On July 17 and 18, Sue McCrory of the MSU Testing Center attended the first meeting of the Missouri Association of Testing (MoAT). She was elected as the first Vice President of the group and has started serving her first two-year term.
Andrea Miller, with fellow Missouri Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee members Tiffany Mautino, Kara Bell, and Kris Dyer, presented the Introduction to Intellectual Freedom Workshop, or How To Be an Intellectual Freedom Fighter to the Springfield-Greene County Library District at the Library Center on July 17, 2019. The 3-hour workshop was held for branch managers and other SGCLD librarians and staff. The workshop provided an overview of the importance of intellectual freedom to the mission of libraries. Break-out sessions in small…
Mark your calendars for the annual GEP 101/UHC 110 Welcome Party at Meyer Library: Friday, August 23 5:00-6:30 p.m. FREE pizza, soda, DJ, games, superheroes, prizes, and more!
Assistant Professor Jessica Bennett participated in a recent session of RESPOND Training, facilitated by the MSU Counseling Center and Dean of Students Office.
Diner-style booths in Duane G. Meyer Library have proven to be very popular with library users. This summer another set of booths were installed in the west end of the Second Level, near the current Music and Media area and the offices supporting the Public Affairs events of Missouri State University. In preparing for the new booths, a strip of electrical outlets was added, so that users will be able to plug in and recharge their laptops, smartphones, and other…
Over two and a half years into the Ozark Jubilee Digitization Project, a collaborative project with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, demand for these digitized kinescopes of the popular Fifties live ABC-TV national broadcasts, which originated from Springfield, remains strong. The April 16, 1955 episode has been viewed 7,140 times. The July 30, 1955 episode has been viewed 5,003 times since it went online on June 28, 2017. To date, 13 dates have been uploaded, and more are being…
You can now check out books and other items from Meyer Library using your own iPhone, iPad, or Android mobile device, without ever visiting the checkout desk.
Meyer Library is pleased to announce that beginning July 1, 2019 we are no longer charging overdue fines many items.
Late last month Tracie Gieselman, Archivist at the Missouri State University Libraries, received a $2,500 grant award from the Society of American Archivists. The project will be a cooperative endeavor with archives and cultural heritage institutions and the emergency response community in the region. The period of performance for this grant-funded project will be fiscal year 2020. Disaster Response and Recovery Team members will draft and implement an emergency response plan for each institution, undergo fire extinguisher and basic emergency response…
Professor Tracy Stout of the MSU Libraries will join a SPARC Open Education Leadership Program cohort beginning this Fall semester. The cohort will attend the Open Education Conference in October and each participant will work toward completing a capstone project. SPARC is an intensive professional development program designed to empower library professionals with the knowledge, skills, and connections to lead successful open education initiatives that benefit students. This highly selective two-semester program utilizes a blend of online, peer-to-peer, and project-based…