{"id":5409,"date":"2016-07-28T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2016-07-28T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T21:28:13","slug":"meet-iwas-graduate-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2016\/07\/28\/meet-iwas-graduate-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet IWA\u2019s Graduate Assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Image of Katie and Rachel\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Image of Katie and Rachel\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1128 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Katie and Rachel\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While these two fabulous\u00a0ladies aren\u2019t brand new to IWA, they both recently accepted positions as graduate assistants for the up-coming semesters.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rachel Black <\/b>grew up in the southwestern corner of Iowa in a tiny town that had more ponies than people. Now living in the Iowa City area, she hopes to graduate with a MLIS this December.<\/p>\n<p>Her archives journey began last summer as a volunteer working on the Myrtle Hinkhouse papers. She is excited to tackle more collections this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the archives, Rachel can be found knitting poorly constructed hand towels, messing\u00a0up her kitchen while baking, losing arrows on the archery range, and just generally enjoying her life.<\/p>\n<p><b>Katie Gandhi <\/b>still doesn\u2019t know what she wants to be when she grows up, but she does know she loves libraries, history, people, and archives. Other past-times include hiking, painting, weaving, and playing cello.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u00a0being\u00a0hired in January, her primary focus has been helping Janet prepare\u00a0content for the IWA\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/project\/migration-is-beautiful\/\">Migration is Beautiful<\/a>\u201d project Omeka site, which\u00a0went live on\u00a0July 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Katie just finished an M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning and will be working to complete her M.A. in Library and Information Science this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Katie and Rachel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o9a8oxxAQe1smqom2o1_r2_1280-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Katie and Rachel\">While these two fabulous&nbsp;ladies aren&rsquo;t brand new to IWA, they both recently accepted positions as graduate assistants for the up-coming semesters. Rachel Black grew up in the southwestern corner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6033,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/6033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}