Thank you to Gabe Harman! I am pleased to announce that Gabe Harman has agreed to serve as the Interim Head Librarian of the Journalism Library starting November 15th. Vera Elwood’s last day as the Head Librarian is this Friday, November 22nd. Gabe began serving as the Journalism Librarian in June 2024 and prior to that he was a LIS Sr. at the Engineering Library. I appreciate Gabe’s willingness to help during this time of transition. We are working to finalize a job description in anticipation of posting the permanent position near the beginning of the year. More details are forthcoming.

–Chris Pryor

Vera Elwood will be leaving the University of Missouri Libraries on Friday, November 22nd. I cannot express the level of gratitude and appreciation I have for working with Vera for the last two and a half years while she served in the role as Head Librarian for the Journalism Library. Vera will be deeply missed as she has made such a positive impact and brought forward much needed change at the Journalism Library. She has accepted a newly created position as the Coordinator of Youth Programming for The Center Project, which is a local community organization that Vera has supported and volunteered with for the last several years. Please join me in wishing Vera all the best in her new adventure supporting our local community. I am working to develop a plan for covering the Journalism Library so more details will be announced.

-Chris Pryor