Library Notes

On Friday and Saturday, August 10 and 11, 2018, the MSU Libraries had a table at the 8th Annual Birthplace of Route 66 Festival held in downtown Springfield, Missouri. Another attendance record was set again this year, with approximately 56,000 people attending, despite a heavy downpour on Friday evening. Out table was located in the Old Glass Place on East St. Louis Street (part of the original Route 66 alignment), in an area devoted to authors, artists, and associations. We…

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The annual GEP 101/UHC 110 Pizza Party at Meyer Library is designed to get new students into the library for the first time, while providing library employees an opportunity to establish lasting connections with them.  This welcome event also gives students a sense of the services, spaces, and collections we have all in one building. The event provides a fun, no pressure environment for students to explore the building and all it contains. This year our annual welcome event will…

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The Arnold Civil War Letters (WP 2) are a new collection in the Missouri State University Libraries’ online digital collections.  This project was a collaboration between Garnett Library on the Missouri State University – West Plains campus and Meyer Library’s Special Collections and Archives on Missouri State University’s Springfield campus. John L. Arnold served in Company E of the 97th New York Regiment in the Union Army during the United States Civil War, and he was discharged as a captain in 1864.  The fifty-one letters…

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After months of discussion of and searching for a good, compelling, unique name for the new Interdisciplinary Space in the southwest corner of the Third Level of Duane G. Meyer Library, we finally settled on a name: ASPIRE: Achievement Studio: Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education. Jan Johnson, our Distributed User Support Specialist, and her husband came up with this name, and therefore are the winners of the naming prize, a $50 Amazon gift certificate. Congratulations and thanks, Jan! ASPIRE is designed…

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Four databases make up this collaboration: 1) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols, focusing on the effects of healthcare. 2) Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, and includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases. 3) Cochrane Methodology Register is a bibliography of publications which report…

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The eighth Rare Wine, Rare Books event, held on the evening of Friday, July 27, 2018, was a big success. This annual summertime event sold out for the second consecutive year. Six flights of wine were served along with a sumptuous six-course dinner. Beth Domann, the featured speaker, regaled attendees with stories about the Landers Theater and Springfield Little Theatre, where Beth serves as the Executive Director. David Dain Smith again presented and described each flight of wine. All of…

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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library (EAL) provides a summary of the best available research on various nutrition topics. Content is organized in two broad categories: Library and Guidelines. Over fifty topics, either published or in process, include graded conclusion statements for questions formulated by Registered Dietitians.  Seventeen evidence-based Guidelines are currently published. They include major recommendations with corresponding rating of evidence strength and clinical algorithms showing the flow of treatment for a specific disease or condition….

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The Missouri State University Libraries offers a vast, diverse array of content, services, and spaces (both real-world and online) that benefit students, faculty, researchers, and members of the general public, near and far. While most of our activities and commitment of resources are for ongoing programs, the MSU Libraries has a substantial number of new initiatives that are in various stages of development and implementation, from active exploration to fully launched. Below, presented in outline form, is a partial list…

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On August 1, 2018 Tracie Gieselman-Holthaus will begin serving the MSU Libraries and its users as our new Archivist. Congratulations, Tracie! Since 2005 she has served as an Archives Specialist here at MSU, providing research assistance to patrons, processing collections, supervising student employees, and assisting with exhibit development. Prior to coming to MSU, Tracie worked as an Archives Associate and Office Assistant at the History Museum on the Square in downtown Springfield. Tracie observed, “After years of becoming familiar with…

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