{"id":40295,"date":"2026-08-11T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/?p=40295"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:24:35","slug":"mizzou-libraries-reading-challenge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/staff-news\/mizzou-libraries-reading-challenge-2","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou Libraries Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are excited to announce that Mizzou Libraries is trying a new year long reading challenge. The whole campus, (staff, students, and faculty) can participate.\u00a0The reading challenge runs from September 2026 to April 2027.<\/p>\n

To participate in the challenge:<\/p>\n

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  1. Read (or listen to) a book based on each month’s theme<\/li>\n
  2. Tell us about what you read which enters you into the prize drawings<\/li>\n
  3. Winners will be drawn at the beginning of each month. The grand prize will be drawn at the beginning of May.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The marketing team will be promoting the challenge, but we hope that you all can share with your subject areas and with other colleagues and students you interact with. We will have a news post soon you can share around and we have a guide you can point people to: https:\/\/libraryguides.missouri.edu\/readingchallenge<\/a><\/p>\n

    If you have any questions, send Taira Meadowcroft or Shannon Cary an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We are excited to announce that Mizzou Libraries is trying a new year long reading challenge. The whole campus, (staff, students, and faculty) can participate.\u00a0The reading challenge runs from September 2026 to April 2027. To participate in the challenge: Read (or listen to) a book based on each month’s theme Tell us about what you …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":40291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/2026\/08\/Newshub-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-25 18:36:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40298,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40295\/revisions\/40298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}