New Event Form and Planning Guide

The Events and Exhibits Teams has recently updated the Events Form and had created a Library Events Planning Guide. These documents are available through the staff web page. If you have other questions about planning an event in the library, contact Shannon Cary, head of the Events and Exhibits Team.

Need a New Headshot? Open Studio Portrait Available

Open Studio Portrait is offered on the 4th Thursday of each month. The 4th Thursday in November is Thanksgiving, so the open studio portrait day will be the Thursday prior, the 16th. Also, they are canceling December’s Open Studio Portraits and will resume in January on 1/25. You will need a MOcode, so please contact …

Thank You to Everyone Who Helped with Homecoming!

Our Homecoming Open House was a big success! Thanks to everyone who helped out. Megan Ballengee Shannon Cary Cindy Cotner Emilee Flores Zoe Homan Jeannette Pierce Nick Raines Paula Roper Tours: Abbie Brown and Mara Inge

Staff Development Committee Appointments

The following committee appointments have been approved for this academic year. Thanks to everyone who volunteered. Staff Development Committee Abbie Brown: 2023-2025 Shannon Cary, SAG Chair: ex officio Ying Hu: 2023-2025 Colleen Smith: 2023-2026 Rhonda Whithaus: 2023-2026 LMT Liaison: Kathy Peters

Library Tours Update

Thursday, August 31, was our last tour of the fall welcome tour series, and it was a huge success! We held 11 tours between 8/15/2023 and 8/31/2023 with registrations capped at 12 for each. We had participants show up for every scheduled tour and a total of 107 participants over 3 weeks. The tours held …

Thank You to All the Escape Room Helpers!

We had another successful escape room event during Welcome Week this year! We had 150 students register with a few dozen on the waiting list. The students had a great time and that is thanks to all of those who helped this year! You can see the photos of the groups and their different times …

Sorry for the Inconvenience: Central and West Stacks Temporarily Closed

The Central and West Stacks in Ellis Library will be closed this summer due to a window repair project. If you need materials that are located in the Central or West Stacks, you may request the materials online or ask for help at the Checkout and Information Desk, which is located on the north side …

Marketing Highlight: Posts to Promote

Here are some posts you can use to promote to users and/or your departments: Seeking MU Faculty Books for Exhibit at Ellis Library University Libraries Student Advisory Council (ULSAC) Book Project Open Education Week 2022: Introduction to Creative Commons Open Education Week 2022: Introduction to Open Educational Resources Partnership Brings Medieval Manuscript Collection into the …

Marketing Highlight: Valentine’s Day and Post to Highlight

We made some bookish themed valentines. They all got great engagement on facebook, twitter, and instagram The Health Sciences Library is working on an Increase Your Impact Series. : https://library.missouri.edu/news/tag/research-impact-series It’s easy to adapt these posts when you use the engaging emails template. Need help with creating an engaging email, contact Taira Meadowcroft. If there …

Marketing Highlight: Instagram Giveaway and Things to Promote

Thanks to Ying in Digital Services, we held an Instagram giveaway: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZIVRG5pdxt/. Ying designed this calendar out of images from the digital library. We had 77 people enter. This instagram post by Mara got some great engagement back in December: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCb8-AF8Jd/ Here are some posts you can use to promote to users and/or your departments: …