{"id":323,"date":"2010-08-26T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/?p=323"},"modified":"2010-08-26T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T16:53:09","slug":"greeters-at-the-library-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/2010\/08\/26\/greeters-at-the-library-entrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeters at the Library Entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of the fall semester here at Baruch College. From 9-10 this morning, I was scheduled to work as a greeter by the turnstiles at the entrance to the library. As students and faculty filed in, I greeted each one with, &#8220;Good morning! Welcome to the library.&#8221; I got lots of returned greetings, many smiles and nods of recognition, and nearly three dozen reference questions. I&#8217;m eager to hear from my colleagues who are doing the same thing throughout the day to see if they had the same good experience that I did.<\/p>\n<p>When first asked to participate in this little project, I imagined it would mostly be an exercise in relationship building. I never imagined that I&#8217;d be helping the reference desk out by fielding so many questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of the fall semester here at Baruch College. From 9-10 this morning, I was scheduled to work as a greeter by the turnstiles at the entrance to the library. As students and faculty filed in, I greeted each one with, &#8220;Good morning! Welcome to the library.&#8221; I got lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,67,66],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reference-interaction","tag-relationship-building","tag-roving-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}