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Meyer Library adds 2 new GAs

Meyer Library adds 2 new GAs

We extend a warm welcome to our two new graduate assistants at Meyer Library. Veerendra “Vee” Gubbala is from Hyderabad, India and is working on a Masters in Information Technology from the College of Business. Vee comes with experience in working with data infrastructure and customer service. He will be working on FOLIO projects as well as general library support, and will collaborate with Nathan in LIT. Elijah Woodall, first year graduate student in Occupational Therapy, will support our faculty…

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What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

In a time when food pantries are being utilized to help college students with food insecurities, OER have been increasingly used in colleges and universities to help reduce or eliminate textbook costs to students. But what exactly are OER? According to OERCommons.org, “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments,…

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Rare Wine Rare Books 2023

Rare Wine Rare Books 2023

Last Friday,  July 28, the Missouri State University Duane G. Meyer Library hosted its annual Rare Wine Rare Books event. The dinner raised funds to support the rare books collection, and this year’s party theme was a tour through Italy. Over a five-course dinner with various red and white wines, guests were entertained with a video made by student workers, trivia, jokes, giveaways, and, of course, rare books. On all three levels of the library, there were first editions and…

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Karen Durden Accepted into University Staff Ambassador Program

Karen Durden Accepted into University Staff Ambassador Program

Karen Durden, a Library Associate I at the Duane G. Meyer Library, has been accepted into the 2023-2024 cohort of Missouri State’s USA Program. The program is designed to give participants an in-depth look at the university system and facilitate a better understanding of the staff member’s valuable role within the university and their contribution to university’s mission. In addition to professional development, the program seeks to foster interdepartmental communication and bonds among cohort members. USA teams also work together…

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OSI to pursue new avenues for distribution

OSI to pursue new avenues for distribution

The Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, is actively pursuing new means of publicizing our book series. As interest in the publications grow and authors eagerly seek to get more attention on their books, managing editor Elaina Kersey is submitting applications to nationwide (and international) distributors that are able to get the books onto Amazon.com and into bookstores like Barnes & Noble. This week and next week, Elaina will be in conversation with an…

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Paige Harp to take on new role

Paige Harp to take on new role

Missouri State University Libraries announces a new position in Resource Management & Discovery (RM&D)— the Content Strategist position. This new role will serve alongside the Director of RM&D to form the nucleus of a new content management initiative that Meyer Library is slowly beginning to implement. Director of RM&D, Derek Moser, says “[t]he Content Strategist is the first personnel piece to this larger content management puzzle that we’re trying to put together here. In late May we announced our new Journals Access List—a tool…

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OSI publishes book of local children’s folktales

OSI publishes book of local children’s folktales

This week, the Ozarks Studies Institute has published Ozarks Tales for Children: A Storyteller’s Handbook. After many years of hard work, adapter Cherri Jones’ anthology of tall tales, animal tales, trickster tales, folktales, and historical tales (as well as Ozarks jokes and games) is now available! Complete with nearly 80 of the best illustrations done by students in Jennifer Grace-Duran’s art classes at the Greenwood Laboratory School, and family-friendly retellings of stories by legends like Vance Randolph, Douglas Mahnkey, Mary…

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Meyer Library hosts future educators

Meyer Library hosts future educators

Last Wednesday, a group of students from high schools across the state and the nation visited the Duane G. Meyer Library at Missouri State University as part of the #BearsTeach initiative. The program aims to address the statewide teacher shortage by providing an immersion program on campus. “It was focusing on what we have in [the library] and what they can use if they come here and choose to go into the college of Ed,” said Paige Harp, coordinator of…

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Latest OzarksWatch Magazine edition available

Latest OzarksWatch Magazine edition available

The Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, has published OzarksWatch Magazine, Series 2,Volume XII, No. 1. The theme of the Spring/Summer 2023 edition is the history of sports in the region.  The six main articles cover auto racing, horse competitions, women in professional basketball, a high school basketball championship, baseball, and shotgun training. In these pages, you’ll find lots of interesting facts. For example, did you know that there is a breed of horses…

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Joint article in Journal of Library Administration

Joint article in Journal of Library Administration

Current and former MSU Libraries employees have published an article entitled Research Content as an Expression of the Scholarly Information Seeking Habits and Behavior of University Faculty in the Journal of Library Administration. A second companion article, Research Services and Spaces as Expressions of the Scholarly Information Seeking Habits and Behavior of University Faculty, will also be published later this summer in the same journal. Both articles are based upon our study Scholarly Information Seeking Habits and Behaviors of Missouri State University (MSU) Faculty found…

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