Librarian

Name: Darrell

Age: 45

Occupation: Librarian

Location: New Haven, CT

Background

Darrell Jones is a reference and instructional librarian. He's been working as a librarian for 5 years, and he loves hunting down the right resources for himself and his patrons.

Recently a patron came in looking primary resources on the Vietnam War. Darrell went straight to FindIt because he knows the patron wants online resources and wanted to search Yale archival resources as well as published sources.

Darrell loves having Yale’s online resources at his fingertips, and uses them for his own research as well. He is hoping to publish an article he has been writing about the history of undergraduate education, and he has found many useful sources through Yale Library. He's created a collection of documents relevant to his subject as a convenient way of showcasing and bookmarking the resources he's been using.

Libra​ry Activities         

• Uses library resources all the time as both patron and for delivery of services.
  • Browse and check out books and dvds
  • Searches the online catalog for sources and their availability
  • Searches full-text and collections
  • Teachings others in the use of library resources
• Uses other internet resources as well.
• Answers reference requests.
• Curates course-specific collections bibliographies and online resources, for students. who increasing want to be pointed to digitized primary resources.
• Generates subject guides using Libguides.

Persona adapted from HathiTrust librarian persona (http://www.hathitrust.org/documents/HathiTrust_Personas.pdf [1])