From the Library Director
Posted: April 29, 2025
A message from our University Library Director, Hal Bright:
I wanted to begin by giving the library’s heartfelt congratulations to all our graduates this year. This is the culmination of our mission and makes all the hard work of our staff and faculty alike an amazing achievement. The library has had an amazing spring. We had numerous exhibits and programming efforts this spring. From PubMed to Artificial Intelligence to Data Management, our librarians are sharing their knowledge to further research and scholarship at ATSU…I applaud them.
We held our third annual Faculty Appreciation Week at all our campuses in April. I hope you were able to attend one of our reception events in Mesa, Kirksville, or St Louis. We even had an online engagement activity for our remote-classified faculty and staff. We thank Research Support in their collaboration with this for this event.
This Spring we have collaborated with ITS and highlighted AI use cases across teaching, research, and everyday work tasks. I encourage you to take a look at our March and April sessions.
I am pleased to announce that we have renegotiated our McGraw-Hill contract and added the following databases to our collections with minimal expense: AccessAnesthesiology, AccessAPN, AccessCardiology, AccessDermatologyDxRx, AccessHemocologyOncology, and F.A. Davis Collection (AT).
As always, please feel free to contact me for any praise or question or issue you may have related to the libraries.
Best,
Hal Bright