Graziano is Your Personal Librarian

and a few other things, too.

My title is International Program Support Librarian, and I work on a variety of initiatives aimed at enhancing, documenting and promoting the Library's growing international presence and agenda. These include professional development and exchanges, cooperative projects, conferences, a visiting program, and communication tools such as the International Projects & Activities website, which I developed and maintain for the purpose of documenting what the Library is doing internationally.

I also provide support to Yale students who take courses or do research abroad. This is new initiative launched in the summer of 2009 and consisting, among other things, of a travel version of the Personal Librarian program, called Field Librarian, and a dedicate Library guide.

As your Personal Librarian, I will:

• Keep you informed with periodic e-mail messages highlighting new resources and programs specifically for students, as well as with notices and timely reminders, such as extended Library hours during Reading Week and finals
• Answer your questions about Library policies, procedures and services, such as RefWorks workshops and Borrow Direct
• Assist with finding information for your research assignments, by helping you articulate your research question, identify the best sources, and formulate your search strategies
• Support you even when you’re not around (on vacation or away from Yale doing research)
• Help you when you don’t know where to start, or you can’t think of what to do next

Things I won’t do (but help you find out who can)

• Set up your computer (i.e. NetIDs, VPN)
• Do your research, make photocopies or write your paper for you