I’m happy to say we’ve published the white paper about Dodging the Memory Hole 2016. I’m proud of the work done by scholarship student Lisa Zirk, myself and Lis Joyce on this. The white paper will also accompany my interim report to IMLS.
Edward McCain
Facsimiles of Dante's Commedia in Canadian Libraries: A Descriptive Catalogue
Authors: Perry, Timothy P. J.
Source: Italica 2016 Fall; 93 (3): 405-432.
The Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC): Building on the Past, Looking to the Future
Livia Olsen (bio), Julie Kelly (bio), and Noël Kopriva (bio)
Library Trends. Volume 65, Number 3, Winter 2017. pp. 279-292
DOI: 10.1353/lib.2017.0002
It was great to see so many folks from MU at the MOBIUS conference earlier this week. The MOBIUS conference, held each year, is a local, free opportunity to network and learn. In addition to MOBIUS and Innovative updates, as well as training opportunities, librarians and library staff from around the state give presentations on a variety of topics. The meals are great and there are chances to win raffle prizes too. This year’s MU presenters included:
Calls for presentations usually go out in the spring semester. This year they were due in February.
–Jeannette
The Evolving Role of the Library in Institutional and Faculty Assessment – A Discussion of Research Metrics
Librarians have been redefining their role for the past 25 years. In today’s electronic world, librarians position themselves beyond traditional search experts: they focus their activities, expertise, and understanding of complex metrics can now serve a new audience: research administration and research program strategy. In this session, we will review these analytical use cases through the InCites™ platform and hear from Kate Anderson from the University of Missouri, Zalk Veterinary Medical Library, and Karen E. Gutzman, from Northwestern University’s Galter Health Sciences Library, and their role in the use of research performance metrics.
Cindy Cotner and Anne Barker were asked to present at the upcoming Annual Composition Department’s Celebration of Teaching and Writing on Sat., April 29th.
“Bringing the Library into the Classroom: Rethinking Library Resources,” 11:10am – 12noon, in Tate Hall 215
Deanna Benjamin, Cindy Cotner, Anne Barker and Bailey Boyd, Virginia Muller (moderator)
Many of us have taken our classes to the library for the traditional “one-shot” instructional session, hoping that in that one session our students will absorb and remember how to use complex and confusing systems to do research. While a good start, we know that learning to use library resources takes trial and error, practice, and the support of a great librarian. This panel will explore some of the ways the library staff is partnering with English 1000 teachers to fill in the gaps left behind by the fifty-minute library visit, including how they work together over multiple class meetings to introduce and to reinforce the connections between good research and good writing. Join us for some ideas about how we can rethink the way we teach research.
Re-steering the Standards: Revisiting ACRL Diversity Standards and Cultural Competencies
The ACRL Diversity Committee has been tasked with revising the ACRL Diversity Standards. The feedback gathered from a survey initiated in the summer of 2015 presented key issues currently missing from the standards. This roundtable discussion will discuss the implications of revising the Diversity Standards, share new and revised concepts and terminology, and have participants critically examine their own work institutions and its commitment to diversity, equity, and social justice.
Bringing a Piece of 4H History into the 21st Century: Creating a 4H Circulars Digital Collection at a Land-Grant Library
In 1922, the Missouri Extension Service published its first circular aimed directly at children, the Boys’ and Girls’ 4-H Club Circular. Like other Extension and 4-H serials, this circular was printed with two issue numbers, as an Extension publication and as a 4-H circular. Other issues are reprints, with handwritten notes about original publication dates. This project digitizes the entire eclectic run of the circulars in the Library’s collection and attempts to clarify its publication history.
Tim Perry published “Facsimiles of Dante’s Commedia in Canadian Libraries: a Descriptive Catalogue,” in the journal Italica 93:3, fall 2016, pp.405-432.
Abstract:
This descriptive catalogue identifies the twelve mss of the Commedia of which facsimiles can be found in Canadian libraries. It provides details about each ms and the facsimile that reproduces it, including: the date and location of the original ms; the names of the sponsor, scribe, and illustrator; the extent of the text of the Commedia that it preserves; other texts that it preserves; the arrangement and decoration of the text; any digital versions that are available; the Canadian libraries that own a copy of the facsimile; and the nature of the facsimile’s reproduction of the original ms, especially when the facsimile fails to reproduce the original accurately.
Congratulations to Tim!
Taira Meadowcroft recently presented a poster, “Social media as a tool for open access article promotion and engagement” at the joint meeting of the Midcontinental & Midwest Chapters of Medical Library Assocation in Des Moines.