My first day

Today was the first day of my internship at the Cushing Whitney Medical Library. Charles Greenberg gave me a tour of the library. I was surprised to see how big the library was. I have a feeling I am going to get lost at least once. Charles Greenberg told me about the history of the library. I met a few of the employees and they showed me what they did. Their names were Daniel, Mary and Earl. They were all very interesting, and each of them have a specific job. Daniel was responsible for going through the mail that came to the library and deciding which journals the library was going to purchase. This may seem easy, but it is not. First he had to see which journals were viewed the most and then he had to see if the price of the journals fit into the library's budget. Mary was responsible for taking the old journals and getting them ready to be bound into hardcover books. Earl was responsible for a program called SFD ( I'm not sure if that is correct).

Steven's Last Entree

My last day was my worst day because it was the last. The highlight of
this day was giving feedback to Lei about the tutorials on the Yale
website. This was a highlight for me because reviewing the tutorials is
similar to one of my dream jobs which is a game reviewer/tester/editor.
My two weeks as an intern were awesome and I really wouldn't mind doing
it again. This might not be my last blog so keep your eyes open.

July 25, 2007 (Steven)

Today was a great day. The first thing I did was go to the Sterling Library to speak with Sharon Tarascio. She asked me questions about how I felt about the internship. Through this conversation I ended up kind of getting a job opportunity. That really throw my day into an excellent day. The next thing I did was find out about what exactly was Bob's main purpose in the library. Overall he's in charge of the financials. Then I found out a lot more about the historical part of the library. This was one of the first times that I actually enjoyed learning about history. A got to see books, paintings and posters that date as far back as the 1400s. Thats all for today.

July 23, 2007 (Steven)

On this day I had two things on the list to do. The first was an education software activity with Judy. What I did was find out what her main roll and involvement is with the Library home page. Then I actually took part in doing what she does which was making sure the links are properly working, Find out which ones don't and why. The second thing I did was find out what happens in the Collection Development department. On the outside it doesn't look like much until one actually take part in doing what they do. What I did was start a spread sheet that was used to see which links give you full texts to Journals, ones that don't, ones that say they do and don't and viseversa(I never actually had to spell this word before). Overall It was fun.

My third day (Steven)

My third day at the chili internship. The first thing I did today was go to a meeting that involved the game Jeopardy being played. That was the first time that I was able to say that the game Jeopardy wasn't a game at all. It was a learning experience. It was also fun at the same time. The second thing that I did was meet the library director. I found out that there is definately a lot of money involved with the medical library. The next thing that was on my list informed me a lot about PDAs. There is a lot of uses for them especially when one is always on the move. Then it was time for lunch. I walked down to Subway and got me a six inch chicken teriyaki(probably spelt wrong) sub. It was good especially with the formula 50 vitamin water. After lunch I started the PubMed tutorial. I learned how its used to research things. After I'm finished that I did this blog. When I'm finished I'll check my my, possibly look for something else to do, change my calender and then probably go home.

Today is my second day... (Steven)

Today is my second day interning at the Yale Medical Library. The first thing that I did was go to a meeting where some of the employees shared what they have been doing for the past couple of weeks. During this meeting I recognize some similarities between their meeting and the meetings that I was having working as a manager for the Career school based company called CCS. There seemed to be a lot of planning involved, and also its good to know that everybody's doing their part. This leads me to the fact that I learned a lot about the employees' personalities from just one meeting. After I left the meeting, I learnt more about the access and delivery services department from John Gallagher and a couple of people that his job descriptions requires him to work with to get things done. Some of it is dealing with the usual shelving of books. The thing that was somewhat completely new to me was how the go about sending information from books and whanot electronicly. As of now the day is still not over.

Introduction- Steven

Today is my first day working as an intern at the medical library. It was a lot more interesting than those before me said it was. I learned some history about not only the medical library but also the yale school of nursing.