Library Notes

Dave Richards, Dean of Libraries at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and Tom Peters, Dean of Library Services at Missouri State University, presented at the annual conference of the Mountain-Plains Library Association in Albuquerque last Friday.  The title of their presentation was “Regional History Collections and Academic Libraries: Local Gold Mines.” To remain relevant into the 2020s, academic libraries in the Mountain-Plains region should review and revise their fundamental strategies regarding collections, services, and spaces. Richards and Peters encouraged attendees…

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Duane G. Meyer Library offers a variety of small group workspaces, ranging from big rectangular tables — many with electrical outlets right in the tabletop — to diner booths to large and small group study rooms, which can be reserved. In the photo, Dr. Rhonda Bishop’s students are busy working in IG12 on the Second Level of Duane G. Meyer Library on a group presentation due in two weeks. Make the Libraries your group’s workspace!

Greenwood parent and author, Loren Broaddus, along with his family, stopped by Haseltine Library at Greenwood Laboratory School on the campus of Missouri State University on Monday to sign a copy of his poetry book, Joe DiMaggio Moves Like Liquid Light : Poems.

Last May, The Atlantic published an interesting essay by Dan Cohen, an historian by training who now serves as Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, Dean of the Library, and Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston. Prior to his work at Northeastern, Dr. Cohen served as the founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America.  The essay summarizes the declining use of print collections at several universities: At Yale, circulation of books to undergrads declined 64% in…

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Lindsey Taggart, Rachel Besara, and Tericka Brown, a library student employee, participated in a panel presentation along with University of Arkansas Little Rock Librarian Louise LaFrane Lowe and graduate student Zachary Jones titled “Evidence Based Inquiry Using Student Led Focus Groups at the Library” at last week’s Library Research Seminar VII held in Columbia, South Carolina.     The presentation covered the work resulting from the MSU Assessment Grant funded project “University Libraries’ Student Led Assessment of Students’ Libraries Attitudes,…

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Both Cheri Jones and Marklyn Cotter have announced that they will retire at the end of this semester. 

Archivist Tracie Gieselman-Holthaus and Digital Archivist Shannon Mawhiney of the MSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives recently presented to Ozark High School’s Local History and Folklore class about archiving, digital archiving, and local history.