What can your Residence Hall Librarian do for you?

• Keep you informed with periodic e-mail messages highlighting resources and programs, like study breaks and extended Library hours during exam weeks
• Answer your questions about Library services, like borrowing laptops, citing sources, and requesting materials from other libraries
• Assist you with your research assignments by helping you identify the best sources and formulate search strategies
• Connect you with library experts across all subject areas
• Support you even when you’re not on campus—for example if you’re on break
• Help you when you don’t know where to start or can’t think of what to do next!

Ciara is your librarian as well as the librarian for Psychology and Neuroscience (P&N) at Duke. She spends time in the P&N department for office hours and at the reference desk in Perkins. She also works with the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Needless to say, she likes brains - but not in a zombie kind of way.  Prior to earning her library degree from the University of Illinois, she was a philosopher. Her area of expertise was Philosophy of Mind/Consciousness. (You see the brain theme here, right?)

Originally from Miami, FL Ciara has lived in each of the following states twice: Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina. She enjoys packing and moving. She also enjoys Scrabble, public transportation, NetFlix streaming, roller derby, knitting, yoga, The Sartorialist blog, audiobooks, surf films and making custom MP3 ringtones for every single one of her phone contacts.

Best habit: punctuality. Worst habit: sarcasm.