Considering that you may not have had the opportunity to meet all of our fantastic library faculty and staff during Welcome Week this year, given the need for social distancing, we thought it might be nice for you to get to know the librarians who are here to support you.
Reference librarians, among many other things, help you learn to engage in high-quality research and use our extensive collections in the most advantageous way. We support student scholars! We also support faculty and staff.
First up we have Andrew McSorley, our Reference and Digital Liberal Arts Librarian. Andrew is a published poet and also a published dad! If you’ve worked with him before, you know he is very intelligent, well-rounded, and has the ability to take complex ideas and information and express it all in a clear and concise way. He’s also very, very funny.
Here are a few more fun facts about Andrew, answered in his own words.
Undergrad Major: Creative Writing
Favorite Book: Sometimes it’s Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Right now, probably either Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino or Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (plays count, right?)
Favorite Hobby: Poetry, Ice Hockey, Magic: The Gathering
Favorite Database: This is such a fun idea, to have a favorite database. They’re all so useful. The one I use the most is probably Credo Reference, but AVON (Academic Video Online) and Oxford English Dictionary are pretty fun.
Pets: One cat, Nikki.
Best part of being a Reference Librarian: Meeting new students!
Anything else: Stay curious, and never stop learning!
Thanks so much for all you do for Lawrence and our students, Andrew.
Our Reference Librarians can be reached in a variety of ways highlighted here.