- Tom Before Tenn: A Dramatic Reading of Tennessee Williams’ Early Works
- 2011 MU Libraries Poster Calendars Are Here
- Update From the Ellis Reference Department
- Agnew and Dykas Present at MO Library Association
- MU Libraries in the News
- Key Card Access to State Historical Society
- Tech Tip – Printing From Outlook
- Sanders Attends ACRL RBMS Regional Workshop
- Library Assembly Minutes, Sept. 28
- Job Posting: Fiscal Assistant
- Search Update – Metadata and Catalog Librarian
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Tom Before Tenn: A Dramatic Reading of Tennessee Williams’ Early Works
2011 MU Libraries Calendar Posters Are Here
Stop by 104 Ellis to get one!
Update From the Ellis Reference Department
We have been busy…
In September, the Ellis Reference Department did 69 instruction sessions reaching over 1340 students. Additionally, we did 65 FIG and other freshmen orientations sessions (a total of 115 tours) reaching over 1000 freshmen. In August we were all over campus representing MU Libraries at various campus orientations including Graduate and Professional Student Fall Orientation, Minority Graduate Student Orientation, Residential Life Staff Resource Training, New Faculty Orientation, International Student Orientation, etc. reaching over 1000 students, faculty and staff.
Agnew and Dykas Present at MO Library Association
Leo and Jean Darbyshire, Kansas State University Libraries-Director Emeritus and human capacity development/organization development consultant, co-facilitated a workshop at MOLA on positive approaches to organizational change. This was the second year they gave the workshop at MOLA. Of note, Leo, Jean and their colleague from the KU Libraries, Keith Russell, Life Sciences Librarian and learning and development specialist, have now presented their workshop at conferences in four states: MO, KS, OK, and AL.
Felicity Dykas gave a presentation on “Getting Ready for RDA.” Power Point slides of the presentation are available at http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/catalogdept/presentations/rda2010oct.ppt
MU Libraries in the News
“Faculty Council revisits low-producing programs.” (photo)
The Maneater, Oct. 22, 2010.
Key Card Access to State Historical Society
The State Historical Society has installed a key card reader at its back door, which is located across from the Ellis staff lounge entrance door. Only staff members of SHS and Western Manuscripts will have access. If you have additional questions, please contact Pat Jones.
Tech Tip – Printing From Outlook
Printing from Outlook can be challenging, because it’s a little different from other Office applications. Other Office apps let you print directly from the print menu, whereas Outlook doesn’t. Instead, you must click the small Print Options button on the Print menu. From there select a Page Range option and you can specify the number of pages you would like to print from your email.
Sanders Attends ACRL RBMS Regional Workshop
Wayne Sanders, Catalog Department, recently attended the ACRL Rare Books & Manuscripts Section’s regional workshop Latin for Rare Materials Catalogers held at Indiana University in Bloomington on October 22nd. Jennifer McDonald, University of Delaware in Newark (formerly of The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University), and Jennifer Nelson, University of California at Berkeley, taught this intensive workshop covering Latin grammar, declination, personal names, place names, abbreviations, contractions from the manuscript tradition, and reference sources to approximately 15 catalogers and library science students from across the country.
Library Assembly Minutes, Sept. 28
Present: Gary Cox, Cathy Heckmaster, PT Martin, June DeWeese, Laura Buck, Stephen Stanton, Will McCrary, Jim Cogswell, Suzy Bent, Kat Koehn, Bette Stuart, Alla Barabtarlo, Ann Riley [Member of LMT (Ex-officio)], Felicity Dykas [MULAC Chair (Ex-officio)]
Guests: Ernest Shaw
Windows 7 and Administrative Rights (Ernest Shaw)In an effort to control viruses, as Windows 7 is put on staff computers, the default will be to make the default a user account rather than an administrator account. This should not affect normal work. Users who need to regularly install programs will need a separate administrative account set up, with supervisor approval. There will be no restriction other than this. A sample Local Administrator Access Agreement was submitted.
Announcements
Open Access Week was announced by Anne Riley, sponsored by the MU Libraries, the University Bookstore and SISLT. At 2pm on Tuesday, October 19 at the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI 200) Paul Thirion from the University of Liege, Belgium will speak on “Open Access University Repositories.” Sponsors are SISLT and the RJI Transatlantic Center. Reception to follow 3:30-5 in RJI 100.
At 2pm on Thursday, October 21 in Jesse Wrench Auditorium, Eric Frank from Flatworld Knowledge will speak on “Open Access Textbook Solutions.” The event will be co-sponsored by the Bookstore. There will be a panel discussion. Refreshments will follow.
Cathy Heckmaster has accepted a new position and Friday will be her last day. Jim Cogswell (as head of Administration) will appoint a representative for Administration.
Minutes
We will shorten the time it takes for minutes to be approved and also try to keep them brief. Stephen suggested that we use more of a “summary note” style, and this was considered by all to be a great idea.
Communication
A SharePoint site has been established for us to use (in addition to the usual channels). Will will send us the link.
Other Library Groups
Discussion deferred until next meeting.
Posting open positions
There will be an all-staff email notification for open positions and those positions will be posted for the prescribed open time in the News Notes. We want the most coverage when a vacancy comes open.
Staff Web
The Library Assembly will be responsible for content on the Staff Web page. It shouldn’t be a catch-all and some things shouldn’t be there at all. We’d like to get feedback on what people expect of it. Focus will be on content. What needs to be there? What doesn’t?
All members will ask staff in their departments for their ideas, comments, etc. on the page.
Agenda ideas for the October meeting, Tuesday, October 26.
One idea: Have Shannon Cary come and talk about upcoming events.
The meeting adjourned at 2pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Stephen Stanton