Haseltine Library, located in the Greenwood Lab School on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University, is poised to make some organizational improvements. These changes are part of the larger Phase Two of the MSU Academic Affairs Continuous Agility Process (CAP).  

• The overall management and leadership of Haseltine will transition from the MSU Libraries to Greenwood Laboratory School. Across the United States, most libraries within lab schools are managed by those lab schools. 
  
  
• The Library Assistant II position in Haseltine Library, which Rhonda O’Connor has ably filled for decades, will be transferred from the MSU Libraries to Greenwood Lab School. Greenwood will assign a new supervisor of record for Rhonda. We all appreciate the fine work Rhonda has done, and will continue to do, for Greenwood students, faculty, and staff. 
  
  
• Because Dea Borneman, a member of the MSU Library Science faculty who has served as director of Haseltine for decades, is retiring in August, Greenwood will design and fulfill a new leadership model for Haseltine Library. The Library Science faculty position held by Dea Borneman will remain with the MSU Libraries. 
  
  
• Plans are well underway to transition the Haseltine integrated library system, also known as an online catalog, from FOLIO, which was implemented by the MSU Libraries in the spring of 2020, to the Destiny Library Manager information system from Follett, which is designed specifically for K-12 school libraries and their users. To avoid change and disruption during the academic year, the actual migration from FOLIO to Destiny may not occur until May 2025. 
  
  
• Greenwood students, faculty, and staff will continue to have access to the collections, services, and spaces provided to the entire MSU campus community by the MSU Libraries, located in Duane G. Meyer Library on the main Springfield campus. Conversely, MSU students, faculty, and staff will continue to have access to the collections and services provided by Haseltine Library. 

The enduring mission of Haseltine Library: “To provide K-12 resources and services in a welcoming environment that promotes lifelong learning and strives to meet the instructional, informational, and personal interests of the Greenwood Laboratory School community. These services and resources shall also be available to the larger university community.” (https://guides.library.missouristate.edu/c.php?g=701787&p=9909682) 

Haseltine Library has a proud history and a bright future. It is named in honor of Horace and “Pete” Haseltine. Horace, a 1940 graduate of Southwest Missouri State, now Missouri State, was a practicing attorney and former business law professor at the university. He served as president of the SMS Alumni Association and was a member of the Board of Regents at the time of his death in 1975. “Pete” had an associate degree from Stephens College and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Fontbonne College. She loved teaching children and volunteered at libraries and schools. She was an active Greenwood grandmother and passed away in 2001 after seeing all seven of her grandchildren attend Greenwood. Rick and Mary McQueary, both from the Greenwood class of 1971, chose to honor Mary’s parents, Horace and “Pete”, by establishing an endowment for the library and making a donation to fund library renovations in 2006.