{"id":12570,"date":"2018-04-16T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/gmr\/?p=12570"},"modified":"2018-04-16T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T19:00:21","slug":"so-you-want-to-be-an-outreach-librarian-spotlight-on-katherine-chew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2018\/04\/so-you-want-to-be-an-outreach-librarian-spotlight-on-katherine-chew\/","title":{"rendered":"So you want to be an outreach librarian? Spotlight on Katherine Chew"},"content":{"rendered":"

W\"\"<\/a>ho knew there was such a thing as “outreach on a stick”? If you’re in Minnesota, like this month’s GMR Partner Outreach Librarian, Katherine Chew, you might know. From ice cream, taffy apples, and every deep fried food you can think of (olives!), the Minnesota State Fair takes the on-a-stick notion to new heights.<\/p>\n

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Name: Katherine Chew
\nTitle: Research\/Outreach Services, University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library, Minneapolis, MN<\/p>\n

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  1. How long have you been in the role of an outreach librarian?<\/em>
    \nOfficially November of 2014, practically (i.e. first outreach activity\/event) April 2015.<\/li>\n
  2. How did you get involved in outreach?<\/em>
    \nWhen our Public Health\/Outreach Librarian, Anne Beschnett, left in October 2014, I got tapped for the Outreach role for three reasons: (1) I had helped Anne with exhibiting, (2), at the time I had the most flexibility with my current job duties to take on fulfilling the outreach contract and (3) the library director had decided that as part of recruiting for a new Public Health Librarian, that outreach would be replaced by data curation duties, so outreach became a permanent part of my job.<\/li>\n
  3. What is your favorite outreach project that you\u2019ve done so far?<\/em>
    \nThe most favorite outreach activity is staffing a booth at the Minnesota State Fair. It is fun, exhausting (on your feet for six to nine hours), exhilarating, informative and a great way to interact with people. All shapes, sizes, ages, genders, educational levels, nationalities and work disciplines stop by and you get to hear great stories and pass on lots of information.<\/li>\n
  4. What outreach activity do you hope to do in the future?<\/em>
    \nDon’t have an answer for that — still trying to perfect the ones I am doing now.<\/li>\n
  5. What is the one thing you wished you had known before you got started in outreach?<\/em>
    \nHow difficult it can be to get people to come to an instructional session at a conference and some tips and tricks to get people to show up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Who knew there was such a thing as “outreach on a stick”? If you’re in Minnesota, like this month’s GMR Partner Outreach Librarian, Katherine Chew, you might know. From ice cream, taffy apples, and every deep fried food you can think of (olives!), the Minnesota State Fair takes the on-a-stick notion to new heights.  … Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[151,17,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-outreach","category-partner-outreach-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NC9K-3gK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12617,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions\/12617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}