Giles to serve as liaison to Office of Veteran and Military Affairs

SYRACUSE — Patricia Giles was recently appointed reference and instruction librarian in the Department of Learning and Academic Engagement (LAE) at Syracuse University Libraries. 

In this new role, Giles will serve as liaison to the Syracuse University Office of Veteran and Military Affairs (OVMA) and the Honors Program. OVMA serves as the university’s single point of entry for all veteran and military-connected students, programs, and initiatives. It assists university stakeholders to support and empower military-connected students and veteran employees of Syracuse University. 

Giles will provide general reference services, teach instruction sessions as part of the Syracuse University Libraries’ information-literacy program, and participate in other activities as part of the department team, according to a Libraries news release.

Prior to this new role, Giles worked as a library technician in LAE for seven years, providing reference services to students and patrons, leading efforts to support student employees, and participating in outreach activities. She also worked for three years in the Access and Resource Sharing Department, per the release.

Giles has a bachelor’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design; three master’s degrees from Boston University, Harvard Divinity School, and Syracuse University; and is currently pursuing a fourth master’s degree in library and information science from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. In addition to her work in the Syracuse University Libraries, she previously served as an instructor for both First Year Seminar and the Department of Religion, and as a teaching mentor for the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants Program.