Library Notes

For several years the Missouri State University Libraries has offered an internal grant competition to its current full-time employees to fund innovative ideas, projects, content, and services. Recently Lindsey Taggart submitted an innovation grant to subscribe to Unsub. The Dean and Associate Dean reviewed the application and funded it in the amount of $2,500. Unsub is a data dashboard that helps academic libraries divest from Big Deal journal subscriptions. Unsub allows users to create forecasting scenarios based on subscriptions and…

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Summer Session at Missouri State University begins on Monday, June 7, 2021 and concludes on Friday, July 30th.  Duane G. Meyer Library has announced the following summer hours. Of course, the main lobby of Meyer library may be used anytime by people with valid BearPass cards.  Intersession Hours: Saturday, May 15 through Sunday, June 6:   M — F (8 am-6 pm) Sat — Sun (Closed)  Memorial Day: Monday, May 31: Meyer Library will be closed  Summer Session Hours: Monday,…

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A new service is now available in Duane G. Meyer Library on the main Springfield campus of Missouri State University. As a safe way of providing library books, other information materials, and electronic equipment to students, faculty, and staff, Meyer Library is now offering 24/7 contactless locker pick up in the library’s main entrance. Patrons can request books and circulating materials (up to 10 items per transaction; course reserves excluded) through the Libraries’ homepage Access Services staff will process the…

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At 4 p.m. on Friday, April 30, 2021, the Missouri State University Libraries will hold an informal gathering and celebration at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and East St. Louis Street in downtown Springfield to commemorate the 95th birthday of Route 66, also known as the Mother Road and the Main Street of America. Everyone is welcome to attend. At 4 p.m. on Friday, April 30, 1926, a group of advocates for a paved road all the way from Chicago…

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This week a group from the Campus Construction Team (CCT) at Missouri State University, part of the excellent Facilities Maintenance group, began removing the wall between Room 206 and 209 on the Second Level in Duane G. Meyer Library. The new, larger room will be used for a variety of purposes planned by the MSU Libraries, the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (FCTL), and other service organizations here at the university. New state-of-the-art instructional technologies will be installed, too,…

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Holly Kouns, the Coordinator of Public Services at the Missouri State University Libraries, presented a round-table discussion session at the recent online conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association. Her co-presenter was Karen Doster-Greenleaf, Director of Research & Instructional Services at Kennesaw State University, part of the University System of Georgia.  The title of their presentation, held on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, was “Ch-ch-changes: Managing change fatigue in an ever-changing…

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On Thursday, April 15, 2021, after a massive effort involving many people and nearly 700 work-hours, the “Back Issue Periodical Shift” project on the Lower Level of Duane G. Meyer Library was completed! In Fall 2019 Access Services was tasked with shifting the entire Back Issue Periodical collection to consolidate space in the compact, movable shelving by leaving growth space for only those journals for which the MSU Libraries had active subscriptions. Following some initial analysis of the collection, the…

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An additional major gift from the Martin Family Foundation has provided sufficient fiscal resources to complete the massive, multi-year Ozark Jubilee Digitization Project, a collaborative endeavor involving the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing program of the Missouri State University Libraries.  Don and Ruth Martin have been lifelong supporters of higher education in many ways and to many institutions and organizations. Gifts from the Martin Family Foundation have benefited the Missouri State University Libraries…

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Late in March, Shannon Mawhiney, Digital Archivist for the Missouri State University Libraries, was highlighted in the blog of the Office of Public Affairs Support at MSU.  The blog post, written by Cole Howerton, a student assistant in Public Affairs Support, focused on Shannon’s work with the Christian County Historical Society, which operates a museum, curates their growing collections, and publishes a quarterly newsletter, all with volunteer support.  Shannon expressed her desire to have the Christian County Historical Society collaborate…

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Jessica Bennett and Joshua Lambert recently hosted and presented a well-received webinar about the Zotero reference management tool to a small group of graduate students. Graduate students spend a lot of time collecting research and creating intellectual works from that research and Zotero can help them throughout this process. With Zotero, a researcher can find a useful resource and then save the metadata with one click in a browser. The one click also saves a PDF file and a web…

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