The Fall 2018 issue includes

• All the ways Mizzou celebrated Homecoming 2018
• Accessibility efforts and award winners
• Students making an impact in and out of the classroom
• The new IDE champion feature
• News about the 2019 MU MLK speaker.

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-the Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Rich Rexroat started at the Health Sciences Library in 1979. That year:

• Jimmy Carter was president
• The Sahara Desert experienced snow for 30 minutes
• Superman the Movie was released
• The average cost of a medical journal was about $40
• And this is what the Medical Library looked like, where Rich started his career as a librarian.

Now, almost 40 years later, he’s decided it’s time to retire, and we wish him well in his future endeavors!

We have no campus events to recommend this week, but there is no shortage of cultural enrichment to be had, related to many aspects of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Check out What’s Cooking?, viewable online on tubitv.com, if you want to see some family drama in four very different yet interrelated American families.

Want to see Thanksgiving celebrations in historical context in U.S. history, including colonial-era instructions on stuffing and roasting turkey? Your Library of Congress has quite a bit.

Ever thought about how Native Americans today feel about Thanksgiving? See this writeup from the National Museum of the American Indian.  Want to find out about the role the late-fall/winter staple wild rice’s cultural and historical significance for the Ojibwe people? Look at some of the Youtube videos on “Manoomin,” the Ojibwe name for wild rice, like this short documentary.

And for fun and exciting dinner conversation, how about this? https://www.history.com/news/thanksgiving-history-trivia-facts

Wishing all our colleagues a happy weekend away from work, however you celebrate,

-The Diversity Committee