International and Area Studies Library at Illinois

Day 3 of National Library Week! 📚

Today we're celebrating library workers & mixing in a little outreach with highlighting IAS's graduate assistants. PART ONE of their day in the life ✨

- Library Graduate Assistants (also known as GAs) have a variety of tasks:
✩ Supporting public services
✩ Managing specialized, behind-the-scenes projects
✩ "Weeding" Collections & Creating LibGuides

If you want to learn more about being a GA, read here:
https://exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2025/04/23/libraries-graduate-assistantships-go-beyond-librarian-skills-and-graduation

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Day 3 of National Library Week! 📚

Today we're celebrating library workers & mixing in a little outreach with highlighting IAS's graduate assistants. PART TWO of their day in the life ✨

- Library Graduate Assistants (also known as GAs) have a variety of tasks:
✩ Supporting public services
✩ Managing specialized, behind-the-scenes projects
✩ "Weeding" Collections & Creating LibGuides

If you want to learn more about being a GA, read here:
https://exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2025/04/23/libraries-graduate-assistantships-go-beyond-librarian-skills-and-graduation

Happy Arab American Month 🖤🤍💚❤️ Check out our new exhibits in Main Library rooms 321 and 309 called “Across Borders and Languages: The Middle East and Its Diasporas.”

Special thanks to our librarian of Middle East and North African Studies, Dr. Laila Hussein Moustafa 📚 Swipe to see the details!