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Visit Ellis Library immediately after the Homecoming Parade on Saturday, Oct. 21 for refreshments, tours, and family activities. The first 100 kids will receive a free mini pumpkin. This event is free and open to the public.
Marketing Highlight
Tara was a popular subject on our social media this week. If you’re not following the Libraries on social media, you’re missing out!
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Marketing Request
Current Mizzou Made stories can be found here: www.missouri.edu/mizzoumade, currently 2-3 stories a day are being published.
These stories also will be used for future marketing purposes including newspaper advertisements and social media. You can help the Libraries’ Marketing Team identify stories. Currently, the campus is prioritizing the following:
Please contact Grace Atkins, Shannon Cary, Kelli Hansen, or Taira Meadowcroft if you know of a student who would be good for a Mizzou Made story.
In addition, we will keep posting Cycle of Success stories about faculty, staff, and community. These will also be tagged on social media as #MizzouMade, but the primary marketing focus right now is student recruitment.
Feel free to contact Shannon Cary if you have questions.
Congratulations to Grace Atkins, who received the Missouri Library Association Outstanding New Librarian Award last night at the MLA awards ceremony in St. Louis! Read her acceptance remarks below.
“Thank you so much. This is truly an honor.
I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin’s Information School in May 2015, and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, applied for a brand new position at the University of Missouri Libraries: User Engagement Librarian. Engaging with the users in fall of 2015 was a challenge. As most of you know, that was a historically tumultuous time at Mizzou. But what I saw was students who loved their university so much that they demanded it be better. And, as we discussed in many sessions today, one of the fundamental roles of a library is to empower their communities to be better. So, we had an opportunity to step up as a library.
I would like to thank our Vice Provost of University Libraries, Ann Campion Riley, for supporting the establishment of a Student Advisory Council. I am fortunate to be the liaison between student leaders and library administration. This communication and collaboration has resulted in the libraries being better able to meet student needs. For example, when the student body demanded the main library be open longer, the council worked with student government and administrators in a transparent process to draft a fee proposal. In record voter turnout, almost 80% of students supported the fee and we now have Ellis Library open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.
I would like to quote Rebecca Clarke who, in her awesome Parks & Rec session today, quoted Leslie Knope quoting Theodore Roosevelt: “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.” And Leslie adds that “what makes work worth doing is getting to do it with people that you love.”
The students at Mizzou love their university, and that makes my work worth doing. I am very privileged to be in a position to channel their passion into positive change, and I hope to continue this work.
This award is as much the students’ as it is mine.
Thank you.”
The College of Engineering is co-sponsoring the Merit Badge University with the Great Rivers Council Boy Scouts. There will be over 1,000 boy scouts in attendance on Saturday, Oct. 7 from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. The boy scouts will be learning from counselors (instructors) a variety of subjects. Expect to see these boys all over campus.
The following buildings will be unlocked on Saturday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm:
Middlebush Hall
Arts & Sciences
Strickland Hall
Naka Hall (previously known as Engineering Building West)
Lafferre Hall
MU Student Center
Sustainability Office inside of Virginia Avenue Parking Structure
Geology
Hill Hall
Switzler Hall
The Ithaka Survey launched as scheduled at 2:00 p.m. yesterday. E-mails were sent to 3,090 for faculty and 6,543 for graduate/professional students. If you know faculty or graduate/professional students who want to help the libraries prepare for the future, please encourage them to look for the e-mail and complete the survey.
Hello Everyone! The University Libraries is gearing up for this year’s United Way campaign. The University is doing things a bit different this year and giving each area of campus a section of time to run their campaign. Our campaign will run from October 16- 27th.
This year’s United Way theme is, “Live Mizzou. Live United.”
There is even a fun hashtag #MizzouLU, Mizzou Lives United.
How can you a member of the Mizzou family live united? There are so many ways! Whether it be a monetary donation to a United Way organization or giving of your time the ways are endless of how you can help.
One way that you can show your support is to come out for the Annual Chili cook off! This year we are mixing things up a bit by adding a Cookie Bake off to go along with the Chili. You definitely don’t want to miss the excitement of this change up.
We will also be doing a few games along the way so watch for those emails to come out soon!
Sheila Voss is back this year to help lead your United Way Ambassadors, Gwen, Sheryl and Michelle through a great campaign. To make it a huge success we need YOU.
So are you ready to MizzouLU?
For now, please mark your calendar to attend the chili cook-off at 11:30 on Tuesday, October 17. Plan to come hungry! And Live United!
Our best to you!
Gwen Gray, Sheryl Cullina and Michelle Baggett
2017 United Way Unit Ambassadors
#MizzouLU
Gawker Is for Sale and Its Articles Could Be Deleted – WSJ
Oct. 2, 2017
“4-Year Institutions With the Most Interlibrary Loans, 2014-15”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct.1, 2017