Library Notes

The Grace Palmer Postcard Collection (M 5) in Meyer Library’s Special Collections in Archives is a small collection of almost 1,000 postcards collected by former MSU librarian Grace Palmer.  She worked in the library from 1912 until 1958 and was Head Librarian beginning in 1918.  She enjoyed travelling and collected postcards from the places she visited, including from several countries around the world, with many of the postcards coming from Mexico.  Most of the postcards date between approximately 1930 and 1955. For…

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The Scholarly Information Seeking Habits and Behaviors of MSU Faculty is now included in BearWorks under MSU Libraries Reports.  The report is also linked from the MSU Libraries website under About the Libraries (Homepage>About>Mission).  This report is the combined efforts of the Information Anthropology group, consisting of Jan Johnson, Lynn Cline, Bill Edgar, Scott Fischer, Grace Jackson-Brown, and Andrea Miller. The group conducted an ethnographic study using direct observation and semi-structured interviews of a sample of MSU faculty members to…

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This summer we will be combining three current service points into one, conveniently-located service point. The three services points to be combined are: Circulation Desk on the First Level Research and Instructional Services Desk on the First Level Music & Media Service Counter on the Second Level A transition team soon will form to undertake and complete this consolidation and the related changes. The team will consist of Tom Peters, Rachel Besara, Lindsey Taggart, and one team member each from…

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At the annual conference of MASL (the Missouri Association of School Librarians) to be held at Lake of the Ozarks in March, Dea Borneman, a member of the Library and Information Science faculty here at the MSU Libraries, will be recognized and honored as the recipient of the MASL Special Service Award in recognition of her many years of service dedicated to support professional school librarians.  Professor Borneman was nominated for the award by Teresa Young with the Springfield R-12…

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PubMed contains over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from the MEDLINE database, life science journals, and online books. PubMed’s citations and abstracts cover the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant websites and links to the other NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) molecular biology resources. PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the NCBI, at the National Library of Medicine…

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The Sunderland Foundation recently awarded a major grant to the MSU Libraries to help fund the renovation of Duane G. Meyer Library on the Springfield campus of Missouri State University. Sunderland Foundation funds will be used specifically to finance the renovation of Library Room 101, the large classroom and meeting space off of the main lobby of the library. According to the Foundation’s website, “The Sunderland Foundation’s mission is to improve quality of life through reinvesting in the communities where…

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The Records of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), Local 888 in Meyer Library’s Special Collections and Archives consists of 54 cubic feet of materials pertaining to the Springfield postal workers union. The group became the United Federation of Postal Clerks, Local 888 in 1949, but the bulk of the collection documents the mid-1970s to 1998. The collection offers a comprehensive look at union meeting minutes, financial records, and grievance files for most of those years. The collection also contains photographs and…

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MSU Libraries rolled out the new Campus Delivery Service with the start of the Fall 2018 Semester.  The service has been well received, with compliments and words of appreciation coming in from happy faculty members on the Springfield campus. By the Numbers The English and Music Departments have the highest number of participating faculty members so far. The prize for the highest volume of items goes to Art & Design in Brick City. 188 items have been delivered 37 faculty…

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The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, a classic reference encyclopedia for the sciences, makes up the core of AccessScience. AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials, online and fully searchable. In addition to the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, AccessScience includes Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, the latest Science News headlines, over 110,000 definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, biographies of scientists, bibliographies containing…

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MSU Libraries Assistant Professor Jessica Bennett will be teaching a webinar as part of the LITA Spring 2019 Continuing Education series. The webinar focuses on the new service of the MSU Libraries, Achievement Studio Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (ASPIRE). This interdisciplinary space in Duane G. Meyer Library allows students and faculty to utilize emerging technologies, collaborate on research and curricular enhancements, increase workplace readiness, and support regional economic innovation. Jessica will discuss how ASPIRE began, what we have learned along…

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