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Healthy for Life Update

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Caught in the Act
Get in on the act! In Jan. and Feb., if you’re caught practicing random acts of wellness in the workplace, a campus Wellness Ambassador may nominate you to be recognized by Healthy for Life and to be entered in a prize drawing. Make sure you’re the one CAUGHT IN THE ACT. … Better yet, become a Wellness Ambassador and honor your colleagues for their healthy activities! http://umurl.us/CITA

Dates: Jan. 18 – Feb. 29

What are random acts of wellness? Things like …

·         Leading a walking challenge

·         Walking with a coworker

·         Hosting a healthy potluck

·         Supporting standing/walking meetings

·         Taking the stairs instead of the elevator

Learn more about Wellness Ambassadors: http://umurl.us/ambassador.

*We welcome multiple ambassadors per department.

Hansen Named IMLS-RBS Fellow

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Kelli Hansen was named one of the 20 IMLS-RBS fellows for 2016. The IMLS-RBS Fellowship program is designed to help educate and contribute to the professional development of early-career special collections librarians, with a special emphasis on recruiting participants currently underrepresented in the field. Fellowships include funding to take a course at Rare Book School as well as to attend the annual conference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

http://rarebookschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016_press_release_imls.pdf

Fridays @ the Library Workshops, Spring Semester 2016

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All workshops are in-person and live online unless indicated otherwise. A description of each workshop can be found at https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/fridaysworkshops. 

Jan. 22                 Staying Ahead of the Curve: Be Aware of What Your Library Offers You!

Jan. 29                 Demystifying the Literature Review (Part 1)

Feb. 5                  Digging into the Literature for a Literature Review (Part 2)

Feb. 12                Measuring Research Impact: Citation Metrics and Altmetrics

Feb. 19                Introduction to Endnote (in-person only)

Feb. 26                African-American Family History: Key Sources and New Developments

March 4               Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact

March 11              Open Educational Resources

March 18              Creating Bibliographies with Zotero (in-person only)

March 25              Introduction to Mendeley (in-person only)

April 8                  Do This, Not That! Stories of Poorly Managed Data

April 15                Quality Qualtrics Surveys/Questionnaires

April 22                Digitization at MU Libraries


Please contact Goodie Bhullar if you have questions about the workshop series.

Library Assembly Meeting, 1/19/16

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Present: 

Adrienne Arden, Wendy Batson, Jack Batterson, Abbie Brown, Cindy Cotner, Sheryl Cullina, Tammy Green, Terri Hall, Steven Hammer, Mike Holland, Jeanette Pierce, Ann Riley, Marcia Strong, Bette Stuart, & Deb Ward

Next meeting scheduled for February 16

  1. Discussion:Policies #32 & #4 (Mike Holland)

 

  • Policy #32

     

    • Recommending deletion (Library Management Team has already agreed)
    • Policy is based on the use of study rooms for patrons with disabilities
    • Currently there is one established room in Ellis under the management of the MU’s Disability Center
    • Cindy Cotner, our liaison with the Disability Center, agreed that the policy is out of date and no longer necessary
    • Any questions regarding the room may be directed to Cindy or Mark Ellis
  • Policy #4

     

    • Concerns News Notes
    • Shannon Cary is the managing editor

       

      • Requests that submitted items have “complete” information
      • Distribution to student assistants is at the discretion of the supervisor
    • Delivery of News Notes is now electronic format (changed in 2007); so no need for a print archive to be maintained.

 

  1. Director Announcements:

 

  • Currently available discovery tools are being evaluated.
  • Security has created a satellite office

     

    • Near the Circulation Desk of Access Services
    • Puts them in a strategic location for governance of the “open 24/5” of the library
    • The following Security staff moving in are Chris Trunell, Kevin Cossey, Derek Sneller, Will Schmitt, Marcia Strong, Richard Magoncia & Edwin Davis.
  • Meeting to discuss the MU budget coming up; how this will affect the library is yet unknown
  • Walls of the seminar rooms in 202 Ellis will be removed
  • Jim Cogswell’s retirement party scheduled for April 29 (details to be announced later)
  • Kelli Hansen received a scholarship to the Rare Book School (RBS); for more details—
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  • RBS offers about 30 five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning old and rare books, manuscripts, and special collections. The majority of courses take place in Charlottesville, but courses are also offered in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Bloomington, New Haven, and Washington, DC.

 

  1. Departmental Reports:

 

Digital Services Report presented by Adrienne Arden

 

From its inception, Digital Services was responsible for subscription-based e-resources cataloging and record loads.  When Brian was reassigned to UMLD, the department struggled to keep up on this work, plus the work of the digital library and institutional repository.  That e-resources work has been re-assigned to Corrie Hutchinson’s units.  Felicity spent a chunk of time last semester documenting the tasks involved.

 

Priorities in Digital Services continue to be keeping up-to-date with adding content to MOspace, processing material for inclusion in the HathiTrust, and migrating content from the legacy digital library to the new MU Digital Library.  Progress is being made in each area. 

 

We have a new online form for content submission for MOspace.  It allows MU students, faculty, and staff to complete the license form and submit documents in one step.  Thanks to Diane Johnson and Michael Spears for their work on this.

 

In collaboration with Special Collections, we have another SISLT practicum student this semester.  The practicum student will continue work on a digitization project of Pages from the Past.

 

Felicity attended ALA Midwinter meeting in Boston.  Along with Edward McCain, she is serving on a SISLT search committee to identify two new faculty members for SISLT.

 

RAIS Report presented by Wendy Batson

 

  • The project to move print indexes to room 202 has begun.  Anne Barker created the list of titles to be moved, in consultation with subject specialists, and is trouble-shooting problem titles identified by Technical Services.  Technical Services is preparing the volumes to be moved and Ryan Bish in Shelving is working with is staff to move the materials into 202.  We are still exploring the possibility of removing the study rooms at the end of Room 202, so we will only use shelving on external walls at this time.  Thanks to everyone for their work on this project.

 

 

  • A small task force to review discovery service options has been formed.  See Jeannette’s e-mail from Friday for more information.  Contact Jeannette, Rhonda, Corrie, Judy or Kimberly if you have questions or suggestions.

 

  • If you have ideas for the libraries social media there is a submission form in the forms section of the Staff Web Page.  We are always looking for great ways to engage our users and your ideas are welcome.

 

 

Cataloging & Metadata Department Report presented by Jack Batterson

Suzanne Lippard retired at the end of last month.

Catalog Management Unit is almost done with Phase 1 of the transferring of indexes from the stacks, 3 East Indexes, Reference, and Ready Reference to room 202. This includes call numbers A-TX. The next phase is the Z classification materials identified by RAIS for transfer to Room 202

 

HSL/VET Report presented by Deb Ward and Terri Hall

HSL is revitalizing its Library Advisory Council. Reference librarians are working on systematic reviews. Med school just had its site visit by the LCME accreditation team. Deb and Rebecca were at a formal meeting with the evaluators. We have a new art display, the landscapes of Byron Smith, through Spring Semester

 

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

 

  • Acquisitions and Serials has been working on a project to identify serial titles that come as part of big packages (and are not paid individually) in MERLIN.  It can often be difficult to tell how or why we gain access to a serial if it is part of a package with no order records attached to the bibliographic record.  To that end, we have been adding 990 notes to the item records to label their parent/major package. This is still a work in progress, but if you run a ‘z’ (Internal) search in Sierra for any of the package titles listed below, you will get a complete list.  We are working on adding years, pca notes, etc. as necessary to these labels.  Thanks to Kathy Peters, Stara Herron, and Dave Walsh for working on this project. 

 

  • MU Elsevier Core
  • MU JSTOR Arts & Sciences I
  • MU JSTOR Arts & Sciences II
  • MU JSTOR Arts & Sciences III
  • MU JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV
  • MU JSTOR Arts & Sciences V
  • MU JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI
  • MU JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII
  • MU JSTOR Ecology & Botany I
  • MU JSTOR Health & General Sciences
  • MU JSTOR Life Sciences
  • MU Oxford Full
  • MU Oxford Life Sciences
  • MU Sage Collection
  • MU Springer
  • MU Wiley Core
  • MU Wiley Full
  • Shelf ready books for approval orders from YBP have been implemented into the workflows for Acquisitions and Physical Processing.

 

Information and Action Items from LMT 12-15-15

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INFORMATION ITEM: Ann Campion Riley shared the latest Budget Report from fiscal officer Ellen Blair prior to the meeting.  Ann continues to work with the Provost’s office identify more sources of funding.  Internally the Libraries will look for as many savings as possible in E&E portion of the budget and put a hold on all hiring except the absolutely necessary.  The Libraries will continue to communicate often to faculty about the budget through the selectors and the Library Committee.

INFORMATION ITEM ITTP Update – Ernest Shaw continued a review of the campus IT Transition Plan which was started at the end of the previous LMT meeting. Discussion ensued about the grouping of the Libraries in the cluster of desktop support teams that includes the departments:  Law, Business, Education, Engineering and Journalism.  It was agreed upon by LMT that being grouped with or treated like the departments with more similar missions and service structure such as Academic Support  and ET@MO would make more sense.  These departments are currently not taking part in the IT transition.  Ann Riley will contact the chair of the ITTP team to explore the possibilities for participating in the transition to the extent that we experience the benefit to desktop support while possibly being treated like Academic Support and ET@MO for the other aspects of the IT transitions.  

INFORMATION ITEM Mike Holland shared a draft of the official Request for Space Allocation document that Gary Ward, MU Vice Chancellor of Operations asked the Libraries to submit for the future use of the area in Ellis Library currently occupied by the State Historical Society.  The State Historical Society is building its own facility and hopes to move out of the building in approximately two years.  Mike tried to stress the inadequacies of spaces now being used by Archives in Lewis and Clark Hall.  He also stressed the advantages of combining the staff of the Special Collections and Archives into a shared or nearby location. He concluded by pointing out that this move would free up space in Lewis and Clark which has been needed and requested by School of Health Professions.  LMT provided feedback on the document.  Mike Holland and Pat Jones (who is the building coordinator for Ellis Library) will work on the final request and the Library will submit soon.

INFORMATION ITEM LMT discussed “situationally critical employees.”  These are individuals who would be required to physically come into work or coordinate library services from home in the event that the campus is unexpectedly closed.  This has most often been due to severe weather.  In such cases, the University Administration has strongly encouraged the Library to keep at least Ellis Library open so that students who live on or near campus have a place to go, study and/or research.  The Libraries have done this several times over the past couple years.  This effort to identify and clearly communicate situationally critical employees will solidify the process and make it clear to everyone what is expected in these exceptional circumstances.   

It is generally expected that in the event that the campus is closed:

Ellis Library will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  These employees will be responsible for maintaining services:

Security = Dana Houston, Will Schmitt and Edwin Davis

Access Services = Kat Stone Underwood

RAIS = Cindy Cotner will coordinate services (and determine if the desk will be staffed or if only virtual reference will be offered).

LTS = Ernest Shaw and Bryce McDonald  will be contacts to make sure the Library computers running and the Library resources are available.

The Health Sciences Libraries will make the determination of what hours or services they will offer depending on the specific instance and will designate who will be responsible at the time.

The other Specialized Libraries will generally be closed.