We’ll change the format from a luncheon to a webinar. Join us Sept. 21, from 1:30 – 3:00 for a webinar sponsored by ALA on developing one’s leadership skills. The webinar is title “Be a Great Boss: One Year to Success.” Catherine Hakala-Ausperk facilitates the webinar. More info to follow.
The August Lunchtime Leadership Book Talk will take place on the 30th from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., in 159 Ellis.
This is an opportunity for MU Libraries employees to gather informally over lunch and share quotes from books or articles on the topic of leadership or management that seem especially pertinent for MU Libraries right now. This is open to all library employees as it seems sensible to hear from current and emerging leaders within the organization in terms of what they are reading on the topic.
Attendance is voluntary but compensable for non-exempt supervisors since the discussion applies to the workplace. As such, schedule adjustments may be needed to offset overtime considerations. RSVP’s are not required.
But, we ask you bring a brief something to share with the group, e.g., copies of the talking points of the book or journal article. For examples of documents shared at recent sessions, go to http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/staffdevelopment/default.htm – this leads to a SharePoint site.
LTS has 2 original iPads and several laptops that are available for staff checkout.
The iPads have many free apps already installed and have the equivalent of the Microsoft Office Suite – Pages (Word), Numbers (Excel) and KeyNote (PowerPoint).
The laptops are Windows XP or Windows 7 and have the Microsoft Office Suite and various other applications on them. Specific software can be added if needed for a Libraries activity. There are currently no Apples available.
All equipment may be used for either personal or Libraries business, but Libraries-related activities take precedence. There are currently no specific checkout time limits, but that is subject to change if demand increases.
The top 250 websites
are now available in an Excel workbook posted on the staff site for your viewing. The glossary for the terms used in Google Analytics can also be found on the staff page on the lower right-hand corner of the screen under Administration/Statistics.
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/default.htm
Page URLs are case sensitive in Google Analytics so if a term in a URL is capitalized in one URL and not in its duplicate, there be two URLs listed for the same web page.
For example:
Journalism Library:
In the fall of 2010, the web browsers on the computers in Journalism were set to
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/Journalism as the home page.
The Journalism Library home page is officially http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/journalism with a lower case “j.”
Journalism will have two entries in the Page URL listing and one entry in the Page Title listing. The workstation browsers were modified so they now point to the lower case “j” but there will always be two URLS for that period in time.
Gateway page:
The stats for http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/default.aspx are recorded separately from
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/ even though they refer to the same web page.
Test pages usually have not been assigned a Page Title and will be lumped together under (not set). Many new pages were created last year so there will be little or no comparison with the previous year. The introduction of LibGuides naturally saw a decrease in the page hits for some of those guides in the Resource Content Management System. LibGuide URLs are numeric so you cannot tell what the page is unless you search the site or add a prefix to the URL listed in the spreadsheet.
https://libraryguides.missouri.edu
LibGuide URL in Google Analytics:
/content.php?pid=92324 /
https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/content.php?pid=92324 / [J2100 News ]
LibGuides also has its own statistical analysis program as part of the service.
Last fall, the Web Advisory Group rearranged the content on the Gateway giving more prominence to the “Contact Us” feature as well as other services and collections.
“Contact Us” went up 141%.
| http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/showmehow/contactus.aspx
June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011 |
13,644 | |
| July 1, 2009 – July 1, 2010 | 5,667 | |
| % Change | 141% |
Other notable changes:
| MU Libraries Book Finder
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/search/bookfinder.aspx June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011 |
87,854 | |
| July 1, 2009 – July 1, 2010 | 48,106 | |
| % Change | 83% |
|
Collections Ellis http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/collections/ellis.htm June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011 |
37,877 | |
| July 1, 2009 – July 1, 2010 | 18,438 | |
| % Change | 105% |
This web page saw a decrease because now we have hours posted on the gateway pages:
|
Hours, Maps and Information http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/about/hours.htm
June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011 |
1,963 | |
| July 1, 2009 – July 1, 2010 | 2,179 | |
| % Change | -10% |
August 1, 2011
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Ellis 4F51A
Description: Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the name of the new cataloging standard slated to replace AACR2. The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine have jointly determined that to achieve a viable and robust metadata infrastructure for the future, RDA should be in that future. This decision was not made lightly, but based on a substantive test using RDA in which 23 libraries and the three U.S. national libraries participated. This webinar will share the thoughts of LC’s Associate Librarian for Library Services, Deanna Marcum, and its Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Beacher Wiggins. Dr. Marcum will give her reactions to reviewing and accepting the recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee. Mr. Wiggins, a Coordinating Committee co-chair, will describe the test, findings, and analyses that led to the recommendation to implement RDA not sooner than January 2013.
Presenters: Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress and Beacher Wiggins, Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress
Space is available for the upcoming Skill Awareness workshop on “Developing Conflict Competency,” July 27, from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m., 4F51-A Ellis. This workshop looks at the skills needed to increase one’s conflict competency. Participants will discuss different types of conflict, plus the difference between trust and trustworthiness, and identify behaviors that push their ‘hot buttons.’ In addition, participants will be able to reflect upon the skills needed to demonstrate conflict competency, e.g., compassionate listening.
For this and other skills workshops, attendance is voluntary and open to all library employees, per supervisor approval. You can rsvp to Leo at AgnewL@missouri.edu or simply show up on Monday.
See http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/staffdevelopment/programs/2011-2012/Program_calendar.htm for a full description of the Skill Awareness series.
Goodbye to Erin Zellers, temporary LIS II, Special Collections. Erin’s term of came to an appointment. In addition, she and her husband are relocating.
The Mizzou Reads book selection for summer 2011 is Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers. A Brown Bag discussion about this book will be held on August 10, 12-1pm in 4F51-A Ellis Library for any interested library staff. The discussion will be moderated by a facilitator from Student Life, with a focus on diversity issues.
Mizzou Reads is a program sponsored by Student Life at Mizzou. All incoming freshmen are asked to read the same book before they arrive on campus for fall semester. Students participate in small group discussions about the book during Fall Welcome on August 18. The discussions are a way to foster community among the new students.
This program is now in its 8th year and Student Life considers it a success. For more information on this program, visit http://bit.ly/pLP7Np.
While staff do not generally participate in the Mizzou Reads program, the MU Libraries Diversity Action Committee thought that this book would provide a good discussion for interested library staff, especially on the topic of diversity issues.
Zeitoun was published in 2009 and tells the story of a Syrian-American man and his family living in New Orleans, Louisiana. The events take place before, during, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Here is a link to the book on WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/332257182. The book is also discounted at the MU Bookstore.
Attendance to the book discussion is voluntary and open to all library employees, per supervisor approval. Bring your lunch. RSVPs are requested for head count purposes only.
DAC also intends to do a book discussion for the Columbia One Read book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. This will be held in September at the same time as other area One Read events. For more information about this program, visit http://oneread.dbrl.org/.