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On Halloween, a few of us handed out gift bags to patients in the children’s hospital for their reverse trick or treating event. It was a great experience to visit them and hand out treats so they wouldn’t miss out on Halloween. It’s always a fun time to see them in their costumes too.
We recently received a handmade card from some library lovers in Edinburgh, Scotland! The family are big fans of libraries and their young children created their own library while on break from school. They even made the card!
Our “Celebrating Open Access Week” post was in the MU Healthy Today newsletter on Thursday.
Thanks to Megan Ballengee, Danielle Gorman, Gwen Gray, Gabe Harman, Jill Kline, Haley Lykins, and Kimberly Moeller for helping with the barbie instagram reel we posted this week! I appreciate all your help!
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.
This week we posted a reel on instagram featuring Jara from Vet Med. Thanks, Jara!
Since posting on Monday, it has 164 likes and almost 3000 views.
And if you haven’t, you should follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mizzou.libraries/
In July, the University Libraries hired Jennifer Thompson as associate university librarian for Acquisitions, Collections and Technical Services. Jennifer has a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia, where she studied religious studies and architectural history. She was inspired to become a librarian while studying the design of the Boston Public Library. The architects intended the design to reflect the importance of public spaces in a democratic society and the ability of learning to improve lives – two concepts with which Jennifer wholeheartedly aligns. Previously Jennifer served as electronic resources librarian for the University of Missouri System, technology and resource sharing consultant for the Missouri State Library, and library director at the American College of the Building Arts in Charleston, SC.