{"id":30516,"date":"2014-10-29T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30516"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:34:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:34:17","slug":"personal-librarian-project-launches-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/10\/personal-librarian-project-launches-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Librarian Project launches this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30517\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/plp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30517\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30517 \" title=\"plp\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/plp-1024x403.jpg\" alt=\"plp\" width=\"504\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Personal Librarian Project includes, from left: Marcie Jacklin, Ian Gordon, Jennifer Thiessen, Colleen MacKinnon, Justine Cotton, Elizabeth Yates and Laurie Morrison.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>For one student, it may be as simple as a warm welcome to the James A. Gibson Library.<\/p>\n<p>For another, it may be the friendly consultation that helps her locate the best resources for an assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The Personal Librarian Project (PLP) launching this fall is designed to meet a variety of needs by connecting students with liaison librarians, professionals with disciplinary expertise in library resources and research strategies.<\/p>\n<p>PLPs are typically aimed at first-year students to alleviate anxiety over the library and the research process.<\/p>\n<p>Following a successful pilot in 2013\/2014 focused on first-year Health Sciences students, the program will be expanded to include seven liaison librarians covering 12 academic programs.<\/p>\n<p>Over the fall and winter terms, librarians will be introducing students to the many resources, tools and services available through the library.<\/p>\n<p>Through regular email contact, the liaison librarian will share timely research advice, unique resources, and encourage a relationship that may continue throughout the student&#8217;s time at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Personal Librarian Project, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/your-personal-librarian\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or contact <a href=\"mailto:eyates@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Yates<\/a>, Liaison and Scholarly Communication Librarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Personal Librarian Project (PLP) launching this fall is designed to meet a variety of needs by connecting students with liaison librarians, professionals with disciplinary expertise in library resources and research strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30518,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30516\/revisions\/30518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}