{"id":3135,"date":"2018-02-08T10:27:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T20:49:13","slug":"reference-assistant-spotlight-ruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/reference-assistant-spotlight-ruth\/","title":{"rendered":"Reference Assistant Spotlight: Ruth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3143\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/files\/2018\/02\/ruth2-e1518032615557.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"228\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3143\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth cheerfully helping a patron &#8220;old school&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Name:<\/strong> Ruth<br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> Senior<br \/>\n<strong>Major:<\/strong> Religion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Library Resource:<\/strong> Summit and being able to use all the electronic resources when I&#8217;m off campus!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Place to Work in the Library:<\/strong> North Ref<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason you wanted to be a reference assistant:<\/strong> I want to utilize everything I&#8217;ve learned at Reed by helping other students with the research process!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hardest thing about research:<\/strong> Narrowing unbridled interest and enthusiasm into a focused topic with a limited dataset&#8230; while maintaining the initial interest and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite thing about Reed: <\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reed.edu\/canyon\/\">canyon<\/a>, the scrounge, and the <a>Religion department<\/a>! (Editor&#8217;s note: Ahem. I think you forgot <a href=\"https:\/\/library.reed.edu\">something<\/a>&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool class you&#8217;ve taken at Reed: <\/strong>Last fall I took a 300 level English course on the literature of the Black Panther party, which changed my entire worldview. Pancho never repeats his classes, so email me if you want the syllabus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Ruth Year: Senior Major: Religion Favorite Library Resource: Summit and being able to use all the electronic resources when I&#8217;m off campus! Favorite Place to Work in the Library: North Ref Reason you wanted to be a reference assistant: I want to utilize everything I&#8217;ve learned at Reed by helping other students with the [&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-3135","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\/3135","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=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3146"}],"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=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}