Brandi Hart
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Enthusiastic, kind, thoughtful.
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I am currently reading "How the Word is Passed" by Dr. Clint Smith, who is the keynote speaker at the upcoming annual conference of the Illinois Library Association.
Inspirational, educational, empowering.
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I was given the honor of being awarded the ACRL Spectrum Scholarship this year. I am so grateful and appreciative to the ACRL for all of the support and generosity they have shown me, including providing me membership. I am very excited be a member of the ACRL to be surrounded by and learn from such a welcoming and intelligent community.
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I hope to become a research librarian at a small liberal arts college assisting undergraduate students with their research. I am particularly interested in doing outreach programming and developing services to help international students and first-generation college students. The ACRL provides so many helpful resources that I believe will help me achieve my career goals, such as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion LibGuide and the e-learning ACRL webinars (to name a few) that provide useful strategies and training to help implement library services and programs. I haven’t had the chance yet to read the First Year Academic Librarian Experience Blog, but it looks like such an amazing resource, especially given that I have no experience working in libraries. It will be really great to read about others’ experiences as first year librarians, what they learned, and how they navigated the profession.
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While I have no experience working in an academic library yet, I have spent some of my fondest moments as an undergraduate doing research in academic libraries. I am planning to gain my first work experience doing a practicum this Spring. My hope is that as a future academic librarian, I can help make the library more accessible to the staff, faculty, students, and other communities whom we serve. I plan to actively work towards making the library a more inclusive and diverse space, acting as an advocate for our patrons, providing a safe, welcoming space for all, and developing tools and services that help our community.
Title:Graduate Student
Workplace:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location:Urbana-Champaign, IL