Hometown<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I am from Wuhan, a city in the People\u2019s Republic of China,\nand I went to high school in Columbia, South Carolina, so that would count as\nmy second hometown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What is your role at Boston College Libraries?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I work in the digital studio in O\u2019Neill Library as a student\nassistant. Duties primarily consist of troubleshooting software issues that\npatrons may have, taking reservations for workstations and spaces, and\nmaintaining the normal function of printers and other accessories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Hobbies & clubs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I play the violin and have been involved in the Chamber\nMusic group for several semesters. I am also the managing editor for Dianoia,<\/em> the undergraduate philosophy journal\nof Boston College. These two activities take up most of my free time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am applying to law school now, so hopefully I will have a\ncareer in legal services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have met many library staff members after I started\nworking here, so my favorite thing about the library is to have a chance to\nwork with these fantastic and friendly people. It is like an organic compact,\nwhere all sections of the library are interdependent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have had many research paper assignments over the past\nthree years and I am also writing a senior thesis in the field of philosophy.\nIn the past, I would spend a lot of time talking to some librarian specialists\nbefore starting my research. They always helped me to narrow down my topics and\nsources, thus making my research much easier and more efficient. While\nconducting my research, I always start on the library home page, where I am\nable to get an idea of the scope of my project. Inter-library loan has also\nbeen helpful for me when BC did not have a book that I needed, and it is fairly\nquick to fulfill a request. Specific databases are also helpful, and they are\nincluded in the Research Guide embedded in O\u2019Neill library\u2019s home page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I would recommend consulting a librarian before conducting\nany research by yourself, in that one can easily get distracted by many\nirrelevant sources. During one\u2019s research project, it is also important to keep\ntrack of the sources, so using Zotero or RefWorks can be handy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am grateful for the job I have in the digital studio, in\nthat I can perform many duties while sitting at the front desk. During the\nhours that there are only few students using the work stations, I can use this\ntime to study if there are no immediate assignments from my supervisors. When I\nwork at a busy hour, I just have to plan things ahead and manage my academic\nwork more efficiently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I used to take things for granted in terms of resources in\nthe library, but after I started working, I became more grateful for all the\nwork that everyone has contributed here. While students would complain about\nthe frequent malfunctions in printing, public computer software, and other\ntechnical issues, the working staff are equally frustrated and always try to\nsolve these difficulties in the most effective ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I would not call it unusual, but I do\nfind that in the quiet study area, some students seem to take more liberty in\ntalking to each other out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introducing Weitao Liu, Philosophy & English \u201820, and O\u2019Neill Library Digital Studio student assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"coauthors":[88],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Dreams? Ambitions?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s your favorite thing about the library\nyou learned after you started working here? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What are your go-to library resources?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What advice would you give another student\nabout using BC Libraries?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What strategies might you share with other\nworking students about balancing work in the library with the rest of your\nacademics?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
How has working here changed your perspective\nas a student?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s the most unusual thing you\u2019ve ever\nencountered at BC library?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n