Trenton Boyd has been awarded the Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences from the Medical Library Association. The award recognizes distinguished achievement in collection development in the health sciences.
A staff publication of the MU Libraries.
Author: Shannon Cary
Tech Tip
Google is used so often to find information, so I thought it would be useful to share some Google tips over the next few weeks from the Google help page:
“To see flight status for arriving and departing U.S. flights, type in the name of the airline and the flight number into the search box. You can also see delays at a specific airport by typing in the name of the city or three-letter airport code followed by the word “airport”.
Example: Type “stl airport” to see if arrivals and departures are on time.
–Jack Batterson
MU Libraries in the News
The program in these articles is the Literature and Medicine program with which the Health Sciences Library has been involved.
“Book Clubs for Doctors Show Human Side of Medicine”
New York Times, March 11
Columbia Missourian, March 12
New Posts, March 1-5
- Marking Twain Celebration: Play Reading on March 18
- MOBIUS Conference T-Shirt Design Contest
- Riley to Be Guest on KOPN March 25
- 2010 Statewide Severe Weather Exercise
- 2010 MU Libraries Global Scholars
- Reminder: International Tea & Snack Event
- March Library Start Date Anniversary Recognition
- Staff Development Committee Web Page
- Tech Tip-Weather Underground
- Healthy for Life Update
Marking Twain Celebration: Play Reading on March 18
MOBIUS Conference T-Shirt Design Contest
If you are like me, you wake up early every morning having dreamt of wonderful and creative t-shirt designs for the MOBIUS annual conference but end up feeling let down because the MOBIUS conference doesn’t have a t-shirt design contest. Good news: We do now!
That’s right, this year we are going to be taking design submissions on the conference website and then vote on them! This is an awesome opportunity to have fun, flex your artistic muscles, and contribute to making the MOBIUS conference even more awesome. Plus we’ll give you a FREE SHIRT.
Don’t do graphic design? Aren’t coming to the conference? We will give you a free shirt just for referring someone. Can you say “graphic design students”? Just remember to tell them to put your email address in the referrer field of the submission form so we can thank you and work out delivery for your free shirt.
Start here:
http://mobiusconference.org/t-shirt-design-contest
Justin Hopkins
Coordinator, IT & Web Services
MOBIUS Consortium Office
Riley to Be Guest on KOPN March 25
Ann Riley has been invited to be a guest on the KOPN radio program “Women’s Voices, Women’s Issues” on Thursday March 25 to talk about her research on toxic work situations and new information on how gender and generational issues may relate to them. Some of this work was presented at the ACRL conference last year, and some information is from a new article.
For more information about the show and to access the podcast after the segment has aired, visit KOPN Women’s Issues Women’s Voices.
2010 Statewide Severe Weather Exercise
The 2010 statewide severe weather exercise will be held at approximately 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 9. Jim Cogswell has requested that Ellis library staff participate in this year’s severe weather drill to the extent possible. Minimal staff should remain in service areas to assist users during the exercise. Branch Libraries please contact your building coordinator if you would like to participate in this exercise.
Severe Weather Exercise Drill:
- Outdoor sirens will sound as part of the local warning network to signal the start of the drill.
- Ellis Security will be making a staff-only announcement at 1:30p.m., Tuesday, March 9th to inform staff that the severe weather exercise is beginning.
- For security reasons, please lock any office doors if no staff will remain in the work area.
- Ellis Security staff will be making rounds in the safe areas. Users and staff may feel free to ask any questions.
- When the drill is over, Security will make an announcement informing staff to return to work areas.
Severe Weather Emergency Plan:
When an emergency is declared, all Ellis staff should move immediately to safe areas. On the ground floor, these areas include: the hallway behind the West Entrance staircase; staff lounge; lower stairwells; LTS hallway; and the twin elevator area. On the main level, safe areas include: the Colonnade area and DoIT/OASys computer area. Remember to keep away from all windows (and the skylight opening above the Bookmark Café) to avoid danger from shattering glass.
2010 MU Libraries Global Scholars
We are very pleased to announce that the 2010 Global Scholars for MU Libraries will be Dorothy Carner, Adjunct Professor, Missouri School of Journalism and Head of the Journalism Libraries, and Ann Riley, Associate Director for Technical Services.
The Provost’s Global Scholars Program brings together faculty members from around the MU campus to participate in an overseas learning and exchange experience intended to help MU faculty internationalize their teaching and research. This year, a new program led by Fritz Cropp, the Director of International Programs at the School of Journalism and Director of the MU Transatlantic Center, will center on Brussels, Belgium and its vicinity. The seminar will introduce MU faculty members to institutions in the capital of Europe and provide opportunities to interact and share potential research and projects with their European counterparts.
Dorothy Carner intends to collaborate with libraries and librarians in Belgium to help support the work of students in the MU School of Journalism- Brussels Program, to develop relationships with librarians charged with managing journalism/communication/mass media collections in Europe, and to develop a better understanding of European media. Ann Riley will be collaborating with librarians from the Universities of Liege and Louvain to discuss open access and cooperative repositories, international scholarly communication, and international education.
Please congratulate our two newest Global Scholars on their acceptance to this prestigious program.
Reminder: International Tea & Snack Event
The Diversity Action Committee and MULSA invite you to participate in a gathering on March 11 to enjoy a variety of international teas and snacks. The event will take place from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Ellis Library Staff Lounge.
DAC and MULSA will provide most of the food items; menu options are listed below. However, you are invited to contribute a tea flavor or snack that represents your cultural heritage. If interested in contributing an item, contact either Ivy Hui (HuiO@health.missouri.edu) or Yasuyo Knoll (KnollY@health.missouri.edu). Feel free to bring you own plates/spoons, too.
RSVP’s are not required. Release time is available with supervisor approval.
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Menu items:
Japanese Green Tea, Oolong Tea, Thai milk tea, Irish breakfast tea, Fruit Tea Sampler (5 flavors), coffee.
Chinese Crispy Egg roll, Italian Biscotti, Chinese Almond Cookies, Korean Wafer Stick (Chocolate), Sesame Ball, Dutch Honey cake, Rice crackers, Turkish Delight, Mixed nuts, Fortune Cookies, Wasabi Peas, Japanese Sweet Big popcorn, Roasted soy nuts, Danish wedding cookies, flaky egg rolls, and shortbread cookies.
Milk (organic), honey, Splenda, Sweet-n-Low; Stirrers, Sugar, etc.