{"id":1745,"date":"2020-12-21T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:26:22","slug":"meet-phara-bayonne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/meet-phara-bayonne\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We caught up with our Stamford Campus Library Director Phara Bayonne and asked her a few questions. Phara has worked for the UConn Library since 2003 and even we learned a few new things about her! <\/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\/bayonne_phara.jpg\" alt=\"Phara Bayonne, Director\nUConn Library, Stamford Campus\" class=\"wp-image-1746\" width=\"211\" height=\"288\"\/><figcaption>Phara Bayonne, Director<br>UConn Library, Stamford Campus<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get into libraries?<\/strong><br>I met a librarian at a career event, and we had a great conversation that drew me to investigate the field of librarianship&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you love most about working in a library?<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>I love helping people investigate and research information they need locating<\/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?\u00a0<\/strong><br>I discovered TikTok<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your most used emoji?<\/strong><br>Face palm <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What was your first job?<br><\/strong>Sales associate at a clothing retail store<br><br><strong>What is on your reading list?<\/strong><br><em>Caste<\/em> by Isabel Wilkerson and <em>Vanishing Half<\/em> by Brit Bennett&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your go-to productivity trick?<br><\/strong>Checking my to-do list before checking email&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do you have a hidden talent?<\/strong><br>Double jointed in my arms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you could choose a superpower, what would it be?<\/strong><br>Time Travel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you could only have three apps on your smartphone, what would you pick?<\/strong><br>Audible, YouTube, and Tidal\u00a0<\/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 caught up with our Stamford Campus Library Director Phara Bayonne and asked her a few questions. Phara has worked for the UConn Library since 2003 and even we learned a few new things about her! How did you get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/meet-phara-bayonne\/\">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-s9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"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=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}