{"id":2976,"date":"2017-09-28T10:29:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:49:13","slug":"reference-assistant-spotlight-aaron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/reference-assistant-spotlight-aaron\/","title":{"rendered":"Reference Assistant Spotlight: Aaron"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2982\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2982\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/files\/2017\/09\/aaron1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"215\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron using the library map to help a student find their way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Aaron<br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> Senior<br \/>\n<strong>Major:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Library Resource:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/library.reed.edu\/specialcollections\/index.html\">Special Collections<\/a>! Especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/rdc.reed.edu\/c\/antiqmaps\/home\/\">old maps<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/rdc.reed.edu\/c\/artbooks\/home\/\">artists&#8217; books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Place to Work in the Library:<\/strong> When the library is crowded, the purple chairs in the New Pit. When the library is emptier, the tables in Southeast Stacks LL1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason you wanted to be a reference assistant:<\/strong> I was curious about the work librarians do and also wanted to help Reedies!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardest thing about research:<\/strong> Being willing to exclude unnecessary information, even when it&#8217;s cool and interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite thing about Reed: <\/strong> All the dogs probably.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool thing you did this summer:<\/strong> A bunch of my friends and I put on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twinmoonarts.com\/strange\/\">a 1 and a half day music festival<\/a> in Washington D.C. made up almost entirely of local bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Aaron Year: Senior Major: English Favorite Library Resource: Special Collections! Especially the old maps and the artists&#8217; books. Favorite Place to Work in the Library: When the library is crowded, the purple chairs in the New Pit. When the library is emptier, the tables in Southeast Stacks LL1. Reason you wanted to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":5035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}