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Photo gallery: Library hosts the Yale College Academic Resources Fair for new students

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  • crowd of students fill long space lined with marble pillars with painting at far end
  • 7 female and one male student pose for the camera in arched-ceiling nave with painted mural in distance behind them
  • Woman in striped top and pony tail talks across a blue display table to male student with Yale sweatshirt. Librarian at far left in denim jacket and glasses listens in.
  • Two male students with arms around shoulders pose for camera. Student at right wears dark blue t-shirt that reads Yale University in white lettering
  • Four young men gather to talk with librarian with short brown hair who holds information sheet. Another male student stands behind her.
  • Three male and two female students pose for camera laughing. Two of the men wear shorts. All are wearing sneakers.
  • Two men and two women pose smiling. Woman at far right holds up fingers of each hand in peace sign. Woman at right holds two thumbs up.
  • Male student in black shirt and down jacket smiles next to dark down jacket, white sweater, holding lavender water bottle in left hand
  • Four women with long dark braided hair pose laughing. Woman at far left wears red glasses.
  • Two librarians talk with two students, one male, one female. Female student holds a red white and blue brochure.
  • Table surface shows miniature candies in a pile, a brochure that reads Research Support at Yale Library and a larger brochure that reads Yale Film Archive
  • Standing librarian with short brown hair talks to student wearing green Bugs Bunny shirt. Seated librarian with dark brown hair and polka-dot top speaks to student outside of camera frame
  • Librarian in polka dot top is seated next to librarian in black and white striped top. Both are speaking to students gathered around a display table with brochures and candies. Student in foreground has curly brown hair and wears a white, yelllow, and blue sleeveless top.
  • Four graphics that read Let's Find Books, First Steps with Zotero, How to Find Scholarly Articles, and Advanced Search Techniques
  • Three female students, one blonde and two brunette, gather together looking at brochure that student at far right holds open. The other two are also holding papers.
September 11, 2024

The Academic Resources Fair—held this year for the first time in Sterling Memorial Library—offers incoming undergraduates a chance to meet with representatives of key academic units on campus. Hundreds of students from the Class of 2028 filled the nave to meet with librarians, faculty, and campus partners to discover opportunities, ask questions, and, of course, collect swag.

 “We were delighted when the Yale College Dean’s Office asked us to host this fair,” said librarian Emily Horning, director of Undergraduate Programs. “Getting the first-year students into one of the library’s iconic spaces, just after they’ve arrived on campus, and telling them about all the library has to offer was really fun. The most common response was ‘Wow!’”

Horning and fellow librarians Gwyneth Crowley, Kelly Blanchat, and Jennifer Snow spent the entire two-hour session busy talking with students who crowded around the library’s display table, laden with pamphlets, postcards, stickers, and chocolates for the taking.

The librarians explained that each new student is assigned a personal librarian to help with research strategies throughout their college careers. They also described the library’s program of ongoing mini workshops, offering instruction in working with Zotero, Quicksearch, and other research tools and methods.

Students were encouraged to sign up for library tours—of 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 Judy Sirota Rosenthal and Deborah Cannarella

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