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HSL Research Team Wins Poster Award

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On October 9, the HSL Research Team took first place among the research posters presented at the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Wichita, KS. The poster presents data from the first group of four hospitals that participated in the study.  All of the hospital librarians who participated are listed as co-authors.

The poster, “Views of the Library:  A Regional Study in Selected Missouri and Colorado Libraries,” by Deborah Ward, MA, MLS; MaryEllen Cullinan Sievert, MLS; Ph.D.; Dirk Burhans, Ph.D.; Barbara Jones, MLS; Margaret Bandy, MLS; Jerry Carlson, MLS, AHIP; Sandy Decker; Holly Henderson,  MA, has been submitted to MOspace for archiving. It has been posted on the wall in the HSL Conference Room, and you are welcome to come see it if you prefer that to viewing it online.

For background, the study was carried out in three phases.

1.     Preliminary studies conducted with the MU Departments of Child Health, Internal Medicine, and Family & Community Medicine gave us positive data and the confidence to extend the methodology beyond our institution.

2.     A similar study at the University of Colorado at Denver (as a comparator to the MU HSL), fostered the study of two hospitals in Missouri and two hospitals in Colorado for the collection of comparable data. The poster that won the award is a product of the four hospital studies.

3.     Additional studies at the hospitals of interested librarians in the six-state region served by the Midcontinental Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine are now in progress.

Findings from these studies are valuable for the advocacy efforts of Barb Jones, whose special project area for the region is library advocacy. This work is important because hospital library closure is a reality faced by health sciences librarians. The health care climate is one in which value must be presented to decision-makers in order to receive continuing funding. Our goal is to publish articles that hospital librarians in our region, and beyond, can use to highlight their value to their administrators.

MaryEllen Sievert and Dirk Burhans have an established record of supporting practicing librarians here at MU in library research, and we hope that they will be willing to shift their focus to support the broader research needs of the MU Libraries in the future.

Submitted by Deb Ward, 10/14/10

Healthy for Life Update

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Upcoming Faculty & Staff Wellness Fairs
Healthy for Life will be hosting its annual Faculty & Staff Wellness Fair this month—so mark your calendar now.

  • Health Care faculty, staff and retirees can join us Oct. 20 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. at University Hospital Lobby. Flu shots will not be available at this event. However, Staff Health will be sending out a vaccination schedule soon via InSight. Be sure to get your free screenings and health education at the fair, as well as become eligible for prizes!
  • MU, UM System and Extension faculty, staff and retirees can join us Oct. 27 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Reynolds Alumni Center. UM Faculty & Staff Benefits will provide FREE flu shots to UM Choice Health Care members (9 years and older) who bring their Coventry card. For those who are not enrolled in the UM Choice Health Care program, the cost will be $25. Those between 9 and 18 years old must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

The fair will have FREE screenings for ALL employees and their family members: blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, body mass index. If you are a University of Missouri faculty or staff member, dependent or retiree enrolled in the UM Choice Health Care Program, you are eligible for a FREE vaccine. Bring your Coventry Health Care card to the flu vaccine site. If you are not enrolled in the UM Choice Health Care Program, there will be a $25 fee which may be paid in cash or check for the vaccine.

Children 9 years and older enrolled in UM Choice Health Care Program, accompanied by a parent or guardian, may receive the vaccine. Due to different vaccination needs, children age 8 and younger may obtain their flu vaccine from their healthcare provider, health department or community clinic.

Along with your insurance card, bring your COMPLETED FLU SHOT FORM to the vaccination site. Find the form on the flu shot page for your campus on the Healthy for Life website.

Alternate Dates for MU, UM System and Extension faculty, staff and retirees to receive flu shots (see eligibility and requirements in the section directly above):

Ø  Oct. 25: 10 a.m.-12 p.m. RADIL, Multipurpose Room (4011 Discovery Drive)

Ø  Oct. 25: 2-4 p.m. Printing Services Building, Foyer (2800 Maguire Blvd.)

Ø  Nov. 5: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. General Services Building, Room 25

Ø  Nov. 9: 2-4 p.m. Animal Science Research center, S119-120


October Newsletter
The October 2010 Wellness Newsletter is hot off the press.  If you would like to read about other programs, success stories, and events, please subscribe by sending us an e-mail or catch the newsletter online at Healthy for Life.


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.
  • Oct. 28-Nov. 3: Lower Body Launch. Ellis Library Room 4D12. Class meets Thursdays from 11:10 p.m. to 11:50 p.m. $6 for the 3 week session, a transformational 6 weeks when paired with following ‘Upper Body Unveiled’ session.  Did you know that by boosting the strength in your legs/entire lower half, you can decrease strain and pain in your entire upper body? Let’s launch our lower body strength with a fusion of various exercise styles. Gain strength and definition, an increased metabolism, and decreased back pain. Click here to sign up with Rebekka Mars.
  • Nov. 11-Nov. 3: Upper Body Unveiled. Ellis Library Room 4D12. Class meets Thursdays from 11:10 p.m. to 11:50 p.m. $6 for the 3 week session, a nice follow-up to ‘Lower Body Launch’. Unveil the strength already within you by working your upper body, emphasizing arms and shoulders.  A blend of exercises, complete with warmup and cool down.  Feel the inner power that comes with increased upper body strength.  A mat is recommended but not required.  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.

Start a Walking Group
Are you interested in starting a walking group in your department? Healthy for Life can help by sending you a free walking kit with information on how to get started. Get your department competing in a walking challenge or organize a walking group. Email Healthy for Life for your walking kit today!

Also, be sure to take advantage of the walking trails that are available online. For indoor trails please visit our Healthy for Life website and click on ‘Links’, then ‘Trails.’ For outdoor trails, please visit Mizzou Botanical Garden website. Get to know your campus inside and out!

12th Annual Run for Life: 5K/10K Run/Walk
The MU Student Physical Therapy Organization is sponsoring the 12th Annual Run for Life October 16 at 9 a.m. Proceeds will benefit MU Student Physical Therapy Organization for making contributions toward community service and for participation in professional conferences. For more information about registration and fees, please see the attached flyer.

Cataloging Webinars – Corrections and More Information

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One of the two series of upcoming webinars is “Using Technology in Library Training Using RDA: Moving into the Metadata Future” sponsored by ALA Tech Source.  These three webinars are 1.5 hours long.  The original New Notes posting (http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/newsnotes/?p=2579) indicated that they are one hour long.  Also, because of a scheduling conflict, the October 27 webinar will be in Ellis 4G41.

Session 1: October 27  — 1:30-3:00 – Moved to Ellis 4G41
New Models of Metadata with Karen Coyle

Session 2: November 10 — 1:30-3:00 – Ellis 4F51A
RDA: Designated for Current and Future Environments with Chris Oliver

Session 3: November 17 — 1:30-3:00 – Ellis 4F51A
RDA Vocabularies in the Semantic Web with Diane Hillmann

Preliminary reading material for this series (optional):

Karen Coyle: Understanding the semantic web:  bibliographic data and metadata, Chapters 1 and 2 (Library Technology Reports, 46 #1)

http://merlin.lib.umsystem.edu/record=b8010196~S8

Diane Hillman, Karen Coyle, Jon Phipps and Gordon Dunsire:  RDA vocabularies: process, outcome, use.

http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.html

Barbara Tillett: What RDA is and isn’t (webcast)

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html (Module 1)

RDA prospectus.

http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdaprospectus.html

Tom Delsey:  Moving cataloguing into the 21st century.  (presentation with slides and notes)

http://tsig.wikispaces.com/Pre-conferences+2010

RDA scope and structure.

http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5rda-scoperev4.pdf

Helping Your Faculty: Incorporate Library Resources and Tools into Online Courses

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On October 14, the MU Libraries offered a seminar for the newly hired ET@MO’s Academic Advising Technicians  on the following topics:  ERes; Integrating library resources, including linking books and articles, into Blackboard; Library tools such as LibX and Communicator; and Library Instruction.   Prior to the seminar, a getting-to-know-you reception was held to facilitate collaboration between the ET@MO liaisons and subject librarians.  The Liaisons will be working with faculty in Arts and Sciences, Human Environmental Sciences,  Nursing, Health Related Professions, and Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.   Presentations were made by Goodie Bhullar, June DeWeese, Rhonda Whithaus, Judy Maseles and Will McCrary.   Another reception/training  session will be held later this fall for those who could not attend and for when additional Academic Advising Technicians are hired.

New Posts, Oct. 4-8

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  1. Darling to Join the Springer Advisory Board
  2. Events at the MU Libraries
  3. Cataloging Webinars
  4. MU Libraries Staff in the News
  5. MU Libraries’ 2010 Heart of Missouri United Way Campaign
  6. Tech Tip: Computer Security
  7. Current MUSE Posts
  8. The Art of the Book: Journals Then and Now – Exhibition and Exhibit Catalog
  9. Healthy for Life Update
  10. Search Update – Special Collections Librarian/Archivist I (Print Collections)
  11. Update on HSL Information Services Librarian Position
  12. October Library Start Date Anniversary Recognition
  13. Lunchtime Leadership Book Talk, Oct. 12
  14. 2010 Human Resources Services Training Conference

Cataloging Webinars

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RDA for administrators: Managing the Transition in Your library – ALCTS series
Oct. 13, 1:00-2:00 pm
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a

Released in June 2010, Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the intended successor to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2). At this initial stage, much remains unknown about the impact that RDA will have on library staff, metadata, systems, and services. One thing is clear: adopting RDA will not happen immediately, and will not be uniform across all institutions. Over the coming months and years, libraries will have different timeframes and levels of support for the shift to RDA. Administrators will require accurate information, particularly from early adopters, on what is required to implement the new cataloging code. During this beginning period, while the U.S. cataloging community awaits a formal decision on adoption resulting from the U.S. National Libraries RDA Test process, how do library administrators and cataloging managers begin to think about preparing their staff and their systems for the transition from AACR2 to RDA?

This ALCTS Webinar will attempt to address, from the perspective of the manager, some of the major issues related to adopting the new cataloging code, including:

  • allocating staff and financial resources to understanding, planning for, and adopting RDA
  • managing and organizing training for staff
  • implications of RDA on policies and procedures for original and copy cataloging
  • preparing the ILS for RDA metadata
  • managing the integration of RDA and AACR2 records and their displays in the catalog
  • managing the impact on vended authority control and cataloging
  • assessing the overall costs and benefits of RDA, and its impact on users and public services
  • assessing the consequences and potential of RDA for the development and design of future information systems and data structures
  • developing mechanisms for sharing implementation experiences across the profession.

Presenter:  Christopher Cronin


New models of metadata – ALA Tech Source series
Oct. 27, 1:30-2:30
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a

Presenters Karen Coyle, Chris Oliver, and Diane Hillmann will offer a perspective on RDA from the context of metadata models and with an eye toward sharing library data.  Learn the about sharing metadata on the Web and early experiments in library data and RDA. Topics include:

  • Semantic Web concepts
  • FRBR – the library world’s model
  • Application profiles
  • Transforming library data


RDA: Benefits for users and catalogers – ALCTS series
Nov. 3, 1:00-2:00 pm
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a

This webinar will explore the benefits of RDA. It will begin by looking at how RDA evolved from AACR2, and will discuss how RDA‘s new direction is advantageous for both users and cataloguers. Do RDA‘s objectives and principles have an impact on the user? How do RDA‘s instructions make a difference for the cataloguer? Will resource descriptions be more precise? Can RDA data support improved navigation? Will RDA allow us to get cataloguing data out of library silos? The webinar will be an opportunity to look at these questions and consider the practical effect of RDA guidelines and instructions on resource description and resource discovery.

Presenter:  Christine Oliver


RDA–Designed for current and future environments  – ALA Tech Source series
Nov. 10, 1:30-2:30
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a

Learn about RDA’s place on a continuum  from legacy data to greater interoperability. Topics include:

  • RDA as AACR2 deconstructed
  • Alignment with the conceptual models, FRBR and FRAD
  • RDA as a flexible and extensible framework
  • Recording data that is human readable and machine actionable
  • Distinguishing  between recording data and encoding or presenting data
  • Implementing RDA in libraries:  the point of transition

Presenter:   Chris Oliver


RDA vocabularies in the semantic web – ALA Tech Source series
Nov. 17, 1:30-2:30
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a
Learn about the RDA Vocabularies and the Open Metadata Registry project. Topics include:

  • RDA Vocabularies in relation to the instructions
  • The Open Metadata Registry and the RDA Vocabularies
  • The Structure of RDA Vocabularies
  • Continuing work  of the DCMI/RDA Task Group

Presenter:  Diane Hillmann


FRBR as a foundation for RDA – ALCTS series
Dec. 15, 1:00-2:00 pm
Ellis Library, Room 4F51a

This webinar will cover the basics of FRBR, including its development and contents. Participants will leave the webinar with an understanding of the entity-relationship model on which FRBR is based, the FRBR entities and relationships, and the FRBR user tasks. The webinar will then address, through an exploration of RDA itself, how FRBR lies at the foundation of RDA’s structure, and what implications that might have on future database structures for our catalog descriptions.

Presenter:  Robert L. Maxwell

More information:

ALCTS series:  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm

ALA TechSource series:  http://alatechsource.org/blog/2010/09/ala-techsource-workshop-using-rda-moving-into-the-metadata-future.html

MU Libraries’ 2010 Heart of Missouri United Way Campaign

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The MU Libraries’ 2010 United Way Campaign ends Friday, October 15th.   With about a week left, we urge you to make your pledge, if you have not already contributed, and to personally help this concept of giving improve the lives of thousands in the community.

Please send your United Way Pledge form to:

Ellis, Mark Executive Staff Assistant I
Administration, 104 Ellis 882-9169 EllisMW@missouri.edu

Even if, at this time, you can only afford a relatively small gift, your donation may make a significant difference in the life of someone living in this area due to the efficiency of the Heart of Missouri United Way.  This link will take you to a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFzmApnTOw illustrating the scope of United Way efforts in Mid-Missouri.   If you would like to talk to someone personally about the campaign, please contact one of the members of the MU Libraries Heart of Missouri United Way Campaign Committee:

Hainen, Mary Library Information Specialist II
Catalog Dept, 52 Ellis 882-4814 HainenM@missouri.edu

Riley, Ann Associate Director of the Access, Collections, and Technical Services Division, 52 Ellis Library 882-1685 RileyAC@missouri.edu

Roper, Paula Social Sciences Librarian
Ellis Reference, 168 Ellis 882-3326 RoperP@missouri.edu

Last year, the MU Libraries’ participation in the United Way was the highest it had ever been.  Please send in your pledge to ensure that this level of support continues.

Pledge forms received by the October 15, 2010 will be entered into the second drawing for concert tickets.  Each winner will receive one set of tickets.  There will be 5 sets awarded—a set consists of 2 tickets to the same event.

Grand Prize:  The names of all of those who return their forms by October 15th will be entered in a drawing for, not a $50, but a $75 Columbia Mall gift certificate.  In addition to Mall stores, many other merchants in the area now accept this gift card.

If you have returned your pledge form or intend to do so, accept or sincerest thanks,

Mary Hainen, Ann Riley, & Paula Roper – MU Libraries’ United Way Campaign Committee