home Staff news Thank You to All the Escape Room Helpers!

Thank You to All the Escape Room Helpers!

We had another successful escape room event during Welcome Week this year! We had 150 students register with a few dozen on the waiting list. The students had a great time and that is thanks to all of those who helped this year!

You can see the photos of the groups and their different times they escaped here. 

Thanks to our room helpers and escape room planning team!

John Henry Adams
Jara Anderson
Megan Ballenge
Johanny Veiga Barbosa
Anne Barker
Shannon Cary
Vera Elwood
Gwen Gray
Gabe Harman
Mara Inge
Taira Meadowcroft
Jeannette Pierce
Jennifer Walker
Rhonda Whithaus

Some others we need to thank: Ellis Library Circulation and the Journalism Library for letting us use all the ipads; Ellis Library shelving for shelving all the books we used during the event; Gayle Mooney and Jacqueline Eiben for helping order all the items we needed; Sheila Voss for helping with some escape room set up; and everyone who volunteered for the escape room run through back in July; And to anyone else we may have missed. 🙂

It takes a lot of people to help with this event and we appreciate all the time, big or small, you’ve contributed to make this fun event happen for the new Mizzou students.

Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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Student Mobile IDs Are Available!

Mobile IDs now are available for our students. This means students who have added the TigerCard to their mobile device can now tap their phone or watch on card readers across campus inside the library, dining halls, MizzouRec, the Mizzou Store, Mizzou Pharmacy, Tiger Garden and other select locations.

As the semester begins, we’ll start seeing more students tapping their mobile IDs using a phone or watch rather than using their physical IDs. The experience for those of you who are monitoring the approval or completion of a transaction will be similar. However, there are some important things to know about this change:
• Students should carry their physical ID cards as a backup. If the student’s mobile ID doesn’t work, instruct them to use their physical ID card.
• For issues with the mobile ID, please direct students to call the IT Help Desk at 573-882-5000.
• For issues with the physical ID, please direct students to the ID Office in the lower level of the Mizzou Store or have them call 573-882-1871.
• Students can use their mobile ID for student charge purchases, and it will be billed to their account.
• Students must have purchased a dining plan or have funds in Tiger Cash to use their mobile ID as payment at a dining location.
• The mobile ID can be used immediately after downloading in most locations. For Residential Life locks it may take up to 20 minutes for the first use. MizzouRec, students may need to wait a few hours for their mobile ID to sync.
• Mobile ID is not currently available for faculty and staff, or access to employee areas.

To learn more about the new mobile ID option or to download, please visit the Mizzou mobile ID webpage.

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Missouri Library Association Conference – 10/4-10/6, Columbia, MO

Registration (early bird preferred and ends August 15th)
• Approved ticketed events (approval by Division Head)
• 50% meal per diem if at the conference more than 8 hours ($27.00) [Note – this is University policy.] • No mileage
• No hotel except for those in a leadership role with the conference (approval by Division Head)

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Vaughan Dietzel will join the MU Libraries on August 14 as a senior security officer. Welcome, Vaughan!

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Welcome New Librarians

Welcome to all our new librarians!

  • Haley Lykins, temporary librarian in special collections
    Supervisor: Kelli Hansen
    Start date: June 1
  • Janet Hilts, research and instructional services librarian
    Supervisor: Rhonda Whithaus
    Start date: July 14
  • Jenny Thompson, associate university librarian for ACTS
    Supervisor: Deb Ward
    Start date: July 17
  • Megan Ballengee, community engagement coordinator
    Supervisor: Deb Ward
    Start date: August 1
  • Jill Kline, student success librarian
    Supervisor: Nav Khanal
    Start date: August 15
  • Nicole Merzweiler, continuing resources catalog librarian
    Supervisor: Seth Huber
    Start date: September 1
  • Katie Rahman, systems librarian
    Supervisor: Steven Pryor
    Start date: September 15