{"id":1705,"date":"2020-10-26T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2020-10-26T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:52:32","slug":"meet-anne-langley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/meet-anne-langley\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We chatted with Dean Anne Langley and asked her a few questions so you can get to know her better.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/files\/Anne-Langley_balloons-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Anne Langley\" class=\"wp-image-1706\" width=\"329\" height=\"454\"\/><figcaption>Dean Anne Langley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get into libraries?<\/strong><br>I worked as a student assistant in a Library as an undergraduate and watched librarians and the role they played in academia and saw myself being a part of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you love most about working in a library?<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>Having access to all the information I could possibly want.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why was it important to you that having fun be a part of the values for the Library? <br><\/strong>People are more productive and creative when they are having fun and in order to solve the challenges facing academia and libraries we have to be productive and creative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are you working on now that you want us to know about?<br><\/strong>UConn has a new Provost and we have been working together on several initiatives including finding new models for accessing information, particularly journals. Since UConn also has a new President, we are working together to ensure that we incorporate their goals into building the right library for UConn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the midst of the pandemic, what do you do to take your mind off the crazy things happening in the world right now? <br><\/strong>I am slightly addicted to BTS (the Bangtan Boys or Bulletproof Boy Scouts, is a seven-member South Korean boy band) and painting in my art studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is a positive that has come from this pandemic?<\/strong><br>Realizing how amazing our staff is under pressure and how they have stepped up in their game to support research and teaching at UConn.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your most used emoji?<\/strong><br>Thumbs up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What was your first job?<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>Short-order cook at a local diner.<br><br><strong>Do you have a crazy library story to share?<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>In my first professional library position I got in trouble for having too much fun date stamping the journals and organizing chair races.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your go-to productivity trick? <\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>Using brightly colored pens and paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s one professional skill you\u2019re currently working on? <br><\/strong>Dismantling racism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do you have a hidden talent?<\/strong><br>Patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? <\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>Finding something good about anything.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We chatted with Dean Anne Langley and asked her a few questions so you can get to know her better.&nbsp; How did you get into libraries?I worked as a student assistant in a Library as an undergraduate and watched librarians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/meet-anne-langley\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NLr1-rv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}