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AnnouncementsAndRumors

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Heard a rumor about the library and want to ask about it? Or, have you heard something in the media that could impact our work? You can post here. Please include:

date of posting in a white box (to do this, enclose date between vertical lines, located above the backslash on your keyboard)
For media comments, a BRIEF explanation of the issue & what the relevance is for you/us
LINK to the place to find more details

Aug 29 Mold found in J-School Library

Columbia Tribune article

July 24 MU Libraries and SISLT's Katrina library partnership in the news

This Missourian article is brief and focuses on our sending books down to SUNO, rather than including any of the information we sent them about the ALA volunteer days, but it's still very positive news about the MU Libraries and SISLT.

July 14 The Tiger Spot is going away!

Missourian story

Tribune story

O tiger spot, o tiger spot

(sing to the tune of O Tannenbaum)

O tiger spot, o tiger spot

We all will miss you badly

O tiger spot, o tiger spot

We all will miss you badly

Your tiles chipped off in every rain

We saw your pocks, we felt your pain

O tiger spot, o tiger spot

We all will miss you badly - NOT!

June 2 Question: I'm taking an informal inventory.... Do any library branches have equipment that can scan/digitize microformats (fiche, film, card?) --Marie

Answer: None that I know of... JSM

July 14, 2006 Comment: I got an email from one of my faculty asking if I'd heard of Scientific Journals International, and whether it is a "legitimate journal." I looked at the website. I looked at the Minnesota-based parent company's website. I found out a few things (free access to all internet users, a large "board of editors" composed of volunteers from a large number of universities who do some kind of peer review with much less stringent style guidelines than other journals and charge a $99.95 publication fee per article, loose subject groupings of articles ("journals"), the promise of metadata for easier bibliographic searching, and a link to Vol. 1, Issue 1.)...but didn't find other things (a business plan, a narrative of who the founders are, an exact description of the technical and organizational infrastructure, open URL compliance, etc...). My immediate impression is of a little company that is getting in rather over its head, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I checked Lexis-Nexis for any news items about this initiative, but there were zero articles. On the web I saw an anonymous posting of a press release dated July 19, 2006, so I suppose I'll stay tuned for more information. -Rachel B.