{"id":2487,"date":"2018-10-05T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:43:57","slug":"top-five-hidden-resources-at-the-ames-library-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/top-five-hidden-resources-at-the-ames-library-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Hidden Resources at The Ames Library: #1. Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular belief, librarians don&#8217;t spend our 9 to 5 shelving books. Our main job is to help you succeed during your time here at IWU! We&#8217;ll help you find sources for your research papers and projects, manage those citations that you&#8217;re swimming in, and develop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/Template.cfm?Section=Home&amp;template=\/ContentManagement\/ContentDisplay.cfm&amp;ContentID=33553#ildef\">information-literacy skills<\/a>. Studies from ACRL\u00a0Assessment in Action (AiA) programs found that <em>library use increases student success<\/em>. A study at\u00a0California State University, East Bay showed that &#8220;[s]tudents who participated in course integrated library instruction were much more likely to use library resources and were also more likely to have a higher GPA than students who did not receive the instruction.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/acrl\/sites\/ala.org.acrl\/files\/content\/issues\/value\/findings_y3.pdf\">Source<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2491\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/42881939_400545437145317_721744532261044224_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/42881939_400545437145317_721744532261044224_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/42881939_400545437145317_721744532261044224_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/42881939_400545437145317_721744532261044224_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each of the librarians at The Ames Library is responsible for different subject areas, like biology or religion, meaning that we know all the best sources in those areas to make your life easier. And if you&#8217;re not sure which librarian to turn to? Not to worry, you can approach any of us with questions! Our email addresses, office locations, and phone numbers are all under our pictures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/library\/\">The Ames Library homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular belief, librarians don&#8217;t spend our 9 to 5 shelving books. Our main job is to help you succeed during your time here at IWU! We&#8217;ll help you find sources for your research papers and projects, manage those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/top-five-hidden-resources-at-the-ames-library-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,28,136],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames-highlights","tag-academic-librarians","tag-librarians","tag-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/10\/42881939_400545437145317_721744532261044224_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}