Web tip of the week, Oct. 9, 2017
Events for the weekend: Halloween fun, Pumpkin festival and Planetarium!
Recipe of the week: 20-Minute Crispy Pierogies with Broccoli and Sausage
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“UM System establishes task force to promote use of open educational resources”
The Maneater, Oct. 11, 2017
In November, the MU Latin Graduate & Professional Network (LGPN) will have a display in the Ellis Library colonnade for the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos or “Day of the Dead,” and they are holding a community craft-making event with library employees especially invited.
The LGPN’s craft-making session will be in Ellis Library Room 4F51A on Wednesday, November 1, from 2:30-4:30 and it is open to all.* Bring a picture of the person you want to memorialize — a printout or color photocopy is fine — along with one or two small objects. For example, you can bring a piece of their favorite candy or a trinket that represents something they enjoyed in life. Favorite foods (represented by an empty wrapper), soap and grooming items are traditional items to include with these memorials. The group will be making lots of tissue paper flowers that contribute to the colorful display.
You may bring craft materials and supplies if you have some at home – brightly colored tissue paper, scissors, magic markers, tape, etc. Large shoeboxes can be decorated and used with these displays.
This is a chance to participate in a traditional Mexican observance. It is considered a time of joy in remembrance and can be part of grieving process as well, for losses that are recent. We’d love to see you there!
*Library employees should seek supervisory permission.
Happy Friday!
Sheila, Gwen, Sheryl and I are gearing up for the University Libraries United Way festivities! We want to let you know a bit more of what is being planned and how you can participate and #MizzouLU.
The big event of course is the Chili and Cookie Cook Off on Tuesday October 17th. If you have not had a chance to sign up for either the chili or cookie and would like to please contact Gwen Gray and let her know. We need your chili and cookies!
We are also doing Penny Wars! Departments versus departments. I believe we broke it down as follows:
We will have jars at each of these locations including each branch (if you would like one) to collect spare change and any monetary donations you would like to make to the United Way. These are not for your pledge donations!
We’ve heard back from several branches already who would like a jar so please let us know if you would like one and Gwen and I will make sure you get one! We will begin distributing these next week on Monday.
A huge Thank you to Kate Wright for designing the jar label for us! (See attachment).
Folks can continue to add to the jars up until the Chili and Cookie Cook off and then we will collect those at the event and get a final count out to everyone in the days following the cook off. We think this will be a lot of fun.
Please keep the jars in staff areas to keep them from walking awayJ
Don’t forget to start saving that change and preparing your chili and cookie recipes!
All the best!
Sheila, Michelle, Sheryl, and Gwen
Your 2017 United Way Ambassadors
#MizzouLU
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!
instagram.com/mizzou.libraries/
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.