Step-by-step Instructions for faculty on how to integrate several types of library resources into Blackboard, created by the Library Instruction Committee, have now been updated for Blackboard 9. Will McCrary of the Math Sciences Library assisted the committee by taking new screenshots and placing the instructions in a Libguide, available at https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/blackboard. Feel free to share with professors, instructors and assistants working on Blackboard.
A staff publication of the MU Libraries.
Author: Shannon Cary
Microsoft Office Available to MU Faculty and Staff for $9.95
Microsoft now offers enrollment in the Software Assurance Home Use Program (HUP) to University employees. Under HUP, you may purchase Microsoft Office Professional Plus. The software is for personal use and has no restrictions to any work at home policies. The license is good as long as you are a University employee.
A digital download costs just $9.95. You may also purchase a backup disc (includes packaging, shipping, and handling) for an additional $12.95. The license is valid as long as you are a University employee.
To request a copy, log on to My Services and follow all instructions. https://myservices.missouri.edu/
PT Martin
Current MUSE Posts
Staff Spotlight, September 2010: Mat Miller and Laura Buck: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/muse/index.php/2010/10/01/staff-spotlight-september-2010-mat-miller-and-laura-buck/
Web tip of the week (Keep it or toss it? This tells how long we can keep our food and how we should store it): http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/muse/index.php/2010/09/29/web-tip-of-the-week-sept-29-2010/
New Posts, Sept. 20-24
- Recent Events at MU Libraries
- MU Pension Plan Information
- Safari’s Tech Books Collection Now in Summon
- Goodbye to Nora Tamm
- Panel Discussion: Making a Start in the Digital Humanities
- MU Libraries in the News
- Search Update- Health Sciences Information Services Librarian I
- Banned Books Week Information and Resources
- Healthy for Life Update
- Current MUSE Posting
Recent Events at MU Libraries
MU Pension Plan Information
Each month, HR will be presenting information about the changes in the MU benefit and in the retirement plan to the Board of Curators. See the link below for access to live streaming video of the meetings, meeting documents, PowerPoint slides, minutes and archived audio. I would encourage everyone to listen to the archived audio and to the PowerPoint slides from the Sept. 23, 2010 meeting where there was discussion about the retirement plan and about the cost increases in the medical plan:
http://www.umsystem.edu/ums/curators/
This second link is a discussion at the St Louis campus about the recent MU Benefits survey. This same PowerPoint presentation was given at the Department Heads Retreat last August, the HR talk on Election Day, and at the Faculty Council meeting earlier this month. It provides clues on what we might see happen to MU benefits in the next few years.
http://panopto.umsl.edu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=3a1e0a09-9009-4ffd-a785-1116c91a189f
The Columbia Missourian is in early stages of providing a Board of Curators blog. Details will be forthcoming.
Jack Batterson
Safari’s Tech Books Collection Now in Summon
Over 8,000 MARC records from Safari’s popular Tech Books collection were recently loaded into MERLIN and now appear in Summon. A list of titles in Summon can be seen in this search.
Goodbye to Nora Tamm
Goodbye to Nora Tamm, LIS II, Engineering Library. Nora is leaving to spend time with her family.
Panel Discussion: Making a Start in the Digital Humanities
Panel discussion with Print for the People members Mike Holland, Elizabeth Chang and Devoney Looser
Print for the People is a Mizzou Advantage project that explores the emergence of new contexts for rethinking the history of print and digital media in the humanities. Principle investigators for the project are Berkley Hudson (Journalism), Devoney Looser (English) and Mike Holland (MU Libraries, Special Collections & Rare Books).
The panel will address the possibilities and challenges of digitizing print materials for use by teachers, scholars, and students, as well as the state of thinking regarding the creation, architecture, use, and maintenance of digital humanities collections.
Looser and Chang recently returned from a week-long symposium in Dublin, Ireland, Digital Humanities Observatory. Michael Holland similarly returned from a weeklong symposium at the University of Virginia Rare Book School entitled, Digitizing the Historical Record. Each will briefly discuss their experiences at the two symposia in order to encourage audience participation.
TUCKER FORUM – 85 GANNETT HALL
MONDAY, Sept. 27, 2010
NOON
MU Libraries in the News
“Ellis Library hours extended during finals week.”
The Maneater, Sept. 17, 2010.
“MU library launches text message service.”
The Columbia Daily Tribune, Sept. 22, 2010.