Library Notes

Tyler Drenon, a local entrepreneur and expert on augmented and virtual reality, will speak on Thursday, April 18th at 3:00 p.m. in Room 101 of Duane G. Meyer Library on the Springfield campus of Missouri State University. This event is free and open to all members of the university community, as well as the general public. Tyler is a Springfield native and MSU alum. He is the CEO of Tacit and the Director of Client Sciences at Self Interactive. He attended…

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This comprehensive database of over 60,000 maps includes over 5,000 high-resolution modern maps of the world, regions, countries, and states. There are outline maps, political maps, physical maps, population maps, environmental maps, climate change maps, and other thematic maps from NASA, USGS, USFS, NOAA and other scientific, technical, and conservation organizations.The database also includes 14 visual glossaries of geography, earth science, and cartography; 18 flag images for each country, U.S. State, and Canadian Province; and educational and teaching tools such…

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March 25, 2019 was the opening reception for the Roots of Wisdom: Native Knowledge. Shared Science. exhibition. Guests were treated to a selection of tasty treats. Provost Frank Einhellig gave opening remarks on the importance of what our science has been built upon. The Exhibition will be on display until May 24, 2019.  

The MSU Libraries and the Division for Diversity and Inclusion are collaborating to host our third Living Stories project at the Collaborative Diversity Conference this April.  The Living Stories theme this year is Bridging the Cultural Divides. Our living books will be sharing their personal experiences of growing up, living, and working in different cultural backgrounds.  Learn about cultural diversity through titles including Devin Schehrer’s Disrupting Privilege, Maureen Serrano Mora’s Behind the Mask: From shyness to a global leader, and Asem Alashqar’s Are we really living in the 21st century? Enjoy…

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On Monday, March 25, 2019 at the MASL (Missouri Association of School Librarians) annual conference being held at Tan-Tar-A at the Lake of the Ozarks, Dea Borneman, library faculty member and head of Haseltine Library in the Greenwood Lab School, received two major awards: The Special Service Award is for significant service to MASL and school libraries. Melinda Hammerschmidt, a first grade teacher at Greenwood, and Dea also received the TLC Award, which honors a teacher and librarian who have…

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Hongjun Yin, a Library Associate I in the Resource Management & Discovery unit of the MSU Libraries, has announced her intentions to retire on April 30th, after 18 years of service to the MSU Libraries and its users. A departmental retirement reception is planned. Hongjun began full-time on April 9, 2001, after four years as a part-time employee. Dea Borneman, now the Head of Haseltine Library in the Greenwood Lab School on campus, was her second supervisor. Her retirement plans include…

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For the FY20 operating budget, which is in the process of being finalized, the MSU Libraries is facing a shortfall of up to $330,000, depending on several variables.  This is approximately 5% of our annual operating budget of $6.5 million. Multiple causes have contributed to this budget shortfall, including: Serials and E-Resource Inflation: Annual fees to provide access to the many e-journals and e-resources subscribed to by the MSU Libraries have been rising between 5 and 6 percent for many…

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Last week, during Spring Break, new whiteboards were installed in the small group study rooms in Duane G. Meyer Library on the Springfield campus of Missouri State University. This project was made possible through the generous support of the MSU Student Government Association. Workers from Grooms Office Environments, pictured here, did the actual installations. Thanks, Grooms and SGA!

In this second post in an ongoing series about the organizational changes coming to the MSU Libraries, we focus on two areas: Timeframe: Because the annual work plans for both library faculty and staff members follow the calendar year, the target date for implementing the team-based approach has been pushed back to January 1, 2020. This revised target implementation date will provide us all more time to establish the various teams to which most employees will belong, to undertake initial…

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At last week’s Missouri Conference on History in Kansas City, Tracie Gieselman-Holthaus spoke on how seemingly unrelated collections can be used to understand and interpret historical events. Using materials from the Ozarks Jewish Archives (OJA) and the Ozarks Lesbian and Gay Archives (OLGA), Tracie discussed the Interfaith AIDS Network, a community-wide faith-based organization. This group provided support to the AIDS Project Springfield (now AIDS Project of the Ozarks) during a tumultuous time in Springfield’s history. The Interfaith AIDS Network came…

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