MU Libraries.
Thanks to everyone who made this year’s Celebration of Service a huge success!
Action and Information Items from Libraries Management Team Meeting, May 18, 2010
Present: Jim Cogswell, Mike Holland, Ann Riley, Deb Ward
Guest: Kate Anderson
Support: Mark Ellis
INFORMATION ITEM: LMT discussed the Mizzou Advantage All-staff Open Meeting which was scheduled for the following day, May 19th, 1-2:30 pm. Kate Anderson, the Mizzou Advantage Libraries Liaison will facilitate the meeting. She had distributed a draft agenda for the open meeting and a PowerPoint to LMT members prior to the meeting.
INFORMATION ITEM: LMT decided to expand the Donor/Honoree Index in MERLIN to include individual book donations, material bought by endowment and any material for which a bookplate (physical or electronic) would be attached.
- The decision will impact indexing from this point forward.
- Retro indexing will only be considered for special circumstances.
- Progress will be monitored and the subject will be revisited if the practice becomes a significant burden or time factor.
ACTION ITEM: Ann will draft an introduction to the Donor/Honoree Index that will outline what material will be included. She will send a draft to LMT and to Gena Scott, MU Libraries Director of Development.
INFORMATION ITEM: LMT was pleased to notice that in the recently distributed initial budget allotment for FY2011, the MU Libraries Acquisitions budget was not reduced.
ACTION ITEM: Jim Cogswell will write and send a note to the Provost thanking him for the preservation of the Acquisitions budget. He will copy the note to the Library Committee.
Update: Pay Phones in Ellis Library
As reported in the last issue of News Notes, the pay phones in Ellis Library have been turned off. The pay phones were turned off due to lack of use and increasing costs, which resulted in a negative cash flow. In addition, they had become a disturbance because they would often ring with nuisance calls and had to be left off the hook.
Patrons who need to make campus or local calls should be directed to the disability phone (near the West Entrance), which will remain in use.
Openings for Ellis Library Yoga Class
We are recruiting a minimum of three (up to eight) additional participants for the Ellis Library, June 2 – July 28 1:10-1:50p.m. 7 week Synergy Yoga session. The $14 may be paid in form of check (to Ashley Jenkins) or cash the day of the first session.
–Ashley Jenkins, om.yoga@yahoo.com
Goodbye to Katie Carr
Goodbye to Katie Carr, Print Collections Librarian, Special Collections. Katie is relocating to Massachusetts.
Update on Search for Delivery Attendant
The search process for the part-time Delivery Attendant has been moved to ‘hold’ status. A large number of applications have been received, enough to generate a short list of candidates to interview.
Tech Tip
To sign up for the weekly emails about upcoming used book sales, go to the top of the page, and click on the link “sign up for our free sale mail.” One has to provide an email address, current city, current state, current zip code and indicate how many miles he or she is willing to travel to a book sale. Ongoing book sales are listed here too.
http://www.booksalefinder.com/
–Jack Batterson