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Howdy Tigers!
We hope you are staying warm and safe in this winter weather!
The Engineering Library & Technology Commons will be closed due to inclement weather on Monday, January 26th. Weather permitting, we will re-open on Tuesday, January 27th at 8 am.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at eltc@missouri.edu
Stay safe and warm!
–Noel, Michelle, and Amanda
When sharing that I’m the Libraries’ AI Faculty Fellow, the most common response is a polite nod followed by a puzzled, “So, what do you actually do?”
To start, there’s the deep dive into the world of AI. For libraries, this means going beyond ChatGPT, exploring research applications and research-specific AIs. It’s learning how models are trained, wrestling with questions about copyright and privacy, and attending presentations that range from webinars to an AI Summit hosted by the University of Florida. Essentially, it’s being a perpetual student of AI and then trying to translate that knowledge into actionable insights for the campus community.
Collaboration with other Faculty Fellows, committees, working groups and task forces is another big part of the role. As I learn about the variety of projects across campus, for example, the College of Education’s open-access AI instruction cookbook and Physical Therapy’s AI model that simulates patients for students to practice with, I help connect researchers who would benefit from the developing applications and use cases. I’ve participated in the development of department and campus AI policies by leading and consulting during policy workshops, and am involved in testing different GenAI models as part of the Show-Me AI pilot, trying to determine what might be the best applications for Mizzou to invest in and share.
Back in the library world, I chair a team testing research AI tools — like Keenious, Scite and Elicit — that might enhance the discoverability of library resources. But it’s not just about tools – we are getting more questions about AI on chat and through email all the time. I get to tackle the tough questions we receive, relating to AI hallucinations and whether library-subscribed journal articles can legally be used to train large language models for data extraction. With the disclaimer that, of course, I’m not a lawyer and can’t give legal advice, it means staying up to date on court decisions, lawsuits, and emerging legal frameworks (Updated Map of US Copyright Suits v. AI).
Of course, all this learning means nothing if it isn’t shared. In addition to traditional classroom instruction and library workshops, I’ve presented at the Directors of Graduate Studies Summit, as a panelist for a MOBIUS E-Resources webinar on AI, at a campus-wide donor event representing the work MU does with AI, at retreats for updating curriculum, at departmental trainings for graduate students, at the Missouri Library Association Annual Conference and more.
Sharing AI literacy information includes the creation (and continual updating) of our Libraries AI LibGuide, and collaboration with librarians from across the state to build an online AI resource guide. Outreach also includes training the Libraries’ student Peer Navigator team on AI so they can pass that knowledge along to their peers.
It’s been exactly one year since I became the Libraries’ AI Faculty Fellow. While there’s been a lot to learn, somewhere between the webinars, policy discussions and presentations, I get to have great conversations about how libraries can lead — thoughtfully, ethically and creatively — in an AI-driven world.
Kimberly Moeller
Librarian IV, Education & Social Sciences Librarian
University Libraries AI Faculty Fellow
Written by: Annalise Miller
Printing on campus is easier than you might think – whether you are completing the process from your own laptop or making use of the Ellis Library desktops, at Mizzou you are able to print from almost anywhere and pick up your pages in minutes.
One way to print at Mizzou is by downloading the PrintSmart software onto your own personal laptop. To get started, visit the Division of IT’s site printsmart.missouri.edu. Login using your pawprint (your university email before “@umsystem.edu”) and your regular UM System password. There are two tabs at the top which are sometimes a bit tricky to see, but you’ll want to be on the ‘Print Anywhere’ tab. From here, you will be prompted to select an operating system, category, and preferred printer. Ellis Library technically falls under the category of “Computing Site,” and you’ll find options for all the printer banks including the color printer. Ellis Library has printers on the first and fourth floor, but you will also find printers conveniently at the Student Center, resident halls, and other libraries across campus.
Printing is also accessible through Ellis library desktops throughout the computing labs and the ‘QuickPrint’ stations on the first floor. At these stations you do not have to download PrintSmart software – you can simply login to the desktop with your pawprint and password, open your document, and send it to print. This option is especially useful if you are already studying in Ellis or need to print something quickly between classes.
All students have a semester print allowance that covers most basic needs. In the fall and spring semesters, undergraduate students are allocated $17.50, and graduate/professional students $25. Students enrolled in summer classes have $7 to go towards print jobs. Standard black-and-white pages are just 5 cents each, while color pages are 50 cents. 11×17 prints range from 10 cents in black-and-white, to $1 in color.
If you run into issues or have questions about printing, support is always available. You can reach out to the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) through a live chat option on their website, doit.missouri.edu, by sending an email, or by visiting Tiger Tech on the lower level of the student center. You can also stop by and ask the Peer Navigators in Ellis Library for assistance.
Mizzou Libraries hire around 200 students each year to work in Ellis Library and the other specialized libraries on campus. To join our team of student assistants, please apply online here: library.missouri.edu/about/employment
Applications are accepted all year and reviewed as openings become available.
For more information, contact the University Libraries Administrative Offices at 573-882-4701 or in 104 Ellis Library.
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Mizzou Libraries have multiple work study positions available. Click here to learn more about open work study positions.
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.
This month’s featured article, “Early vs Late Staged PCI After Subintimal Tracking and Re-Entry for Chronic Total Occlusions: A Randomized Trial”, was co-authored by Dr. Taishi Hirai of the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine. The article was published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology (impact factor of 22.3 in 2024).
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=December&Year=2025
Howdy everyone!
Happy 2026! We hope everyone has had a wonderful Winter break! You can request any of the titles below by clicking on their hyperlinked titles. If you have any issues requesting, or if you have any book recommendations for future Reading Revelries, please contact Amanda May at asmay@missouri.edu
Our picks for the Spring:
When Women Were Birds: 54 Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams (links to DBRL catalog)
“I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.” This is what Terry Tempest Williams’s mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as it was to discover that the three shelves of journals were all blank. In fifty-four short chapters, Williams recounts memories of her mother, ponders her own faith, and contemplates the notion of absence and presence art and in our world.
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang (links to DBRL catalog)
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It’s a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It’s a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.
But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer — a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person’s real livelihood is at stake.
From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash.
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes (links to UM System E-book copy)
Clara Parkes, a renowned knitter, shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. She ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (‘the most knitterly state’) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison (links to DBRL catalog)
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison’s subjects are 52 Blue, deemed “the loneliest whale in the world”; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings — with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity — in essays about eloping in Las Vegas, becoming a stepmother, and giving birth.
Special Collections and University Archives will temporarily relocate to Ellis Library, 4 East, Room 4A41 (previously Recorded Sound) from December 15 until approximately spring break of 2026. The project will enhance access to the fourth-floor West by installing a lift, making the area more accessible for users and staff, and facilitating the easier movement of materials.
Special Collections
University Archives
As part of the upcoming renovation work, there will be temporary changes to restroom and room access in Ellis Library:
We appreciate your patience as these improvements are made. Stay tuned for more updates as details are finalized.
Written by: Libby Gremaud
The library doesn’t just have books – our librarians and library staff are great resource too! If you need help doing research, finding a book in the library, looking up obscure data, or simply asking a question about the library itself, they are always willing to assist.
This semester, the library has hired four new friendly faces as librarians. Beyond the contact information listed below, research librarians are always available through the Libraries chat, and you can ask if a specific person is available.
The first new librarian is Jenn Brady, who is now the head of the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library. She has spent ten years working in medical librarianship, so she is very experienced and is very helpful to students who need help within the medical field. If you’re wondering where this library is, the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library is located near where Rollins Street and East Campus Drive intersect, and it can be very helpful to veterinary students or if you’re doing research on animals or vet medicine. You can contact Jenn by going to room W218C in the Veterinary Medical Building, by phone at (573) 882-2461, or email at j.brady@missouri.edu.
The second new librarian is Dylan Martin, who is a Social Sciences & Copyright Librarian. Previously, he worked as a librarian at Lincoln College in Jefferson City
and at KOPN. If you need help doing research in Black Studies, Psychology, or Women and Gender Studies, you can contact him and he will be able to assist you. You can contact him either by going to room 166 in Ellis Library, by phone number at (573) 884-8139, or by email at dtmgy5@missouri.edu.
The third new librarian this semester is Dr. Marian Toledo Candelaria, who is now the head of Special Collections. Before coming to Mizzou, she worked as a program manager for Rare Book SChool and at the University of Waterloo she was a writing and multimodal communication specialist. In this role, she is helping to manage and direct the special collections at Ellis by adding more resources, helping students, and preserving the important documents we already have. If you have any questions about what these collections are or how you can access them, feel free to reach out to Marian. Special Collections is located on the 4th floor of Ellis Library, and it is an immense collection of rare and/or old books, articles, papers, or other documents. You can contact her by going to room 405 in Ellis Library, by phone at (573) 882-3755, or by email at m.toledocandelaria@missouri.edu.
Our final new librarian is Dr. Jennilyn Wiley, who is the new Head of the Journalism Library. She previously worked at Auburn University, where was a Business, Entrepreneurship, and Economics Librarian. The Journalism library is located within the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute on 9th street, and it is a great place for journalism majors and other students alike. This library offers quiet study spaces and also lots of resources to check out, such as cameras or laptops. Dr Wiley can be contacted by phone at (573) 882-6591, or by email at jmwiley@missouri.edu, or go to the Journalism Library room 103A.
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.
This month’s featured article, “Once-Weekly Navepegritide in Children with Achondroplasia: The APPROACH Randomized Clinical Trial” was co-authored by Dr. Daniel Hoernschemeyer of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. The article was published in JAMA Pediatrics (impact factor of 18.0 in 2024).
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=November&Year=2025
University of Missouri Libraries and the University of Missouri Law Library are collaborating to provide Mizzou faculty, staff, and students with U.S. and U.K. government documents from today back to 1660 on the ProQuest Government Documents discovery platform. This collection is comprised of nine databases, including ProQuest Indian Claims Insight, ProQuest Trends & Policy Collection, ProQuest Statistical Insight, ProQuest Government Periodicals Index, ProQuest Supreme Court Insight, and U.K. Parliamentary Papers. Ask your subject librarian for more information about all of the databases.