"Gunter Library News" is the monthly e-newsletter highlighting current events and happenings at the Gunter Library at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi. |
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Resource of the Month
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses provides citations for dissertations and theses written by graduate students who have had their work published through UMI Dissertation Publishing. The database offers full-text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.
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Maryanne Anthony retiring from Gunter Library |
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Mrs. Maryanne Anthony, Gunter Library Coordinator since September 16, 2013, will retire on September 30, 2021. For the last 8 years, she has been completely committed to the to the high standard of service the scientists and graduate students at this campus have come to expect from Gunter Library. Her interactions with Gunter Library patrons have been consistently professional, caring, and service-based. They knew they could count on her to be supportive and passionate about getting them the information they need to maintain their high level of activity in research, teaching, and learning. While working full time, she completed a bachelor’s in Library and Information Science (BLIS) with highest honors, received both the 2019 The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Gulf Coast Staff Service Award and the 2017 University Libraries Staff Excellence Award and was elected to and served on the USM Staff Council. Because of her efforts we have a bicycle borrowing program, some healthy food in campus vending machines, and a treadmill computer workstation in Gunter Library. She organized a daily 30-minute walking group for staff and students. Her support for graduate students went far beyond document delivery and interlibrary loan. She set up “Teatime,” a self-service area in the library for students to enjoy some conversation and a cup of tea. She initiated and hosted a career workshop with USM Career Services. She helped plan and host several Graduate Student Appreciation Day ice cream socials. She shared her wisdom and experience in two GCRL Science Café, one about alpaca (she and her husband Tony own and manage an alpaca herd) and one about life in a tiny house. Maryanne is a gifted and talented fiber artist. While teaching a knitting/fiber arts class at the Ocean Springs Municipal Library, she and her students created beautiful, knitted seascapes/coral reefs that are on display in the Caylor Building lobby and were the focus of a GCRL Science Café in April 2018. We will miss her every day and wish her all the best with her fiber arts, alpaca herd, and pleasures of retirement life in the tiny house. I have no regrets for hiring the llama (an inside joke!)
The comments below are just a sampling of what co-workers, faculty, staff and students have shared about Maryanne on her retirement.
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Working with Maryanne has always been a joy. Her inspiring wit and unwavering commitment to expand opportunities for all USM stakeholders has been evident and far-reaching. Whether orchestrating a special student event, leading staff council initiatives, or locating obscure journal articles, Maryanne is the epitome of dedication to service. Cheers to you, Maryanne! Thanks for all you’ve done (and continue to do) to leave USM and GCRL in a better place."
Darcie Graham
Business Manager |MSU–CREC
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Maryanne is incredible. Of course, she is an incredible librarian, but also as a friend. She is helpful, insightful, great at listening, and just being there for people. She so creative and so talented. I will miss popping into her office to chat, but I am so happy for her! Hopefully we can get together and finally craft up some of the ideas we have been talking about over the years! I love you Maryanne! You’re the best!
Kasea L. Price
Research Technician III
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The best reference research librarian I have ever dealt with, and I have been fortunate to deal with them all over the world! A diamond in the rough when she first started but soon polished all the rough edges. Her astounding work ethic, compassion, common sense, and friendliness made students, faculty, and staff seek her out not only for references but also advice. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to work with her and also to become her friend. Retirement will just be another opportunity for her to excel and enjoy life to the fullest!
JAJA-AKA Jean A Jovonovich Alvillar
GCRL Retiree
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As an academic research facility, it’s imperative that GCRL faculty, staff and students have ready access to research materials through an efficiently managed library unit. Maryanne has been a key component of providing those services in the Gunter Library for many years. We thank her for her efforts to serve the GCRL community, as well as the many students who have come through the Summer Field Program, and we wish her all the best in her retirement.
Read Hendon
Director
GCRL
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Maryanne is a very creative and wise person; such fun to be around. She has been a true friend to me in a difficult times. And I love that she loves my cats! She is a house-sitter extraordinaire... We will visit on the other side of this pandemic my friend.
Susan Caranza
GCRL Retiree
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I am so happy (and sad) for Maryanne who has decided to retire at the end of September from our Gunter Library!! As a COA Professor since 1994, and now Professor Emeritus, Maryanne assisted me personally and all of my past graduate students during her tenure in the Gunter Library to obtain vital literature for our research and she did it professionally and quickly!! I was always amazed just how quick she could get new and obscure literature for us and do it pleasantly! As Editor-in-Chief of Gulf and Caribbean Research, she also assisted me in clarifying literature in accepted manuscripts that did not have a proper citation string or doi, again in a professional and pleasant manner! She would always go out of her way to get these needed documents and I greatly appreciate her efforts on my (our) behalf! She will be missed and hope she does a better job in retirement than I did with other new and exciting challenges!
Mark S. Peterson, PhD
Professor Emeritus
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Congratulations as you move into life’s next chapter! I really appreciate the time we spent on Staff Council advocating for our team here at GCRL. And, a million thanks for all of the random journal articles you quickly tracked down. You, and your baked goods, will be missed.
Jeremy Higgs
CFRD Research Manager
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Maryanne, it is with a heavy heart that I must say "goodbye" to you. You played such an important role in our Library's activities, with your kind, most responsible, knowledgeable and responsive attitude to faculty and students. You have always helped me promptly and cheerfully, well beyond the speed and care that would have been expected in any other library. I have also appreciated sharing with me your personal story, including pictures of those cute hairy pets as well as your artistic bent.
I wish you good health, much personal happiness, and continued enjoyable activities in your "retirement."
God bless you!
your friend,
Ervin Otvos
Professor Emeritus
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Maryanne’s retirement, while a wonderful thing for her, is a great loss to the GCRL community. Ever since Maryanne started working at Gunter Library, she has always been my “go to person” for any hard to obtain literature. Often times, she sent me the requested pdf in less than an hour after my email—talk about service!! And, she never let an obscure literature request “defeat her”; she contacted multiple libraries until she could obtain the information. I have often “bragged on” Maryanne and Gunter Library to colleagues, stating that she can find a pdf of any reference that you want or need. While Maryanne can never be replaced, I can only hope that whoever takes over her position is as helpful, friendly, and efficient as Maryanne has been. She will definitely be missed!
Nancy J. Brown-Peterson
Research Scientist
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It has been such a pleasure to work with Maryanne here at Gunter Library. She has always approached her job with such a level of professionalism it has truly set the bar high. Her strong, independent nature is such a wonderful example, to the students in particular; she has always been a wonderful mentor to them. She's been a tenacious defender of causes that benefit faculty, staff and students at GCRL. She's so creative and kindhearted, one of those people who makes you feel like you've known her always. It was a special treat to be able to surprise her at her graduation and watch her walk across that stage to get her hug from "Rodney"!
Martha Brown
Gunter Library
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There are so many wonderful things to say and stories to share about Maryanne that it’s difficult to choose, but there is no one more deserving of a tribute before setting off into what will be a glorious, fiber-filled retirement! During the first year or so of my time at GCRL, Maryanne was the mystery magician behind the Gunter Library email account who would find the papers I was searching for before I even finished sending her the email. After many journeys into the trailers, which were the library’s temporary home for a while, asking her for papers/help with this or that, Maryanne became one of my favorite colleagues. She always prioritized us students and greeted us with a smile that never failed to cheer me up. I saw so many examples of Maryanne going above and beyond to help anyone and everyone who came to her needing this paper or that book or accessing a resource. When I was writing my thesis, I sent Maryanne on what became a wild goose chase for one paper. Don’t worry! She got it for me - of course she did! but it was a major effort! (con't)
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This paper could only be found on a microfiche (basically a microfilm), but microfiches need a certain reader to access the text, which GCRL did not have. But did that stop Maryanne?! No way! With the help of a few other librarians and libraries, I received the paper via pdf to my email, and I couldn’t believe it when Maryanne told me the story of what she went through to get it! In addition to being a rockstar librarian, I have the utmost respect for how Maryanne is always professional and respectful to others, no matter the situation, and is something I greatly admire about her. I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with Maryanne and even luckier to have developed a friendship (we talk about yarn A LOT) with her that has continued since I finished at GCRL.
Cheers to your retirement, Maryanne! I can’t wait to see all the beautiful creations you make in your she-shed now that you will be able to fully focus on crafting! And I can’t wait for our annual gathering at MDSW!
Apryle Panyi
Former Graduate student-GCRL
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USM Covid-19 Updated Precautions |
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As of August 6, 2021 - Due to the prevalence of the highly transmissible Delta Variant, face coverings must be worn universally indoors for all students, faculty, staff, and visitors, regardless of vaccination status, unless an individual is in an isolated space. This requirement will continue to be reevaluated as public health guidance evolves throughout the surge associated with the Delta Variant.
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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 prefer for print or e-books. Please note there are some publisher restrictions with e-books most importantly 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 October 1.
Thank you for your support of Gunter Library!
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Fall 2021 Coastal Sciences Seminar Series
The COA Seminar Committee is pleased to announce the schedule for the Fall 2021 Coastal Sciences seminar series. All seminars will be held virtually, using Zoom, and will start at 9:30 am. The seminar schedule is as follows:
All titles TBD.
Seminars can be accessed using the following Zoom link:
Meeting ID: 838 4138 6192
Passcode: 23886431
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National AFS Meeting
November 6-10, 2021
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CERF has partnered with AFS to provide discounts to those who wish to attend both conferences. The first 50 CERF 2021 registrants who also wish to attend the American Fisheries Society conference will receive a $75 discount.
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CERF Conference
November 8 - 11, 2021
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Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting
May 14-20, 2022
Grand Rapids, MI
Proposal deadline for JASM is September 24
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Upcoming Virtual GCRL Science Cafe:
Live slow and die old: what can we learn from the longest-lived bivalve on Earth?
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Kathleen Hemeon is a third year Coastal Sciences Ph.D. candidate sited at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi. Her research analyzes population dynamics of the commercially harvested ocean quahog (Arctica islandica) from two locations in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and is establishing methods to evaluate age-reader error for this species.
Her research follows her previous work with green sturgeon, inland fisheries, and natural resource management done while earning a B.S. from Western Washington University and a joint M.S. from James Madison University and the University of Malta.
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The ocean quahog (Arctica islandica) is one of the longest-living animals on Earth and can survive for more than 500 years in its northern range, an extraordinarily long lifespan for any animal! This clam species also represents an important fishery throughout much of its range, including the U.S. waters of the Mid-Atlantic. But how do you manage commercial harvests for an animal that lives for centuries? Does extreme longevity lead to less frequent spawning and make this species more vulnerable to collapse? The first step to answering these questions, is to analyze the age and length distributions of the population. Age-length data can inform resource managers of the recruitment frequency, mortality rate, longevity, and growth rates for a species (i.e., population dynamics). Let’s talk about what these numbers look like for ocean quahogs living on Georges Bank, USA, and what it means for the fishery and future research.
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Baskets of ocean quahogs collected on the F/V Pursuit at Georges Bank during the 2019 federal survey. Photo credit: Sarah Trahan |
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Cross-section of an ocean quahog shell used for aging. |
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F/V Pursuit, a commercial clam vessel used to collect samples for both this project, and federal stock assessment surveys. |
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Please click the link below to join the webinar:
Webinar ID: 868 4918 4521
Passcode: 20949801
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If you missed any of our Zoom GCRL Science Cafes, you can watch them at your leisure at the Marine Education Center’s (MEC) Facebook page, click the link below. |
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"Like" the GCRL Science Cafe Facebook page for more information about upcoming Science Cafe events. |
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Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Joyce Shaw, Head Librarian - 228-872-4213
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