John Furlong, senior manager of library and instructional resources at St. Louis Community College in Florissant Valley, has been named director of library and learning resources at Missouri S&T’s Curtis Laws Wilson Library. His appointment will begin Monday, Sept. 11.

The campus community is invited to a retirement reception for Shenethia Manuel 2-3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 11, in the Carver-Turner Room of the Havener Center. Manuel joined Missouri S&T in 2008 and has served as vice chancellor for human resources, equity and inclusion.

 Windows critical updates will occur 1-6 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 13. Please leave your computer powered on during the weekend and connected to the S&T network. Save your files and close applications because your computer will reboot during the update. For questions, please contact the IT Help Desk at 341-4357 (HELP), visit the help desk on the first floor of the Curtis Laws Wilson Library, or submit an online ticket to help.mst.edu.

Do you have a lengthy data entry list that you keep putting off? Departments are needed to participate in S&T’s Institutional Work Study Program and Federal Work Study Program. If you are interested in a work study student for the upcoming academic year and have not submitted a request, complete an online requisition form. Please note that submitting a requisition does not guarantee you will receive a work study student, as students choose the positions in which they would like to work.

Leach Theatre’s first crowdfunding campaign opened Aug. 1 and has achieved 65 percent of its $15,000 goal. Thanks to overwhelming support in the first week of the campaign, the theater is able to stretch its fundraising goal through the end of August. Funds raised through the campaign will go toward technical improvements to the theater’s lighting, sound systems and lobby.

Missouri S&T staff members received an email on July 28 about the elections for the 2017-18 term for vacant positions on Staff Council. If you have not voted, you will need to open the email and follow the instructions. If you have staff members in your department who do not use email regularly, please let them know about the electronic voting process and encourage them to login in with their single sign-on ID and password to vote for a fellow staff member. Election procedures and a list of current council members are listed on the Staff Council website, staffcouncil.mst.edu.

University Police will clear all campus bicycle racks before the start of fall classes. Please remove all bikes from main campus racks by 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10. This does not include bike racks at residential halls. University Police will remove any remaining bikes later that day. Abandoned bikes will be held at the University Police office in Room G-10 Campus Support Facility for six months.

Starting next week, the faculty and staff eConnection will return to its regular schedule of Mondays and Thursdays. The next issue will be published Monday, Aug. 14. You can visit econnection.mst.edu at any time for updates. To share your news or campus events, visit these links:

• eConnection for faculty and staff
• Student eConnection
• Campus calendar