On Friday, January 19, students, parents, family, staff, faculty, fans, and alumni are encouraged to wear their favorite organization’s gear throughout the day. This may be a student organization t-shirt, your favorite sport team’s gear, or anything else that demonstrates your passion for Mizzou! Use #MizzouMade on social media to share how involvement impacted your Mizzou experience.

The Libraries social media team will be sharing #MizzouMade stories that we have been gathering. We would also love to have photos of our librarians and staff wearing Mizzou gear, so we can share it on social media. (The new Libraries polos will be distributed at the All-Staff Meeting!) We will remind you on Thursday to wear your gear and on Friday to send us photos.

Thanks to the wonders of technology our Social Media Team has made sure we will have new content on our social media feeds during the break. So check out the University Libraries Instagram when you need a break from the holiday festivities!

We are up to 286 followers, and we get an average of 30 likes on each post. Thanks so much to the team members, especially Taira Meadowcroft for coordinating Instagram content, for all of their hard work this year!

Social Media Team
Kate Anderson
Abbie Brown
Grace Atkins
Shannon Cary
Eric Cusick
Kelli Hansen
Taira Meadowcroft
Sean Witzman
Kate Wright

We are often surprised by what posts and tweets our social media followers respond to the most. Last week a story from Access Services about an overdue book, sparked a lot of interest on Facebook. Thanks to Charlotte Landreth for posting this story.

http://library.missouri.edu/news/ellis-library/surprise-in-the-mail-patron-returns-book-40-years-later

1. We have our first Libraries’ Mizzou Made story on the campus Mizzou Made page. Mizzou Made stories are what we call Cycle of Success stories, but specifically focusing on students. You can see the story on the Newshub: http://library.missouri.edu/news/lottes-health-sciences-library/mizzou-opens-up-horizons and the Mizzou Made page: https://news.missouri.edu/category/mizzou-made/. We have more of these success stories of current and past students in the works, including our most recent Undergraduate Research Contest winner. Please along any student success stories you have to your Newshub reporters. Also, I want to thank all of the Marketing Team for their work in thinking about how we can best share the story of the Libraries’ impact on students, but I especially want to thank Taira Meadowcroft who worked to get the content together for the first three Mizzou Made stories we are publishing.
2. Dr. David Crespy gave us a really nice write-up on the University of Missouri Press blog. https://missouribooks.wordpress.com/2017/11/10/the-lanford-wilson-collection-at-mu-libraries-special-collections-and-rare-books/

• UMKC Libraries’ research librarian and OER coordinator Scott Curtis was interviewed by the Kansas City Star. His Open Educational Resources guide is featured in the article and video. Our own open education and outreach librarian Grace Atkins partnered with him to make that guide, and they’re working together on the UM System’s Affordable & Open Educational Resources initiative. The A&OER grant program was announced today in an email from President Choi. Expect to see a great deal of publicity around this initiative.
• In other news, the Grand Reading Room made it to the front page of Reddit! 9,000+ upvotes!
  https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/7875dw/library_sunset/  

Check out the latest Library Ambassadors newsletter.

Special Collections got a shout out on Twitter this week after a surprising instruction session: https://twitter.com/TheGreatKatee/status/920012886423957507.

Don’t forget to stop by the Homecoming Open House tomorrow at Ellis Library!

• Check out this week’s Library Ambassadors Newsletter.  Grace Atkins is the coordinator of the Ambassadors and the University Libraries Student Advisory Council (ULSAC). If you have news you want to share with these student groups, please let her know.
• We need #MizzouMade student success stories. Do you have super successful student workers? Do you have student workers who went on to do great things after they graduated? Let us know. We would like to highlight these stories as Cycle of Success stories, but also as part of the campus-wide #MizzouMade stories. You can see example of these stories at https://news.missouri.edu/category/mizzou-made/. Please contact your Newshub reporter or a member of the Marketing Team (Grace, Kelli, Shannon, and Taira) if you have a student you would like to highlight. We will help contact the student and get the story written.