Shannon Cary
The Amigos Member Conference 2025 (Free)
How are libraries confronting the present moment while preparing for promising futures? The May 14th Amigos Member Conference 2025 will examine libraries’ current landscape and future possibilities.
Join fellow members for a day of inspiring ideas and future-focused conversations centered on this year’s theme: “Our Present. Our Futures.” Beginning with the opening keynote from Julie Mosbo Ballestro, the LexisNexis sponsored Amigos Member Conference 2025 will also include the Annual Member Business Meeting, several concurrent sessions, and a closing keynote presentation focused on leading library innovation from Lisa Wells.
Register as an Amigos member today for this free learning opportunity!
Staff Corner: Wake for David Truesdale
Janet Marsh, David Truesdale’s wife, is holding a wake for David on June 14. She is having the gathering catered and asked that people RSVP to janetlmarsh@gmail.com or text her at 573-864-2267.
New Muse Post
In the News
“Cuts to humanities will impact MU professors, renovation projects”
Columbia Missourian, April 3, 2025
“‘A gut punch’: NEH terminations hit Missouri Humanities, University of Missouri projects”
Columbia Missourian, April 24, 2025
“Donald Sanders: Playing a pivotal role in the Watergate investigation”
Vox Magazine, April 24, 2025
Highlighted Posts of the Week
New Muse Posts
Please Send Us Names of Graduating Student Workers
We have a small gift for all graduating student workers, and we will acknowledge them on social media (with their permission). So please send the names and emails of these students to Shannon (carysn@missouri.edu) by April 25. Thanks!
In the News
‘Draconian’ Layoffs, Grant Terminations Come for the NEH
Inside Higher Ed, April 14, 2025
2025 MU Remembers: Honor with Books

This year’s MU Remembers ceremony, commemorating students, faculty and staff who have passed away in the last year, will be held Friday, April 5. A book in remembrance of each honoree will be added to the University of Missouri Libraries’ collection. Commemorative bookplates are placed inside the books, and honorees’ names are placed on the books’ library catalog records.
The honorees’ names and the books selected in their memory are listed below.
Student
Candyce Richie: Gitlin, M. (2024). The spirit of freedom: Powerful women of the civil rights movement. Rowman & Littlefield.
Faculty and Staff
William D. Allen: Wójcik, D. (2024). Atlas of finance: Mapping the global story of money. Yale University Press.
Wanda Birchler: Taylor, M. (2022). How birds live together: Colonies and communities in the avian world. Princeton University Press.
Sadie Chandler: Burroughs, C. & Gainor, J. E. (Eds.). (2024). The Routledge anthology of women’s theatre theory and dramatic criticism. Routledge.
Joseph Chirillo: Fischer, C. S. (1994). America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940. University of California Press.
Hope Christofferson: Magaloni, D., Domenici, D., & de Carteret, A. (Eds.). (2024). We live in painting: The nature of color in Mesoamerican art. DelMonico Books.
Doreen Frappier: Koutsopolous, T. (2024). A new approach to dogs and dog training: Human-canine synergy in theory and practice. Springer.
Jordan Garza: Consalvo, M. (2016). Atari to Zelda: Japan’s videogames in global contexts. MIT Press.
Michael Goldschmidt: Lucas, D. (2021). Ecological buildings: New strategies for sustainable architecture. Braun Publishing.
Sheryl Kilbourn: Sanjek, R. (2024). American popular music and its business in the digital age: 1985-2020. Oxford University Press.
Wang-Sik Kim: Lim, S. (Ed.). (2024). Politics, international relations and diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula. Routledge.
David Kropf II: Kunze, P. (2023). Staging a comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney renaissance. Rutgers University Press.
Douglas Lammers: Eberl, J. T. & Decker, K. S. (Eds.). (2022). Star Wars and philosophy strikes back: This is the way. Wiley-Blackwell.
Charles Marra: Pierotti, M., Monreale, A., & De Santis, F. (2024). Artificial intelligence in accounting and auditing: Accessing the corporate implications. Palgrave Macmillan.
Glenda Payne: Symes, M. (2024). Prints and the landscape garden: Image, illusion, illumination. John Hudson Publishing.
Anna Romero: Alonso, P. (2024). Digital satire in Latin America: Online video humor as hybrid alternative media. University of Florida Press.
Matthew Smith: Wilkinson, C. (2024). Treaty justice: The northwest tribes, the Boldt decision, and the recognition of fishing rights. University of Washington Press.
Jim Sowers: Rao, G. H. R., & Das, U. N. (Eds.). (2025). Cardiometabolic diseases: Molecular basis, early detection of risks, and management. Elsevier Academic Press.
Haoyi Wang: Klein, B. (2024). The insect epiphany: How our six-legged allies shape human culture. Timber Press.
Jon White: Marshall, H. W. (2022). Keep it old-time: fiddle music in Missouri from the 1960s folk music revival to the present. University of Missouri Press.
Paul Whittier, Jr.: Cherrington, J. (Ed.). (2024). Mountain biking, culture and society. Routledge.
Andrew Youkilis: Marks, W. J., & Ostrem, J. L. (Eds.). (2022). Deep brain stimulation management (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.