{"id":4103,"date":"2013-02-20T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2013-02-20T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:24:09","slug":"graduate-student-spotlight-kristina-gavin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2013\/02\/20\/graduate-student-spotlight-kristina-gavin\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Spotlight : Kristina Gavin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Kristina Gavin<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2013\/02\/Kristina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4104 alignright\" alt=\"picture of Kristina Gavin\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2013\/02\/Kristina-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2013\/02\/Kristina-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2013\/02\/Kristina.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Dubuque, IA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Undergraduate Edu<\/strong>cation: University of Iowa, BA in English &#8217;10, BM in Tuba Performance &#8217;10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate Education:<\/strong> University of Iowa, MA Library and Information Science, &#8217;13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Future Plans:<\/strong> A job or degree program where I get to use technology to connect people with information in innovative and meaningful ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I&#8217;m Working at Hardin:<\/strong> Work-Study program. I&#8217;ve worked in few different types of libraries, and Hardin offered a great opportunity to explore another area of the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Part of Working at Hardin:<\/strong> Reference is rewarding because I get the chance to help users with their immediate information needs, and I am always learning new things in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun Facts:<\/strong> Studied abroad in Venezuela, Summer 2009. Completed an internship at the<a href=\"http:\/\/amhistory.si.edu\/archives\/b-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Archives Center of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian<\/a>, Summer 2012. Hobbies include music, dance, book arts, birdwatching, and all things Iowa Hawkeyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m Currently Reading:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Naked Statistics<\/span> by Charles Wheelan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Name: Kristina Gavin Hometown: Dubuque, IA Undergraduate Education: University of Iowa, BA in English &#8217;10, BM in Tuba Performance &#8217;10 Graduate Education: University of Iowa, MA Library and Information Science, &#8217;13. Future Plans: A job or degree program where I get to use technology to connect people with information in innovative and meaningful ways.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2013\/02\/20\/graduate-student-spotlight-kristina-gavin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Graduate Student Spotlight : Kristina Gavin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}