You can access the new Room Reservation Guidelines on the staff web page under Ellis Library: Physical Space.
Please contact Jeannette Pierce if you have comments or questions.
Staff news
Upcoming Diversity Opportunities, April 27th-May 3rd
The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion.
StuffToDo – FREE Weekend Film: If Beale Street Could Talk
Saturday April 27th 8:00pm-11:00pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.Co-sponsored by BCC.
Designing the Movement: Projection Design as Research for the Every 28 Hours Play
Tuesday April 30th 10:00am-11:00am, Townsend Hall 220
Xiomara Cornejo, Doctoral Student in Theatre and Associate Director for the Center of Applied Theatre and Dramatic Research, discusses her research process as projection designer for the MU Theatre department’s performance of the Every 28 Hours Plays, a series of 1-minute plays created by national theatre artists inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Cornejo examines her creative and research approach to design, which includes the integration of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), projection design as storytelling, and visual historiography.
African American Experience in Missouri Lecture: Dr. Greene
Tuesday April 30th 6:00-8:00pm, Memorial Union
The African American Press has a long history of agency and activism. Dating its founding from 1827 with the publication of Freedom’s Journal in New York, the press has a legacy of protest and a history of the struggle for survival. Between 1875 and 1970, Missouri was home to more than 60 black-owned newspapers. Join Debra Foster Greene, professor emeritus of history from Lincoln University and a noted scholar of African American Business History, for a look into the lives and works of several African American newspaper publishers and editors in the Show-Me State.
Sponsored by the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Center for Missouri Studies; University of Missouri’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity; and the Missouri Humanities Council.
“Not In My Neighborhood”: Toward a Critical Race Reckoning of Higher Education
Wednesday May 1st 4:30pm-5:30pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
In this lecture, Dr. Lori Patton Davis will use Critical Race Theory to trace racist master narratives and events that have historically shaped and continue to perpetuate racism and white supremacy in higher education. She will offer a framework for understanding CRT in higher education and engage the audience in questions about the role and promise of critical race praxis in the academy. Dr. Patton Davis is a Full Professor at Indiana University and Immediate Past President of ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education). Dr. Patton Davis is best known for her important cross-cutting scholarship on African Americans in higher education, critical race theory, campus diversity initiatives on college campuses, girls and women of color in educational and social contexts, and college student development and graduate preparation.
Intergenerational Effects of Trauma: Distinguished Lecture Series in Psychology
Thursday Mary 2nd 3:30pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)
Significant interest lies in trying to understand whether the effects of trauma are passed to the next, or even subsequent generations. Recent advances in molecular biology and epigenetics provide paradigms for understanding long term effects of stress. Epigenetic research provides animals models for how such effects might be transmitted and also raise great speculation about whether and to what extent such mechanisms can be applied to understanding enduring effects of trauma in offspring of survivors. This presentation focuses on consequences of parental trauma and examines whether such effects are biologically ‘transmitted.” Most of the research has been conducted on adult children of Holocaust survivors but is supported by observations of children born to pregnant women who survived the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. Findings demonstrating epigenetic marks associated with parental trauma effects of PTSD will be reviewed, and discussed in the context of whether they represent generational “damage” due to adversity or indicate attempts to adapt to environmental challenge to achieve resilience.
Culture Vultures: Navigating Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation
Thursday May 2nd 12:00pm-1:30pm, Hill Hall 305
Join IDE’S Office of Inclusive Engagement for our Inclusion and Belonging Series. The purpose of the series is to nurture personal, professional and community development to enhance belonging at Mizzou. The series seeks to create spaces for participants to develop inclusive strategies and deepen community connections on campus.
Pre-Registration is required for all sessions. Participants must attend at least three presentations to earn a Certificate of Completion.
We welcome requests for ADA accommodations. Please contact Alejandra Gudiño at GudinoA@missouri.edu to make arrangements.
In the News
“Show Me Mizzou Day to Bring Academics, Athletics Together”
KBIA, April 11, 2019
“Choi names project manager for research center”
Columbia Daily Tribune, April 11, 2019
Staff Advisory Group Notes 4/4/19
Library Student Employee Appreciation Day, April 25
With sponsorship from ULSAC, MULSA, and the Libraries we are once again going to celebrate Library Student Employee Appreciation Day. The celebration will be Thursday, April 25th. There will be a cookie reception in the Ellis Staff Lounge from 2pm to 3:30pm that day. We encourage you to meet up with your students and come with them to partake in some cookies and let them know your appreciation for all that they do for us. We will also again be sending boxes of cookies to all of the specialized libraries and off-site locations so that you can celebrate with your students in your space.
Supervisors, please forward the below invitation to your student employees.
Please join the University Libraries Student Advisory Council (ULSAC), the MU Libraries Staff Association (MULSA), and the University Libraries in celebrating you, our wonderful student workers.
We will be hosting a Reception featuring cookies for you on Thursday, April 25th from 2pm to 3:30pm in the Ellis Library Staff Lounge. Please drop in between classes for cookies and some conversation. We will also send cookies to each Specialty Library and off-site location for students who do not work in Ellis Library.
The Libraries truly could not operate without our student workers! Thank you for all you do!
New Muse Posts
Goodbye to Julie Housknecht
Julie Housknecht has taken a position at a consortium of academic libraries in South Carolina and will be leaving the University Libraries. Her last day was May 15.
Library Management Team Meeting Information and Action Items 4/8/19
Marketing Highlights
If you missed our Instagram stories on the Mizzou Instagram feed during National Library Week, just go to the Libraries Instagram profile and click on the Library Week.
Check out this Special Collections Instagram post about Notre Dame that was liked almost 500 times: https://www.instagram.com/p/BwSqGZqATLA/
Undergraduate Research Contest Winners Announced
Every year, undergraduates across all disciplines are encouraged to submit research projects to the University Libraries Undergraduate Research Contest. Their research projects can be traditional research papers, musical compositions, works of art, videos, web pages, or other creative works. The projects are judged by a cross-disciplinary panel of librarians who evaluate the sophistication of their research process and their use of University of Missouri Libraries resources.
One 1st prize $500 scholarship and one 2nd prize $250 scholarship are awarded to an individual or group project. Winners have their projects archived in MOspace, MU’s digital repository.
This year’s winners were recognized at the Friends of the Libraries council meeting on Saturday, April 6. Awards were presented by Rachel Brekhus, Humanities and Social Science Librarian.
1st Prize Winners: Ashley Anstaett, Phong H. Nguyen and Andrew J. Greenwald
Conceptual Design of Microfiber Removal Using Pressure-Swing Filtration
Their engineering paper is so much more than a design blueprint. It is a well-written and well-organized document that includes, not only the physical science involved with an invention, but also practical considerations of how the product could be maintained in real-world environments, how it could be marketed, and why it’s important to have products that remove microfibers from the environment, at the household level.
Their interdisciplinary group project required both library spaces and library resources. They described the Engineering Library’s collaborative space as “preferred” and “work-conducive,” and as providing software necessary for the conceptual design of the invention. The group also described their use of general and specialized online research tools. The process paper was more specific than most in describing how their keyword searching was done, and they identified the specialized e-journal database, Science Direct, which they used, not only for the review of literature, but also during the design process. Their process paper makes clear that in the world of product design, research is iterative and tightly connected with the creative process.
2nd Prize Winner: Erielle Jones
Fly Like an Eagle: The Success of STOP-ERA in the Missouri Senate 1977
In her paper, Jones did an excellent job of linking the rhetoric in Phyllis Schlafley’s Eagle Forum with the rhetoric used in the Missouri State Legislature to argue against passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), including associating passages of the ERA with affirmative action measures, unpopular among Missouri white conservatives.
The process paper detailed, not only Jones’s ultimate choice of primary historical sources, but also her independent exploration of other primary sources in pursuit of an earlier approach to the topic, which did not yield the hoped-for documentation. The paper showed the role of discipline, assistance from library and archives professionals, and serendipity in finding and selecting sources while maintaining focus on a well-defined research question. Sources examined included correspondence, leaflets, newsletters, invitations, and receipts from the personal archives of state representatives, state senate testimony, surveys, news sources, and court transcripts.
Her process showed a commitment to both the importance and the limitations of historical documentation, and understanding of the social and racial context of both the political-opinion media environment, and this media’s impact on the legislative process. Certainly, the practice in popular conservative media of linking proposed legislation not directly related to race, with narratives of governmental interference with default racial distributions of privilege, continues to be relevant today.
