Harvard connects students, librarians
Asking for help can be hard, especially when you’re not sure what kind of help you need. It’s a problem that Anu Vedantham, director of learning and teaching services for the FAS Libraries, has seen countless students try to solve on their own. That’s why she decided to launch First-Year Librarians in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “We meet with students every day, but we wait for them to ask us questions,” Vedantham said. “Often we hear in their junior year: ‘I wish I had known this service was available to me.’ The First-Year Librarian will be able to introduce them to services early in their time at Harvard.” The program is being piloted with 17 librarians, each of whom will connect monthly with 10 first-year students. “There are already lots of people here who care about you, but one of the things we want you to do is get to know them,”...