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Taira got another Culture of Yes stripe to add to her growing collection! She now has one each for care, deliver, and serve! Please feel free to consult Taira regarding quality improvement projects or literature search questions.
Part of the MU Health Care “Culture of Yes” initiative is a recognition program called Earning Your Stripes, where employees receive a coupon for embodying The Culture of Yes. ‘Care’ is about the heart, ‘deliver’ is about getting results, ‘innovate’ is about creatively overcoming obstacles and ‘serve’ is about working together for a common goal. …
Welcome to Taira Meadowcroft, our new Information Services Librarian. Taira worked as a Graduate Library Assistant at the Health Sciences Library reference desk since September 2014. In May, Taira graduated with her Masters in Library Science. Before rejoining the library on July 13th, she took a trip to Europe, exploring England, Ireland, and Scotland. Now refreshed from her European adventure, …
Taira Meadowcroft was recently voted in as a Library Marketing and Communications Group Board Member. As a board member, she will assist with strategic planning as well as serve as the chair of the marketing committee for the group and for their annual conference. Taira has been a volunteer with the group since 2019, where …
Katy Emerson & Taira Meadowcroft presented this poster on our behalf at Missouri Library Association: “Providing Service Through #MizzouPDF: Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery” Katy Emerson, Taira Meadowcroft, Caryn Scoville, E. Diane Johnson MLA #MizzouPDF
The Mizzou Libraries connected with over 2,400 new students and their parents/guardians during Summer Welcome 2024 tabling! Thanks to all our wonderful volunteers for tabling during 22 sessions this summer! Jara Anderson Megan Ballengee Anne Barker Rachel Brekhus Abbie Brown Janice Dysart Gwen Gray Jill Kline Noel Kopriva Mara Inge Taira Meadowcroft Kimberely Moeller Stephen …
MU is pleased to announce the hire of Piper Brown-Kingsley as the Information and Data Services Librarian at the Health Sciences Library starting June 3. Piper is a May 2024 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Library School. In addition, she’s been working as a Remote Data Curation Intern at the National Network Data Archive …
The following librarians have received promotions: Seth Huber, Promotion to Librarian III Taira Meadowcroft, Promotion to Librarian III Rae Thudium, Promotion to Librarian II
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 …
The search committee for the Journalism Librarian has been formed. Those serving are: Search Committee: – Vera Elwood, Chair, Head of Journalism Library – Chris Pryor, Director for Health Sciences Library and Associate University Librarian for the Specialized Libraries – Liz Brixey, Journalism School faculty representative – Peter Kouba, Journalism Library staff representative – Taira …