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Month: July 2022

Rachel Besara and Brooks Travis Present Talk at Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Conference

Rachel Besara and Brooks Travis Present Talk at Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Conference

Last month Rachel Besara presented a talk entitled “Evaluating Library Support Platforms (LSPs) for Adoption: A Case Study” at the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) Conference in Athens, Greece.  This talk was co-authored by former Head of Library Information Systems at Missouri State University, Brooks Travis, who is now employed as a Senior FOLIO Implementation Consultant by EBSCO Information Services.  The presentation focused on what structure and metrics were used in the evaluation of LSP proposals at MSU…

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MarooNation Book Club Reads Lake of the Ozarks

MarooNation Book Club Reads Lake of the Ozarks

The online MarooNation Book Club, which began over two years ago, has selected the memoir Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America, by Bill Geist for its summer read. As usual, Craig Amason from the MSU Libraries will facilitate the online discussion, in collaboration with the MSU Alumni Association.  Geist’s memoir of the eight summers in the Sixties he spent working at Arrowhead Lodge, now gone, near Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri is an…

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