Staff news
Marketing Highlight: Valentine’s Day and Post to Highlight
We made some bookish themed valentines. They all got great engagement on facebook, twitter, and instagram
The Health Sciences Library is working on an Increase Your Impact Series. : https://library.missouri.edu/news/tag/research-impact-series
It’s easy to adapt these posts when you use the engaging emails template. Need help with creating an engaging email, contact Taira Meadowcroft.
If there are other topics you’d the marketing team to promote, send your ideas to Shannon Cary.
Marketing Highlight: Instagram Giveaway and Things to Promote
Thanks to Ying in Digital Services, we held an Instagram giveaway: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZIVRG5pdxt/. Ying designed this calendar out of images from the digital library. We had 77 people enter.
This instagram post by Mara got some great engagement back in December: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCb8-AF8Jd/
Here are some posts you can use to promote to users and/or your departments:
- Black History Month Exhibit and Talk: Black Health and Wellness
- Maximizing Your Research Identity and Impact
- Welcome to the Libraries: An Introduction for Savvy Student Scholars
- New Database Trial: ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Defender 1909-2010
- New Database Trial: Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
- New Database Trial: Sources Chrétiennes Online
- New Items Added to HathiTrust
It’s easy to adapt these post when you use the engaging emails template. Need help with creating an engaging email, contact Taira Meadowcroft.
If there are other topics you’d the marketing team to promote, send your ideas to Shannon Cary.
Book Talk with Benjamin Moore: The Names of John Gergen, Immigrant Identities in Early Twentieth-Century St. Louis
Thursday, January 27
4 p.m.
Online
Join MU Libraries and the University of Missouri Press for their first Book Talk of the year. Benjamin Moore, Professor Emeritus of English and founder and former Director of the Bosnia Memory Project at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, will discuss his recently published book, The Names of John Gergen, Immigrant Identities in Early Twentieth-Century St. Louis.
Rescued from the dumpster of a boarded-up house, the yellowing scraps of a young migrant’s schoolwork provided Benjamin Moore with the jumping-off point for this study of migration, memory, and identity. Centering on the compelling story of its eponymous subject, The Names of John Gergen examines the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century. These migrants were Banat Swabians from Torontál County in southern Hungary—they were Catholic, agrarian, and ethnically German.
Between 1900 and 1920, the St. Louis neighborhoods occupied by migrants were sites of efforts by civic authorities and social reformers to counter the perceived threat of foreignness by attempting to Americanize foreign-born residents. At the same time, these neighborhoods saw the strengthening of Banat Swabians’ ethnic identities. Historically, scholars and laypeople have understood migrants in terms of their aspirations and transformations, especially their transformations into Americans. The experiences of John Gergen and his kin, however, suggest that identity at the level of the individual was both more fragmented and more fluid than twentieth-century historians have recognized, subject to a variety of forces that often pulled migrants in multiple directions.
Event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Sandy Schiefer Appointed Interim Head of the Journalism Library
Sandy Schiefer, Journalism Research and Digital Access Librarian, has been appointed Interim Head of the Journalism Library, effective January 1. Sandy joined our staff in 2009, starting as a government documents librarian. She took over the Columbia Missourian Newspaper Library in 2016, and with its closure in 2021, has recently moved to the journalism library.
Sandy has worked hard to inform students and patrons about misinformation and the problems with social media and untrustworthy news. She is dedicated to educating people about how to evaluate and research what they see on the internet. These skills will serve her well in assisting faculty and students with their research.
Sandy’s previous positions include webmaster and software developer for Washington University, Hunter Engineering and SBC, Inc. in St. Louis. She also owned an online used-books store for six years. Sandy has a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Missouri and a Bachelor of Technical Computing from Washington University in St. Louis.
New Muse Posts
Welcome to Jade Lemmon
Jade Lemmon has joined the University Libraries’ advancement team as Coordinator of Donor Engagement, beginning her duties December 8. Jade was born and raised in Rock Port, Missouri, and is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University. Following graduation in 2019 she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to begin her career in marketing. She’s excited to return to Missouri and put her talents to work at Mizzou. Jade enjoys traveling with friends and family and relaxing with her six-year-old cat, Dorothea. Welcome to Mizzou, Jade!
Marketing Highlight: Show Me Mizzou, Instagram, and Post to Promote
We were featured in the 12/8 edition of the Show Me Mizzou newsletter: https://bit.ly/3GvsM4n
This Instagram post, Mara Inge, received 240 likes since it posted 12/3: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCb8-AF8Jd/ Congratulations!
Here are some posts you can use to promote to users and/or your departments:
- New Database Trial: APA PsycTESTS
- There are a few posts related to finals you can share. Emma Fernandez did a great job with the countdown to finals posts: https://library.missouri.edu/news/tag/finals
Marketing Highlight: Posts to Promote
Here are some posts you can use to promote to users and/or your departments:
Send a Friend (or Yourself!) a Finals Week Pet Gram
Writing Your Final Paper? Mizzou Libraries Can Help
Fun activities for upcoming holiday season!
Ellis Library Open Extended Hours for Finals Study
Got A Project You’re Proud Of? Submit to the Undergraduate Research Contest
New Database Trial: APA PsycTESTS
Send a Friend (or Yourself!) a Finals Week Pet Gram
Feeling stressed? Need a pick me up or know someone else who needs a a dose of serotonin? Send yourself, a friend, a coworker, or whoever else a pet gram to make them smile.
You can choose to feature a dog, cat, or bird. Or choose to be surprised! All pets featured are owned by a Mizzou Libraries employee and they are excited to have their beloved pets to spread some joy.
Send one or many, there is no limit! We will take requests from November 29th-December 10th.
Request here: https://forms.gle/KahzbkveBJVsCdoe9
Have a question? Email mulibrariesprmc@missouri.edu
Thanks UNF Library for the inspiration!