‘Draconian’ Layoffs, Grant Terminations Come for the NEH
Inside Higher Ed, April 14, 2025
Staff news
Marketing Highlight: Instagram Reels
Last week we had another peer navigator reel post!
And another of the reels was reposted by the offiicial simon and schuster instagram account:
Highlighted Posts of the Week
Ellis Library & Writing Center Summer Pilot 2025
For summer 2025, MU Libraries and the Writing Center will collaborate to provide research and writing support services to Mizzou students in a new, single location. For the summer semester(s), Writing Center on-campus appointments will take place in Ellis Library 115. Our primary goal of the pilot is to provide collocated research and writing support, making it easier for Mizzou writers to access both services at any part of their writing process. Come see the new space in June 2025!
In the News
“Inside five of Mizzou’s unique libraries”
Show Me Mizzou, April 7, 2025
“Cycle of success: Special Collection instruction in middle school field trips”
Show Me Mizzou, April 8, 2025
Graves and Moeller Receive AI Task Force Award
Marketing Highlight: National Library Week
Several Mizzou accounts showed us some library love this week!
Mizzou Alumni
Scroll through our National Library Week highlight to see what Mizzou posted about us this year: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18052200346048565/
Highlighted Posts of the Week
Pronoun Buttons Available for Library Employees
The Libraries’ IDEA Committee has made a selection of pronoun buttons. If you would like one, message Megan Ballengee with your pronouns and she’ll get one to you. You can also pick one up in the Ellis Lounge during April or while supplies last.
Gwen Gray Receives Business Librarianship Award
Gwen Gray, business, economics and entrepreneurship librarian at the University of Missouri, is the 2025 winner for the BRASS Excellence in Business Librarianship Award. BRASS is the Business Reference and Services Section of the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association.
Jaya Ghosh, program director of the MU Coulter Biomedical Accelerator, stated in her nomination letter, “Through her contributions to MU’s translational research funding, training and mentorship programs and other entrepreneurial offerings such as the regional I-Corps Program (advisor), MU EQ
Student Accelerator (mentor), Mizzou Venture Mentoring Service (mentor) and Entrepreneurship Workshop Series (mentor), Gwen’s work significantly enhances the innovation and entrepreneurship capacity of MU, and by extension of Missouri and the U.S. at large.”
Gwen’s contributions include supporting entrepreneurial initiatives at local and national levels, fostering community partnerships, supporting student success, and providing professional mentorship to LIS students. Gwen has dedicated years of her career to develop and strengthen networks that have created long-lasting impacts on her community and the broader profession.
Gwen stated, “I am humbled to receive the BRASS Excellence in Business Librarianship Award and am deeply grateful to LSEG Data & Analytic and RUSA for this recognition. Many thanks to the committee for selecting me to receive this honor. I’ve had wonderful support throughout my career at the Mizzou Libraries and would like to especially note Rhonda Whithaus and Jeannette Pierce who (unbeknownst to me) spearheaded the nomination effort. They along with so many of my colleagues have been supportive and encouraging, giving me the freedom to explore and go in new directions. I would also like to recognize Doug Moesel, associate professor of management, who started my work in entrepreneurship by inviting me to join a campus committee on the topic in 2004. Greg Bier, executive director of Entrepreneurship Programs, has been a tireless champion of librarians, making sure the entrepreneurship ecosystem knows our value. Thank you to all the faculty, staff, students and community members not named (and there are many) who have made me better than I would be on my own. Thank you again for this honor.”
Congratulations to Gwen!