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Take a Study Break with Calming Crafternoons at Ellis Library

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Join us for Calming Crafternoons at Mizzou Libraries! This series of events features easy and creative crafts. Take a break from studying and enjoy some stress relief while crafting.

Find all Mizzou Libraries’ events on Engage – search library.

Fall 2026 Events

Calming Crafternoons: Diamond Painting
Date: 9/17
Location: Ellis Library Main Floor 1:30 – 4:30pm
Description: Get ready to turn your fridge into a sparkling art gallery! Join us for a laid-back Calming Crafternoon for Diamond Painting Fridge Magnets. Whether you’re a seasoned diamond artist or just love shiny things, this event is all about relaxing, chatting, and creating something delightfully tacky—or genuinely chic—for your kitchen. All supplies are included. Everyone is welcome!

Calming Crafternoons: Spooky Crochet Critters
Date: 10/7
Location: Ellis Library Main Floor 1:30 – 4:30pm
Description: Get ready to get your cozy craft on! Whether you’re a complete beginner who has never held a hook or a seasoned yarn enthusiast, come spend a fun, laid-back afternoon bringing a spooky-cute companion to life. You get to pick your path: crochet a giggle-worthy ghost, a friendly little spider, or a plump pumpkin! All supplies are included. Everyone is welcome!

Calming Crafternoon: Tassel & Beaded Garland/Keychain
Date: 11/5
Location: Ellis Library Main Floor 1:30 – 4:30pm
Description: Get ready to string together some serious style! Join us for a fun, fabulous, and totally tactile workshop where we’re turning colorful yarn, wooden beads, and vibrant accents into gorgeous Tassel & Beaded Garland and Beaded Keychains. All supplies are included. Everyone is welcome!

Calming Crafternoons: Gnomes and Pom-Pom Otters
Date: 12/2
Location: Ellis Library Main Floor 1:30 – 4:30pm
Description: Get ready for the ultimate showdown of cozy, whimsical crafting! Whether you’re team mystical garden creature or team fluffy aquatic cutie, this crafternoon is double the fun! Come spend a relaxing session crafting your choice of a bearded Gnome or a fuzzy Pom-Pom Otter (or stay double-focused and make both!). All supplies are included. Everyone is welcome!

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Peer Navigator Corner: Ellis as a 3rd Space

By Kimberly Moeller   Posted in Ellis Library Resources and Services
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Why Ellis Should be Your 3rd Space
Written By: Emilee Dillon 

Lately, a popular topic of conversation specifically on social media has been the lack of “3rd spaces” for young and emerging adults. There is a distinct lack of places to socialize or relax – a place that isn’t just home or school, somewhere everyone can just go to exist without pressure. 

I believe many students are unaware that we have the perfect third space for us right on campus, at Ellis Library. While it is easy to think of Ellis simply as a study spot it has so much more to offer. The Bookmark Cafe located on the ground floor is the perfect place to grab a coffee or a snack, sit down with friends, and have a break. Annalise and Isabella, two of the hosts from our peer navigator student podcast, Between the Stacks, actually talk about how great of a third space the Bookmark Cafe creates. It’s the little things, like microwaves available for all students to use to make meal times or heating something up with friends convenient. 

Ellis is also a great place for readers, not only reading for assignments but enjoyment as well. The Libraries have access to many books that are not strictly academic and is an excellent place to cozy up with a good book. When you first walk up the stairs from the cafe, the well-being collection is directly in front of you, with a shelf full of fiction, books on cooking and crafting, and more. Ellis Library also hosts a BYOBook Club so you can connect with others that have similar interests while still having the freedom to read something you personally choose and will enjoy. Events like this are highlighted on the libraries homepage, but be sure to look up this and others by searching for the libraries on MU Engage! 

Beyond the quiet areas of the library there are more relaxed areas where you can walk around, talk and explore Ellis with your friends, maybe even getting lost in the stacks. Not every corner of the library is designed to be silent, and it is actually a perfect space to socialize in some areas! 

Ellis library also hosts occasional free events such as the calming crafternoons, which are often overlooked. These events can be a great way to meet new people, try something new, or just give you something to do for free! 

Although it may feel like third spaces are disappearing, I believe we may need to just look at it from a different angle, and reimagine this beautiful building our campus has given us. I recommend using Ellis to your full potential and allowing Ellis to be a place you can connect, relax, and build your community. 

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BYOBook Club at Mizzou Libraries

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BYOBook club; First Wednesday of the month in Ellis Library room 114a 4-5pm

Do you want to join a book club but prefer to choose your own book?

Join us at BYOBook Club! Read any book for the month’s (optional) prompt and chat with other readers about what you chose. This is a great way to discover new books and authors—or rant about pesky plot holes.

  • September 2nd – Favorite summer read
  • October 7th – Banned book
  • November 4th – New perspectives (book from a language/culture/POV different from you)
  • December 2nd – Resistance! (fiction or nonfiction)

You can find book recommendations and more on our BYOBook Club guide: libraryguides.missouri.edu/byobook-club

This club is sponsored by Mizzou Libraries Outreach and Engagement Committee.

Registration is encouraged but not required.

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Stay Connected with the Mizzou Libraries: Sign Up for Our Newsletter

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Whether you want research help in person or remotely, the Mizzou Libraries will stay connected with you! To find out everything the Mizzou Libraries can do to help you, subscribe to one of our newsletters. The Mizzou Libraries want you to have a successful fall semester! You can also follow Mizzou Libraries on Engage to learn about our events and workshops.

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Mizzou Libraries Reading Challenge

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Mizzou Libraries Reading Challenge

Mizzou Libraries invites the campus community (students, staff, and faculty) to join our inaugural campus-wide Reading Challenge! This challenge runs from September 2026 to April 2027.

Read (or listen to) a book each month based on that month’s theme, tell us about it, and be entered into win one of our monthly prizes. Complete all 8 months to be entered in to the grand prize drawing.

Select this link to learn more about the Mizzou Libraries Reading Challenge: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/readingchallenge

 

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Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: July 2026

By Taira Meadowcroft   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields

Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.

This month’s featured article, “Polychip-A High-Throughput Droplet Microfluidics Platform for Interrogating Microbial Interactions” was co-authored by Dr. Paul de Figueiredo of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. The article was published in Advanced Science (impact factor of 14.1 in 2025).

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=July&Year=2026

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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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New Text and Data Mining Tool Available to Mizzou Researchers

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New Data Mining Tool Available TDM Studio

University of Missouri students, faculty and researchers now have access to ProQuest TDM Studio, a platform that simplifies text and data mining and helps users uncover patterns, trends and insights across large collections of content. The platform provides powerful tools for computational research while making text and data mining accessible to users with diverse technical backgrounds.

Mizzou Libraries has secured a three-year subscription to TDM Studio through July 2029, with the possibility of renewal based on usage and available funding.

TDM Studio allows researchers to mine content from several ProQuest resources already available through Mizzou Libraries, including ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, U.S. Newsstream, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers, and Vogue. The service does not include Factiva. The platform also enables researchers to work with large datasets and discover new relationships across scholarly, news and historical content.

Researchers can get started immediately with TDM Studio’s Visualization Dashboard, which requires no coding experience and offers an easy entry point to explore large collections of text. Users seeking more advanced analysis can use the platform’s Python-based Workbench, which includes sample projects and guided walkthroughs for beginners, as well as more sophisticated research workflows for experienced users.

In addition to supporting research, TDM Studio can be used in teaching and learning environments to help students develop data literacy and digital scholarship skills.

To learn how to create an account and begin exploring TDM Studio, visit the TDM Studio Library Guide. Researchers and students can also participate in a series of fall workshops, including a monthly Introduction to TDM Studio session designed to help new users get started.

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Summer Reading Recommendations from Mizzou Librarians

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We asked Mizzou Librarians to tell us what their favorite read of the summer was and of course they had a lot to share!

In this list, you will find beach reads and dense reads. Fiction and non-fiction. This list has a little for everyone, no matter your reading tastes.

You can access the list using this link.

Happy reading!

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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Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: June 2026

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Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields

Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.

This month we have two featured articles from the same journal, Journal of Clinical Oncology (5-year impact factor of 41.3 in 2024):

was co-authored by Dr. Iris Zachary of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Dr. Cherian Verghese of the Department of Medicine – Hematology Oncology.

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=June&Year=2026

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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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New Open Journal Finder Helps Mizzou Researchers Identify Publishing Options

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New Tool to Identify Publishing Options

The Mizzou Libraries now offer a tool to help Mizzou researchers identify journals where they can publish their work. The Open Journal Finder provides an easy way to explore journal publishing options, including open access status, article processing charges, and library-supported discounts or agreements.

Researchers can use the Open Journal Finder to look up individual journal titles and find important publishing details in one place. For each title, the tool may include the following information

  • whether the journal is fully open access, hybrid open access, or not open access;
  • whether article processing charges (APC) apply;
  • whether Mizzou Libraries support all or part of the APC (support only available for Mizzou-affiliated researchers);
  • instructions for authors;
  • the number of articles published by Mizzou authors in the journal over the last five years; and
  • how often Mizzou researchers have cited articles from the journal in the last two years.

When a journal is labeled “Library Supported” above the open access icon, Mizzou Libraries offers APC support for that title to Mizzou researchers. Researchers should click the journal title to view complete details, including any remaining costs they may be responsible for. Because not every title from a publisher is included in Mizzou’s APC agreements, researchers should always check the Open Journal Finder before submitting an article.

The tool also helps clarify common publishing categories. Fully open-access journals make all articles freely available, while hybrid journals include both open-access and subscription-only articles and may require an APC for open-access publishing. Journals that are not open access are marked with a gray lock icon. By bringing together publication costs, open-access status, author instructions, and MU-specific publishing metrics, the Open Journal Finder gives researchers a clearer picture of their options before they submit their work.

For more information about journal metrics, visit the Mizzou Libraries guide on journal rankings.

June 5, 2026