{"id":1024,"date":"2007-09-11T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2007\/09\/reference-desk-foreign-language-translation-services\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:16:00","slug":"reference-desk-foreign-language-translation-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2007\/09\/reference-desk-foreign-language-translation-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Reference Desk:  Foreign Language Translation Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reference Desk<\/p>\n<p>I had a community patron inquiring about translation assistance for a newspaper article written in German.&nbsp; While I directed him to the Modern Languages department here, in a subsequent telephone conversation with Fred Yaniga, he said that they are not always able to directly help with such requests &#8211; due to the time it takes to properly translate materials.&nbsp; Also, students usually don&#8217;t have the proficiency needed to do an adequate translation.&nbsp; So, while it is okay to occasionally direct such patrons to their department, they may only be able to recommend local translation services &nbsp; &#8211; which we, at the desk, can help the patron to locate as well.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference Desk I had a community patron inquiring about translation assistance for a newspaper article written in German.&nbsp; While I directed him to the Modern Languages department here, in a subsequent telephone conversation with Fred Yaniga, he said that they are not always able to directly help with such requests &#8211; due to the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[6860],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}