CDM Overview

On February 7th, I had a rather "easy-going" day. I met with Mrs. Cynthia Crooker who has been working at this medical library for 20 years. She does data harvesting, and she decides which electronic resources to buy, such as journals and books for the library. She finds her job interesting be cause it changes so much and says that she will still be working at this library 5 years from now but her job description will probably change. I also got the chance to meet with Mr. Daniel Dollar who says he "fell backwards" into working here. He is the manager of the CDM department, but before coming here he worked in the Library of Congress. He has been working at this medical library for 7 years and likes the fact that he gets to spend money on resources for the library. These two individuals help my favorite depatment: preservation, exist becasue without their management, this library would probably not have all the priceless rare books they have now.