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Yearly Archives: 2010
Library Society Dinner, April 9
You are cordially invited to attend the 2010 Library Society Dinner.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Please join us as we welcome new members of the Library Society, honor our charter members and celebrate the enduring values of books and libraries.
6:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m. Library Society Dinner, Featured speaker, Peter Hessler, award-winning author and China expert
Ellis Library
Grand Reading Room
Business Attire
Please RSVP to Sheila Voss by April 2
Tickets are $35 per person for MU Libraries staff.
Please make checks payable to the University of Missouri.
Boyd Awarded Medical Library Association Award
Trenton Boyd has been awarded the Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences from the Medical Library Association. The award recognizes distinguished achievement in collection development in the health sciences.
Tech Tip
Google is used so often to find information, so I thought it would be useful to share some Google tips over the next few weeks from the Google help page:
“To see flight status for arriving and departing U.S. flights, type in the name of the airline and the flight number into the search box. You can also see delays at a specific airport by typing in the name of the city or three-letter airport code followed by the word “airport”.
Example: Type “stl airport” to see if arrivals and departures are on time.
–Jack Batterson
MU Libraries in the News
The program in these articles is the Literature and Medicine program with which the Health Sciences Library has been involved.
“Book Clubs for Doctors Show Human Side of Medicine”
New York Times, March 11
Columbia Missourian, March 12
New Posts, March 1-5
- Marking Twain Celebration: Play Reading on March 18
- MOBIUS Conference T-Shirt Design Contest
- Riley to Be Guest on KOPN March 25
- 2010 Statewide Severe Weather Exercise
- 2010 MU Libraries Global Scholars
- Reminder: International Tea & Snack Event
- March Library Start Date Anniversary Recognition
- Staff Development Committee Web Page
- Tech Tip-Weather Underground
- Healthy for Life Update
Marking Twain Celebration: Play Reading on March 18
MOBIUS Conference T-Shirt Design Contest
If you are like me, you wake up early every morning having dreamt of wonderful and creative t-shirt designs for the MOBIUS annual conference but end up feeling let down because the MOBIUS conference doesn’t have a t-shirt design contest. Good news: We do now!
That’s right, this year we are going to be taking design submissions on the conference website and then vote on them! This is an awesome opportunity to have fun, flex your artistic muscles, and contribute to making the MOBIUS conference even more awesome. Plus we’ll give you a FREE SHIRT.
Don’t do graphic design? Aren’t coming to the conference? We will give you a free shirt just for referring someone. Can you say “graphic design students”? Just remember to tell them to put your email address in the referrer field of the submission form so we can thank you and work out delivery for your free shirt.
Start here:
http://mobiusconference.org/t-shirt-design-contest
Justin Hopkins
Coordinator, IT & Web Services
MOBIUS Consortium Office
Riley to Be Guest on KOPN March 25
Ann Riley has been invited to be a guest on the KOPN radio program “Women’s Voices, Women’s Issues” on Thursday March 25 to talk about her research on toxic work situations and new information on how gender and generational issues may relate to them. Some of this work was presented at the ACRL conference last year, and some information is from a new article.
For more information about the show and to access the podcast after the segment has aired, visit KOPN Women’s Issues Women’s Voices.
2010 Statewide Severe Weather Exercise
The 2010 statewide severe weather exercise will be held at approximately 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 9. Jim Cogswell has requested that Ellis library staff participate in this year’s severe weather drill to the extent possible. Minimal staff should remain in service areas to assist users during the exercise. Branch Libraries please contact your building coordinator if you would like to participate in this exercise.
Severe Weather Exercise Drill:
- Outdoor sirens will sound as part of the local warning network to signal the start of the drill.
- Ellis Security will be making a staff-only announcement at 1:30p.m., Tuesday, March 9th to inform staff that the severe weather exercise is beginning.
- For security reasons, please lock any office doors if no staff will remain in the work area.
- Ellis Security staff will be making rounds in the safe areas. Users and staff may feel free to ask any questions.
- When the drill is over, Security will make an announcement informing staff to return to work areas.
Severe Weather Emergency Plan:
When an emergency is declared, all Ellis staff should move immediately to safe areas. On the ground floor, these areas include: the hallway behind the West Entrance staircase; staff lounge; lower stairwells; LTS hallway; and the twin elevator area. On the main level, safe areas include: the Colonnade area and DoIT/OASys computer area. Remember to keep away from all windows (and the skylight opening above the Bookmark Café) to avoid danger from shattering glass.