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Amanda Sprochi received a CORE Presidential Citation for her work as chair of the the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access. The Cataloging Description and Access Committee is critical to the library profession, but over these last years has suffered from a vacuum in leadership. This year Amanda jumped in to serve as chair without …
“Ellis Library hosts tour of revamped Art and Archaeology, Anthropology museums” KOMU, April 22, 2024 (similar story in several other publications) “Amanda Sprochi: Tomato lover shares lifetime of gardening pleasure” Columbia Missourian, April 18, 2024
Thank you to everyone who came to Safe Space Training! We had 14 people attend in person and 23 people online. We appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to engage in such important conversations. And mark you calendars for a presentation by Lily Hunter on October 25th. This presentation will focus …
Special Collections’ newest digital exhibit is Leaders and Heroes, curated by John Henry Adams and Courtney Gillie. The exhibit celebrates the accomplishments of historically excluded people, highlighting materials within Special Collections that were written by female, Black, Native American, and LGBTQ+ authors. The exhibit covers a range of topics from literature to social science, from …
Please help me wish Renita Richmond, our long time LIA in Health Sciences, a fond farewell as she heads off into retirement. Renita’s retirement starts today, so we won’t get to have a formal send off. Renita has been an absolute gem to work with and has been the rock holding tech services at HSL …
Thank you to the following graduate students, staff members and librarians who volunteered to work at last weekend’s Show Me Mizzou Day activity at Ellis Library: Grace Atkins Tyler Blood Shannon Cary Cindy Cotner John Fifield Kelli Hansen Haley Gillilan Trevor Hook Jefferson Hulbert Nav Khanal Taira Meadowcroft Amanda Sprochi Kelsie Wilkins Michelle Zigler Around, …
I’m writing to ensure that everyone is aware that Rich Rexroat, Assistant Director for Technical Services and Circulation at HSL, will retire at the end of November. Rich has worked for the Libraries since 1979, and he has made many positive contributions to the Health Sciences Library. Ann and I have been talking about the …
2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic and our own Amanda Sprochi was featured in the Missourian’s Looking back on Spanish flu: ‘A serious epidemic of influenza is impending‘. She not only talks about In Flew-Enza: Spanish Flu in Columbia, the exhibit she originally created in 2015, but she also assisted the …
December 31, 2014, marked the five hundredth birthday of Andreas Vesalius, one of the most important anatomists in the history of medicine. The Health Sciences Library commemorates this historic occasion with an exhibit entitled Vesalius at 500: Student, Scholar, and Surgeon, now on view on the third floor of Health Sciences Library. Andreas Vesalius is …
This post is by Amanda Sprochi, Health Sciences Cataloger at the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library. Often called "the Father of Modern Medicine," William Osler was a Canadian physician, pathologist, and internist who established the programs of clinical clerkship and medical residency still in use in medical schools today. One of the four founders of Johns …