Photo gallery: Librarians give new students overview of library services and support

Librarians Kelly Blanchat, Emily Horning, and Jennifer Snow greeted new students at the Yale College Academic Fair in Schwarzman Center this August. Hundreds of students from the Class of 2027 gathered in the Commons and the Well to meet faculty and campus partners, ask questions, and collect swag.

Students discovered that, when they enrolled at Yale, each one of them was assigned a personal librarian to help with research strategies throughout their college careers. Students also learned about the library’s ongoing mini workshops, offering instruction in working with Zotero, Quicksearch, and other research tools and methods.

The librarians encouraged incoming students to sign up for library tours—of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marx Science and Social Science Library, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, and Sterling Memorial Library—to learn about each library’s history and architecture, its collections, study spaces, and support services.

The librarians also highlighted the many opportunities to work at Yale Library, the largest student employer on campus.
 

—Deborah Cannarella

Photos by Monica Ong Reed. Graphics by Kelly Blanchat; Sterling Library icon in “Advanced Search Techniques” by Natapon Chantabutr.