Healthy for Life Update

Caught in the Act is now underway!
Caught in the Act is now underway. 16 employees have been nominated from MU campus, 6 from MU Healthcare and none from UM System for practicing Random Acts of Wellness.

The raffle winners from week 1 are as follows:

  • MU Campus: Frank Booth nominated by Cheryl Rosenfeld
  • MU Healthcare: Cathy Schlotzhauer nominated by Eileen Phillips
  • UM System and Extension: No nominations!

Winners of the weekly raffle will receive a Yoga ball which can be used as a piece of ergonomic equipment in the workplace

There are many employees out there practicing random acts of wellness so let us know who they are. 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

**Healthy for Life would like to extend a thank you to those Wellness Ambassadors who are promoting Caught in the Act and for your participation in the program. 


Looking for a Wellness Ambassador?
We’ve made it easier than ever to find a wellness ambassador near you with an updated Ambassador Directory. Part of the Wellness Ambassador Portal, the directory now includes home department, parent department and address to make finding an ambassador easier than ever.

>>>Click Here to Find an Ambassador

Interested in becoming a Wellness Ambassador? Find out more information on the Ambassador portal and sign up today! Having more than one ambassador in a department is encouraged. All you need is desire to help promote a culture of health among faculty and staff!

Questions? Please contact Jen Oetting at oettingj@umsystem.edu.


Stress Reduction Classes Now Online!
Healthy for Life now offers online Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Classes! These course options allow you to go at your own pace when it’s convenient for you. Find one that works for you and earn Wellness Incentive points too! Need more info? Visit the Stress Reduction Page.

Participants are eligible for 100 Wellness Incentive points upon successful completion. Contact wellness@umsystem.edu for questions.

 

Online course options

Palouse Mindfulness

Course information: Self-guided, 8-week course with certificate upon completion

Website: http://palousemindfulness.com/selfguidedMBSR.html

Cost: Free

About: The Palouse Mindfulness MBSR Online Program was developed by Dave Potter, a certified MBSR teacher through the Center for Mindfulness. You must turn in your seven sets of practice sheets and a one page description of what you’ve learned and how you will be incorporating what you learned into your life to Dave Potter, who will review them and send you a certificate of completion.

MBSR Training

Course information: Self-guided, 8-week course with certificate upon completion

Website: http://www.mbsrtraining.com/

Cost: $198

About: The MBSR Training Online was developed by Ross Clark, a trained MBSR teacher through the Center for Mindfulness. You must indicate completion of materials throughout the course and must answer questions about your experience of the class at the end of week 8. Once these are completed, Ross Clark will review them and send you a certificate of completion.

Sounds True – the MBSR online course

Course information: Self-guided, 8-week course with CE credits upon completion

Website: http://www.soundstrue.com/store/the-mbsr-online-course-3226.html

Cost: $199 for the course and $120 for CE credits ($319 total)

About: The MBSR Online Course (through Sounds True) was developed by Saki Santorelli and Florence Meleo-Meyer, senior teachers at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare, and Society. You must complete the test available after the course is finished by purchasing the CE Credits package.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dykas Co-authors Article on Metadata Quality

Felicity Dykas co-authored an article with SISLT faculty member Heather Moulaison Sandy that was published this month in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.  It can be accessed at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1116480

Citation:
Heather Moulaison Sandy & Felicity Dykas (2016): High-Quality Metadata and Repository Staffing: Perceptions of United States–Based OpenDOAR Participants, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2015.1116480

 

Upcoming Black History Month Events

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Sites of Black Memory in the Missouri State Capitol: The Radical Representation of African Americans in Thomas Hart Benton’s 1936 mural “The Social History of Missouri”

5:30 p.m. | Main Gallery, State Historical Society of Missouri
Art historian Joan Stack will explore the representation of African Americans in the art of the Missouri State Capitol, focusing primarily on the decoration campaign of ca. 1918-
1920, and Thomas Hart Benton’s “Social History of Missouri” mural.  
Sponsored by: The StateHistorical Society of Missouri

ZouSoul Concert
8:00 p.m. | The Shack, MU Student Center
Performances dedicated to the history of black popular music.
Sponsored by: ZouSoul

TUESDAYS IN FEBRUARY
Black Queer Film Festival
February 2 | 7 PM | Women’s Center
February 9 | 7 PM | Women’s Center
February 16 | 7 PM | Women’s Center
February 23 | 7 PM | TBD

See screen representations of black queer and trans lives, histories, and stories every Tuesday in February.
Sponsored by: Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) and the Black History Month Committee

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
The African-American Experience in Missouri Inaugural Lecture, “Contesting Slavery: Enslaved Missourians Enduring Struggle for Self Determination”
6:00 p.m. reception | 7:00 p.m. presentation | 8:00 p.m. book signing | Jesse Auditorium, Jesse Hall
Diane Mutti Burke, author of On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small – Slaveholding Households, will examine the lives of African-Americans who were enslaved in Mid-Missouri.
Sponsored by: The State Historical Society of Missouri and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Afro-Latino Memory Through Film

6:00 p.m. | Room 12, Middlebush
Explore two examples of Black experiences and memories in Latin America. This event off ers the opportunity to look at the arts and identity, and the organization for rights and well-being. Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital is an upbeat film about how an Afro-Indigenous community got fed up and built their own hospital. Nancy Morejon: Paisajes celebres is a documentary about the most widely translated Latin American poet. Her writing addresses contemporary issues of ethnicity, gender, history, and Afro- Cuban identity. Sponsored by: the MU Black History Month Committee, Voz Latina, Cambio Center, Department of Romance Languages

A Musical Tribute to Thomas Hart Benton
7:00 p.m. | Missouri Theatre
Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band will play a tribute to Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton
Sponsored by: ”We Always Sing” Jazz Series, The State Historical Society of Missouri

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Black AIDS Day

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Room 2205 A&B, Student Center
Come learn about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and update your status with free, rapid, and confi dential HIV testing administered by the Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Sponsored by: Mizzou Black Men’s Initiative, Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, Multicultural Center

Film: Democrats
6:30 p.m. | Waters Auditorium, Waters Hall
Director Camilla Nielson’s film Democrats, takes an inside look at the process involved in writing and ratifying a democratic constitution for Zimbabwe.
Sponsored by: Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy

 

ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, April 14 – Save the date!

Please save time on April 14 to attend the ACRL Scholarly Communications Roadshow, to be hosted at the Memorial Union by MOBIUS, the MU Libraries, UMKC, and Washington University. Sessions will run from around 9:30 to 4:30. Registration is free. Proposed agenda and registration information coming shortly!

Appropriate for all liaisons and others working in scholarly communication, the goal of the program is to empower participants to help accelerate the transformation of the scholarly communication system. Participants will engage in a structured interactive program focused on:

  1. Access
  2. Emerging opportunities
  3. Intellectual property
  4. Engagement

The workshop will help participants in very practical ways, such as: prepare for library staff or faculty outreach (i.e., working with faculty on publication agreements, interacting in their roles as liaisons, and developing programming for faculty and/or graduate students), contextualize collection development decisions to internal and external stakeholders, and initiate or support new models for scholarly communication in their libraries.

Our presenters will be:

  • Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University
     
  • Anali Maughan Perry, Associate Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, Arizona State University Libraries
     

http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/scholcomm/roadshow

For more information, contact Anne Barker.

Healthy for Life Update

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.