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Social Media Training Opportunities

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Interested in learning more about social media? Mark your calendar for upcoming training opportunities.

The Social Media Team is working on new processes and guidelines to create dynamic, engaging presences on Facebook and Twitter for the MU Libraries, and we need your help.  Join us to learn more about using social media to communicate with our users.  Find out how you can contribute information, news, and other pieces of content to be featured online. 

Training will be offered during the week of September 28, with the exact date TBD.  Mark your calendars, and contact Kelli Hansen or Grace Atkins for more information.  In the meantime, check out the links below:

The Beginner’s Guide to Social Media

A Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Advertising

Notes from the Director, 9/2/15

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Hello everyone,

As we approach the end of the second week of regular semester classes, I have to wonder if you all feel the same way I do, that the fall semester hit like a tidal wave.  Of course Law, School of Medicine and Vet Med students were already back, but they are fewer in number. Apparently the graduate students and administration are working through their differences with the help of the Chancellor’s task force and other groups, and we all wish them well.  The campus strategic plan emphasizes graduate student enrollment and enhancing the graduate student experience, which should help.

We have been experiencing delays with returning Ellis rooms 114 and 202 to service, mostly because of the new carpeting. We need the rooms back, but we also need the new carpet that is still coming. Both rooms should be available now after Sept.14. A small committee will be working with Facilities to get the furniture in 114 re-arranged, and will plan for new furniture as part of the fee campaign. Without the orange periodical shelves, the traces of its old role as CPRR will be almost gone. It will have a very different look and feel, and we want to make it an attractive, usable space. 

On the 24/5 transition for Ellis, we should be ready by Sept 8.  Some new security staff has been hired and trained, and signs, some new locks, and other details solved or in process. We are hoping to get self-check machines installed in Ellis as soon as we can also, but that won’t be before Sept. 8.

Work continues on plans for the addition to UMLD, and I hope to have more good news on that soon.

Special thanks this week to Michaelle Dorsey and her staff for their vigilance in monitoring environmental conditions across the University Libraries to ward off any mold or related problems in library collections. It’s a thankless, continuing task but makes a difference.

This week was the second meeting of the newly re-constituted Library Management Team (LMT).  Most of you have heard that in addition to Jeannette Pierce, Mike Holland, Deb Ward and me that Ernest Shaw, Sheryl Cullina, Ellen Blair, Pat Jones and Corrie Hutchinson are now LMT members.  We all meet together twice monthly.  I hope that adding more operational people to the team will help us address many issues more promptly and effectively.

Have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend.

Ann

Healthy for Life Update

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Complete Wellness Incentive Tier 2 by September 30

Don’t miss your opportunity. If you completed Tier 1 of the 2015 Wellness Incentive, you’re just steps away from receiving an additional $300 in your final October paycheck.* Simply complete 300 points in Tier 2 of the Wellness Incentive on or before September 30, 2015. With so many activities to choose from, there’s a path to wellness for everyone.

* Like your regular pay, taxes and voluntary retirement elections are deducted from your incentive earnings.


Walking Challenge registration announced!

Sign up begins August 21 and ends September 14. Go to https://muhealthcare.cernerwellness.com to register your team. Healthy for Life will offer free manual pedometers for anyone participating in the walking challenge starting next week at events around campus. More information will be available next week.

Questions? Email stepupMU@health.missouri.edu


Register now for the Eat for Life online program

Have a history of chronic dieting, or eating when stressed, bored, unhappy? Enroll in Eat for Life now. Create a healthier relationship to your food, mind, and body.

Eligible first-time participants: Earn 100 pts. Toward the 2016 Wellness Incentive—paying up to $450 (http://umurl.us/incentive )

Program taught by Dr. Lynn Rossy, health psychologist. For more information: watch informational videos or find more details online. Or, direct questions to Dr. Rossy at RossyL@umsystem.edu.