Nurses and Librarians: Perfect Partners!

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Join us for an interesting session on the partnership between nurses and librarians.  For those who are new to working with nurses, Valerie Meyer, librarian at Chamberlain School of Nursing will speak to the need for outreach to nurses. Nurses recognize that information is needed to improve practice and provide quality patient care. However, many nurses have not used library databases or understand thoroughly how to get the information they need. This is an untapped opportunity for collaboration and bridge building.

Looking at more advanced partnerships, Louise Miller, PhD, RN & Rebecca Graves, MLS will talk about their collaboration on grants, teaching and presenting.  Their work together has taken them from classrooms (virtual and physical) teaching nursing students to the small towns of Missouri teaching frontline nurses.   They have also teamed up for presentations at conferences to school nurses in Kansas City and librarians in Honolulu.  Their next exploits are focusing on getting information literacy woven in an enduring form into the Sinclair School of Nursing curriculum.

July 19, 2011 – Librarians and Nurses: Perfect Partners, panel hosted by Barb Jones. View the archived recording at: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p33249379/

August Lunchtime Leadership Book Talk

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The August Lunchtime Leadership Book Talk will take place on the 30th from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., in 159 Ellis.

This is an opportunity for MU Libraries employees to gather informally over lunch and share quotes from books or articles on the topic of leadership or management that seem especially pertinent for MU Libraries right now. This is open to all library employees as it seems sensible to hear from current and emerging leaders within the organization in terms of what they are reading on the topic.

Attendance is voluntary but compensable for non-exempt supervisors since the discussion applies to the workplace. As such, schedule adjustments may be needed to offset overtime considerations. RSVP’s are not required.

But, we ask you bring a brief something to share with the group, e.g., copies of the talking points of the book or journal article. For examples of documents shared at recent sessions, go to http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/staffdevelopment/default.htm – this leads to a SharePoint site.

Staff iPads and Laptops Available for Checkout!

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LTS has 2 original iPads and several laptops that are available for staff checkout.

The iPads have many free apps already installed and have the equivalent of the Microsoft Office Suite – Pages (Word), Numbers (Excel) and KeyNote (PowerPoint).

The laptops are Windows XP or Windows 7 and have the Microsoft Office Suite and various other applications on them. Specific software can be added if needed for a Libraries activity.  There are currently no Apples available.

All equipment may be used for either personal or Libraries business, but Libraries-related activities take precedence.  There are currently no specific checkout time limits, but that is subject to change if demand increases.

Top 250 Websites by Page Title and URL

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The top 250 websites

  • by Page Title
  • by Page URL

are now available in an Excel workbook posted on the staff site for your viewing.  The glossary for the terms used in Google Analytics can also be found on the staff page on the lower right-hand corner of the screen under Administration/Statistics.

http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/default.htm

Page URLs are case sensitive in Google Analytics so if a term in a URL is capitalized in one URL and not in its duplicate, there be two URLs listed for the same web page.

For example:

Journalism Library:

In the fall of 2010, the web browsers on the computers in Journalism were set to

http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/Journalism as the home page.

The Journalism Library home page is officially http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/journalism with a lower case “j.”

Journalism will have two entries in the Page URL listing and one entry in the Page Title listing.  The workstation browsers were modified so they now point to the lower case “j” but there will always be two URLS for that period in time.

Gateway page:

The stats for http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/default.aspx are recorded separately from

http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/ even though they refer to the same web page.

Test pages usually have not been assigned a Page Title and will be lumped together under (not set). Many new pages were created last year so there will be little or no comparison with the previous year.  The introduction of LibGuides naturally saw a decrease in the page hits for some of those guides in the Resource Content Management System.   LibGuide URLs are numeric so you cannot tell what the page is unless you search the site or add a prefix to the URL listed in the spreadsheet.

https://libraryguides.missouri.edu

LibGuide URL in Google Analytics:

/content.php?pid=92324 /

https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/content.php?pid=92324 / [J2100 News ]

LibGuides also has its own statistical analysis program as part of the service.

Last fall, the Web Advisory Group rearranged the content on the Gateway giving more prominence to the “Contact Us” feature as well as other services and collections.

“Contact Us” went up 141%.

http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/showmehow/contactus.aspx 

June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011

 13,644
July 1, 2009 – July 1, 2010 5,667
% Change 141%

Other notable changes:

MU Libraries Book Finder 

http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/search/bookfinder.aspx

June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011

 87,854
July 1, 2009 – July 1, 2010 48,106
% Change 83%
 

Collections Ellis  http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/collections/ellis.htm

June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011

 37,877
July 1, 2009 – July 1, 2010 18,438
% Change 105%

 

This web page saw a decrease because now we have hours posted on the gateway pages:

 

Hours, Maps and Information

http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/about/hours.htm

 

June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011

 1,963
July 1, 2009 – July 1, 2010 2,179
% Change -10%

ALCTS Webinar: Aiming for a Robust Metadata Infrastructure for the Future

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August 1, 2011
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Ellis 4F51A

Description: Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the name of the new cataloging standard slated to replace AACR2.  The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine have jointly determined that to achieve a viable and robust metadata infrastructure for the future, RDA should be in that future. This decision was not made lightly, but based on a substantive test using RDA in which 23 libraries and the three U.S. national libraries participated. This webinar will share the thoughts of LC’s Associate Librarian for Library Services, Deanna Marcum, and its Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Beacher Wiggins. Dr. Marcum will give her reactions to reviewing and accepting the recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee. Mr. Wiggins, a Coordinating Committee co-chair, will describe the test, findings, and analyses that led to the recommendation to implement RDA not sooner than January 2013.

Presenters:  Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress and Beacher Wiggins, Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress

Reminder – MU Libraries’ Skill Awareness Workshop #2

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Space is available for the upcoming Skill Awareness workshop on “Developing Conflict Competency,” July 27, from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m., 4F51-A Ellis. This workshop looks at the skills needed to increase one’s conflict competency. Participants will discuss different types of conflict, plus the difference between trust and trustworthiness, and identify behaviors that push their ‘hot buttons.’ In addition, participants will be able to reflect upon the skills needed to demonstrate conflict competency, e.g., compassionate listening.

For this and other skills workshops, attendance is voluntary and open to all library employees, per supervisor approval. You can rsvp to Leo at AgnewL@missouri.edu or simply show up on Monday.

See http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/committees/staffdevelopment/programs/2011-2012/Program_calendar.htm for a full description of the Skill Awareness series.