Library Notes

A new exhibit, Exploring and Conserving the Past, will open in Special Collections and Archives on Wednesday, October 17, 2018.  Please join us for an opening reception from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. in Meyer Library Room 306. This educational exhibit is the culmination of the best student research from the 2017-2018 Citizenship and Service-Learning (CASL) integrated courses ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts and ART 386: Art of Africa, taught by Dr. Billie Follensbee. Objects studied are on loan from historical and educational institutions in…

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Two faculty members of the MSU Libraries are presenting at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Missouri Library Association, being held this week in Columbia: BREAKOUT SESSION: Diversity in Libraries: Creating Interdisciplinary Space at Missouri State University—Duane G Meyer Library PRESENTER: Jessica Bennett, Assistant Professor, Missouri State University Machine learning, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems and robotics, human language technologies, human/AI collaboration, machine perception and sensing, augmented and virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, digital personal assistants, robotic/ AI librarians, IoT—what a diverse…

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The MOBIUS Consortium Office in Columbia recently provided the Library Administration at the MSU Libraries with some data, gleaned primarily from Google Analytics, of trends in recent years of usage of core systems and services provided by MOBIUS to its member libraries. Some trends: The number of users annually of the MSU Catalog declined by 17.7% from FY15 to FY18. During the same time period, the size of the MSU community of students, faculty, and staff grew by 8.0%. Circulation…

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On Tuesday, September 19, 2018, faculty and staff from the Special Collections and Archives unit of the MSU Libraries attended the gala 109th birthday party for the Landers Theatre. MSU President Clif Smart spoke to an invitation-only audience about the University’s commitment to promoting the arts in the community, and the library’s role in housing and preserving the archives of Springfield Little Theatre. Archives employees AnneBaker, Tracie Gieselman-Holthaus, and Jeffrey Lawson were recognized for creating a special exhibit to commemorate the Landers Theatre’s history. …

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Student employees in Special Collections and Archives recently worked on transcribing handwritten letters from the 1910s-1920s in two different archival collections: the Oscar Carter Collection (M 93) and the Helen Roman Collection (M 95).  Students today have less experience reading cursive, which made the task initially daunting, as nearly every letter in both of these collections was written in cursive.  Some less than perfect handwriting, as well as many spelling and grammatical errors, made the work even more difficult.  All…

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The Nutrition Care Manual (NCM) is an online diet manual and professional practice manual that is consistent with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library, position papers, and the Nutrition Care Process. It contains research- and evidence-based nutrition care information for more than 100 diseases, conditions, and topics. It also offers client education and meal plans that include food lists with sample one-day menus. A diverse resources section is available, including information on cultural food practices, malnutrition coding,…

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Dozens of MSU families visited Duane G. Meyer Library last Saturday morning to partake in the Family Weekend activities. As always, the carillon tours were popular, as were the AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) headsets-on demos. The button machine was getting a lot of use, too, by children of all ages. Popcorn and cool drinks were welcome on this gorgeous day on campus. All of the library faculty members, library staff members, and library student employees did a…

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All of the back issues of OzarksWatch Magazine, from 1987 on, are now available online, thanks to the hard work of the staff of the Digitization Lab of the MSU Libraries. Shannon Mawhiney, Coordinator of the Digitization Lab, reports that a little bit of scanning needs to be completed, and some more metadata added, but the massive project is virtually complete.  Jeffrey Lawson did the arduous scanning.  Abbey Waterworth created the PDFs from the scans.  They both did a great job.

The newly formed Board of the BRB (Children’s and Young Adult Book Review Board of Missouri) met last week in Duane G. Meyer Library. Front Row: Alaina Kaberlein Duncan, Marklyn Cotter, Nancy Lewis Shelton, J.B. Petty Back Row: Abby Phillips, Stephanie Smallwood, Keri Franklin, Dea Borneman, Jaimie Trussell, Cherri Jones Not Pictured: Mara Cohen Ioannides

The Children’s and Young Adult Book Review Board of Missouri (BRB), supported by the MSU Libraries, has enjoyed collaborating with MSU students over the years. One person who has facilitated this collaboration is Dr. Judith John. Dr. John is an incredibly good friend to the BRB. Not only has she reviewed for the BRB since its inception, she has also allowed the BRB team to present reviewing workshops to her Children’s and Young Adult Literature classes for many years. Her students…

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