In order to be ready to do the electrical work on Monday, Nov. 19, the construction crew will be drilling in Ellis Library next week. We will put up signs so that the patrons are aware of the construction. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Annelise Freeman our E-Learning Librarian recently completed training for Quality Matters Applying the QM Rubric.  This two-week workshop focused on assuring quality in online courses through consideration of alignment between objectives, resources, technology, and assessment. The University of Missouri is a member of Quality Matters and uses its standards for course review.  The instructional designers and academic technology liaisons with ET@MO are also trained with Quality Matters rubric.  Annelise works closely with ET@MO and fills a similar role at the library as the ATL’s do with their departments. This training provides support for designing online courses and will help the libraries meet standards when working with faculty using library resources in their online courses.

The North entrance of Ellis Library will be closed all day on Saturday the 13th due to the Alabama tailgate party on Lowry Mall.

A few of us attended an ALA Virtual Conference session presented by Steven Bell about “Way We Serve”statements.” A “Way We Serve” statement is an easily remembered phrase that provides employees a context for every decision they make in service to direct reports, team members and customers. We were interested in getting a group of interested MU Libraries employees together to discuss this topic and how such a statement might work for us. If you are interested, please contact me (Shannon) by next Friday, Oct. 5. After we find out who is interested, we will set up a time and place for the discussion.

–Shannon Cary and Darell Schmick

September 17, 2012
2:00-3:15 pm
Ellis 4F51A

Come to hear and share news related to digitization projects and interests.

1) Conference/workshop reports:

Anne Barker:  XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts
http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/libraries/l70/

Dorothy Carner:  IFLA Preconference: The Electronic Re-Evolution—News Media in the Digital Age
http://www.ifla.org/en/events/newspapers-section-2012-preconference-in-mikkeli-finland

Felicity Dykas:  DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle
https://apps.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.eventDetails&event_key=612E21BE7477F79D361921C40901D94BE49885E1

 

2) Updates from the floor
–Felicity Dykas

 

For new staff members or others who just need a new t-shirt, I will be ordering more of the gray “MU Libraries: Your Connection to Knowledge” t-shirts. Please let me know by Sept. 7 if you want one and what size you need.

MU’s annual Fire Factor event will be held on September 19. The event, which includes a burning of a mock dorm room, will take place in Speaker’s Circle from 11:30 am to 3 pm.

We have some free Mizzou stuff in the Admin office. It’s available first come, first serve. There are some stickers, some post-it notes and a few other things.

 

On Thursday, September 6, the MU Libraries will host journalist Laura Ling as part of this year’s Mizzou Reads activities. If you would like to help with the event planning for our annual Mizzou Reads reception, please contact Shannon Cary.