Library Notes

The next chapter in the “Living Stories” initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries will be held on Thursday, April 26th in MSU’s Plaster Student Union, Room 132, from 1:30 to 3:00 and from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. The MSU Libraries and MSU’s Diversity and Inclusion division are collaborating to host our second Living Stories project at the Collaborative Diversity Conference in late April.  The Living Stories theme this year is Racism in 2018 and beyond: a changing dynamic.  Our living books will share what…

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Beginning April 1, the Duane G. Meyer Library will host a photography exhibition by Polish-born artist, Jacek Fraczak. Featuring the artist’s landscape photographs of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, the exhibition lends visual support to the 2018 Public Affairs theme of sustainability. In program notes to the exhibition, Fraczak writes, “In August 2017, my wife, daughters, and I became U.S. citizens. God bless America! This photo-album is a testament of my dedication to this land—to the pastoral beauty of its…

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Two members of the Library Science faculty at Missouri State University, Rachel Besara and Tracy Stout, will be presenting their original research project, “Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees? Measuring Library Employees’ Perceived Efforts and Their Alignment with Strategic Goals,” at the 10th Annual Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Conference in Chania, Crete. This is one of the foremost international library assessment conferences and is a great place to exchange ideas, methodologies, and techniques related to library research….

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On Monday, April 9th, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the PSU Theater, students and faculty will join in an evening of readings from the forthcoming book anthology, Living Ozarks: The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place, a publication of the Ozarks Studies Institute, an initiative of the MSU Libraries. Selections will highlight the region’s rich 200-year history of nature-themed writing. The Ozarks has inspired an equally rich, 150-year history of music, much of it nature-themed, for piano and voice. Under…

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President Smart and Provost Einhellig recently approved the formation of a new service unit at Missouri State University, The Center for Academic Success and Transition (CAST). The new center will be located on the First Level of the Duane G. Meyer Library building, just west of the BearCLAW. Construction of the new center will be undertaken this summer.  Plans call for CAST to have three full-time employees, as well as three graduate assistants. CAST will have no fiscal relationship with…

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Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) is an interdisciplinary database that, according to its publisher, is “the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.” CMMC contains both scholarly and popular materials, including academic journals, trade publications, magazines, reviews, and books. Its coverage of the field of communication extends from interpersonal communication to mass communication and media. Therefore, topics may range from speech communication to information technologies, from telephones to net neutrality. CMCC incorporates the…

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Connie Yen, who is now the director of the Greene County Archives, earned her MA in History from MSU, with an emphasis on Ozarks Studies, in the summer of 2015. Brooks Blevins served as chair of her thesis committee. Her MA thesis, “Horse-Stealing and Man-Hanging: An Examination of Vigilantism in the Missouri Ozarks,” was uploaded to BearWorks, MSU’s institutional repository, on October 28, 2016. In sixteen months that thesis has been downloaded 2,839 times, making it by far the most-downloaded…

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Designed specifically for business schools and libraries and especially focused upon the scholarly literature of business and management, Business Source Complete provides indexing for over 5,000 business journals, trade publications, and magazines, including full text for over 3,800 titles, of which nearly 2,000 are peer-reviewed journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Business Source Complete contains full text articles from the world’s top management and marketing journals,…

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Susan Croce Kelly (Managing Editor), Rachel Besara (Editor), and Tom Peters (Executive Editor) have been invited to conduct a panel discussion about the revitalization of OzarksWatch Magazine, a publication of the Ozarks Studies Institute, an initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries. The panel discussion will be held in Jefferson City as part of the 60th Annual Missouri Conference on History, on Thursday, March 15, 2018, from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m at the Capitol Plaza Hotel.

The Missouri State Libraries has created a statement regarding diversity and inclusion that builds on the University’s vision and goals. The text of the Libraries’ statement is: The Missouri State University Libraries welcomes all members of our communities and is committed to ensure open and equitable access to our library resources, services, and spaces.  We are committed to freedom of speech and the open exchange of ideas and opinions, and oppose any words or actions that threaten the safety or…

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