{"id":2991,"date":"2017-10-04T22:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T05:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:49:13","slug":"reference-assistant-spotlight-azrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/reference-assistant-spotlight-azrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Reference Assistant Spotlight: Azrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2996\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2996\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/files\/2017\/09\/azrah2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"152\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Azrah helping a patron with Web of Science.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Azrah<br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> Junior<br \/>\n<strong>Major:<\/strong> Biology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Library Resource:<\/strong> Everything in the Pollock Room<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Place to Work in the Library:<\/strong> North reference most of the time and LL1 Southeast Stacks when I could use some A\/C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason you wanted to be a reference assistant:<\/strong> I want to smile at people crawling through the door.<em>[FROM THE EDITOR: And help people do research, I think!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardest thing about research:<\/strong> Synthesizing ideas from multiple different sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite thing about Reed: <\/strong>Knowing that if I survive 4 years of it, I can do anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool thing you did this summer:<\/strong> \u00a0I oxidized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/view\/10.1093\/acref\/9780199557141.001.0001\/acref-9780199557141-e-1219\">borneol<\/a> in borneone, which is camphor! It smelled wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Azrah Year: Junior Major: Biology Favorite Library Resource: Everything in the Pollock Room Favorite Place to Work in the Library: North reference most of the time and LL1 Southeast Stacks when I could use some A\/C. Reason you wanted to be a reference assistant: I want to smile at people crawling through the door.[FROM [&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-2991","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\/2991","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=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2997"}],"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=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}