A reminder to vote for membership on the Library Assembly. E-mails were distributed two weeks ago to library staff on a department basis with the subject line of ‘Library Assembly Voting Begins Today.’ The voting period ends at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, April 9.
SDC is proud to let you know there are six staff development programs scheduled between now and the end of May. See our program web page for details (http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/staffdevelopment/programs/2009-2010/2009-2010.htm), including a just-added program for April 22 – Dr. Kevin Marberry returns to visit with MU Libraries staff about physical health. Come and learn stretches designed to work without causing harm. Special emphasis will be placed on taking care of one’s knees, lower back, and wrists while engaging in gardening and landscaping activities.
Also, there is a date/time change for the session by MU Extension. The program will now take place on Tuesday, April 27, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., in room 4F51-A Ellis Library.
“Library sales: Reject pile throwaways equal cheap reads.”
Vox Magazine, April 8, 2010
Google Tip:
To see the time in many cities around the world, type in “time” and the name of the city.”
Example: Time London
–Jack Batterson
Three of twenty-six campus-wide Mizzou Advantage grants have been awarded to MU Librarians and Archivists: two in the network development category and one in the faculty fellow (research) category.
Congratulations to Kate Anderson, Dorothy Carner, and Mike Holland for collaborating with faculty and others from around the MU campus!
NETWORK DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (up to $20K)
Creating Information Literacy by Rescuing Knowledge: Orphaned Newspaper Digitization and the “Dark Archive” Project
Denise Adkins (SISLT); Kate Anderson (MU Libraries); Brian Brooks (Journalism); John Budd (SISLT); Dorothy Carner (MU Libraries); Stephanie Craft (Journalism); Charles Davis (Journalism); Debra Mason (Center on Religion and the Professions); Earnest Perry (Journalism); Richard Reuben (Law); Lilliard Richardson (Truman School)
Print for the People
Michael Holland (MU Libraries); Berkely Hudson (Journalism); Devoney Looser (English)
FACULTY FELLOW GRANTS (up to $50K)
The Architecture of Collaboration: Defining Networks, Developing Methods
Kate Anderson (MU Libraries); Mary Barile (Center for Arts and Humanities); Bill Bondeson (Center for Arts and Humanities); Roger Gafke (Journalism); Jeni Hart (Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis); Lindsay Leonard (Provost’s Office, SISLT); Tim Matisziw (Geography, Civil Engineering); Jack Schultz (Bond Life Sciences Center); Yi Shang (Computer Science); Chi-Ren Shyu (MU Informatics Institute); Douglas Steinley (Psychology); John Wedman (SISLT); Randall Westgren (Agribusiness).
The original RFP and other Mizzou Advantage documentation can be found in MOspace: https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/5477
Out of the whole United States, only one library student each year is selected to receive the competitive W. David Rozkuszka award for work in Government Documents.
I am pleased to inform you that our own student assistant, Lindsay Braddy, will receive the award this year. She will be presented with a plaque and a $3000 scholarship at the ALA GODORT reception in Washington DC. The event is tentatively set to take place at the U.S. Naval Observatory on the evening of Sunday, June 27.
Though the work is all Lindsay’s, it is an honor for MU Libraries to have one of the most promising library students in the country. Thanks to her, MU Libraries will enjoy some of the spotlight at this year’s awards reception.
After this year’s ALA conference, Lindsay’s bio will be added to this list of award winners.
Judy Maseles has been appointed to the IEEE Library Advisory Council for 2010-2012.
By way of background, the IEEE established the Council over ten years ago to get feedback on its products and product delivery. Council members, approximately a dozen or more senior information professionals from government, academic and corporate libraries worldwide, have played an important role in shaping IEEE policies and new product offerings.
SDC is pleased to announce two new staff development opportunities for this spring. For more information, go to our Program Calendar web page at
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/staffdevelopment/programs/2009-2010/2009-2010.htm.
A reminder that UM Human Resources has developed an on-line Preventing Employment Discrimination training program and that all employees are expected to take this training. By participating in the training, employees will be better prepared to identify, avoid and report behaviors that appear to violate employment discrimination laws. Topics include ADA, FLSA, FMLA, Equal Pay Act, Jobs for Veterans Act, and more.
The program is already accessible on one’s myHR web page (myHR>Self Service>Personal Information>HR Training – PED). The estimated completion time is 60-90 minutes; there is a ‘mastery test’ to complete. As before, if you wish to print a Certificate of Completion and send me a copy, I’ll be glad to add it to your personnel file. Otherwise, completion will be electronically tracked by HR.