Library Notes

Well, not really. We intentionally ordered these robots. Seven TurtleBot3s – 5 Burgers and 2 Waffles (Sounds like a late lunch order, with a shake) — will become part of the library’s list of items that students and faculty can check out through Circulation.  Using summer innovation grant funds and working with Professor Anthony Clark for guidance on robots that would be useful to Computer Science, Engineering, and Physics, we were able to purchase these seven bots. Professor Anthony Clark, Assistant Professor…

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On Monday, October 9, 2017, Sammie Hernandez will become our Administrative Specialist II in the MSU Testing Center, located in the Lower Lever of Duane G. Meyer Library. Among her many new duties, she will be scheduling exams, checking in examinees, scheduling and assigning test proctors, and maintaining the Testing Center’s website. Sammie is an alumna of MSU, with a BA in Art History. As an undergraduate student, Sammie served as a student assistant with the MSU Libraries, working in…

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Part of a recent donation from Frisco Railroad researcher and collector Louis Griesemer, the Frisco Lab Photograph Collection (M 97) is currently being processed and digitized by Special Collections and Archives staff.  The collection contains over 5,000 images and will be digitized in its entirety, with a selection made available online.  Images include interiors and exteriors of railroad cars, locomotives, accidents, broken parts examined at the lab, Frisco employees, company events, and more.  Once the collection is processed, researchers will also have…

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On October 16, 2017 Anne Baker, Archivist, will become the new Head of Special Collections and Archives at the MSU Libraries. She has been serving as Interim Head for some time, and she has been with the Special Collection and Archives unit of the MSU Libraries since 2001. Prior to coming to MSU, Anne worked at the South Dakota School of Mines, the Adams Museum in Deadwood, South Dakota, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and Williams College in Williamstown,…

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On September 14, 2017 the MSU Libraries held its first LIVING STORIES event and had great responses from all who participated.  The idea of “books that talk back” was new for many; however, everyone quickly dove right into brief but meaningful conversations on different aspects of sustainability, ranging from everyday practices to sustainability in our criminal justice system.  Some readers who started with one book ended up renewing or checking out more books.  The living books themselves also enjoyed learning…

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On Tuesday, September 19, 2017, Tom Peters, the MSU Dean of Library Services, was interviewed at the OOIDA Headquarters in Grain Valley, Missouri, about the Trucking on Route 66 Oral History Project, a collaborative initiative between the Missouri State University Libraries and OzarksAlive.com, funded in part with generous support from the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program of the National Park Service. OOIDA is the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. The OOIDA radio program, LandLine Now, is broadcast on SiriusXM channel 146. This…

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During the week of September 11, 2017, Jessica Bennett, a Reference and e-Learning Librarian at the MSU Libraries, was featured on the Association of College & Research Libraries’ website as the ACRL Member of the Week. ACRL is a division of the American Library Association. Regarding the value ACRL has for Jessica as a young professional, she noted, “It is refreshing to get out of my “bubble.” ACRL has also made the transition to the Framework for Information Literacy much less confusing…

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The Lower Level of Duane G. Meyer has several services and collections available to students, faculty, and staff. Assistance on that level was not always easy to find, but now, the Lower Level has a new Help Desk.  It is positioned to be easily seen and accessed from either the stairs or the elevators.  The alcove, formerly occupied with a collaboration station at the base of the stairs, has become the location for the Lower Level Help Desk.  This new…

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Tammy Stewart, Documents Librarian at the MSU Libraries, is the co-author, along with Rebecca Thompson, of an article that appeared earlier this year in volume 45, number 1 of Documents to the People, the official publication of the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association. The title of their article is “Missouri Documents Reclassification: A Challenge.” Their abstract states, in part: “The Missouri State University (MSU) Library has been a government documents depository for several decades; the library…

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During the morning of Saturday, September 16, 2017, the MSU Libraries held a wide variety of events, opportunities, and refreshments in and near Meyer Library, in conjunction with Family Weekend. Family members of all ages, as well as current MSU students and alumni, enjoyed augmented reality and virtual reality hands-on session, button making, carillon tours, giant jenga, sidewalk chalk, popcorn, sweet tea, and ice water. We also raffled off a VIP study room during the morning, for which over 300…

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