Library Notes

This week the 25 books that are the 2020 National Book Award Finalists were announced. In the Nonfiction category, the five finalists are: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, “The Undocumented Americans” Les Payne and Tamara Payne, “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X” Claudio Saunt, “Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory” Jenn Shapland, “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers” Jerald Walker, “How to Make a Slave and Other Essays” The MSU Libraries has copies…

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The newest in a series of long-range plans for the MSU Libraries has been unveiled. Called “MSU Libraries 2025,” the new plan articulates focus areas for the Libraries regarding Collections and Content, Services, Spaces, and Organizational matters for the next five years.  Action Items for the current fiscal year (FY21) are woven into the current five-year plan. As time and initiatives progress, updates and outcomes will be articulated as well. The new long-range plan also articulates five guiding principles that…

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On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, several faculty members of the Missouri State University Libraries attended “Like the Ceiling Can’t Hold Us: Sharing Innovations in Libraries,” an online conference organized and produced by Amigos on the general topic of innovation in libraries. Because the MSU Libraries is a member of the Amigos library consortium, there was no direct out-of-pocket cost for attending and gaining information and ideas from this conference. Some session notes taken by MSU employees are below:  The opening…

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BearWorks, the institutional repository (IR) of Missouri State University, continues to grow and receive strong use. Institutional repositories are an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the intellectual output of an organization, particularly research institutions. IRs can include not only articles and reports but also data sets, multimedia, and organizational documents. The Top Ten downloaded papers in BearWorks, determined by the average daily full-text downloads since each paper was posted to BearWorks, are shown in the captured screen below.  The…

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The Missouri State University Libraries offers a wealth of information resources, services, and spaces, both online digitally and in-person in Duane G. Meyer Library, as well as at the Haseltine Library in the Greenwood Lab School on the Springfield campus. After months of sheltering in place and teaching and taking online courses during the last half of spring semester and throughout the summer session, the Missouri State University community is largely back on campus, taking a mix of seated, blended,…

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