Brown Bag Session – “Roll Together’ in Columbia

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Wednesday, Oct. 27, 12:00-1:00 p.m., W1004 Lafferre Hall, School of Engineering

In case you missed the SDC brown bag session on Let’s Roll Together, another brown bag will be held Oct. 27 at W1004 Lafferre Hall, School of Engineering. Let’s Roll covers information about cycling for transportation and how cars and bicycles can share the road together.  The session will also cover misconceptions about traffic laws for both bicyclists and motorists. Gina Overshiner, Education Coordinator with the Pednet Coalition, will provide information on the program. Bring your lunch. RSPV’s are not required.

New Posts, Oct. 11-15

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  1. Families Welcome at Ellis Library Homecoming Open House
  2. Open Access Week is Oct. 18-24
  3. United Way Drawing Winners
  4. SDC-Brown Bag Session-“Roll Together” in Columbia
  5. Boyd and Anderson Publish in the Journal of the Medical Library Association
  6. Current MUSE Posting
  7. Physical Processing Staff Design New Map Carrier
  8. HSL Research Team Wins Poster Award
  9. Healthy for Life Update
  10. Cataloging Webinars-Corrections and More Information
  11. Helping Your Faculty: Incorporate Library Resources and Tools into Online Courses

United Way Drawing Winners

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Congratulations to the winners of the 1st United Way drawing:

Ann Barker
Karen Eubanks
Leo Agnew
Dorothy Carner
Sue Barnes

All staff members who turned in their United Way pledge cards by Oct. 8 were eligible. The winners each won a pair of tickets to a concert series show.

The next drawing will include anyone who sent a pledge card in before the end of the day Friday, October 15th.  Prizes will include 5 more concert series tickets and a gift certificate to the Columbia Mall.

SDC – Brown Bag Session – “Roll Together’ in Columbia

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Tuesday, Oct. 19, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 4F51-A Ellis Library

Let’s Roll Together covers information about cycling for transportation and how cars and bicycles can share the road together. It is part of the GetAbout Columbia program. The session will also cover misconceptions about traffic laws for both bicyclists and motorists.

Gina Overshiner, Education Coordinator with the Pednet Coalition, will provide information on the program. Bring your lunch. RSPV’s are not required.

Boyd and Anderson Publish in the Journal of the Medical Library Association

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In collaboration with colleagues at Texas A&M and Washington State, Trenton Boyd and Kate Anderson have published the 3rd edition of the Basic List of veterinary serials.

Ugaz AG, Boyd CT, Croft VF, Carrigan EE, Anderson KM. Basic list of veterinary medical serials, third edition: using a decision matrix to update the core list of veterinary journals. J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Oct;98(4):282-92. PubMed PMID: 20936066.

Available in PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2947140/

Physical Processing Staff Design New Map Carrier

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Physical Processing/Preservation has, since the purchase of the Minter Welder, been slowly perfecting the process of encapsulating single-sheet items for better preservation and display purposes. Most of these large items are posters from Special Collections (often World War I and II era publications) or Government Documents (typically maps). The items for encapsulation are almost always old and fragile, many of them are quite large, and so safely transporting them from fourth floor down to Physical Processing was a unique challenge for several months. Carrying them between a pair of staff members or staff and students tended to be uneven and often threatened the items’ physical integrity, simply due to differences in height and stride. They also could not be easily laid on a book truck because their size tended to make it likely that they would slip off, strike the elevator on either side, or otherwise escape a safe position. These close calls with the library’s rare resources were simply unacceptable, though there were none that were badly damaged.

Physical Processing staff went through several rounds of attempts to improve handling these items, and finally — after a lot of creative brainstorming among staff and students — a design for a carrier that would fit these items’ needs came about. We needed whatever carrier was designed to meet several criteria, namely that it would: remain stable on a book truck (thus preventing the issues with variable heights and speeds of workers), be wide enough to support the largest items safely, hold them stable at the sides and prevent excess length from causing a problem in any direction, clear all of the elevators and doors in the route, and easily fit on the lift from third to fourth floor. With the capable assistance of Al Messner, our design was built and is now in use.

HSL Research Team Wins Poster Award

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On October 9, the HSL Research Team took first place among the research posters presented at the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Wichita, KS. The poster presents data from the first group of four hospitals that participated in the study.  All of the hospital librarians who participated are listed as co-authors.

The poster, “Views of the Library:  A Regional Study in Selected Missouri and Colorado Libraries,” by Deborah Ward, MA, MLS; MaryEllen Cullinan Sievert, MLS; Ph.D.; Dirk Burhans, Ph.D.; Barbara Jones, MLS; Margaret Bandy, MLS; Jerry Carlson, MLS, AHIP; Sandy Decker; Holly Henderson,  MA, has been submitted to MOspace for archiving. It has been posted on the wall in the HSL Conference Room, and you are welcome to come see it if you prefer that to viewing it online.

For background, the study was carried out in three phases.

1.     Preliminary studies conducted with the MU Departments of Child Health, Internal Medicine, and Family & Community Medicine gave us positive data and the confidence to extend the methodology beyond our institution.

2.     A similar study at the University of Colorado at Denver (as a comparator to the MU HSL), fostered the study of two hospitals in Missouri and two hospitals in Colorado for the collection of comparable data. The poster that won the award is a product of the four hospital studies.

3.     Additional studies at the hospitals of interested librarians in the six-state region served by the Midcontinental Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine are now in progress.

Findings from these studies are valuable for the advocacy efforts of Barb Jones, whose special project area for the region is library advocacy. This work is important because hospital library closure is a reality faced by health sciences librarians. The health care climate is one in which value must be presented to decision-makers in order to receive continuing funding. Our goal is to publish articles that hospital librarians in our region, and beyond, can use to highlight their value to their administrators.

MaryEllen Sievert and Dirk Burhans have an established record of supporting practicing librarians here at MU in library research, and we hope that they will be willing to shift their focus to support the broader research needs of the MU Libraries in the future.

Submitted by Deb Ward, 10/14/10