Scott Marsalis

Recent Actions

• Posted American RadioWorks documentary looks at why low-income students often don't finish college. to University Libraries: Diversity Outreach Collaborative
  http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/grit/Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them ThroughMore people are going to college than ever before, but a lot of them aren't finishing. Low-income students, in particular, struggle to get to graduation. Only 9 percent complete a bachelor's degree by...
• Posted Gender-neutral bathrooms on Twin Cities Campus to University Libraries: Diversity Outreach Collaborative
  Kudos to Meghan Lafferty for creating a Library FAQ page highlighting the location of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.  The FAQ increases the discoverability of this great Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=103788929319737769250.000445c46032eabb400fb&z=13The map was created by the Restroom Access Workgroup of the UM...
• Posted Bottineau Jig - Exploring diversity in early MN history to University Libraries: Diversity Outreach Collaborative
  I've become involved in a local production called Bottineau Jig that seeks to explore issues of multicultural and multiracial identity through telling the stories of historical characters that lived in this area in the era preceding statehood. Drawing extensively on...
• Commented on Teaching Impact Factors
  I hope everyone discusses the very important limitations of impact factors, and ISI data in general, whenever they come up. In some disciplines they may be very good, but in others, they're extremely limited. I think it's especially important not...
• Posted QP-Tip : Re-opening a closed ticket to University Libraries' Digital Reference Site
  This is definitely a 'work around'.  Thank you to Carla Pfahl for the instructions.This came up for me when a Chat question had been closed, and on review, I wanted to re-open it and assign it to a unit for...
• Commented on Recycling Styrofoam?
  The only place in MN to take polystyrene #6 from residential users appears to be in Andover. Anyone live up that way that would be willing to ferry collections?...