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New Muse Posts

Weekend Fun: Yappy Hour, Mid-MO Expo, and ALICE

Airbnbs with Libraries!

home Staff news Thank You to Show Me Mizzou Day Volunteers

Thank You to Show Me Mizzou Day Volunteers

Thank you to the following graduate students, staff members and librarians who volunteered to work at last weekend’s Show Me Mizzou Day activity at Ellis Library:

  • Grace Atkins
  • Tyler Blood
  • Shannon Cary
  • Cindy Cotner
  • John Fifield
  • Kelli Hansen
  • Haley Gillilan
  • Trevor Hook
  • Jefferson Hulbert
  • Nav Khanal
  • Taira Meadowcroft
  • Amanda Sprochi
  • Kelsie Wilkins
  • Michelle Zigler

Around, eighteen-hundred people attended Show Me Mizzou Day and over 150 people came through Ellis Library. Attendees had over 100 activities/events to choose from. Compared to other activities, we were one of the most family-inclusive events, meaning there was something for all age ranges to enjoy. We received feedback that attendees loved playing with the tech, viewing the maps and making buttons. It was a success thank to our volunteers!

In addition, the Health Sciences Library also provided activities for their visitors.

home Staff news Newly Revised Ellis Library Room Reservation Guidelines Available

Newly Revised Ellis Library Room Reservation Guidelines Available

You can access the new Room Reservation Guidelines on the staff web page under Ellis Library: Physical Space.

Please contact Jeannette Pierce if you have comments or questions.

home Staff news Upcoming Diversity Opportunities, April 27th-May 3rd

Upcoming Diversity Opportunities, April 27th-May 3rd

The Diversity and Inclusion Committee will send out upcoming opportunities every week we think will be of interest. We hope that you will help us continue to build a library culture of diversity and inclusion.


StuffToDo – FREE Weekend Film: If Beale Street Could Talk
Saturday April 27th 8:00pm-11:00pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)

A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime.Co-sponsored by BCC.

 

Designing the Movement: Projection Design as Research for the Every 28 Hours Play
Tuesday April 30th 10:00am-11:00am, Townsend Hall 220

Xiomara Cornejo, Doctoral Student in Theatre and Associate Director for the Center of Applied Theatre and Dramatic Research, discusses her research process as projection designer for the MU Theatre department’s performance of the Every 28 Hours Plays, a series of 1-minute plays created by national theatre artists inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Cornejo examines her creative and research approach to design, which includes the integration of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), projection design as storytelling, and visual historiography.

 

African American Experience in Missouri Lecture: Dr. Greene
Tuesday April 30th 6:00-8:00pm, Memorial Union

The African American Press has a long history of agency and activism. Dating its founding from 1827 with the publication of Freedom’s Journal in New York, the press has a legacy of protest and a history of the struggle for survival. Between 1875 and 1970, Missouri was home to more than 60 black-owned newspapers. Join Debra Foster Greene, professor emeritus of history from Lincoln University and a noted scholar of African American Business History, for a look into the lives and works of several African American newspaper publishers and editors in the Show-Me State.

Sponsored by the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Center for Missouri Studies; University of Missouri’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity; and the Missouri Humanities Council.

 

“Not In My Neighborhood”: Toward a Critical Race Reckoning of Higher Education
Wednesday May 1st 4:30pm-5:30pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)

In this lecture, Dr. Lori Patton Davis will use Critical Race Theory to trace racist master narratives and events that have historically shaped and continue to perpetuate racism and white supremacy in higher education. She will offer a framework for understanding CRT in higher education and engage the audience in questions about the role and promise of critical race praxis in the academy. Dr. Patton Davis is a Full Professor at Indiana University and Immediate Past President of ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education). Dr. Patton Davis is best known for her important cross-cutting scholarship on African Americans in higher education, critical race theory, campus diversity initiatives on college campuses, girls and women of color in educational and social contexts, and college student development and graduate preparation.

 

Intergenerational Effects of Trauma: Distinguished Lecture Series in Psychology
Thursday Mary 2nd 3:30pm, Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union)

Significant interest lies in trying to understand whether the effects of trauma are passed to the next, or even subsequent generations. Recent advances in molecular biology and epigenetics provide paradigms for understanding long term effects of stress. Epigenetic research provides animals models for how such effects might be transmitted and also raise great speculation about whether and to what extent such mechanisms can be applied to understanding enduring effects of trauma in offspring of survivors. This presentation focuses on consequences of parental trauma and examines whether such effects are biologically ‘transmitted.” Most of the research has been conducted on adult children of Holocaust survivors but is supported by observations of children born to pregnant women who survived the World Trade Center attack on 9/11. Findings demonstrating epigenetic marks associated with parental trauma effects of PTSD will be reviewed, and discussed in the context of whether they represent generational “damage” due to adversity or indicate attempts to adapt to environmental challenge to achieve resilience.

 

Culture Vultures: Navigating Cultural Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation
Thursday May 2nd 12:00pm-1:30pm, Hill Hall 305

Join IDE’S Office of Inclusive Engagement for our Inclusion and Belonging Series.  The purpose of the series is to nurture personal, professional and community development to enhance belonging at Mizzou. The series seeks to create spaces for participants to develop inclusive strategies and deepen community connections on campus.

Pre-Registration is required for all sessions. Participants must attend at least three presentations to earn a Certificate of Completion.

We welcome requests for ADA accommodations. Please contact Alejandra Gudiño at GudinoA@missouri.edu to make arrangements.

Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home Staff news In the News

In the News

“Show Me Mizzou Day to Bring Academics, Athletics Together”
KBIA, April 11, 2019

“Choi names project manager for research center”
Columbia Daily Tribune, April 11, 2019

home Staff news Staff Advisory Group Notes 4/4/19

Staff Advisory Group Notes 4/4/19

SAG Notes 04.04.19

Space Consultant Presentation

home Staff news Library Student Employee Appreciation Day, April 25

Library Student Employee Appreciation Day, April 25

With sponsorship from ULSAC, MULSA, and the Libraries we are once again going to celebrate Library Student Employee Appreciation Day.  The celebration will be Thursday, April 25th.  There will be a cookie reception in the Ellis Staff Lounge from 2pm to 3:30pm that day.  We encourage you to meet up with your students and come with them to partake in some cookies and let them know your appreciation for all that they do for us.  We will also again be sending boxes of cookies to all of the specialized libraries and off-site locations so that you can celebrate with your students in your space.

Supervisors, please forward the below invitation to your student employees.

Please join the University Libraries Student Advisory Council (ULSAC), the MU Libraries Staff Association (MULSA), and the University Libraries in celebrating you, our wonderful student workers.

We will be hosting a Reception featuring cookies for you on Thursday, April 25th from 2pm to 3:30pm in the Ellis Library Staff Lounge.  Please drop in between classes for cookies and some conversation.  We will also send cookies to each Specialty Library and off-site location for students who do not work in Ellis Library.

The Libraries truly could not operate without our student workers!  Thank you for all you do!

home Staff news New Muse Posts

New Muse Posts

Weekend Fun: Easter Buffet, New Works Dance Concert, Columbia Micro Con

Are you a poet?

home Staff news Goodbye to Julie Housknecht

Goodbye to Julie Housknecht

Julie Housknecht has taken a position at a consortium of academic libraries in South Carolina and will be leaving the University Libraries. Her last day was May 15.

home Staff news Library Management Team Meeting Information and Action Items 4/8/19

Library Management Team Meeting Information and Action Items 4/8/19

LMT 04.08.19 Information and Action Items