Library Assembly Meeting, 2/16/16

Present:  Adrienne Arden, Wendy Batson, Jack Batterson, Tammy Green, Terri Hall, Steven Hammer, Dustin Hoffman, Sandy Schiefer, Marcia Strong, Bette Stuart, & Deb Ward

Next meeting scheduled for March 15. 2016

1. Guest Speaker—Noor Azizan-Gardner on Diversity Initiative
   • The importance of inclusion/diversity/equity on campus
     • Diversity is more statistical in nature
     • There is currently a shift towards inclusion which moves beyond affirmative action
     • Inclusion is a plus for production, creativity and growth
     • Education looks to increase cultural competence to help graduates compete in the workforce
   • Meaning for libraries
     • Libraries play a strong leadership role in the academic community
     • Libraries cut across cultural lines and are more diverse
     • Libraries need to ask of themselves:
       1. How to create inclusive space?
       2. How to provide culturally effective/sensitive services?
   • Check out the MU system web site
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     • This site contains plans and working papers on diversity and inclusion for MU

 

1. Director Announcements (Deb Ward):
   • Budget is still uncertain
     • State budget is due to be completed the first week of May
     • Discussions are continuing with the Library Committee and Faculty Council on ranking journals for possible cuts (Jeannette Pierce, chair of the Collections Steering Committee, and selectors, are also working on related tasks)
   • Ann Riley & Deb Ward attended a recent session in which Mitch Wasden, MUHC CEO, reported on the "Culture of Yes" initiative of University of Missouri Health Care.
     • The "Culture of Yes” is a positive approach to meeting the expectations of patients, and it covers the concepts of care, deliver, innovate, and serve.
     • The hospital units have had some competitions on how to implement the culture
     • There is material on Mitch Wasden’s blog about it:  http://muhcceoblog.missouri.edu/tag/culture-of-yes/
     • There is some talk of extending the “Culture of Yes’ to the entire university
   • Fundraising continues to be an important topic this year, as the Development Office ramps up the capital campaign launched in October, 2015.

 

1. Departmental Reports:

 

Digital Services Report to Library Assembly (Adrienne Arden)

Digital Services staff has spent considerable time this past month on activities related migrating materials to the now “MU Digital Library”. 

By invitation Felicity attended the RAIS meeting this month to discuss the work of the Digital Services department. 

In collaboration with Kelli Hansen of Special Collections, on February 15, our department hosted an Early American Literature class of about 11 students who are working on transcribing a handwritten manuscript that is in Special Collections.  The digitized book and transcript will be available in the MU Digital Library.  The class came to see and hear about our operation and were quite interested in our scanning and editing process. 

 

Health Sciences & Veterinary Libraries (Terri Hall)

HSL

^  Taira received recognition from MU Health Care for contributing to their Culture of Yes:  http://library.missouri.edu/hslsuggestions/2016/02/10/congratulations-to-taira-meadowcroft-for-earning-her-stripes/ 

^   Several of our staff are working on a database to gather input in the upcoming campus serials review project.

^  Terri & Chris put together a valentines tag cloud featuring some recent “love notes” received by our librarians:  http://library.missouri.edu/hslsuggestions/2016/02/11/thanks-for-sharing-the-love/

^   Yasuyo put together a book display about Forensics

^   Taira is participating in ACT, the quality improvement training program offered by the Office of Clinical Effectiveness. 

^   We are offering drop in sessions to provide assistance with PowerPoint for creating posters.

^   We currently have a practicum student.

 

Vet

• In honor of Valentine’s Day, Sue Giger put together a great veterinary cardiology book display. We <3 Cardiology!
• @ZalkLibrary now has over Twitter 400 followers.
• Laura Buck has revamped most of our manuals and is re-organizing our shared drive
• Kate Anderson and Gwen Gray are serving as business advisors for the Coulter Boot Camp, a program that focuses on bringing biomedical innovations to market
• Kate is also working on the implementation of myVITA, the replacement to the Faculty Accomplishments System

 

 

More from HSL (Deb Ward)

The School of Medicine construction project, Patient-Centered Care Learning Center, continues. The building is finally beginning to go up, after months of utility and foundation work. We’ve been told that the third floor should be up by around the end of April. The company is working on a mock-up of the exterior finishes that will be erected close to the Military Science Building, and groups will be let into the area to see the finishes when they are ready. The planners are working on a summer timeline that will determine when the work will be done to demolish the stairway that is outside of the HSL entrance. We are making plans to relocate some staff during the worst of the noise related to the short-term demolition work.

 

Cataloging & Metadata Department (Jack Batterson)

Wayne is pulling data files from MERLIN for updating our holdings for ILL with the RAPID consortium.

Karla cataloged an original comic art collection by Dale Freeman for Special Collections.

 

Catalog Management has finished the initial A-TX portion of the Index Project for Room 202.  Additional volumes have been identified for transfer, and we will work on them once we get approval to continue.

Replacements for government documents from UMLD2 continues as does making treated volumes available in the MERLIN catalog.

 

• (Steven Hammer)

 

1. David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, will give a public presentation on April 15, 2016, 2:00 p.m., in Room 114A Ellis Library.
2. The MU Libraries annual statistical report will be released soon.