Resource of the Month:

Mendeley

Mendeley is a citation management and paper-sharing software program with both desktop and web-based components. The web-based portion, called Mendeley Online Library, allows users to save entries from any computer and add it to Mendeley Desktop later.

As a USM student, faculty, or staff member you can use the USM institutional access to Mendeley. This provides 300GB of storage space and up to 100 collaborators in a group. By signing up with a university email, ending in usm.edu, you will enjoy added benefits of Mendeley.

Mendeley Class to be Offered

Join the Professional Skills class on Monday, October 31, at 11:30 am for an introduction to Mendeley, the reference management system. Justin Easterday, a librarian from the Gulf Coast Library at Gulf Park, is joining the class remotely to talk about how Mendeley can help you be more efficient with keeping up with the articles and books you are reading for your classes and projects. The web-based portion, called Mendeley Online Library, allows users to save entries from any computer and add it to Mendeley Desktop later.

University Libraries has institutional access to Mendeley. This provides 300GB of storage space and up to 100 collaborators in a group. By signing up with a university email, ending in usm.edu, you will enjoy added benefits of Mendeley.

Time to Order Books

All faculty, students, and staff--now is the time to submit your recommendations for books to be purchased to support your teaching, research, and learning. Please include as much information as possible--author, title, date, publisher, etc. Please indicate your preference for print or e-books. Please note there are some publisher restrictions with e-books including the number of pages you can download (usually 60 pages or less).

If this will impede your use of the book, then be sure to indicate you are requesting print. We need your recommendations by November 1.

Please email to: guntergcrl@usm.edu

Thank you for your support of Gunter Library!

Welcome Megan Le

Gunter Library welcomes Megan Le who re-joined us on October 3rd as a part-time library assistant. Megan is a resident of Ocean Springs and a recent MLIS graduate of the USM School of Library and Information Science (SLIS). Over the last few years, Megan has worked with us a practicum student and as a graduate student assistant.

Mississippi Coastal Clean Up

The annual Mississippi Coastal Clean Up is being held across the coast and our beautiful East Beach in Ocean Springs is included! To help co-zone captains Joyce Shaw and David Sliman be prepared with enough supplies for volunteers, please sign up at the link above. Volunteers are entered into a drawing for a kayak! The data generated by this event is used for the annual report. 

MLA Meets in Meridian

The Mississippi Library Association annual conference is underway in Meridian, MS at the Riley Center. Gunter Library Head librarian Joyce Shaw is presenting the poster “Mentoring School of Library and Information Science Practicum Students at Gunter Library and the Gulfport Museum of History.” Library Assistant Megan Le has a poster “A Content Analysis of Films Featuring Libraries and Librarians from 1980 to 2020.”

USM Research Day

Learn more about the remarkable array of research, scholarship and creative activities conducted by faculty, staff, and students at Research Day on Friday, November 4th. Join us at the Marine Research Center, beginning at 9:30 am to celebrate our numerous research endeavors.

GERS 2022 is coming to GCRL on October 27-29!

Registration for the GERS 2022 Meeting is open

Register by October 7 to secure your early bird registration.

For more information about the meeting, including travel and lodging options, field trips, the plenary speaker, and meeting schedule, visit the 2022 GERS Meeting website.

Attention students! GERS is offering student travel awards!

We are accepting applications for student travel awards to attend the 2022 GERS Meeting. Travel awards of $300 will be offered to students (graduate and undergraduate) to help defray the costs associated with travel and participation in the GERS meeting.  See website for eligibility and application information. 

To renew your GERS membership, please see the website. Membership dues are $30 per year ($20 per year for students) and can be paid by credit card or PayPal account. Memberships run on a calendar year basis (Jan 1-Dec 31).  

We look forward to seeing everyone in Ocean Springs this fall! 

GCRL Science Café -

Community Resilience - More than the Climate

Tuesday, October 25th - 6:00 - 7:00 pm 

at the Marine Education Center

Join MEC Director Jessie Kastler for a refresher on climate change basics and factors that make a community vulnerable. Learn how middle and high school students would address some of these challenges to make their communities more resilient. Ranging from practical to highly unexpected, their ideas illustrate the possibilities that can come from a fresh outlook and thinking outside the box. Jessie will also take this opportunity to discuss the resilience of the MEC in adapting to pandemic conditions (don’t be surprised if someone mentions Zoom) and building for the future. 

This Science Cafe will be hybrid, participants may join via Facebook Live (see link below to MEC Facebook page) or Zoom.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.

When: October 25, 2022 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://usm-edu.zoom.us/j/89257943263?pwd=MF1lkWa07RBj7fLGrmSNdbPB64kJnc.1