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Diversity in Action Seminars

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Hosted by the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative, the Diversity In Action seminars are a series of research based seminars designed to informa dn engage scholars, students, and practitioners of diversity-related research at Mizzou.  The seminars’ format typically consists of a 40-minute presentation and a 20-minute question and answer session which offers presenters and participants an opportunity to exchange ideas. We hope this conversation will stimulate new research directions and identify practical applications.

The schedule for Fall Semester 2015 can be found online at http://cdi.missouri.edu/programs-services/diversityinaction/index.php.

Healthy for Life Update

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Complete Wellness Incentive Tier 2 by September 30
Don’t miss your opportunity. If you completed Tier 1 of the 2015 Wellness Incentive, you’re just steps away from receiving an additional $300 in your final October paycheck.* Simply complete 300 points in Tier 2 of the Wellness Incentive on or before September 30, 2015. With so many activities to choose from, there’s a path to wellness for everyone.

* Like your regular pay, taxes and voluntary retirement elections are deducted from your incentive earnings.


Walking Challenge registration announced!Sign up begins August 21 and ends September 14. Go to https://muhealthcare.cernerwellness.com to register your team. Healthy for Life will offer free manual pedometers for anyone participating in the walking challenge starting next week at events around campus. More information will be available next week.

Questions? Email stepupMU@health.missouri.edu


Register now for the Eat for Life online program
Have a history of chronic dieting, or eating when stressed, bored, unhappy? Enroll in Eat for Life now. Create a healthier relationship to your food, mind, and body.

Eligible first-time participants: Earn 100 pts. Toward the 2016 Wellness Incentive—paying up to $450 (http://umurl.us/incentive )

Program taught by Dr. Lynn Rossy, health psychologist. For more information: watch informational videos or find more details online. Or, direct questions to Dr. Rossy at RossyL@umsystem.edu.

Events at the State Historical Society

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Audubon’s Paper Menageries: Birds and Quadrupeds Walk-Through
August 29, 2015    1:30 p.m.
The State Historical Society of Missouri’s Research Center–Columbia

Join the State Historical Society of Missouri’s art curator Joan Stack at this free event to discover the stories behind the wildlife pictured in the SHSMO’s current exhibition, Audubon’s Paper Menageries: Birds and Quadrupeds. Over twenty original hand-colored engravings and lithographs from the 1820s through the 1860s showcase John James Audubon’s imaginative and engaging illustrations for his impressive multivolume works, The Birds of America and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Experience the wonder nineteenth-century audiences must have felt as life-size birds seem to flutter from the pictures and wild creatures glower and hiss at their human observers.


Oral History @ Your Library: A Beginner’s Guide
August 31, 2015
12:00 p.m.
American Library Association Webinar

This free webinar offered by the American Library Association will provide an introduction to the ways in which libraries can use oral history for everything from collection development and programming to community engagement. Presenters Mary A. Larson, associate dean for special collections at the Oklahoma State University Library, and the State Historical Society of Missouri’s oral historian Jeff D. Corrigan will begin with the basics and offer programming ideas for all ages, information about related technology (what type of equipment to use in which circumstances), and a wide range of resources for those who would like to follow up on the topic. At the end of the webinar, participants should have a better idea of how they might be able to utilize oral history in their libraries, and they will have a basic sense of what steps they would need to take to implement that vision. Details available at http://www.ala.org/onlinelearning/oral-history-your-library-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide.

Library Assembly Meeting, 8/18/15

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Present:  Wendy Batson, Jack Batterson, Abbie Brown, Tammie Busch, Dorothy Carner, Sheryl Cullina, Ruth Feldkamp, Tammy Green, Terri Hall, Mike Holland, Steven Hammer, Jeannette Pierce, Ann Riley, Marcia Strong, Bette Stuart, & Deb Ward

  1. Discussion:
  • Public Relations and Outreach (Dorothy Carner)
    • Committee created by LMT
    • Charges
      • To create a framework for external communicating with our users
      • To actively disseminate library information
      • To insure consistency and quality of information campus wide
    • There is an ERES reading list available; please check with Dorothy Carner for access
  • Policies Review (Mike Holland)
    • Time to review current library policies
      • Many needing to be updated
      • Looking to reduce the number of polices for better efficiency either by merging policies or eliminating some
    • Started with Policy #3 & #7
      • Policy #3 – Reclassification of library material
      • Policy #7 – Cataloging & classification of serials
    • Recommendation to eliminate both brought up questions
      • What criteria would be used in downsizing policies
        • Wanting to separate departmental procedure from the polices
        • Wanting to maintain procedural information in a separate file
        • Updating terminology
      • How would the decision process proceed
        • Suggestion to identify those departments affected by a policy
        • Allowing those affected to form committees to evaluate & to update
        • Then bring back to Library Assembly for approval
      • Results of discussion
        • Further discussion needed on how to proceed
        • Mike will continue to put the policies in a more readable form
  1. Director Announcements (Ann Riley, Acting Director):
  • Discussion with the Provost
    • Libraries’ budget
    • Plans for new depository
  • Long range communication planning to start up later
  • Student Library Fee
    • Gearing up for promotional material on the fee
    • Campaign tag line is “I’m in”
  • Signs about the Centennial Celebration are being put up around Ellis Library
  1. Departmental Reports:

Library Administration Report presented by Steven Hammer

There will be a gift announcement in Ellis Library Colonnade on September 11, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. announcing the establishment of the Trogdon library endowment for the purchase of Special Collections materials. All library employees are invited to attend.
 

Digital Services Report presented by Tammie Busch

Digital Services continues to make progress in all our work.  Felicity commends the department for their extra efforts in filling gaps left by unfilled positions in the department. We are all working on the legacy digital library site migration which currently has utmost priority. Our goal for completion of the migration is end of fiscal year 2016. We have also managed to complete some special project requests including uploading the Interdisciplinary Innovation Fund proposals and final reports into our institutional repository. Adding to our challenge is the fact that our institutional repository recently ran out of space and we have been experiencing frequent errors while uploading in our digital library. A new MOspace IR release is scheduled for today. Felicity has put in extra hours to get this ready for today’s release. We had a summer student working on digitization of the Columbia Missourian. He made great progress in testing different scanning and image specifications to maximize the final quality.  Our GLA is continuing with this project and we hope to be posting final products to the Digital Library soon.

This past Saturday, Felicity and Trenton Boyd met to continue work on the rare veterinary books bibliography that is being compiled for the library’s centennial celebration.

The Digital Services staff have been attending FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and RDA (Resource Description & Access) training produced by the Library of Congress. RDA is the content standard we are using in our institutional repository and digital library.

In order for progress to continue with our electronic resources, our GLA is helping with e-book cataloging.

Access Services Report presented by Tammy Green

Reserve has already processed 38 class lists.

The recent discovery of bug infested books at Univ of MO Kansas City has resulted in finding a few more damaged ones at Engineering Library.   No one is sure when this happened to the latest finds.  However, these books have been promptly dealt with by Michaelle Dorsey & her crew.  Replacements will be sought.

HSL & Vet Library Report presented by Terri Hall

Reference had a surge of online consultations with our distance learning students last month.

Over 60 new medical students opted to attend our library orientation sessions.

The med students’ libguide was completely revamped this year.

We continue to work with the new E-Reserves systems, establishing new guidelines, educating faculty and requesting system modifications.

Cataloging Report presented by Jack Batterson

Catalog & Metadata department has an opening for a Sr. Library Information Specialist. The application deadline is August 28, 2015.

For additional information, including salary, work hours, and how to apply, please visit the MU Libraries webpage at http://library.missouri.edu/about/employment/employopp/#staff_job_openings.


HSL Report presented by Deb Ward

We are working on a water fountain upgrade for our main service floor, replacing the existing water cooler with one that includes a water bottle filler. It will be the same model as was installed in Ellis Library recently on the ground floor. Thanks to Pat Jones for sharing information on the process, contacts, and the model selection.

In cooperation with the LTS digital signage pilot, we will be installing a large screen monitor just inside the Health Sciences Library entrance. Thanks to Brycee McDonald, Mike Spears and Ernest Shaw for assisting with this. Terri Hall will be our content coordinator. We will relocate Dr. Lottes’ portrait to another area on first floor in order to make room for the monitor.


Acquisitions & Collection Development, Accounting, Consortial Resources presented by Bette Stuart

  1. We received a large donation of journals, mostly related to social work and gerontology. Of the 477 items received by our department, 374 were offered to other libraries through backserv (only 1 was claimed – the rest are being recycled), 81 have been/will be added to the collection, 9 were monographs and sent through the monographs gifts process , 12 were sent to HSL, and 1 was sent to Law.
  2. Serials acquisitions staff are working on serial renewals for 2016.
  3. We are in the process of adding LSO (Consortial Resources) records in MERLIN, and testing the LSO feeder.