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Tech Tip – Scheduling a Meeting in Outlook

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If you work in 2010 Outlook calendar and would like to schedule meetings, these directions should help. Go to File, Options, choose calendar, then select Free busy options (this allows you to view who is available and individuals can be added to have certain privileges). You can then select “Other free busy options” to set up your meetings for up to 6 months.

*Quick note: Faculty and Staff who would like to purchase Dells for personal use can receive discounts through the university by accessing dell.umsystem.edu.

Healthy for Life Update

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Weight Watchers Open House: Clark Hall, MU Campus
Join Weight Watchers on Nov. 17th at Clark Hall, Room 542 at 12:15 p.m. No need for pre-registration, just show up! This group has lost more than 500 pounds and four members have reached their lifetime goal. The 13-week series is open to everyone and costs $156. Faculty & Staff who miss no more than once receive a 25% rebate through Healthy for Life. Payment options are available–cash, check or credit card. Weight Watchers fees are fully reimbursable through the Flexible Spending Account with appropriate medical documentation. Visit Healthy for Life’s website for more information.

Workplace Fitness Opportunities—Fall Semester
Take advantage of these classes that fit your budget. Full payment is due at the beginning of the first class and space is limited. Please contact the instructor directly to register or for questions. All classes are designed so that exercises can be performed in work clothes.

Healthy for Life Fitness Class Registration Policy

  • Reserving your space in a class requires a payment of the entire session.
  • Payment must be paid in full due on the first class and cannot be divided.
  • If you miss a class, you cannot make it up in another class.
  • If you choose to join a session in progress, it is your responsibility to pay the full registration fee.
  • Drop-ins are not allowed.

Please respect this policy so that we may continue to enjoy physical education sessions for the bargain.

Please note that each instructor is a private contractor. They are not paid by the University of Missouri but are willing to offer faculty and staff a very discounted rate.

  • Drop In, ongoing: Lunchtime-Me Time Strength Conditioning. Ellis Library, Room 4F51. Class meets every Monday from 12:15-12:45 p.m. and costs $1 for each class. No registration is needed and class is taught by Nani Fudge. If you have questions, click here to email Nani.
  • Drop In, ongoing: Lunchtime-Me Time Strength Conditioning. Ellis Library, Room 4F51. Class meets every Wednesday from 12:15-12:45 p.m. and costs $1 for each class. No registration is needed and class is taught by Nani Fudge. If you have questions, click here to email Nani.
  • Nov. 9-Dec. 14 (no class Nov. 23): Well Defined Arm. Physics Library Room 223. Class meets Tuesdays from 1:10-1:50 p.m. $10 for the five-week session. Pre-registration required last day to register is Nov. 5. All levels welcome, options for all. Click here to sign up with Ashley Jenkins.
  • Nov. 11-Dec.9 (no class Nov. 25): Core Conditioning. Lewis Hall Room 3. Class meets Thursdays from 12:10-12:50 p.m. $8 for four-week session. Pre-registration required, last day to register is Nov. 9. All levels welcome, options for all. Click here to sign up with Ashley Jenkins.
  • Nov. 18-Dec. 16: Holiday Help. Ellis Library Room 4G41. Class meets Thursdays from 11:10 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. $8 for the 4 week session (no class on Thanksgiving, 11/25). Perhaps you cruise through this time of year stress free with ease. Perhaps you don’t. Either way, come release stress and learn techniques to squeeze in fitness and relaxation into your day on your own minimal time for this time-crunched season. Classes will include a combination of various styles of exercise, from yoga to full body strength work. All levels welcome, options for all. Click here to sign up with Rebekka Mars.
  • Nov. 29-Dec. 20: Yoga. Missouri Psychiatric Gym. Class meets on Mondays from 12:10 to 12:50 and costs $8 for the four-week session. Hatha Yoga class includes breath control, postures for flexibility, toning, and strengthening, as well as relaxation techniques. Class is suitable for all levels. Instructor emphasizes individual’s needs in correct posture and balance in these areas. Pre-registration is required and registration deadline is Nov. 27. Click here to sign up with Kate Walker.
  • Dec. 3-Dec. 10: Yoga. Missouri Psychiatric Gym. Class meets on Fridays from 12:10 to 12:50 and costs $6 for the three-week session. Hatha Yoga class includes breath control, postures for flexibility, toning, and strengthening, as well as relaxation techniques. Class is suitable for all levels. Instructor emphasizes individual’s needs in correct posture and balance in these areas. Pre-registration is required and registration deadline is Dec. 1. Click here to sign up with Kate Walker.

Massage Therapy Available
De-stress this season with massage therapy! Licensed Massage Therapist Jeff Rioux provides clinical massage therapy in his office at University Hospital (GL-20). He also provides department chair massage in three-hour blocks. To schedule an individual appointment or chair massage, call Healthy for Life at 884-1312.

If you’d like to buy a gift certificate, stop by Medtique Gift Shop in University Hospital or the Healthy for Life office at 205 Heinkel Building on campus, OR drop a check in campus mail to 205 Heinkel Building specifying the length of session you want. Make checks payable to Healthy for Life.

Faculty and staff receive a discount: Hours of availability:
30 minutes: $30 Mondays & Tuesdays: 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
60 minutes: $45 Wednesdays: 1-7 p.m.
90 minutes: $65 Thursdays: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

PedNet’s Cross Country Run
PedNet is hosting the XCX cross country race on Nov. 20th from 8-11 a.m. at the Midway Expo Sandbar. This is a 4-plus mile off road running adventure taking place through the forest surrounding the sandbar. Participants run off-road trails, climb fences, hay bales, and steep painful hills, conquer obstacle courses, and splash through creeks aplenty. Participants are also encouraged to dress in costume, run as fast/slow as their abilities serve them, and get as muddy as possible. For more information or to sign up, contact PedNet at (573) 268-8816.

Great American Smokeout
In honor of the Great American Smokeout being today, Nov. 18th, we are providing you options to help you quit using tobacco!
UM Choice Health Care Program members
• FREE QuitNet Smoking Cessation Program offered to UM Choice Health Care Program members including telephonic counseling sessions, web access and e-mail support. To enroll contact QuitNet (1-866-577-8210 or www.coventrywellbeing.com)
• Selected Smoking Cessation medications are available through the UM Prescription Drug program with a prescription from your physician. Covered medications include: Buproprion SR (generic)-formulary and Chantix-formulary (Click here for a printable coupon)
• Contact your physician or ExpressScripts Customer Service at 1-800-955-1201 for more information.
• How to quit questions, call or e-mail Healthy for Life’s Armine Alioto, R.N., at (573) 884-1439.
• Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (www.fhcrc.org) is launched a new study June 15, 2010, which may be able to help you quit. Please visit www.webquit.com for more information.
Non-UM Choice Health Care Program members
• Boone County Health Department offers FREE screenings and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). Call (573) 874-7355.
• Freedom From Smoking classes, call or e-mail Jim at (573) 884-3141 OR call or e-mail Julie with the Phoenix Program at (573) 777-3007 for classes with FREE NRT.
• American Lung Association, www.lungusa.org/stop-smoking
• Nicotine Anonymous, call or e-mail Jim at (573) 884-3141.
• Missouri Tobacco Quit Line (1-800-QUIT-NOW) offers telephone coaching and FREE nicotine replacement therapy.
• National Cancer Institute (1-877-44U-QUIT) offers FREE telephone support for quitting smoking.
• Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (www.fhcrc.org) has launched a new study June 15, 2010, which may be able to help you quit. Please visit www.webquit.com for more information.

Stress-Reduction Meditation
Research over the past two decades suggests that engaging in a regular mindfulness meditation practice can reduce stress and enhance overall psychological and physical wellbeing. Find out for yourself by taking advantage of the sitting meditation sessions across campus each week. All faculty and staff are welcome on a drop-in basis, and no previous experience with meditation is necessary. If you can’t make the noon time sitting meditation group, consider listening to one of the audio recordings. Join Healthy for Life for one of the following times and locations:
• Mondays–Heinkel Building, Room 10 (12:15-12:45 p.m.)
• Wednesdays–University Hospital Medical School, Room HSL146 (12:15-12:45 p.m.)
• Wednesdays; 208 of the Law School Bldg (Hulston Hall) (1:15-1:45 p.m.)

Tips for Mindful Eating Blog
‘Tips for Mindful Eating: It’s more than just about food’ is a new blog that offers a weekly post with tips, articles, research, reflections, and opportunities to practice mindful eating and living through the way that you eat, move, work, play and relate to yourself, others, and the world. It grew out of the ten week program entitled “Eat for Life” developed by Dr. Lynn Rossy and Hannah Bush, M.A. offered through the wellness program. Click here to subscribe to weekly posts.

Current MUSE Posts

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Top ten library blogs:  http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/muse/index.php/2010/11/12/web-tip-of-the-week-nov-11-2010/

Team Trivia to benefit Camp Hickory Hill:  http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/muse/index.php/2010/11/12/team-trivia-to-benefit-camp-hickory-hill/

Harvest turnips for Food Bank:  http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/muse/index.php/2010/11/12/harvest-turnips-for-food-bank-earn-points-for-food-drive-contest/

Student Excellence Award

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Nominations are being solicited for the fall 2010 Student Excellence Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize those student assistants who are dedicated, creative, and/or industrious. Any student assistant employed in any MU Libraries department is eligible for consideration. The recipient will receive a certificate of appreciation which will be presented to the student in his/her own department.

The nomination deadline is Friday, Nov. 26. The award will be announced before the end of the semester. Please forward nominations to Leo Agnew, 104 Ellis Library. The nomination form can be found at http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/staffdevelopment/development_opportunities/employee_awards/student.htm. In the event of multiple nominations, the ‘extra’ forms will be retained for consideration for the spring 2011 student award.

It has been a while since the award was last given*. As such, it seems prudent to list the criteria:

1.       This award is to be given to a student who exceeds in quality and/or quantity the expectations for his/her position, and who has made exceptional or outstanding contributions to the achievement of a department’s goals and objectives.

2.       The award may be given up to two students per semester.

3.       Students are nominated by any MU Libraries employee.

4.       This award is to be given to any student currently employed in the Libraries.

*You will notice the monetary award has been dropped. It is the hope of SDC that student recipients will still find value in being nominated for the award and that supervisors will want to recognize outstanding student assistants via this award.

MULSA & the Missouri Book Challenge

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As a warmup to MU Libraries participation in the Missouri Book Challenge, MULSA has created its own local Book Challenge Blog at http://mulibrariesbookchallenge.blogspot.com.  There will be small prizes awarded monthly for most reviews posted, most pages read, and one random prize for which anyone who contributes that month is eligible.  For more about the Missouri Book Challenge, see http://mobookchallenge.blogspot.com.

Tech Tip – Dealing With Junk Mail

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Junk mail and Spam are always troublesome and can clutter up your inbox. Here are a few suggestions for how to deal with these problems.  When you receive Spam, copy the text of the internet header into an e-mail and forward it, along with the e-mail in question, to the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). Spam should be sent to spam@missouri.edu, and any other problem email should be sent to abuse@missouri.edu.

If you receive junk mail in your inbox and would like get rid of it. Right click on the email and click on junk. This should open up several options for you to select, such as blocking the sender of that email. You can also select Junk Options where you can then add email addresses of junk mail senders so they will be blocked in the future, and add the addresses of safe senders that aren’t junk mail.

MU’s Archival Advantage: Digitizing Archival Resources on Campus

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A Brown Bag Panel Discussion Organized by Print for the People
(Print for the People is an Mizzou Advantage Networking Group)
Wednesday, November 17th,  2010, 12-1 pm
Tucker Forum, MU School of Journalism

Panelists: David F. Moore (Western Historical Manuscripts Collection), Sean Franzel (German and Russian Studies), Noah Heringman (English)

David Moore will discuss the challenges and issues with past and current digitization projects undertaken by the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia.  He will also discuss how WHMC-Columbia has tried to prioritize the collections that are considered for digitization.

Sean Franzel and Noah Heringman will discuss their research on German-language holdings at WHMC and the State Historical Society in light of the challenges and possibilities of digitizing historical materials for use by students, scholars, and the broader public.  Putting historical sources online represents an important way to make library holdings significantly more accessible, but it also requires renewed reflection on how to organize and present them.  Franzel and Heringman will initiate discussion by presenting their preliminary research on local holdings produced by Missouri’s extensive German-language publishing industry in the nineteenth century.  Our goal in this brown bag discussion is to focus on the process of selecting materials to digitize from MU’s collections.