Library Notes

Material digitized from the Katherine G. Lederer Ozarks African American History Collection (M 35) and included in Missouri State University’s Digital Collections is also accessible through the Umbra Search portal, which aggregates digitized material related to African American history from across the country. Umbra Search African American History makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool, umbrasearch.org; digitization of African American materials across University of Minnesota collections; and support of students, educators, artists, and the public…

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The MSU Libraries offered a badging course in Fall 2018 introducing students to emerging technologies that they can apply to their specialization and everyday thinking.  The course (LIS397) was taught by Sue Reichling, Brooks Travis, Joshua Lambert, and Jir Shin Boey and covered four different aspects of emerging technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, and 3D printing/design.  Students had hands-on experience trying out virtual and augmented reality technology in the library, learning programming environments for robotics, and working with simple CAD programs for modeling…

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New delivery procedures mail and parcels are in effect at Meyer Library. Delivery points have been coordinated for all Library Units and building partners. No longer a need to pick up mail in the receiving room by the loading dock. It now will be delivered directly to library units and building partners. The mail slots in the receiving room will be removed soon. Incoming Deliveries: Daily mail and other deliveries are brought to Room 007 in the northeast corner of…

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Rachel Besara will be carrying the banner for Missouri State University Libraries, giving two presentations at the Association of College & Research Libraries Conference. The ACRL Conference is highly selective, with posters having a 35% acceptance rate and panels having a 27% acceptance rate, and we will be represented in both categories. The first is a panel presentation on April 11 — A Leader in a Strange Land: Adjusting to Life as an Administrator in a New Institution with Michelle Demeter from New York University, Ginger Williams from…

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The master’s theses and other scholarship created here at Missouri State University, have a new digital home in BearWorks, the institutional repository of MSU. BearWorks, a service of the MSU Libraries, is a growing compilation of research, scholarship, and publications done at Missouri State. It has been receiving heavy use, when measured by the number of copies downloaded. The top five theses, in terms of number of downloads per day to date, are listed below. 3,160: Horse-Stealing and Man-Hanging: an Examination…

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In April Dr. Melinda Hammerschmidt, first grade instructor at Greenwood Lab School, and Dea Borneman, head of Haseltine Library in Greenwood, will receive the Missouri Association of School Librarians TLC (teacher/librarian collaboration) Award. Melinda and Dea reimagined a traditional study of famous Americans in order to explore a more diverse group of individuals and then implemented the project with Greenwood first grade students last year. An article, “Inspiring Americans: Creating a Community of Engaged Citizens in the First Grade,” and a…

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“Roots of Wisdom: Native Knowledge. Shared Science” will open on Monday, March 18, 2019, after Spring Break, at the Duane G. Meyer Library at Missouri State University, where it will be on view through Friday, May 24, 2019.  The Smithsonian traveling exhibition explores the ways in which traditional knowledge of indigenous communities and cutting-edge Western science are being applied. This exhibit is free and open to the public. Exhibit hours from March 18 to May 11, 2019, are Monday through Thursday, Noon to 8:00 p.m., Friday through Sunday,…

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The Adult Student Services Welcome orientation took place on Saturday, January 12, 2019.  The welcome orientation lasts a half day and ends with a campus tour. Several campus services were in attendance such as the Bear Claw, MSU Online, and Financial Aid. Tracy Stout, a member of the Library Science faculty, provided a brief presentation and answered questions about the MSU Libraries. Approximately 25 adult students attended the welcome orientation.  

JSTOR — a digital library of journals and other materials for scholars, researchers, and students — offers two multidisciplinary collections available at MSU: 1) Arts & Sciences I-IX is an umbrella journal collection containing nine sub-units, but which is searched as one collection. Its contents are: over 1,100 core journals in nearly all academic disciplines, including economics, history, political science, public administration, sociology, mathematics, statistics, philosophy, religion, ecology, archaeology, classics, Latin American, African, Slavic, and Middle Eastern Studies, language, literature, theatre,…

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On January 1, 2019 the MSU Libraries had 48 full-time employees. We have several positions that are currently unfilled, with at least one search getting underway. Thirty-five (73%, up from 69% in FY14) of our full-time employees are females, and thirteen (27%) are males. In FY19 four of the six highest-paid employees are females, compared to just one of the top six in FY14. In FY14 the average (mean) salary of female full-time employees of the MSU Libraries was $39,072….

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