{"id":19,"date":"2026-06-26T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/?p=19"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:12:59","slug":"reflection-blog-post-hyperlinked-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/2026\/06\/26\/reflection-blog-post-hyperlinked-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection Blog Post: Hyperlinked Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, through the readings and resources, I learned about the hyperlinked community in relation to libraries generally and considered what the hyperlinked community looks like in my work setting, an academic library. The video about the Bronx \u201cWash & Learn\u201d Pop-Up Library Program<\/a> particularly stood out to me, because that library was leaving the library space to meet their users\u2014those who they may not reach otherwise\u2014where they were at. In thinking about my academic library, I\u2019ve considered ways that we are currently trying to do this and other ways we could try to do this.<\/p>\n

One segment of the population that we don\u2019t often seem to reach is our student athletes. Just this week, a colleague had a discussion with one of the athletic directors about ways the library can better support them. A simple idea that they came up with and which we are going to implement is to have subject librarian profile pages filter through on the monitor located in the common area of the Student Athlete Building. These profiles will have QR codes that the students can scan with their phones to contact us or set up in-person or virtual appointments. By doing so, we are trying to meet the athletes in a place they spend quite a bit of time.<\/p>\n

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Stock image of student athletes resting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another idea that we are going to try this coming Fall semester is to have a \u201cResearch Help\u201d booth in the Student Center around midterms and finals. During this time, library student employees and some full-time librarians will man the booth and be available to help students learn about helpful library resources for research papers and projects and demonstrate how to use them and locate sources. We\u2019re hopeful that by going outside of the library, we\u2019ll be able to help more students than we otherwise would.<\/p>\n

As the Art & Design subject librarian, something that I am considering is having set \u201coffice hours\u201d in the Arts building. I will need to reach out to the department chairs of the Art and Design departments and see if they are amenable to this and have a space for me. If they are and do, my hope is that I will become more integrated into those departments, that more faculty will recognize my and the library\u2019s value, and that the students will become familiar and comfortable with me.<\/p>\n

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ULA 2025 Theme Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All of these proposed ideas are experiments and they may not work. If they don\u2019t, however, I still wouldn\u2019t consider them a failure. We will have tried something and in that trying, we will have learned more about our community. That will inevitably lead to more ideas of other things we can try and eventually, something will connect and we will have a stronger hyperlinked community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, through the readings and resources, I learned about the hyperlinked community in relation to libraries generally and considered what the hyperlinked community looks like in my work setting, an academic library. The video about the Bronx \u201cWash & Learn\u201d Pop-Up Library Program particularly stood out to me, because that library was leaving the … Continue reading Reflection Blog Post: Hyperlinked Communities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/linkinlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}