First-year Personal Librarians: Vedder Hall (Floor 1)

What can your First-year Personal Librarian do for you?

• Keep you informed with periodic e-mail messages highlighting resources and programs
• Assist you with your research assignments by helping you identify the best sources and formulate search strategies
• Answer your questions about library services and resources
• Connect you with librarians 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!

Your First-year Personal Librarian is Nora Boyle.

Nora is the Sciences Librarian at Bertrand Library. She works with students in the Animal Behavior, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Medicine, and Physics & Astronomy departments. Her scholarly interests include bibliometrics and citation analyses, meaning why people search and cite the way they do, as well as AI and its ethical impacts on STEM. 

Nora is a Midwest native, growing up outside of Chicago and then in the suburbs of Indianapolis. She has a B.A. in Chemistry from Purdue University through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and an M.S. in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before working at Bucknell, Nora worked as a Physical Sciences and Engineering Division graduate assistant for the Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Illinois. 

Outside of work, Nora enjoys reading fantasy and mystery novels, watching true crime documentaries, traveling, and anything relating to performing, whether that's being on stage or seeing local productions.