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We will be hosting our annual Ellis Library Open House after the Homecoming Parade on Oct. 19. The event will be from 10 a.m. to noon, and we will also need some help with set up starting around 9 a.m. It’s always a fun event, we provide snacks and drinks, plus family-friendly activities, such as button-making and decorating mini pumpkins.
If you can help out (please check with your supervisor first), please let me know by the end of this week.
We had a successful Homecoming Open House last weekend with a huge crowd. We helped visitors make around 130 library buttons, almost 100 mini pumpkins and lots of tiger masks. We also handed out tons of pencils, post it notes, Special Collections bookmarks and black & gold beads. Visitors enjoyed cider, coffee, pumpkin bars and more!
Check out pictures of the event at https://www.instagram.com/p/B3nT0kmnjnU/.
Thanks to the following librarians and staff who helped with the event:
Shannon Cary
Cindy Cotner
John Fifield
Matt Gaunt
Taira Meadowcroft
Ann Campion Riley
Ali Sauer
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.
The Libraries will host its annual open house at Ellis Library after the Homecoming parade on October 20. The parade time has not been announced yet, but the open house will probably run from 9 to 11 am.
There will be refreshments and activities for families, including mini pumpkin and tiger mask decorating, coloring (thanks to Special Collections) and story time. If you would like to volunteer to help out with this event, please contact Shannon Cary (carysn@missouri.edu) or Sheila Voss (vosss@missouri.edu).
The following events and exhibitions have been scheduled to facilitate conversation regarding this year’s One Read Program selection: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community–and all of us–to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
A Brief Moment in the Sun Art Contest
Submissions beginning September 1st- October 18th
We want to feature your work based on The New Jim Crow. Submit a poem, mixed media, a sculpture, a painting, a photo; whichever medium speaks to you. Please contact Michelle Baggett for more information.
2018 One Read Keynote Speaker: Dr. Demetria Frank
October 19th, 12:30-2:30pm
Dr. Demetria Frank, Assistant Professor of Law at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, will be discussing mass incarceration and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness By Michelle Alexander, this year’s One Read selection.
July-October: The New Jim Crow – One Read Program Exhibit
An exhibit in the Ellis Library Colonnade features a timeline showing the increasing numbers of incarcerated Missourians over the past four decades. Key moments in law, the privatization of prisons, and stories of anonymous Mizzou Tigers impacted by incarceration are highlighted.
Ellis Library Exhibit Case
The One Read Program, which promotes conversations regarding diversity, inclusion, and social justice through students, faculty, and staff reading a particular book together, is sponsored by Mizzou Law and Univerisity Libraries.
For more information on the book, events, additional resources, and information on the One Read Program, see this guide. Copies of the book are available for checkout in Ellis Library, the Health Sciences Library, the Journalism Library, and the Law Library.
For several years, we have provided space to Healthy for Life for yoga classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon in Ellis Room 4F51A. They will now be offering a body conditioning class at the same time and place on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
We offer the use of room 4F51A under the condition that the Libraries can use the space at this time if needed. So if you need to use room 4F51A for library business during this time, please contact me. I will let the Healthy for Life instructor that we need the room at that time.
Thanks and let me know if there is any problem with this arrangement. We will be trying it out for one semester and then re-evaluating.
Shannon