{"id":3125,"date":"2018-02-01T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:49:13","slug":"reference-assistant-spotlight-claire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/reference-assistant-spotlight-claire\/","title":{"rendered":"Reference Assistant Spotlight: Claire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3128\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3128\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/files\/2018\/02\/claire-e1517513878553.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"230\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claire using our beloved Library of Congress Subject Headings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Claire<br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> Junior<br \/>\n<strong>Major:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Library Resource:<\/strong> The thesis tower or the photographs in the <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.reed.edu\">Reed College Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Place to Work in the Library:<\/strong> North Reference. The old-school green desk lamps make me feel like Elle Woods during her Harvard days. An Elle Woods with endless table space. (Editor&#8217;s note: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0250494\/\">Legally Blonde<\/a>\u00a0is one of my favorite guilty pleasures!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason you wanted to be a reference assistant:<\/strong> Reed has given me a lot, so I want to pay it forward! Also, being the bookworm that I am, the library is my home away from home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardest thing about research:<\/strong> Narrowing down my list of sources! I always want to squeeze a nugget of information from every article I find into my papers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite thing about Reed: <\/strong> The small student body has allowed me to jump on an amazing array of opportunities, from working on multiple publications to interning with Reed alumni in different countries. To give a less cheesy answer, living in the Spanish House on campus has been the most rewarding and ridiculously fun experience of my Reed career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool thing you did during break:<\/strong> \u00a0My sister gifted me a collection of poems by Ada Lim\u00f3n over the holidays, and I raced through it (mistake! poems should be treated like a four-course meal, not a snack\u2014don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m rereading it now). (Editor&#8217;s Note: Some of her poetry is available <a href=\"http:\/\/go.galegroup.com\/ps\/personSearch.do?authorLifeSpan=1976-%26nbsp%3B&amp;method=doLinkDirectedSearch&amp;searchType=PersonSearchForm&amp;query=%28NP+%28Ada+Limon%29%29%3CB%3E+And+%3C%2FB%3E%28AGTY+%28NP%29%29&amp;prodId=GLS&amp;queryId=Q1&amp;searchTerm=17988593+OR+17988592&amp;userGroupName=oregon_reed&amp;fbt=NoFallBackTerm&amp;inPS=true&amp;entityAction=search&amp;displaySubject=Lim\u00f3n%2C+Ada&amp;searchQueryId=Q1&amp;bname=Lim\u00f3n,%20Ada\">here<\/a>. And the library has two of her collections: <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.reed.edu\/REED:local:CP71132939750001451\">Lucky Wreck<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.reed.edu\/REED:local:CP71231553890001451\">Bright Dead Things<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Claire Year: Junior Major: English Favorite Library Resource: The thesis tower or the photographs in the Reed College Archives. Favorite Place to Work in the Library: North Reference. The old-school green desk lamps make me feel like Elle Woods during her Harvard days. An Elle Woods with endless table space. (Editor&#8217;s note: Legally Blonde\u00a0is [&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-3125","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\/3125","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=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/4973"}],"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=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}