The official gallery of PRA postcards.

House of the PRAgon (Spring 2023)

“Hope is the fool’s ally”

Lafayette’s research librarians can help you navigate a sea of information with a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session. Meet with one of our research librarians who will help you find the books, articles, and online resources you need to get you started on your assignments.


PRAnger Things (Fall 2022)

“Every ending has a beginning”

Lafayette’s research librarians can help you navigate a sea of information with a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session. We’ll help you find the books, articles, and other sources you need to get started on your assignment.


Squid PRAme (Spring 2022)

“I can see how unfortunate your situation is, but if you have no time…”

Don’t wait until the last minute to worry about your assignment! Lafayette’s research librarians can help you navigate a sea of information with a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session. We’ll help you find the books, articles, and other sources you need to get started on your assignment.


PRAya and the Last Dragon (Fall 2021)

“It may feel impossible, but sometimes, you just have to take the first step, even before you’re ready.”

Don’t wait until the last minute to worry about your assignment! Lafayette’s research librarians can help you navigate a sea of information with a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session. We’ll help you find the books, articles, and other sources you need to get started on your assignment. From one dragon nerd to another, PRAya can help you search the world for the gem of information you need to unite all your ideas.


PRAdy Bunch (Spring 2021)

Here’s the story of the Lafayette librarians
Who had to teach and work remotely,
All of them had access to zoom,
To reach all the students

Here’s the story of the Lafayette students
Who were busy writing lots of papers
They were living all together
Yet they were all alone’

Till the one day when the librarian met this student
And they knew that they would find the resources for their paper

That this group would somehow form a team
That’s the way we all became the PRAdy Bunch
The PRAdy Bunch, the PRAdy Bunch
That’s the way we all became the PRAdy Bunch


PRAsite (Spring 2020)


Guardians of the PRAlaxy (Fall 2019)

When research gets bad, they’ll do their best. The PRAdians, AKA the Research Librarians, will save you with their expertise of books, articles, and online resources to help you find what you need.


Calvin and PRAbbes (Spring 2019)

Is the problem with the future that it keeps turning into the present? Do you sometimes have more brains than you know what to do with? If it’s that moment of dawning comprehension you live for, librarians are here to help!

Go for the gusto and request a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a Research Librarian who will help you go exploring in the magical world of books, articles, and other sources you need.


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Mission: ImPRAssible (Fall 2018)

“Some missions are not a choice.”

Your research project may seem like an impossible mission, but remember that librarians are here to help. When you’re racing against time, don’t go rogue or think that you’ll “figure it out” by yourself.

Request a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a research librarian who will help you find the books, articles, and other sources you need.


PRAde Runner (Spring 2018)

“It was very clever to keep yourself empty of information, and all it cost you was everything”

Who wants to be empty of information? Make sure you are not lacking by requesting a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a research librarian who will help you find the books, articles, and online resources you need.


PRAntastic Beasts (Fall 2017)

“My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice”

Why worry about your paper? Be proactive and seek out a research librarian and schedule a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session today? Meet with one of our research librarians who will help you find the books, articles, and online resources you need. Whether you’re a seeker or a chaser after truth, research librarians can help you find what research is out there!

 

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PRA La Land (Spring 2017)

“A little chance encounter could be the one you’ve waited for”

Take a chance on a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a research librarian who will help you find the books, articles, and online resources you need. People love what other people are passionate about so speak with us and find out what research is out there.

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PRAme of Thrones (Fall 2016)

“My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind…and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That’s why I read so much.” — Jon Snow.

Need help with research? Request a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session, and a Research Librarian will help you.

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PRA Wars (Spring 2016)

Without the librarians, there can be no balance in the force of your research. A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a Research Librarian will help you succeed in finding the books, articles and online resources you need. So if these are not the droids you’re looking for then ask us and schedule an appointment today.

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The Grand PRAdapest Hotel (Fall 2015)

What is a librarian? A librarian is completely helpful, yet always in sight. A librarian remembers what people need. A librarian anticipates the researcher’s needs before the needs are needed. A librarian is, above all, knowledgeable to a fault.

So make a “reservation” for a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session, and “check in” with a Research Librarian who will guide you to the books, articles and online resources you need.

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Downton PRAbbey (Spring 2015)

Stop whining about your research and ask a librarian for help. Everyone knows the Dowager Countess is always right. And she knows that a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a Research Librarian will ensure that you succeed in finding the books, articles and online resources you need. Heed her words and schedule an appointment today!

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The Great PRAtsby (Fall 2014)

Give your research the green light – Schedule a PRA appointment today. A Personalized Research (PRA) session with a Research Librarian will ensure that you succeed in finding the books, articles and online resources you need – so work on, strong against the current of information, with ceaseless resources to help you in your task.

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PRAsablanca (Spring 2014)

Of all the libraries, in all the colleges, in all the world, you walked into ours. As time goes by, your research isn’t going to do itself. A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian will ensure that you succeed in finding the books, journals and online resources you need. Don’t just round up the usual sources like Wikipedia, request a PRA appointment today.

And remember we’ll always have Skillman.

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PRAtching Fire “50th Research Games” (Fall 2013)

All research begins with a search

We salute your courage and your sacrifice and wish you a Happy Research Games. A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian will ensure that the odds will be ever in your favor to find the books, journals and online resources you need. But you need to volunteer and to sign up and request a PRA appointment today.

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The PRAfather (Spring 2013)

We’re going to make you an offer you can’t refuse.

A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian can help you dodge a bullet and find the books, journals and online resources you need. You don’t need to sleep with the fishes, request a PRA appointment today.

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PRAvengers (Fall 2012)

PRAvengers assemble!

A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian can save the day by helping you find the books, journals, and online resources you need to defeat your research project.

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Pride & PRAjudice (Spring 2012)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a student in possession of a research assignment must be in want of some help.

A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian can help you find the books, journals, and online resources you need for a research project you can be proud of.

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The Devil Wears PRAda (Fall 2011)

We’re smarter than your purse.

“Bore someone else with your questions…”

Stop boring your roommates and friends with your research questions. Get with the latest fashion: Personalized Research Assistance (PRA). A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian can help you find the books, journals, and online resources you need for a stylishly researched project.

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PRArates of the PRAribbean (Spring 2011)

This semester, chart a course for great research…

A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian can help you navigate the treacherous waters of research and uncover the buried treasure of any project.

Don’t let this opportune moment pass you by. Sign up for a PRA appointment today.

Read up, me hearties, yo ho!

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Love PRActually (Fall 2010)

I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Research is all around us
and so the feeling grows

This semester knowledge really is all around us…

Give yourself the gift of a Personal Research Assistance (PRA) session with a time-saving librarian, who will help you find information to create the project you’ve been hoping for.

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IndiPRAna Jones (Spring 2010)

IndiPRAna Jones and the PRAiders of the Lost Ark

Research papers. Why’d it have to be research papers?!?!?!

Never fear, Indy! A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian can help you find the Lost Ark of the Research Paper.

They’ve got the know-how to unlock the secrets of any kind of project, from hidden tombs to lost relics. They can help your papers and projects go down in history.

PRA…The Return of Great Research…

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PRAnchorman (Fall 2009)

PRANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF SKILLMAN’S LIBRARIANS

There was a time before Wikipedia when the local librarian reigned supreme, when people believed everything they read.

This was an age when only the smart were allowed to do research. And in Skillman, the librarians were smarter than all the rest. Now, you too can reign supreme.

Request a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a librarian who can deliver the books, journal articles, and online resources you’ve been looking for…all in a voice that makes faculty purr.

Skillman’s librarians: like gods walking amongst mere mortals.

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The PRA Vinci Code (Spring 2009)

The holy grail ‘neath ancient Skillman waits. The librarian guarding o’er her gates.

A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference gladiator can help you uncover the secrets of books, journal articles, and the Internet to produce a code-breaking research project.

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SPRAtacus (Fall 2008)

DON’T BE ENSLAVED BY RESEARCH. RISE UP TODAY!

A Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference gladiator can help you fight your way through the treacherous web of unreliable information to produce papers and presentations that become the stuff of legend.

Break the chains of scholarly tyranny!

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The PRAducers (Spring 2008)

DON’T BE STUPID, BE A SMARTY, COME AND JOIN THE REFERENCE PARTY!

Worried that your next research project will be a flop? A PRA appointment can help you get rave reviews!

Whether you’re writing about seasonal fluctuations in the European political climate or entertainment industry investment strategies…a Personalized Research Assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian will help you experience the academic furor necessary for a quality project.

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Young PRAnkenstein (Fall 2007)

“Have all the preparations been made for the transference?

Yes, doctor.

Are you sure you want to go through with this?

The only thing that can save your paper now is a personalized research assistance (PRA) session with a reference librarian. We’ll give your creation life by helping you find the books, journal articles, and online resources you need to write that well-researched paper.

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Harry PRAtter and the Prisoner of Research (Spring 2007)

Werewolves, Soul-Sucking Professors…

In a world where nothing is as it seems, something helpful this way comes. A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference wizard can help you navigate the shifting shapes of the Internet and find the books, journals, and other online resources you need for a well-researched project.

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APraLLO 13 (Fall 2006)

Skillman, we have a PRAblem

It was just another paper–20 pages, double-spaced, proper citation format–until a short circuit in the research module turned a routine assignment into a desperate race against time.

A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you navigate the immense void of the internet and find the books, journals, and online resources you need for a well-researched project.

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MARY PraPPINS (Spring 2006)

PRA appointments, practically perfect in every way!

Wondering about the efficacy of measured amounts of sucrose compounds as facilitators for orally ingested curatives? Exploring the psychosocial connection between nanny care and empire?

We may not be able to help get the chim-chiminey back in your chim-chim-charoo, but a Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you find the books, journals, and online resources you need for a well-researched project that will make your professor say: SupercaliPRAgilisticexpilalidocious!

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The Usual PRAspects (Fall 2005))

When you have to look beyond the usual sources…

A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you find the books, journals, and online resources you need for a well-researched project. Whether you need information on Kaiser Wilhelm or Keyser Soze, we can help….Even when you’re not sure if what you’re looking for even exists.

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Apracalypse Now (Spring 2005)

The horror. The horror…

Don’t love the smell of research in the morning? Can’t get no satisfaction surfing the Web? No matter how insane the assignment, you can depend on our reference unit to guide you through even the most hostile research environments.

A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you safely navigate the books, journals, and online resources you need for a well-researched project.

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PRAWS (Fall 2004)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the library…

Feeling at sea in the new library? Scared those killer deadlines might swim up and bite you on the ass if you ignore them much longer? Don’t be swallowed whole. A PRA may be just the lifeline you need.

A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you wade through books, journals, and online resources to find what you need for a well-researched project. So come back into the library, the water’s fine.

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PRAnet of the Apes (Spring 2004)

Going ape over research?

Professors’ demands driving you bananas? The library can seem like a madhouse to even the most evolved hominid, so don’t monkey around . . . get a PRA.

A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference simian can help you unearth the evidence needed for a well-researched project that can win over even your biggest skeptics.

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The Wizard of PRAS (Fall 2003)

We can’t give you a brain…

but if you have a heartbeat and can summon the courage to talk with a reference librarian, we may be able to provide you with some direction on the road to earning your diploma.

Whether you’re searching for information on flying monkeys or the gold standard, a Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you find the sources you need to write that solid, well-researched project your professor is looking for.

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PRA TREK (Spring 2003)

Research, the final frontier…This is your voyage into the enterprise of scholarship. Your four year mission: to explore strange new ideas, to seek out new books and new articles, to boldly write what no student has written before.

A PRA can help. No, we’re not talking about an alien life form. A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you find the sources you need to complete the solid, well-researched project your professor is looking for. You might say it’s our prime directive.

Lafayette Librarians with Nixon and Elvis

We’ll treat you like the King… (Fall 2002)

A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you find the sources you need to write that solid, well-researched paper your professor is looking for. A half hour PRA session can even save you valuable hours later.

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The SoPRAnos (Spring 2002)

When you need a professional…

A Personalized Research Assistance session with a reference librarian can help you find the sources you need to write that solid, well-researched paper your professor is looking for. A half hour PRA session can even save you valuable hours later.

Lafayette librarians as Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Bloodsucking professors? Monster papers? (Fall 2001)

You could wear garlic, or . . . get a PRA!

A personalized research assistance session with a reference librarian can help you find the sources you need to write the solid, well-researched papers professors are looking for. It’s like a “WA” conference that focuses on research. A half-hour PRA session can also save you hours later.

Lafayette Librarians as Conan

Pra! (Spring 2001)

Need help researching that “A” paper?

A Personalized Research Assistance session with a librarian can help you find and evaluate sources for your next assignment. It’s like a “WA” conference focusing on the library research component of your assignment–with your own Personal Research Assistant.

Make an appointment with a reference barbarian today!

Request an appointment.