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A Look at the Past While Stepping Into the Future university of missouri spring 2015 volume 10, number 2 A Look at the Past While Stepping Table of into the Future Contents reetings! Our Friends of the successful careers in many fields, often GLibraries (FOL) organization has the library is a forgotten recipient of their a perfect opportunity to acknowledge university support. All of our libraries the past 100 years of Ellis Library while (Ellis, Engineering, Geology, Health contributing to the next 100 years. As Sciences, Journalism, Law, Math, Columbia we approach this centennial year, FOL Missourian newspapers, Veterinary board member and professor emeritus Medicine and the University Archives) are of journalism Steve Weinberg, BJ ’70, major resources for learning and research MA ’75, is writing a history of Ellis and, in some of our students’ lives, a great MOLD RECOVERY UPDATES Library. Additionally, FOL will have place to meet friends, grab a quick nap, use 2 many opportunities to meet the needs of technology or discover a whole new world. the library, such as preserving collections, Planning is underway for the MEET NAVADEEP KHANAL funding public programs and advocating centennial celebration. The executive 3 for increased support. board welcomes your input and As part of the celebration, we are asking participation. Feel free to contact ESTABLISHING AN for everyone’s input and help, as well as me at [email protected] with ENDOWMENT assistance in promoting our organization suggestions or questions. Membership 4 and recruiting new members. It is applications for FOL are online at: mind-boggling to realize the number of library.missouri.edu/giving/friends. FALL EVENTS PHOTOS students whose academic achievements 7 relied on the resources of our library. — Susan Fales, M Ed ’85, EdSp ’87 Yet as those same students move on to President, Friends of the Libraries National Library of Medicine Director to Speak at Library Society Dinner r. Donald A. B. Lindberg, Ddirector of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and former MU professor, will be the featured speaker at the Library Society Dinner at 6 p.m. April 10 in Stotler Lounge of Memorial Union. (continued on Page 6) While visiting Dr. Donald A. B. Lindberg at the NLM, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin is presented a copy of Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, which documents the remarkable depth and breadth of NLM’s historical collections. Photo by Matt Gaunt. Library Connections • 1 Calendar of Events Where in the MU Libraries? APRIL 10 Library Society Dinner Keynote speaker: Donald A. B. Lindberg, director of the National Library of Medicine 6 to 9:30 p.m. Reynolds Alumni Center, Columns Ballroom APRIL 11 Friends of the Libraries Annual Meeting 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Reynolds Alumni Center, Room 211 Friends of the Libraries Annual Luncheon Speaker: Brian Cain, MU librarian Noon to 2:30 p.m. Do you know where in the MU Libraries this picture was taken? Find the Reynolds Alumni Center, Great Room answer at the bottom of Page 6. Photo by Shannon Cary. After the Mold: Update on the MU Libraries Recovery Efforts The University of Missouri to the Collection Enhancement Libraries continue to recover from Fund, will support the continuing the outbreak of mold discovered treatment or replacement of in October 2013 in UMLD2, an damaged materials. Remediation offsite storage facility. Approximately funds also are being drawn from a 630,000 volumes were exposed to special insurance fund established mold and are in the process of being to insure materials in the offsite treated, replaced or discarded. storage facilities. About 300,000 volumes have As the full impact of the mold is been cleaned by a private restoration assessed, MU Libraries will continue company and are being returned to to work with partner institutions Brian Cain, interim library depositories Columbia to be stored in UMLD, to share resources and maintain manager, stands next to boxes of library the primary storage facility for access to affected documents. Of materials in the new offsite storage facility. MU Libraries. Once the books the remaining damaged materials, Photo by Matt Gaunt. are processed and returned to the primarily government documents, storage facility, they will again be the majority are being replaced with available for use. Of the volumes copies from Washington University affected by the mold, MU Libraries and Missouri State University. and humidity in UMLD2 highlights estimates that approximately Library staff members are working the need for environmentally secure 70 percent or 450,000 volumes will to minimize disruption to the storage facilities. A new offsite be cleaned and returned to storage. availability of these documents storage facility with superior climate About 130,000 volumes remain during the process of recovery and control function has been selected to be cleaned, which will be funded replacement. MU Libraries hope to and is operational. The MU Libraries by a $400,000 grant from the complete the recovery process by the continue to pursue long-term options Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. end of the summer. for storage of its physical materials The grant from the Mellon The extensive mold damage and hopes to propose construction of Foundation, as well as donations caused by fluctuations in temperature an addition to UMLD soon. 2 • University of Missouri Meet the Librarian: Navadeep Khanal, E-learning Librarian What led you to MU Libraries? continued success in the processes I moved to Columbia because my of inquiry, learning and knowledge wife got a teaching position here. creation. This includes working The e-learning librarian position with librarians and administrators to grabbed my attention because it was plan and consider how and in what new to MU Libraries and offered its formats information and services are own set of excitement and challenges. provided; to realign how instruction There would be ample opportunity and workshops are delivered; and to for work and collaboration in an area help the library envision new — or relatively new to academic libraries, make improvements to existing — and I would be helping MU Libraries resources, services and programming. explore these areas and be part of The vast amount of resources that envisioning change and growth. our patrons have access to is not only vital for their education and Nav Khanal is the first e-learning librarian What does an e-learning librarian do? academic success but also gives them for the MU Libraries. Photo provided by Nav Khanal. An e-learning librarian facilitates a competitive edge in their careers. learning, particularly self-directed At the same time, the sheer volume What are some of the unique learning, using online resources of information and resources also can aspects of your job? among e-learners. E-learners include make them seem veiled and confusing. both online and on-campus students, By looking at research and evolving My job combines aspects of faculty and researchers. Self-directed practices in libraries and at wider librarianship, research, teaching, learning using online resources is trends in the creation, distribution instructional design, information usually the first step in the inquiry and use of information online, an technology, media production process of knowledge-seekers in the e-learning librarian helps libraries and outreach. It is, by design, a highly connected and resource-rich create multiple online learning and collaborative position both within information environment of today’s interaction opportunities. This helps the MU Libraries and units across academic reality. Catering to this users explore, navigate and effectively campus. I collaborate with colleagues reality is a priority for academic utilize the resource-rich environment in thinking about our services, finding libraries in order to facilitate of the academic library. out what is needed, implementing solutions and improving services. For example, over the summer, we set up a studio to create video tutorials and training material. Beginning in fall 2014, we began recording workshops provided by librarians and other content experts for students and faculty to view online. In spring 2015, we will offer workshops and training in a hybrid format (physical classroom and online) and record those as well. A collaborative project is in development involving students, a number of librarians, instructional designers and IT people on campus to develop online learning games that use the library as a creative space for knowledge creation and sharing. The E-learning graduate assistants Karalyn Skinner and Sifan Ouyang work in the newly collaborative aspect of the position created e-learning production studio. This studio was made possible with funds from the and the wide range and variety of Dave Dugan Journalism Endowment. Photo by Nav Khanal. projects make this a unique job. Library Connections • 3 Ken Mares and his father established an endowment for the MU Libraries in 1996. Making a Difference by ESTABLISHING AN ENDOWMENT for the MU Libraries ne of the primary reasons for office and started talking to Matt A Family Devoted to the Libraries O the success of the MU Libraries Gaunt about helping out student Ken Mares, BA ’65, and Martha is the longstanding generosity of our workers by making a contribution Mares Lebo, BS Ed ’61, inherited donors. One type of gift that truly to the Libraries. She decided to their love of education and librar- keeps on giving is an endowment. create an endowment that would ies from their father, E. W. Mares, Endowments yield interest, which provide scholarships to library who, along with Ken, established provides the Libraries with valuable student workers. an unrestricted endowment for the resources for its collections, faculty, Bobeen was raised in Troy, Libraries in 1996. facilities and programs. Library Missouri, and was one of seven Ken Mares is the director endowments may also support new of Students and Teachers as technologies, collections, facilities, Research Scientists, a program preservation or many other types he founded at the University of new initiatives.
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