Healthy for Life Update

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Time is Running Out to Earn Your Incentive!
As part of your 2013 benefits, you are eligible for a wellness incentive. Healthy for Life is an incentive-based wellness program designed to help you earn your incentive and actively manage your health. By completing a personal health assessment, health screening, and 240 minutes of cardiovascular physical activity, primary subscribers to the UM health plans will receive $100 in a tax-favored account to use for medical expenses in 2013 Benefit Plan year. You can receive your health screening through Healthy for Life or by going to your health care provider. If you’ve gone to your provider, you can submit your results by using our doctor screening form.

Earn $100 in 3 Easy Steps:

1. Complete your personal health assessment–an online questionnaire that helps you understand your health risks and provides you with resources to improve your well-being. (between Oct. 15, 2012 and Apr. 30, 2013)

2. Complete your health screening, which includes cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, height and weight. You can schedule a FREE on campus screening or visit your health care provider (valid screenings are between June 1, 2012 and Apr. 30, 2013).

3. Track 240 minutes of everyday physical activity in any calendar month (between Oct. 15, 2012 and Apr. 30, 2013).

Get Started Now

1. Create or return to your Cerner Health account by visiting www.healthyforlife.umsystem.edu.

2. Enter your email address and join the program.

3. Use the helpful quick-start guide to help you step by step.

4. If you need help, call Cerner at 877-621-8014.

Already Visit Your Doctor?

If you have had your annual physical, you can complete the Doctor Screening Form and fax it in! It must be completed in its entirety to get credit.

Weekly Prizes!

Don’t miss your chance to win one of our great prizes each week. All who complete(d) the personal health assessment, their health screening and activity are eligible for the drawing to win a FREE FitBit pedometer!

Congratulations to this week’s winners are Mariah Thomas (MU) and Melissa Larew (MU Health Care).

Wellness Informational Tables Available on Campus
Starting next week, Healthy for Life will have tables set up on campus to provide wellness information. You can learn more about tobacco cessation resources as Mizzou will be smoke-free starting July 1, 2013. In addition, you can get a free blood pressure screening and education on how to keep your blood pressure in a healthy range.

FRIDAYS

10a.m.-2p.m Student Center

MONDAYS

10a.m.-2p.m Memorial Union

Stress Reduction Meditation–FREE

Mondays, 12:15 – 12:45 p.m., Heinkel Building, Room 10
Wednesdays, 1-1:45 p.m., Hulston Hall, Room 327A (Law School)
Mondays-Fridays, 7 a.m.-12 a.m., AP Green Chapel is available for silent meditation, prayer or contemplation

No experience or registration is necessary for any of the meditation sessions. Classes do not meet on holidays or holiday weeks. If you have questions, contact Lynn Rossy, Ph.D.

Get connected virtually with Wellness
Healthy for Life invites you to follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We update regularly with events and health-related information.

General Wellness on Twitter: http://twitter.com/healthy4lifemu

You will need an account to get started. Once you log in to Twitter, you can go to our page and click on the “Follow” button. That’s it, easy enough!

General Wellness on Facebook: Healthy for Life: TE Atkins UM Wellness

To “Like” us, you’ll need a Facebook account. You can then click on our page and choose the “Like” button and you’re done.

Tasting Mindfulness blog: www.tastingmindfulness.com

Tasting Mindfulness on Facebook: Tasting Mindfulness

To “Like” us, you’ll need a Facebook account. You can then click on our page and choose the “Like” button and you’re done.

Dr Lynn Rossy on Twitter: DrLynnRossy

You will need an account to get started. Once you log in to Twitter, you can go to our page and click on the “Follow” button. That’s it, easy enough!

5K Run/Walk on April 6
Help your heart and your health by running or walking the Health Sciences Graduate Student Association’s 5K on Saturday, April 6th at 9 a.m. Packet pick-up and race day registration is from 8-8:45 a.m. on race day (April 6th) at Stephens Lake Park (Gordon Shelter). Parking is available. Early registration (by March 15th) is $15 and guarantees a race T-shirt. Late registration (03/16/2013-04/05/2013) is $17. Event day registration (April 6th) is $20. Contact: Laura Ortinau (e-mail: LCO6G7@mail.missouri.edu) for registration form.

Amigos Update

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AmigosNow, March 7, 2013

Schmick Appointed to MLA Committee

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Congratulations to Darell Schmick, who has been appointed to the Medical Library Association Government Relations Committee.

Electronic Resources & Libraries 2013 Online Conference Schedule

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The MU Libraries have registered for the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2013 online conference for March 18-20. They will be broadcasting sessions from multiple tracks simultaneously, so we have reserved several rooms in Ellis Library. Below is the schedule of sessions, locations and links to brief session descriptions. You are welcome to attend any session. We will have archival access to the recordings for one year. If there are two sessions broadcast at the same time that interest you, contact me and we’ll arrange for you to view the recording of the one you miss when it is available.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Rhonda

Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference Schedule

Monday, March 18 – Ellis Library Room 4F51A

8:30-9:40 – Keynote: Listening to Users: What the “Google Generation” says about using library & information services and systems in the digital age – http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/2013/dr-mike-eisenberg-2013-keynote-speaker
9:50-10:35 – What would Google do? – Data Mining, Discovery and Search – http://proposalspace.com/p/657/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
2:05-2:50 – What can web analytics tell you about your new discovery tool? –http://proposalspace.com/p/646/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
3:10-3:55 – Developing TERMS: techniques for electronic resource management – http://proposalspace.com/p/636/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
4:00-4:45 – Internal and external clients: Why do we treat one better than the other? – http://proposalspace.com/p/618/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
4:50-5:35 – Extreme e-resource endeavors: From PDA and POOF! To Interface Management and more – no description available

Monday, March 18 – Ellis Library Room 213

8:30-9:40 – Keynote: Listening to Users: What the “Google Generation” says about using library & information services and systems in the digital age – http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/2013/dr-mike-eisenberg-2013-keynote-speaker
9:50-10:35 – Breaking up is hard to do: Ending a relationship with an e-resource – http://proposalspace.com/p/631/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
10:55-11:40 – Electronic Resources Workflow Analysis and Process Improvement: Phase 2 – http://proposalspace.com/p/648/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN

Monday, March 18 – Ellis Library Room 4G41

8:30-9:40 – Keynote: Listening to Users: What the “Google Generation” says about using library & information services and systems in the digital age – http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/2013/dr-mike-eisenberg-2013-keynote-speaker
9:50-10:35 – MOOCs and Libraries: Massively Open Online Courses or Maybe Others Ought to Create? – http://proposalspace.com/p/645/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
10:55-11:40 – E–resources, e-reality – http://proposalspace.com/p/640/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
2:05-2:50 – DDA as a game changer – http://proposalspace.com/p/660/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
3:10-3:55 – Workplace Values: establishing a common language for optimal staffing workflow – http://proposalspace.com/p/643/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
4:00-4:45 – Web–Scale Discovery Systems: Do They Deliver? – http://proposalspace.com/p/664/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
4:50-5:35 – An analysis of copyright policies across ARL libraries – http://proposalspace.com/p/661/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN

Tuesday, March 19 – Ellis Library Room 4F51A

8:30-9:30 – Plenary: Improving Communication and relationships between librarians and publishers – http://proposalspace.com/p/1064/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
9:40-10:25 – E or P: A comparative Analysis of Electronic and Print Book Usage – http://proposalspace.com/p/635/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
10:45-12:20 – Age of Discovery – http://proposalspace.com/p/667/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
2:40-3:25 – Getting to know your electronic resources workflows – http://proposalspace.com/p/639/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
3:45-4:30 – You got a problem with that? We’re working on a solution – http://proposalspace.com/p/669/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
4:35-5:20 – Ebooks: Their use and acceptance by undergraduates and faculty – http://proposalspace.com/p/630/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN

Tuesday, March 19 – Ellis Library Room 4G41

8:30-9:30 – Plenary: Improving Communication and relationships between librarians and publishers – http://proposalspace.com/p/1064/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
9:40-10:25 – I Stream, You Stream: The growth of streaming video collections and developing ways to manage them – http://proposalspace.com/p/654/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
10:45-11:30 – Time-saving tools for e-book metadata management – http://proposalspace.com/p/628/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
11:35-12:20 – Moving towards patron-driven journal packages – a case study – http://proposalspace.com/p/632/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
2:40-3:25 – OpenURL Link Resolvers: Tracking Effectiveness over Time – http://proposalspace.com/p/624/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
3:45-4:30 – Mendeley – The Ultimate Discovery Catalog – http://proposalspace.com/p/658/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
4:35-5:20 – Switching gears with your ERM engine – http://proposalspace.com/p/625/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN

Wednesday, March 20 – Ellis Library Room 4F51A

8:30-9:15 – Collection Analysis and Development – http://proposalspace.com/p/668/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
9:20-10:05 – Overcoming librarian resistance to adopting discovery tools: a focus on information literacy opportunities – http://proposalspace.com/p/655/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
10:10-10:55 – Unified Resource Management in Action – http://proposalspace.com/p/666/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
11:00-12:00 – Closing Keynote: The Courage of our connections: thoughts on professional identities, organizational affiliations and common communities – http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/2013/rachel-frick-2013-erl-keynote

Wednesday, March 20 – Ellis Library Room 4G41

8:30-9:15 – Truth or Dare: Discover Systems Secrets Unveiled – no description available
9:20-10:05 – E-book bootcamp – http://proposalspace.com/p/627/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
10:10-10:55 – Playing nicely with others: Using data to guide successful collaboration in collection development – http://proposalspace.com/p/653/s?key=ffLgJBYzG6QPRgWN
11:00-12:00 – Closing Keynote: The Courage of our connections: thoughts on professional identities, organizational affiliations and common communities – http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/2013/rachel-frick-2013-erl-keynote

New Posts, Feb. 18-Mar. 1

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Director’s Calendar: March 4-8th, 2013

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Notable meetings from the calendar of Jim Cogswell, Director of MU Libraries

Tuesday, March 5^th
2:00-4:00 p.m. – LMT, Ellis Library

Wednesday, March 6^th
12:00 Noon – Life Sciences Symposium – Dr. William Ashworth, Ellis Library Colonnade

Thursday, March 7^th
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon – Presentation and All Staff Open Meeting with RAIS Division Head Candidate Polly Boruff-Jones, 4F51A Ellis Library

Friday, March 8^th
8:30-10:00 a.m. – UM Library Director/Deans TelePresence Meeting, Ellis Library

2:00-4:00 p.m. – University Press Advisory Committee TelePresence Meeting, Ellis Library

Digital Humanities Colloquium, March 21

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Kindred Kingdoms Exhibit in Ellis Library

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2013 Statewide Severe Weather Exercise

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The 2013 statewide severe weather exercise will be held at approximately 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 5^th. Jim Cogswell has requested that all Ellis library staff participate in this year’s severe weather exercise. If you are in a patron service area have minimal staff stay in the area during the drill to serve the patrons. All branch library employees please contact your building coordinator for your severe weather evacuation plan and safe areas.

Severe Weather Exercise Drill:

The outdoor warning sirens sound as one part of the local warning network. The sirens are used only as an attention getting device.
Ellis Security will be making an announcement at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 5^th the serve weather exercise is beginning.
Ellis security will then evacuate the build to the safe areas
For security reasons please lock your office doors.
Ellis security staff will be making rounds in the safe areas, please feel free to ask any questions.
When the drill is over security will make a 2^nd announcement

*In the event of a real weather emergency do not use the elevators, please use the stairs*

For severe weather, emergency plan:

All Ellis staff should move to the ground floor hallway behind the grand staircase; staff lounge, lower stairwells, LTS hallway, twin elevator area and/or colonnade area of the first floor and DoIt computer area. Due to the danger of shattered glass, it is important to keep people away from windows and the “hole” (the opening above the Bookmark Café).

*In the event of inclement weather, the backup date will be the same time on Thursday March 7^{th *}

Life Sciences Symposium Lecture, March 6

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