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So we all just got the email saying that the flooring repairs are no longer happening during intersession.

This will make next week easier, but Library West circulation could still use our help on the desk. They have no student assistants scheduled next week, and are counting on us to help staff the desk.

If you need coverage for a shift, please email the group and we'll find someone to cover for you.

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And of course the good news is that when we DO end up closing for the repairs we already have a plan ready to go!

Thanks so much for coming to the InfoPoint meeting yesterday! It was great to meet all of you, and to talk about the coming semester. Angela is going to be a tough act to follow, but I will do my best to help our team provide great service to the students and faculty of UF.

I thought it might be useful to post some notes from the meeting:

• Wiki Schedule - the fall semester schedule is now on a wiki, http://infopoint.wikispaces.com/. The advantage of a wiki is that we can have a truly live schedule. All of you can sign on the wiki and note your shift trades. (If you are not yet a member, email me and let me know. I will send you an invite, and will be happy to train you on using the wiki.)

• InfoPoint blog - other staff have found the blog so useful, that we are expanding the blog to other public service points. This will include the research assistance desk and the Ask A Librarian staff. The old blog will be migrated over to the new library blog server soon.
  

• InfoPoint web page will morph into an InfoPoint libguide soon.

• Training opportunities (to be scheduled soon)
  
• Circulation (including the fabulous self-check stations)
• Library West information and staffing changes
• Campus Update - where are the typewriters of yore? The faxes, Peabody Hall, etc.?
• Using Aleph Staff side
  
• Ares
  
• IT @ West (including "how to Grover," wireless troubleshooting, signing on with the new Active Directory and more)

• CIRC FAQ- Jim Stevens is pulling together a FAQ for us to use at the desk. Topics will include summer priveleges, proxy borrowing, fines, renewing rooms, laptops, etc.

• Vending Machine - We may get a vending machine to sell paper, headphones, white out and other popular office items soon. Users will be able to purchase items using their Gator1 card. Administration is in negotiation with the campus bookstore to set this up, and it is looking good!
  

LEI 3140 students are doing the scavenger hunt again this fall. You can see a copy of the assignment online.

Here are some indexes to leisure, recreation and play articles:

• Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts, Library West Reference GV191.6.R86
• Physical Education Index, Library West Reference GV341 .P490 (online too)
• SportDiscus (online)

With our move to the main campus network, public computers can now print to either the blue or the orange printer. Both printers are installed on every computer.

Blue printer not working? Have the user pick the orange printer from the printing drop down menu, as pictured at right.

Orange printer not working? Have the user print to the blue printer.

When one printer is down for an extended time, IT will re-direct print jobs to the other printer so that users may get their prints.

Student Government will have a table next to the Library West Circulation Desk on September 22. They are handing out free study supplies such as pencils, pens, postit notes and highlighters.

The InfoPoint schedule is moving this week. Watch for an email from Michael Dietz about the change and asking for your preferred email address. Let him know your preferred email, and he will send you an invite to join the wiki.

We are moving to PBWiki because it supports multiple levels of permissions, and is easier to edit and navigate. No ads either! --Jana

Just a reminder... when you get someone who would like to reserve a study room for their group, be sure to record the information on the reservation sheet yourself. Those pagers are expensive and we don't want students walking off with them.

The biology lab students in BSC 2011L should start working on their library assignment during these next 2 weeks. Tara created a libguide for them. See http://libguides.uflib.ufl.edu/BSC2011L .

Please contact Tara if you have any problems.

Due to popular demand, I'm sharing instructions for setting the email preferences on the LibraryWestStaff wiki. PBwiki seems to default to hourly updates of changes. With all of the shift trading on Ask A, the InfoPoint and the Reference Assistance Desk, this can result in quite a few emails during the day. Luckily you can reset your wiki preferences to no email, or only a daily email. Here is how:

1. Sign on to the LibraryWestStaff wiki in PBwiki.
2. Navigate to the My PBwiki page. (If you are not at this page, click on your email address at the top right to get to it.)
3. Look for the Preferences pulldown, in the middle of the page. Set your email preferences to "never," or whatever time interval suits you.

This great list of library conferences was just posted on DIG_REF:


http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM

On this episode of On the Evidence, April Yanyuan Wu, a researcher at Mathematica, discusses a project that used supervised machine learning to estimate prescription opioid use among applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance.

Fewer than half of the nearly 170 million U.S. residents ages 25 to 64 have obtained a postsecondary degree or certificate. The statistics for adult students of color who have attained higher education are even lower.

Kimberlin Butler, director of foundation engagement, offers reflections about a convening that Mathematica hosted with The Denver Foundation. The event explored how cross-sector collaboration and data-informed practices can improve equity and outcomes for Denver metro communities.

Research on chronically low-performing schools suggests that monitoring the implementation and progress of these schools’ improvement efforts can help them use limited resources more effectively.

On this episode of On the Evidence, we talk about a federal experiment using home-delivered boxes packed with fruit, vegetables, and other shelf-stable foods selected by registered dieticians to address food insecurity among children in a rural part of the Chickasaw Nation territory in Oklahoma.

Watch our video to see how Mathematica is supporting foundations to transform communities and catalyze social change.

REL Mid-Atlantic explored whether kindergarten entry assessments can provide states and districts with a useful measure of progress toward proficient reading for cohorts of children.

In this episode of On the Evidence, Shane Kanady of SourceAmerica and Noelle Denny-Brown of Mathematica discuss findings from an evaluation of the Pathways to Careers program, which provides customized employment services to job seekers with significant disabilities.

We believe the value of program monitoring is in iteration. By combining live program administrative data with vetted measures of socioeconomic status, we help clients and stakeholders understand alternative payment models and make important improvements.

In honor of Black History Month, Kimberlin Butler, director of foundation engagement, provides an account of Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander’s notable career as a Black economist and lawyer and how her legacy is inspiring a new generation of changemakers.

At Mathematica, we work collectively with partners across the country and around the globe to create a gender-equal world where women, girls, communities, and economies can thrive.

To better understand its schools’ contributions to students’ learning in the first four grades, the Maryland State Department of Education partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to explore constructing a school-level growth measure for kindergarten to grade 3.

In this episode of On the Evidence, we interview attendees of the Second Annual Sadie T.M. Alexander Conference about the status of Black women in economics and what progress has been made to diversify the field since last year.

Last year, Mathematica worked with researchers at Montana State University (MSU) to help assess the policy value of municipal wastewater testing, an innovative approach that can augment existing data by providing more rapid, cost-effective, and unbiased measures of drug use.

Although Mathematica might have limited expertise in infectious diseases like COVID-19, we have vast knowledge and experience with the policies and programs that can help our public health system and our economy recover from the unfolding impact this virus is having around the world.

Schools across the country have closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and states have cancelled their spring assessments. These cancellations mark the first interruption of the annual testing cycle since the No Child Left Behind Act passed nearly 20 years ago.

With the closure of school buildings fundamentally disrupting the way students receive services, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the national conversation about education.

For those of us who devote our lives to improving behavioral health care, the critical health care priorities of the COVID-19 pandemic raise concerns about increased unmet mental health and substance use service needs.

In the United States, a range of social issues can negatively impact parenting, which in the worst of circumstances results in children entering the child welfare system.

Hosting our own hackathon was a chance to contribute to the COVID-19 response, and an opportunity to build new relationships with staff we don’t typically work with, promote the ideas of others, and encourage staff to leverage their creativity to think about problems.

In the United States, 8 out of 10 COVID-19 deaths reported have been among adults ages 65 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Publisher Northampton, England : Loggerhead Films, [2009]

Location Media Resources Collection

Call No. LB3013.3 .B94 2009

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This Medical News story examines the question of whether some melanomas might be better left undetected.

Dewey Library - JZ1253.2.G47 2019