Library Notes

For four years the MSU Libraries has had a dedicated YouTube channel, with new content being added all the time. Our channel contains a wide variety of musical recordings, films, television programs, tutorials, oral histories, and more. During the month of October 2018, viewers watched 1,114,362 minutes of content on our YouTube channel. That’s equal to 18,573 hours of viewing, or 774 days, or 111 weeks. There were 58,456 “views” of our content in October, for an average of 19…

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Sheila Grant Johnson, who has served as Dean of Libraries at Oklahoma State University since 2004, will visit the MSU Libraries next Tuesday, November 13th, as the external reviewer of the Library Administrative Services program. The schedule for her visit includes: 8:30 to 9:00: Tour of Duane G. Meyer Library with Dean Peters 9:00 to 10:00: Meet with Library Administrative Services Team (Melissa, Vicki, Nathan, Rachel, and Tom) in LIBR Conf. Room 10:00 to 11:00: Meet with Library Staff in…

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Provost Frank Einhellig recently approved funding in the amount of $23,000 to the MSU Libraries to purchase three pieces of major equipment: Whisper Room (Sound Isolation Enclosure): Whisper Rooms are sound isolation booths that can be used for a variety of purposes, including vocal booths for recording music, voice-overs, podcasts, interviews, and audiology testing. Duane G. Meyer Library installed a One Button Studio for recording presentations and instruction sessions and has yet to provide a space for students to practice and…

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The Office of Publications Collection, Record Group 16/13/0 in Meyer Library’s Special Collections and Archives is a collection of documents that illustrates the evolution of the public face of Missouri State University. The Office of Publications represents just one of the units responsible for MSU’s public relations, and provides graphic design, editing, and writing services to the campus community, as well as providing guidance in usage of the university identity standard. Since 1985, Publications has produced MSU’s printed materials such as…

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On November 12, 2018 Paige Harp will begin serving in the MSU Libraries as a Library Associate III. Welcome, Paige! Her duties will include: Assisting the Cataloging and Metadata Unit (50%), Library Information Technologies Unit (25%), and the Library’s Graphic Designer (25%). Duties include cataloging and withdrawing library materials, video editing, maintenance of the Library’s online catalog, loading new database files from vendors, and other metadata services. Paige has a BA in English literature from MSU, and her MLIS is from the…

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The Scholarly Information Seeking Habits and Behaviors of MSU Faculty, popularly known as our first “information anthropology” report about the information creation, seeking, and usage behaviors of members of the MSU campus community, is now included in BearWorks under MSU Libraries Reports.  The report is also linked from the MSU Libraries website under About the Libraries (Homepage>About>Mission).   This report is the combined efforts of the Information Anthology group, consisting of Jan Johnson, Lynn Cline, Bill Edgar, Scott Fischer, Grace Jackson-Brown,…

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Last week the MSU Libraries achieved a milestone: Over 1,000 subscribers to our YouTube Channel. Our primary YouTube Channel current has over 1,100 subscribers. We’ve gained 235 since September 1, 2018, with almost daily comments received about the Shannon County documentaries. Some of those documentaries have received over 100,000 views. Categories of content include: Gordon McCann Ozarks Folk Music Collection Route 66 Oral Histories “Country Classics: The Stories Behind The Songs” radio programs by country music disc jockey John Henderson Shannon County Film…

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The “Grand Finale” episode of The Great American Read aired on PBS (Ozarks Public Television) on Tuesday evening (October 23rd at 7 p.m.). The winning book was To Kill a Mockingbird, a 1960 coming-of-age novel by Harper Lee about racism and injustice. The other top vote-getters were Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” series about a time-spanning love, J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” wizard tales, Jane Austen’s 200 year old comedy of manners, Pride and Prejudice, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” fantasy saga….

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Rising costs in several key areas of operations for the MSU Libraries are putting significant strain on the current FY19 operating budget. Costs for OCLC services, MOBIUS membership and services, and MSU Networking and Telecommunications services all have risen. The biggest challenge, however, is posed by the rising costs for electronic content, including e-journals and online databases. Annual subscriptions to these types of e-resources now consume nearly all of the Libraries’ information materials budget of $2.26 million. When the annual…

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Mariah Turner from Nixa is our new Administrative Assistant II in the MSU Testing Center, a service from the MSU Libraries, located in the Lower Level of Duane G. Meyer Library. She began working here yesterday, Wednesday, October 24, 2018. Welcome Mariah! She has a BA degree in Psychology from MSU. While she was a student here she worked for the Departments of Psychology and Computer Sciences. Mariah also is a professional artist. Since 2012 she has owned and operated…

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