Have you published a paper? Given a presentation? Done something else newsworthy? Your colleagues want to know.

Please email your professional news to carysn@missouri.edu.

Thanks,
Shannon

Hey fans, remember Friday, September 2nd is College Colors Day, a celebration of the college spirit, and a chance for YOU to show Mizzou school spirit by wearing your BLACK & GOLD at work, school or to play. For more information on College Colors Day, visit www.collegecolorsday.com. College Colors Day – spread the word and wear BLACK & GOLD wherever you are! Friday, September 2, 2011.

 

 

There is a Swiss film company shooting a commercial film on the MU campus on August 18. They will shoot in Ellis Library around 4 p.m. Pat Jones is working with campus officials on this project. The Libraries will receive a small location and security fee from the film company.

Library Administration has vases to give away. These have collected over the years and need new homes. Stop by 104 Ellis to pick up one or two.

 

Diversity Action Committee Members

Leo Agnew Chair

Abbie Brown (11-13)

Darell Schmick (11-12)

Sheena Waggoner (10-12)

Karen Witt (11-13)

Sean Witzman (11-13)

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Ellis Exhibits Committee Members

Kelli Hansen, Chair, (11-13)

Mary Amann (11-13)

Ellen Blair (10-12)

Charlotte Mustain (10-12)

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Faculty Lecture Series Committee

Suzy Bent (10-12)

Jackie Blonigen (11-13)

Shannon Cary (ex officio)

Brenda Graves-Blevins (11-13)

Paula Roper (11-13)

Ernest Shaw (11-13)

Deb Ward (11-13)

(Chair person TBD)

Preservation Committee Members

Michaelle Dorsey (ex officio)

Michael Holland (ex officio)

Ann Riley (ex-officio)

Anne Barker (11-13)

Jackie Blonigen (11-13)

Dorothy Carner (11-13)

Libby Myre (11-13)

(Chair person TBD)

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Staff Development Committee Members

Leo Agnew, Chair

Alla Barabtarlo (10-12)

Mat Miller (10-12)

Colleen Smith (11-13)

Amanda Sprochi (10-12)

Stephen Stanton (10-12)

 

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MU Libraries Research Paper Contest Committee

Anne Barker, Chair (term ends 8-31-2013)

Gwen Gray (term ends 8-31-2013)

Alla Barabtarlo (11-13)

Goodie Bhullar (11-13)

Rachel Brekhus (11-13)

Cindy Cotner (term ends 8-31-2011)

Anselm Huelsbergen (term ends 8-31-2011)

Paula Roper (11-13)

Sandy Schiefer (term ends 8-31-2011)

 

I wish to thank each outgoing committee member for contributing their time and for jobs well done. I also wish to acknowledge the willingness of the new or reappointed members of each committee to step forward. The MU Libraries counts on committees like these to do many good things.

Jim Cogswell
Director of Libraries

 

MU’s strategic plan and its actions represent a “living document” that will undergo continual and frequent updates. Progress toward each of the three goals will be determined by outcome measures published regularly within the plan document and available online to the MU community and the interested public. The Strategic Plan will be reviewed annually by the Strategic Planning and Resource Advisory Council (SPRAC) and by Faculty Council, which will assess progress and report this assessment with the Chancellor at a campuswide spring forum each year.

http://chancellor.missouri.edu/plansPriorities/strategic-plan.pdf

 

Thanks to everyone for attending the Celebration of Service Luncheon yesterday. The food, the company and the comments where all excellent!

A special thanks to MULSA for providing the meal and for helping set up and clean-up after the event.

Appreciation also goes out to: Pat Jones, Julie Rogers, Matt Stottle, Russell Matthews, Al Messner, James Betz and Dustin Hoffman for their part in setting up and breaking down the event.

If you did not get a chance to see the supervisor comments that were posted during the event, a copy of them will be posted in the Ellis Library Staff Lounge.  If you are an employee about whom a comment was written, the excerpt (cut out of the original poster) is available for you as a keepsake.  Please contact Shannon Cary to arrange pick up/delivery.

~ 2011 Celebration of Service Planning Committee (Mark Ellis, Shannon Cary, Rachel Brekhus, Karla Geerlings, Ruthe Morse,  Ruth Feldkamp and Ann Riley)

NISO has changed the date for one of its webinars.  “Return of Investment in Linking the Semantic Web” will not be on June 16^th as previously announced in News Notes (http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/newsnotes/?p=3391).  It has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at noon CST and can be viewed in Ellis 4F51A.

Library News Notes is officially on its summer schedule, which means it will be distributed every two weeks until the beginning of the fall semester.

Summer hours for Ellis and the branches have been posted.

Thanks, Shannon

Because of remodeling in the Student Success Center (SSC), there will be tutoring in Ellis Library, Room 202, during the Summer Session.

• The tutors will mostly use the library tables in place and make use of the group study rooms at the south end of the reading room.
• When the room is used for tutoring, the no talking provision will to be suspended.
• A few rolling whiteboards will be brought over from SSC to be used in science and math tutoring
• Writing tutors will have laptops assigned to them for the summer by the Student Success Center, so they will not need to use the Ellis computers during the tutoring sessions
• Students waiting for tutoring appointments will likely use the Ellis Library computers as any student would, these are all enrolled students
• Since there is no need to station a full time staff member in Ellis, there will not be any need to lock off the reading room after the tutoring sessions are done.