Library Notes

PubMed contains over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from the MEDLINE database, life science journals, and online books. PubMed’s citations and abstracts cover the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant websites and links to the other NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) molecular biology resources. PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the NCBI, at the National Library of Medicine…

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The Sunderland Foundation recently awarded a major grant to the MSU Libraries to help fund the renovation of Duane G. Meyer Library on the Springfield campus of Missouri State University. Sunderland Foundation funds will be used specifically to finance the renovation of Library Room 101, the large classroom and meeting space off of the main lobby of the library. According to the Foundation’s website, “The Sunderland Foundation’s mission is to improve quality of life through reinvesting in the communities where…

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The Records of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), Local 888 in Meyer Library’s Special Collections and Archives consists of 54 cubic feet of materials pertaining to the Springfield postal workers union. The group became the United Federation of Postal Clerks, Local 888 in 1949, but the bulk of the collection documents the mid-1970s to 1998. The collection offers a comprehensive look at union meeting minutes, financial records, and grievance files for most of those years. The collection also contains photographs and…

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MSU Libraries rolled out the new Campus Delivery Service with the start of the Fall 2018 Semester.  The service has been well received, with compliments and words of appreciation coming in from happy faculty members on the Springfield campus. By the Numbers The English and Music Departments have the highest number of participating faculty members so far. The prize for the highest volume of items goes to Art & Design in Brick City. 188 items have been delivered 37 faculty…

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The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, a classic reference encyclopedia for the sciences, makes up the core of AccessScience. AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials, online and fully searchable. In addition to the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, AccessScience includes Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, over 110,000 definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, biographies of scientists, bibliographies containing…

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MSU Libraries Assistant Professor Jessica Bennett will be teaching a webinar as part of the LITA Spring 2019 Continuing Education series. The webinar focuses on the new service of the MSU Libraries, Achievement Studio Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (ASPIRE). This interdisciplinary space in Duane G. Meyer Library allows students and faculty to utilize emerging technologies, collaborate on research and curricular enhancements, increase workplace readiness, and support regional economic innovation. Jessica will discuss how ASPIRE began, what we have learned along…

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Cricut Training Would you like to learn more about Meyer Library’s new Cricut Maker™ machines? Our training sessions will explore using the Cricut for displays, window clings, bookmarks, cards, personal projects, and more! Each attendee will take home a creation of their own. Reserve your spot now!   Additional resources: https://heyletsmakestuff.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialCricut https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3d8MjmqeSBt8j9oRwSYcIw https://lovesvg.com/    

Join us for an evening exploring the issues surrounding water quality, land use and natural resources of the Ozarks. This program will be held on Thursday, April 25, 2019, 7-9 p.m. in the Library Center auditorium on S. Campbell. At 7 p.m., contributing authors will read excerpts from the anthology “Living Ozarks: The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place,” interspersed with traditional Ozarks music performed by area musicians. At 7:45 p.m. a panel of local environmental experts and Ozarks…

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Material digitized from the Katherine G. Lederer Ozarks African American History Collection (M 35) and included in Missouri State University’s Digital Collections is also accessible through the Umbra Search portal, which aggregates digitized material related to African American history from across the country. Umbra Search African American History makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool, umbrasearch.org; digitization of African American materials across University of Minnesota collections; and support of students, educators, artists, and the public…

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The MSU Libraries offered a badging course in Fall 2018 introducing students to emerging technologies that they can apply to their specialization and everyday thinking.  The course (LIS397) was taught by Sue Reichling, Brooks Travis, Joshua Lambert, and Jir Shin Boey and covered four different aspects of emerging technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, and 3D printing/design.  Students had hands-on experience trying out virtual and augmented reality technology in the library, learning programming environments for robotics, and working with simple CAD programs for modeling…

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