Hello everyone,
It’s hard to believe we are another week closer to the start of school again. On Monday, Reference training starts, and the semester isn’t far behind. Our new User Engagement Librarian, Grace Atkins, starts Monday in Ellis, so let’s all welcome her, along with other new staff.
You all should have received your re-appointment letters with next year’s salaries. Sorry it could not have been more. A question that’s been raised is about the percentage listed. Remember to add any lump sum for longevity or additional assignment, etc. to your salary to get the real percentage, as those are in addition to 1 ½ % for most people. Thanks to all for your continued service to the University and the Libraries.
On the 4th floor project announced last week, it’s still confidential, but I have made the Provost aware that we didn’t want it, had way too little notice, and will need her help if we must make it happen. We need a more workable time frame, assuming it still has to be here. Time for faculty consultation is essential, and we need a way to address the Student Fee Capital Improvement Committee funds used for the Nook. Hope with me that we can have some impact on at least the timing of the project.
The Student Fee Working Group continues to work on getting promotional material ready for when the students return. We know our Library Ambassadors, our library student group, will be effective in the peer marketing of the proposal, and our Social Media Group will be doing much marketing also. Most of us are in a different age demographic than our students, and we have to reach them as voters. Special thanks to Matt Gaunt for all his very hard work on this.
Judy Maseles asked me to announce that our webpages will now refer to us as “Libraries”, rather than “MU Libraries”. MU Libraries was repetitive and some felt it was confusing (University of Missouri, MU Libraries—why put MU right after University of Missouri). The Law Library is fine with this. We will transition to using Libraries on cards and stationery too, eventually, as we use up what we have… See upcoming NewsNotes for more details.
Please remember our all staff meeting is coming up on August 13. Plan to attend!
Ann
Please congratulate the following librarians on their promotions. These changes will be effective September 1, 2015.
Marie Concannon: Promoted to Librarian IV
Kelli Hansen: Promoted to Librarian II
Below are the room numbers of the offices that have moved out of Ellis Library.
Admissions 230 Jesse Hall
Cashiers 15 Jesse Hall
Financial Aid 11 Jesse Hall
Registration 130 Jesse Hall
Residency 125 Jesse Hall
Present: Adrienne Arden, Wendy Batson, Jack Batterson, Ellen Blair, Abbie Brown, Shannon Cary, Cindy Cotner, Ruth Feldkamp, Karla Geerlings, Tammy Green, Terri Hall, Dustin Hoffmann, Mike Holland, PT Martin, Libby Myre, Jeannette Pierce, Ann Riley, & Marcia Strong
Digital Services Report presented by Adrienne Arden
Digital Services has been quite busy this month working on the migration of digital materials from the Legacy Digital Library into the MOspace Digital Library. Included are the Sanborn and Plat maps from the early 1900s and Agriculture Experiment Station materials. The Savitar collection is undergoing improvement in both content and appearance.
Tammie, aided by one of her student assistants, has been scanning selected historical items for an Ellis Library Centennial Collection that will be made available in the Digital Library in honor of the library’s Centennial celebration. Some examples of this material are library historical rules and hours, such as dinner was observed by closing the library between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Checking out books was limited to three at a time, and, “Book stacks are open to the teachers and officers of the University. Otherwise, admission to the stacks is necessarily restricted to those advanced students whose work would otherwise be seriously impeded.” Admission cards were issued by the Head of Circulation only, and the application had to be accompanied by a recommendation from the faculty member who oversees the student applicant’s work. This begs the question: How did undergrads become advanced without access to the library?
Mike Holland joined our weekly departmental meeting on July 20 to get a better understanding of how our team plans and functions. We welcome Mike’s presence at future meetings.
We are anticipating the arrival of spring 2015 electronic theses and dissertations which we will make haste to add to the MOspace Institutional Repository. We are also working with a faculty member and a Ph.D. student on a project to add datasets to MOspace that are related to urban biodiversity.
Lastly, we have begun another round of enhancements to Ebrary records.
Access Services Report presented by Tammy Green
The twice daily delivery via email of pickup notices seems to be working. The problem is selecting the best time to do the second delivery.
Circulation will be experimenting with printing paging slips for in-house patrons on weekends and evenings
Administration Report presented by Ellen Blair
Noah Hartsfield, has created new student hour and dollar tracking spreadsheets, which should be very useful to supervisors.
RAIS Report presented by Wendy Batson
-New librarian, Grace Atkins will start on August 10.
-Five new staff members (with an MLS or currently in an MLS program) will be attending the week-long Ref Desk training in August and will then work an hour or two each week at the Reference Desk in the fall.
Health Sciences Library & Veterinary Medical Library presented by Terri Hall
Medical School starts Monday
MULSA announcement from Ivy Hui – MULSA’s Voluntary Action Center “Back-to-School” Supply Drive ends this Thursday – July 30, 2015. There is still time to donate. Contact Ivy for questions 882-0468. Thank you.
Collection Services Report presented by Ruth Feldkamp
Now that we've reached a new fiscal year, new monographs are back to the usual rhythm.
Cathy Richardson has moved from Physical Processing/Preservation up to Shelving, as of Monday, July 27.
Catalog Management Report presented by Jack Batterson
MCO completed the re-mastering of authority files in Merlin.
Catalog management is still adding new items and discarding the old copies of the Y 4 government documents. These Y 4 documents were destroyed by the mold at
UMLD2 and Ellis Library is working with other libraries on getting replacements copies.
Catalog management is continuing to keep pace with UMLD in making Merlin records available as they are “reprocessed.” This is part of the ongoing mold remediation process.
Security Report presented by Marcia Strong
No revise of appendix A until the new Director of Library is hired. The Libraries will be giving a merit based pay raises, the letters will go out on the first week of August. The University of Missouri, MU School of Medicine, and Mercy health systems of Springfield, Missouri recently broke ground to transform medical education in Missouri. The project consists of a $42.5 million medical education building in Columbia and the new MU clinical campus in Springfield.
An electric outage has been scheduled for Ellis Library on Thursday, August 6th, from 4:30 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. This outage is necessary to allow Campus Facilities personnel to work on the electric service to the building. This outage has been scheduled with the building coordinator to minimize disruptions to the activities in the building. Ellis Security will be on site.
Attending: Shannon Cary, Sheila Voss, John Budd, Rebecca Graves
Centennial Kickoff – Matt Gaunt, Rebecca Graves and Sheila Voss on the sub-committee
Rededication Celebration – Marie Concannon and Gary Cox on the sub-committee
Library Society Dinner – John Budd and Sheila Voss on the sub-committee
Other Activities
"10 tips for making the best use of Ellis Library"
Columbia Missourian, July 30, 2015
"Young journalists must take responsibility for digital news archiving"
SchoolJournalism.org, July 27, 2015