{"id":2502,"date":"2020-02-24T03:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T03:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aulibrarynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2020-02-24T03:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T03:26:03","slug":"beginning-a-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/2020\/02\/24\/beginning-a-new-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning a New Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred University Libraries welcomes Rebecca (Becky) Stewart as Technical Services Assistant.\u00a0 Becky is learning cataloging and other specialized skills that help get library materials into students&#8217; hands.\u00a0 Becky is not new to AU, but we are celebrating her new role with the libraries.<br \/>\nAU Library Apex intern, Haleigh Youll, collected some fun facts about Becky and her life!<br \/>\n<strong>What was your background before Alfred University?\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2504 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/02\/stewartr.jpg\" alt=\"stewartr\" width=\"351\" height=\"351\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\nRetail that led into being a general manager for 8 years.\u00a0 I dec<span>ided to take on a slower role shortly after the birth of my twins. Most recently before coming to AU, I worked as a pre-school teacher.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>What is your educational background?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nI graduated Hornell High School, Class of 1999. Wildwood Education Center \u2013 Automated Office Practice -1999. Olean Business Institute \u2013 Business Management 2006. Eastern Gateway Community College \u2013 Accounting, Currently enrolled. Several Trainings for Child care safety, First Aid, Food\/Nutrition classes. Currently enrolled in ALCTS \u2013 Fundamentals of Cataloging online course.<br \/>\n<strong>What are you excited to accomplish in your new role?\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nOrder\/organization in the various holdings throughout the library.<br \/>\n<strong>What are you most proud of?<\/strong><br \/>\nI started my career at AU as a Janitor. I want to learn as much as possible to support AU all the way around.<br \/>\n<strong>Who is your biggest supporter?\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nMy mom \u2013 forever my best friend.<br \/>\n<strong>Do you have any pets?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have several: 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 goats, 8 ducks, 1 potbellied pig, 1 bearded dragon, and too many chickens to count.<br \/>\n<strong>One thing you wish you knew when you were 20?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe importance of developing a personal relationship rather than trying to be strictly professional at all times with coworkers.<br \/>\n<strong>What do you do to relax?\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nI enjoy reading. Gardening.<br \/>\n<strong>What is a skill or hobby you\u2019d like to learn?\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nHow to sew.<br \/>\n<strong>What is your favorite place in the libraries?<\/strong><br \/>\n1<sup>st<\/sup> floor and the various art placed around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred University Libraries welcomes Rebecca (Becky) Stewart as Technical Services Assistant.\u00a0 Becky is learning cataloging and other specialized skills that help get library materials into students&#8217; hands.\u00a0 Becky is not new to AU, but we are celebrating her new role with the libraries. AU Library Apex intern, Haleigh Youll, collected some fun facts about Becky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/aulibrarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}