Welcome to Ying Hu

Digital Services welcomes Ying Hu as the Digital Services Library Information Specialist, Senior. She replaces Mitch Sumner, whose last day was August 1. Ying began working in Digital Services as a Library Information Specialist last October. In her new position, she will supervise student workers performing digitization work.

Welcome to Ying Hu

Digital Services welcomed a new Library Information Specialist, Ying Hu, on Monday, October 8.

Highlighted Newshub Posts of the Week

Workshops Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact, Sep 19 Library Intro for Grad Students, Sep 12, 17 or 27 Demystifying the Literature Review, Sep 17 Help Yourshelf!, Sep 10 and 18 Other Posts Special Spaces in Mizzou Libraries: Prayer Hall Latinx Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15 Cycle of Success: Rachel Brekus and Dr. …

Highlighted Newshub Posts of the Week

Workshops Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact, Sep 19 Library Intro for Grad Students, Sep 12, 17 or 27 Demystifying the Literature Review, Sep 17 PowerNotes, Sep 11 All About Academic Articles, Sep 10 Help Yourshelf!, Sep 10 and 18 Other Posts Digital Media and Innovation Lab Chat With the Librarians Wherever You Are Lockers …

Highlighted Newshub Posts of the Week

Workshops Demystifying the Literature Review, Feb. 2 APA 7: Format, Style and Grammar, Feb. 6 The Robot Behind the Curtain: AI and ChatGPT in Education, Feb. 13 Data Visualization with Palladio, Feb. 14 Unleash Your Academic Potential with Workshops at Your Library Other Posts Bookmark Cafe Exhibit: Martha Daniels Peer Navigator Corner: Special Collections Peer …

Highlighted Newshub Posts of the Week

Workshops Unleash Your Academic Potential With Workshops @ Your Library Introduction to the MU Libraries, Jan. 23 and 25 Semantic Annotation with Recogito, Jan. 26 Demystifying the Literature Review, Feb. 2 Other Posts Library Events: Black History Month Peer Navigator Corner: Understanding Library Layout MU Libraries Data Archives Service Undergraduate Research Contest

Exciting new non-fiction – “Hunger: A memoir of (my) body” by Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger is available for checkout through the University Libraries. Is there anything Roxane Gay can’t do??  Let’s just list some of the highlights of this amazing woman: New York Times best-selling author (Bad Feminist) One of the first black women to be a lead writer for Marvel (Black Panther: World of Wakanda) Writes both …

Thank You to Special Collections Field Trip Volunteers

Along with the museums, Special Collections hosted field trip visits for all the sixth grade classes in Columbia Public Schools during April and May. Over 1,300 kids and teachers visited and learned about palm leaf books from Southeast Asia, cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, and papyrus from ancient Egypt. We have gotten feedback that the …

Digital Services: Twenty for 2020

2020 was a busy and challenging year for the Digital Services Department at the University Libraries. Despite those challenges, we were able to start, advance, and complete an amazing array of projects. We present here twenty of our proudest accomplishments of 2020. 1: MOspace Grows by 12% In 2020, we added 4,200 new items to MOspace, …

Royal Society of Chemistry Added to Open Access Publishing Agreements Available to MU Authors

Publishing open access is a great way to keep research open and retain your copyright. We do understand that publishing open access comes with a financial commitment that you wouldn’t necessarily have with traditional publishing. To help offset costs, Mizzou Libraries has agreements with several publishers to offer discounts and author processing charge support for …