Meeting with Preservation Librarian(and my final day)

Today I met with Sarah who is the preservation librarian at the Library. She went to the University of Illinois for art and art history for her undergradute degree. Right after getting her degree she worked as a librarian for 2 years, and went to school for her masters degree in library services. She was inspired by a woman who was a conservator, and after their meeting she became interested and applied for a job at the Library as a preservation librarian, since she had a background on art. She has been working in the Library for 4 years. She preserves the collection, puts up exhibits, keeps the collection available for research, arranges the collection, and secures the enivronment. She makes sure that the books are safe from insects, water, and that the temperature is approriate. Also she gives tours to people, lessons on book history, and works on the database.

The most challenging thing about her job would to be prioritizing the tasks. She wishes there was enough time to sort through the collection, and that there were more student help. Progress is what keeps her happy in her job. She likes to see the bigger picture of what she does instead of just the one thing that she spends her focus on. Her memorable experiences are just feeling the satisfaction that there is some sort of difference in her work. Currently, she is working on a book program called Adopt a Rare Book Program, which involves people being part of the program when they donate money for conservation. She is also preserving the collection of Harvey Cushing's brain collection. As for her future she hopes to still be in her job but at bigger levels as well as working with the digital library, which will have pictures of some the collection.

Today is my last day and it has been so much fun. I have learned so much from the people that I have been fortunate to meet and interview. I will remember scanning an article with Kelly. I will remember seeing old books in the basement that date back to the 16th century like the Copernicus books which explained that the sun was the center of the Earth not the Earth as the center of the universe and all things surrounding the Earth. People thought that the Sun surrounded the Earth, and the catholic church at the time retaliated to the idea of Copernicus. I will remember the ice-cream party which was held at the Sternling library for the staff. I will remember seeing the staff and the building. I really had fun, and I will be back for the unveiling of the Harvey Cushing brain collection next summer. I think will keep coming back for as long as I am in Connecticut!

Meeting with Libray IT Support Librarian

After meeting with Rick, I met with Jason who the library IT support librarian. He makes sure that the systems are running, that students and staff can access their resources, and covers other systems in other departments, He says nothing is really challenging about his job because he is able to get most things done in a timely manner. On a daily bases the systems are running well, and not many systems fail. Although if he could change anything in the job it would be to see the library with more money to get better resources. A typical day for him is attending to problems, and getting software image identical in each system for the staff. He says that having good temperance, and technical skills are important traits for his job. Something that keeps him happy in his job is always having something to do. A project that he is currently working on involves replacing all the machines in the library, and upgrading the software. I asked about how technology will affect our libraries in the future and he says that there will still be a need for printed format, but there will be more electronic materials and study space. He has been in the job for a year and 8 months and will still be in the job depending on how Yale treats him.

Meeting with Circulation Supervisor

After meeting with the library service assistants, I met with Rick who is the circulation supervisor. He manages in access and delivery services, making sure that documents are being delivered to people. He helps people with their databases, deals with public computers, and teaches classes. One of the challenges is making sure that the patrons are receiving their resources. He communicates with people electronically, and through the information desk. A typical day for him is seeing the staff, and dealing with his emails.

He thinks that giving the best consumer service, and being a team player in the department as well as in other departments are personality traits that one needs for the job. What keeps him happy in his job is the fact that he has good staff members. Some of the projects that he is working on is shifting the entire journal collection, and working on a part of the library that is being refurnished for the brain collection of Harvey Cushing. One of his memorable experiences is a program, takes place at the Library once a year, which hosts high students from all over the world who are interested in medicine. He says that it is such a pleasure seeing the students animated about medicine and seeing the seriousness of the medical students who teach them. Some achievements of his are making sure that the department has a good reputation, and going to Mississppi to cook food for Hurricane Katrina victims. He is not sure what he will be doing in about 5-10 years but he hopes to still keeping cooking.

Meeting with Library Service Assistants

Yesterday I met with the library service assistants of the document delivery department. First I spoke with Vermetha, who orders journals and articles, makes sure that they come in, and makes sure that the patrons receive them in a timely manner. She verifies citations which she says is a challenging thing to do. A typical day for her is ordering books, journals, and articles, receiving updating requests, and searching different databases. She has been in the job since 1996, and has been in the University for 24 years. Currently, she is taking classes to become an academic librarian. Then I met with Carol who performs inhouse request. She basciallly retrives articles and print them out for patrons. She started out shelving books 28 years ago, and now likes being a library service assistant.

After speaking with Carol, I met with Kelly who performs digital preservation. She provides information to people by scanning articles from old books that cannot be taken out of the library. She is currently working on the alumni bullentin, and a Peter Parker collection, which she will send to the media center. Some of her acheivements include helping people to find articles, using old stuff, and finding interesting things in old books. She has been in the job for 6 years, and sees herself doing some kind of library type things in the future.

Meeting with Head of Collection Department

So after meeting with the acquisition assistants, I met with Daniel, who is the head of the collection department and management. He manages the department by helping the staff, he makes sure that the budget is proficient and is not over-spent, and he is really involved with HINARI, which is a website that offers books to other countries. Daniel did not start out as a librarian, actually he was interested in politics. He recieved his bachelors degree in political science from the Appalachain State University, but recieved his library degree from the University of Maryland.He likes being a librarian, but says that it is challenging to keep on top of everything. He would like to spend more time on HINARI if there was anything he could change.
What is necessary for him to be happy is being able to not get overwhelmed, just trying to get things aligned. A typical day for him is looking at his schedule, going to meetings, and talking to the staff in the department to see how things are going. He also goes to a class on time management; the activities varies from day to day. His memorable experiences are solving problems of people and working with the staff. One of his acheivements is using funds for usage of data. He has been in the job for 2 and a half years and 8 years at Yale. He hopes to still be in the job and will adapt to the change as the job keeps evolving.

Meeting with acquisitions asssistants

After meeting with Mark, I met with some acquisitions assistants. First I talked with Mary who works in the print journal collection, keep records straighten out online, and answers people problems. She makes sure that people has access to information. The most challenging thing for her is keeping up to date, and not having enough time. If there was anything that she could change it would having enough time to communicate more with people and sharing ideas with them. She is currently working on catching up with the binding, and will be centering information for the interlibrary loan. She also does the reference desk, update records, answer questions through email, website, and face-to-face contact, and provides journals to other countries through HINARI. In the future, she hopes to become a reference librarian because she likes the contact, and is working towards that goal by getting a degree. She has been in the job for 3 years.

Then I met with Jeannette who orders electronic journals through HINARI and EBSCONET. She started off in the circulation department for 21 years, and changed into the collection development. The most challenging thing for her is making sure to get the correct records. On a daily basis she bascially looks at her email, responds to them, and sets up a schedule for the next day. She has been in the career for 44 years, and one of her proudest achievements has been organizing. She hopes that in the next 2-5 years she is retired.

After meeting with Jeannette, I met Melissa who orders books, pays for the books, and catalogs them. Electronic and navigation are both challenges for her. If she could change anything at all in the job, it would be developing more structure and having a clear view of things. She orders books for the historical part of the library, and she says that cataloging is the most difficult. Also she mentioned that having good organization skills and paying attention to details are important traits that one needs for her job. She feels that in order for her to be happy in her job there needs to be a variety of things. She is not working on anything particular at this point other than that she just finished on cataloging books that took a long time since it was a collection. Her acheievements have been learning how to catalog books.

Meeting with Clinical Support Librarian

Today I met with Mark who is a clinical support librarian. He helps clinicians to get information for patients, helps people use technology, create information on Cds, and restructures the PDA page on the Yale website. After getting a masters degree in anthropology, he went to China where he worked for 2 years. He came back and realized that anthropology was not for him, so he applied for a job at a library. He was really inspired by the staff who seemed to like what they did and decided to get his masters degree in library sciences at Southern University. He worked at Saint Francis Raphael Hospital for 13 years, and came in as clinical support librarian 9 years ag0.

A typical day for him varies from day. The most challenging thing about his job is dealing with competing demands, and not having enough time to do all of the basic work. He communicates with people through web pages, emails, periodic classes, etc. He says that for one to be curious, flexible, and willingness to be open are key traits in the job. Though what keeps him happy in his job is the satisfaction of helping people, feeling that he has accomplished something, and the recognition from the supervisors. Currently he is working on redoing the PDA pages on the Yale website, working with the Yale Hospital to get money to support the Library, and teaching a Uganda doctor about the use of technology.

One of his memorable experiences is hearing from people that he has helped in the past, and being asked by a woman how long can you hear after death? He has been to conferences around the country and the world like San Francisco, Texas, Florida, and Sweden, where he was a key speaker to represent the Library. The achievements that he is most proud of' are having access in the clinical areas, and improving mobile devices. He hopes that 5 years from now that he would still be doing some of the stuff that he doing now.

Meeting with Historical Librarian

After my meeting with Jan, I met with Toby who is the head of the historical library. First she gave me tour of the historical library then sat with me to talk. She buys books either old or new, gives exhibits, anwers questions through email, teaches classes, and works on the digital library which is mainly about images. It is a challenge for her to work on so many things at once. She wishes that there was more time to work on collections. Everyday is different and never boring because she never knows who comes through the doors. She communicates with people through the classses that she teaches, letters, telephone, emails, online exhibits, and tour. She also meets and talks with people through meetings like the History of Science and the American Association of Historic Association. Important traits that one needs in her job is flexibity, knowing the materials, patience, and willingness to know new things.

Toby has a Phd in the History of Science and recieved her library degree from the University of Maryland. Some of her achievements are the various exibits she has done and getting them up, the Darwin exibits, and keeping the records of the bibliography of publications that used unique manuscripts of the medical library. Another achievement is being able to organize a lot of things in the past 15 years. She is currently working on the Bicentennial collection, which involves pictures of old doctors, the first building of the Yale Medical School and Medical Library, and donations of a student assistant of Harvey Cushing, who recently died at the age of 91.She is also helping to make changes on the website. She mentioned to me that technology in the future will be widely used in our libraries, but will take a long time for libraries to fully be vitual. Also she mentioned that there will be few librarians in the future. In five years she hopes to be retired but will volunteer at different places.

Meeting with Educational Services Librarian

Today I met with Jan who is the educational services librarian. She mentors others medical librarians, organizes educational program, and coordinates medical student librarians. She also teaches people how to use and find resources online. It is hard for her keep with technology and how to use it. Although she would like to have an administrator assistant because it would be much easier for everyone who finds it difficult to do perform all of the day's work. Her typical day involves reading emails, organizing classes, and making sure the content is adequate. She communicates with people through email, teaching, and meetings.

An important thing that one needs in her job is curiosity not because that one is loosing interest in the job but that it makes one learn more things. For instance she received an anonymous letter from California that asked the question: Does blood bounce off snow?, and she became so intrigued by the question that she herself wanted to know. She gave the individual a list of sources to contact his local hospital and ask the people of pathology. She says that it is one of her favorite questions. Her memorable experiences is recognizing the need before other people, and realizing that the product for which she felt would be huge became a great thing.

Some projects that she is currently working on is organizing orientations for the new medical students, and making sure that her list for which she will be using to teach is revised and ready for September 14. Next week she will be going to Australia for which she will be representing the library. She has also been to China in which she was a key note speaker for a meeting, and Darthmouth in which she supported the clinical library.

Jan received her masters in library sciences from Rhode Island University, and has been in the career for 35 years. She had always wanted to become a librarian since she was a teenager. So what is necessary for her to be happy in her job is doing the best to her ability with the time that she has. Some benefits the community receives from her job are teaching people how to find information, and helping school nurses by raising awareness. In 5 years she hopes to perform some garden work, volunteering at some places, and tutor students for English.

Meeting with Director of Public Schools(continue August 6, 2009)

After my meeting with Matt, I met with Claudia Merson who works in the New Haven and State Affairs as well as being the director of public schools. She is the contact person between Yale University and the school district, and approves a budget. She had been a teacher, and taught at an educational theater. She went to New York University for her undergraduate degree and Harvard for her graduate degree. She received a masters degree in education. After teaching for 21 years, she moved to Baghdad and taught for 3 years, then moved to Sweden for 11 years. Now as the director of public schools she communicates with people through phone, emails, Facebook, and meetings. Her typical day includes checking her emails, going to meetings, making phone calls, and tracking down old SCHOLARS members. SCHOLARS is a summer program for New Haven high school students which prepares them for their next year courses.

The important things that she does are speaking with faculty, and helping students connect with teachers and teachers with the library. Although the most challenging thing for her is not having enough time to do the things she wants to do. She is currently working on making a partnership with Cooperative Arts School. Her most memorable experience is the partnership between Career High School and Yale University. She also showed me a letter of congratulations from then President Bill Clinton. She loves her job and hopes to still be in the career.

Meeting with Public Health Librarian

Yesterday, August 6, I met with Matt who is the public health librarian. He had never thought about becoming a librarian for public health, he instead studied English Language at James Madison College in Virginia. His friend had inspired him where he was working in a library to become a librarian. He then decided to go the University of Illinois to receive a degree as a public health librarian. The important things that he does are helping people find information that they need, making sure that they need it and when they it. The challenging thing that his does in his job is never having enough money to go through the evaluation of what resources are to be received. He communicates with people through email, Facebook, Twitter, going to different places, and attending student orientations. In the students orientations he talks about the information that the public health library offers, and the availability of the resources.

A typical day for him is checking his email, dealing with people's problems through email, and meeting with medical students. He says that a key trait that one needs for his job is being curious about things. Some things that are necessary to keep him happy in his job are getting paid, having fun, and enjoyable colleagues. He is also working on a special project that let students, who perform certain requirements, be paid to the Public Health Association meeting. He says that it is an educational experience for them. His job has allowed him to travel around the country such as San Diego, Orlando, and Columbia where he trained people. The achievements his most proud of are making tough decisions and making them happen. Matt has been in this job for 11 years and hopes that he is still having fun in the future.

Meeting with Library Director(continue August 5, 2009)

After meeting with Denise I met Kenny, who is the library director and deals with public relations. She works to encourage her staff, and makes sure that they have enough funds. She went to Southerner Connecticut and Albertus Magnus College to get her degree in public relations. She also has a bachelors degree in history. Important things about her in her job is being a good listener, letting people to disagree with her, and recognizing people. She likes to see her staff happy and feel a satisfaction in what she does. Kenny mentioned to me that liking to work with people, listening to others, being a team player, having good communication skills including having good technical skills are important traits that one needs in her job.

Her typical day involves getting to work early, and going to meetings which could be faculty, university, or alumni affairs. Also she says that her favorite thing so far has been working on a project called MERCY which focuses on how to spend the collection budget and how people use the collection. She communicates with the users of the library by getting to know them, speaking with surgeons, and the Liaisons. She is currently working on planning a retreat for the historical library, looking at spaces in library, and is also thinking of creating a swipe system. Her proud achievements are hiring good people to work for the library, and the endowment for the historical library. Kenny has been in this career for 30 years and still loves the job, the people as well as the environment.

Meeting with Liaison Librarian

Yesterday, August 5, I met with Denise who is Liaison to the anesthesiology and cancer center. She connects with the faculty, promotes and markets the use of resources and new resources. She makes people know what tools they have to use, and by creating an online site she lets people use easier ways to locate the resources. The most challenging thing about her job is finding new ways to help other Liaisons within limited time. She also works with Holly who is a Liaison to the OBGYN department. They both work to find new resources for their departments. Denise had majored and had a Phd in American History because she had wanted to become a historian. However she didn't feel that it was her calling. She then applied for an internship at the catalog at the University of Massachusetts and received her librarianship degree at Southern Connecticut.

She downloads resources, searches through datalike tools to store resources, and visit operating rooms to speak with surgeons. Her memorable experiences include having worked with surgeons in the ER, attending a anthesisologist meeting, and telecommunicating. I asked her about her experience in Japan having been spoken by Charlie. She bascially said that she gets to go because of her husband's job and it is only temporal. She is still able to work through skype. She is currently working with a group of people to redo the library website. Everyday is different for her but what is necessary to keep her happy is learning new things, her colleagues, and the supervisors who support her. She still will like to be in the library in the next 5 to 10 years.

Meeting with Human Resource Administrator(continue August 4, 2009)

So after getting to know more about Charlie, I met Diane Turner, who is the human resource administrator of all libraries. She is responsible for hiring staff, how the staff gets paid, and recruiting new employees. Also she makes decisions about human policies, trains and coaches the staff. She went State University in Albany, New York to get her degree. No two days are the same for her because she goes to a lot of meetings, catches up on her emails, and has the opportunity to meet different people, though she wishes that she had more time in the day. In the 32 years of her career, her memorable experiences are doing outstanding work, making new discoveries, and seeing people overcome their frustrations. She currently is working on getting agencies in need and taking in new students. Her job has allowed her to travel around the world like South Africa, Togo, South America, and California. She says that the achievement that she is most proud of is her children and "having the voice to do the right thing". In the next 5 years she sees herself telecommuting and tele-conferencing but still hopes to have fun in her job.

Getting to know more about Charlie(continue August 4, 2009)

After my meeting with Judy and Lynn, I had the chance to know more about Charlie Greenberg. He is a Liaison for surgery and emergency medicine as well as coordinator of curriculum and research support. For the past 11 years in the medical library he has managed the information desk as well as the chili program. By communicating with people through email, telephone, appointments, etc he understands what the users of the library likes and dislikes, therefore thinking about new ways to improve the resources. He also teaches people how to use tools in the computer like Refworks. He finds ways to his relationship with the users of the library.

As a teenager he hadn't considered becoming a medical librarian though he spent his time reading and studying in the library. In 1981, he was offered an interview by the public library in Rocklyn, New York. There he taught people how to use the pc Apple computer. He had been hired to work for the Law school Library where he videotaped graduations and was a reference librarian for 2 years. After 4 years he got bored of the job and discovered that he didn't need a medical degree in order to become medical librarian and switch to the medical library in 1989.

He is working on an electronic way in which Yale students can put their thesis on line, and on the Yale Research Institution website. Also he is part of the International Librarian Leadership program, which focuses on helping librarians serve their doctors, and hosts librarians from around the world. A memorable experience was when he presented in front of a group of surgeons which he says was interesting to do. Librarianship has enabled him to travel around the world like Australia, Germany, Scotland, Sweden and Armenia. You can find out more about his experience in Armenia at http://ysmuvisit.blogspot.com/. He also hopes to travel to South Africa. According to him one of the most challenging thing is making people feel more comfortable using technology. Overall, Charlie loves his job because he likes his hours, the ability to create new projects, the environment and his colleagues.

Meeting with Curriculum Support Librarian (continue August 4, 2009)

I also met with Judy who is a Curriculum Support Librarian in the medical library. She is Liaison to the Basic Science Department of the school of medicine. Sometimes she works at the information desk. Also she attends meetings, respond to technical problems, and is working on organizing orientations and schedule for the new medical students. Her meetings have allowed her to travel around the country such as Utah, Denver, Vancover, and Dallas. During the meetings, discussions are about networking and new things. When she was my age she didn't know what career she wanted to follow. She had a bachalor degree in English but got a librarianship degree from Southern Connecticut. She loves being a medical librarian because she enjoys working with her collegues, learning new things all the time, and interacting with the medical students. She has been in this job for 14 years and isn't ready to retire. What keeps her happy is her interactions with people and being recognized for her efforts.

Meeting with Library Publicity( August 4, 2009)

Yesterday I met with Lynn who does marketing, promoting, and publicity. She keeps people aware of what is going on by scheduling events for people to visit the library and making annoucements which appear on the Yale website . She is also a Liaison for pedriatrics and dermatology. Her activities varies from day to day. She doesn't spend the day sitting at the desk all day. For instance she attends meetings and goes to the hospital. She received her library degree at Southern Connecticut. She also has a Phd in anthropology, humanities and technical services. Actually she had wanted to become a teacher but there wasn't enough jobs at the time. It was in 1979 that she had gone to the medical library and discovered that there was a job opening. She has ever since been in the medical library for 30 years. What keeps her happy in her job is the people she works with, the support that she receives from her collegues, and the physical environment. One of her memorable experiences was when the medical library was opened after it was rennovated. She is working on supplying articles to nurses and on creating resources for the consumer health website for the public.

My first day as a CHILI intern

Hi everyone! My name is Jemima Mbaka and I am the new Chili Intern at Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Yesterday, August 3, was my first day as an Chile Intern. First, I met with Mr. Greenberg who gave me a tour around the Medical Library. The Library is such an amazing place filled with so much information about different health issues. During the tour I learned that the founder of the Library, Harvey Cushing, was a neurosurgeon who was one of the first doctors to pay attention to infection control while operating on a person. He understood that germs were one of the reasons for illness and death during his lifetime. I also learned that he was also a collector of books, especially medical books. He approached the president of Yale University at the time to permit him to open the medical library, and he was willing to donate all of his books in return.

After the tour I met with Bob Hughes, who is the business manager. He decides the budget of the medical library, how the staff gets paid, secures the people who visit the library as well as the library itself, and also is invovled in building rennovations in the library. He loves his job but also says it is a challenge to figure out the budget spending.

After our meeting, I met with Lei who is the instructional designer. He provides online education unit for the library. He helps people find their way locating certain resources in the library. He is right now working on instructional videos on how to get medical resources on your cell phones, and creating tutorials for students interested in nursing.

Meeting with Library Human Resource (Continue July 15, 2009)

After meeting with Janene, I met with Diane Turner, who is the head of Human Resources. She the 32 years of working she has been responsible for hiring, for salary and how much people are paid, training, and recruiting. She also has done Community Relations with schools, like Hill Regional Career High School, in Book Bowl, curriculum, looking at libraries, advising on research, and media specialist. Other programs she's been involved in are Book Drives for Little Children, with COOP doing a program where students in their history classes research their own history or their family's history, and had worked on different Boards like the one on AIDS. All her life she's wanted to do this kind of job because she loved working wiith people, solving challenges, and finding people the right jobs. Some benefits that she feels the community receives from what she does is the availability to resources and strengthening the view of the public schools. Somethings she hope could improve was the violence and the high school drop outs. Another future goal is to raise funds for the United Ways Agency. Some memorable experiences that she's had involve personal stories that she's heard and the people she's met. Some things that she has seen change from the time she began working is the technology, diversity, the social changes like for instance the style of clothing that people wear, and most important the white house with our new president Obama.

Meeting with Nursing Librarian (Continue from July 15, 2009)

After I met with Toby and Flo, I went to the Yale School of Nursing, where I met with Janene. She's worked in the medical library for 7 years as a Nursing School librarian and her main charge there is to help nurses, faculty, clinicians, with any information needs. She works with about 300 students and 600 faculty members. She also teaches whole classes of 80 people on how to search. When not teaching, she's designing classes like orientation classes for new students. She also does a program with public and private school nurses all over Connecticut, giving them resources that are useful and important for their career. She enjoys her job because she feels it's always interesting and she's always learning new things. Some future goals she has are to be better at what she does and also become an Expert in the field of nursing librarian. Some memorable experiences that she's had were when she presented to school nurses at a conference. She enjoys the aspect of talking and teaching the school nurses on resourceful ways to find information. Not only does she work at the School of Nursing but also at the Medical library, but she spends half the time mainly at the School of Nursing so that the students and faculty have easier access to her. Even though the professional environment is busy and constant she likes how her job is interesting and the fact that she can set her own work time and schedule.

My Fifth Day (July 15, 2009)

This morning I got a chance to get a tour of the OR and Anesthesiology units by Denise. She showed me the places to where she meets with Surgeons, Physicians, Medical Residents, etc. to help them use resources, get resources, and learn and use different softwares or technology to get important information. After the tour, I met with Toby, who is the head of the medical historical department and has been working at the library for 15 years. She does exhibits,(mainly in the rotunda), manages the collections, buys major rare books, and organizes manuscripts. She's helped staff and students find historical information. Recently she's done an exhibit on Darwin where any one can find out more about by visiting this website http://elibrary.med.yale.edu/blog/?p=703 .Toby also works in the Liaison program for the history of medicine and humanity in medicine. She feels that this collection makes the library unique because people benefit from the exhibits, tours, by learning about historical information that has impacted the future of medicine. An aspect that she hopes for the future is to have a finding aids database for medicine on the Yale website, so that people can have better access to historical information. While meeting with Toby, I met Flo, who works with the Digital library. She puts historical images online and makes sure that they're easy to access and look descent. You can these images at http://www.med.yale.edu/library/subjects/digital.html .

Meeting with Publicity and Reference (Continue from July 14, 2009)

Today I met with Lynn who does reference, marketing, publications, publicity, and statistics. In reference she helps people get resources that they might need. In marketing she offers exhibits and events so that the medical library can be seen from other people. In publications, she's done announcements about the library in the Yale Medical Bulletin. For publicity, she makes sure events are announced in the newspapers, on the Yale website, etc. again so that other people get the opportunity to find out and see more about the medical library. For statistics, she keeps track of questions asked at the information desk, in the Liaison program, in the Library Chat-IM, and with the texting. The statistics are recorded every 2 days a month, to where people put all the information about how many questions came to them, in a web form, the information is then calculated and put in statistic form. Lynn is also a Liaison for pediatrics and dermatology and is a personal librarian to a group of Yale medical students. She balances the time to achieve her work by each day, when possible, taking one topic and working on it all day. Like for instant one day she might spend the day doing statistics but the next she might do publications. What makes her job challenging is that some days she might be busy all day in meetings and only get about an hour in her office to work. Throughout her 27 years of working at the medical library other programs that she has been a part of are Consumer Health, Yale Health Plan, and with the New Haven free public library promoting health by buying computers, books, creating a website, so that people have more access to learning about healthy living. She also been a part of programs with the Yale school of nursing. What Lynn enjoys about her job is the aspect of helping at the information desk and finding resources that can teach and help others. Some future goals that she has are to learn ballroom dancing and to reach a higher level in her career, she's currently at a 3 but hopes to soon be at 4, through a promotion package. Some things that have changed during her time at the medical library that I found interesting was that in the 1990s the physical library changed, when she 1st came to the library in the 1980s no computers were around, that the 1st computer the library had was more like a typewriter, that there was only one computer for the whole staff, and that over the years the staff members have changed.

My Fourth Day (July 14, 2009) Meeting with Access and Delivery Services

Today I met with John, Mary, and Rick and also Ana and Dexter who work with the Access and Delivery services of the library. John is the Deputy Director of Public Services, which means that he deals with any interactions between the library and patrons/ people who visit the library. He is responsible for overseeing all the circulation departments, webmaster, interlibrary loan, liaisons, the security of the people who come into the library, and copyright. His main job that Ana, Dexter, and Mary as well as other departments in the library contribute to, is to help people find information they need, but he finds information mainly through journals. John is also works with the liaison program with the Orthopedics department, he also has been developing a website for a non-profit organization about Orthopedics, he has also served as a personal librarian for 7 to 10 students a year, and is a member of the medical library association. He also helps people with their library accounts and any other problems that may occur. Over his 9 years of working at the medical library, the aspect that he enjoys the most is the opportunity of getting to meet new people like students, staff, doctors, and hear about their interests, backgrounds, etc. He also enjoys receiving feedback from the patrons because it show the appreciation or the aspects he may need to work on. Somethings that he feels could improve and hopes to improve is the way in keeping up with the change in technology, the demand of people, and the personal skills and knowledge to do his job efficiently. Mary is the manager of the interlibrary loan, where she oversees a small group of lending and borrowing co-workers. The lending group, which consists of 3 people, fulfill orders that come from people or organizations that aren't a part of Yale. The borrowing group, which only consists of one person, fulfills orders to get journals or any other resources that aren't in the medical library, to be used at Yale by students, staff, physicians, etc. She describes her work environment as a way of learning a lot, especially on new databases, and that there is a lot of teamwork among this department and sometimes with other departments like the IT, reference, history of medicine, etc. A challenge is that some of the orders that the department receives are rushed, which means that they only have two hours to see if they have the resource, if they need to get it from another library, and then send it to the person who needs it. When the department has more than one person at a time needing resources rushed to them, it get challenging to see how many they can get done at a time. Some improvements that she feels are needed are technical issues. She feels that there should be more training for staff on software. What she enjoys about her jobs is finding solutions for bad citations, statistics, and knowing why some orders might not have been fulfill. Rick is the manager, who does the day to day operation. He focuses mainly on the operation at the circulation desk. He makes sure that patrons get what they need and if they don't he makes sure that next time they do. he enjoys his job because the problems aren't too bad, even though some of them can be a "rollercoaster", but he mostly enjoys it because the job isn't stressful. Ana and Dexter both work mainly with Access services, helping patrons find what they need faster. They both also try to find other ways to find information and resources in an easier manner.

Meeting with the members of Collection Development and Management (Continue July 9, 2009)

After meeting with Jason, I met with Cindy, Chris, Jeanette, Melissa, and Daniel who are all members of the Collection Development and Management part of the library. Cindy is the Associate Department Head to where she orders books, chooses what books are chosen, works with vendors to choose books, gives certain topics to vendors to find books, checks reviews to see if the books she might choose are good, get books people suggest, get books teachers want, and supervises that the travel time for the book to get from where it is at to the library is accurate. What's sad is that her job will soon be eliminated, but Cindy hopes to continue to at least still be working at Yale or as a research assistant. Next I met with Chris, who's main job is to catalog. She gets the books that either Cindy has bought, that others have donated, or that libraries have sent to the medical library and catalogs them. She does this by putting a code number on the book, and doing a descriptive cataloging that says hoe many image pages the book may have, how many pages the book has in total, etc and puts all that info. into the computer. She also works with a program called Hinari done through Switzerland getting subjects for people looking for journals. Jeanette's job is to mainly put serial numbers for Journals or electronic journals. She also works with Hinari, updating the dates of old journals. Melissa job is to order electronic books, catalog those books, and also labels books with Chris and electronic books. She also works with Hinari making it easier for people to access the journals. Now Daniel is the manager of the department. his job is to make the goals for the department, the assignments, sign time sheets, manage the library collection, manages the budget for book buying, looks at statistics and usage data of books to get those books used more. He also manages an electronic book called "UP to DATE" and the program Hinari. Even though each member has a different role, there is still a lot of team work.

Meeting with Library IT support (Continue from July 9, 2009)

After meeting with Bob, I met with with Jason the Library's IT support. His job is to help anyone who has computer issues and fixes the computer's hardware and software. Ever since he was young he was always interested in Computer Science especially because his Uncle was involved with creating the standard protocol for the Internet. In the future he hope to be more involved in information security to protect personal information from identity theft and the protection of computers from viruses. He also is involved with staff training and during August and September he orientates new medical students for IT. He's been working since he was 18 years old but has been working at the medical library for about a year and a half. Things that he enjoys about his job that it's less stressful than other jobs, less management involvement, more freedoms to get things done, and the way he can be apart of making technology easier to use. Things he hopes could be improved are the processes to managing all the machines, the operating systems, and the accessibility to information. the future goals that Jason has involves going back to school and doing something in science like Chem. or Biochem. Some things that have changed is how the staff's machines have upgraded. Their computers run faster, they're newer, and the way they can get work done more efficiently because now each staff member has two monitors. Overall Jason really enjoys being able to do something he loves.

Learning about Library Business (Continue from July 9, 2009)

After getting to know more about Charlie I met with Bob who with three main things for the library that are 1-The Budget 2-Security 3-Facility. The budget consist of making sure bills and employees are paid as well as enough money for other programs like the Chili program. Also with the budget comes the responsibility to not go over, doing the pay roll, being involved and working with Betty to get work done, and the proper handling of the money that is coming in. For security Bob makes sure that proper policies are in place and that books and other important and valuable things have enough security to not be stolen. He does this by working with Yale police. With facility, this involves the construction or reconstruction of parts of the library, with includes a lot involvement with the constructors/builders. Bob's career experiences have been pretty interesting because first he wanted to be a running back for the Buffalo Bills but seeing that, that may not happen he then wanted to be a teacher or manager of a business. Later he worked as an insurance underwriter and lastly he started working at the medical library, where he got the motivation to work by his wife who already worked there. Other things that Bob works with are construction programs and grant programs. He says that his job involves a lot of Math and work with spreadsheets and would tell younger people that only if they have a strong interest and are strong in each one, that they should have and work to be in a business field. A memorable experience that he has was during his work time in AETNA and insurance company where he got to travel and teach a lot of his co-workers. Some future goals that he has that is a great one for his personal life and that is very important to him is to be a great Dad, to his two sons, and husband.

My Third Day (July 9, 2009)

Today I got the chance to interview and find out more about Charlie Greenberg, himself. He coordinates a group of specialist like Jan, Judy, Holly, Denise, Lei, etc., so that they can accomplish their goals or missions. He also is the grand coordinator and manages the Chili project as well as for intern supervision. Charlie also works in Liaison for the surgery and emergency medicine. He also manages all the medical students theses so that anyone in the world can be able to see them. In the past he also worked for 10 years managing the information desk and then passed it on for others to work there too. Not only has he been apart of the Chili program but he also has worked in a program called Librarians without borders and with the Medical Library Association and is a supporter of Global Health that involves statistics. Overall he has been working as a librarian for 28 years, 4 of them supervising and managing the Chili program. Charlie enjoys the constant interaction, educational role, and the new resources that the library offers. He also enjoys traveling for conferences and as a matter of fact his first airplane flight was during on of the conferences. Some memorable experiences that he has were teaching in a foreign country for 2 weeks in Armenia where you can find out more about at http://ysmuvisit.blogspot.com/. Another experience he enjoyed was when about 5 years ago he listened to a lechers at the historical library where a man talked about the future of genetics. Things that he feels have changed during his time at the medical library are how his department has become a closer working team, how the importance of social networking has allowed more ways of communicating among his co-workers, and how now there is a network of library leaders to talk with and consult about different issues and concerns. In the future he hope to be either an associate of Libraries or a Bully Pulpit at YALE. He also can see himself writing for personal and scholar use.

Meeting Instructional Design

Today I met with Lei, the instructional designer for the library. As a designer he manages audio engineering, screen capturing programs, setting up tutorials online, producing videos for classes online, and teaches others how to connect to the Internet and to the programs he manages online. To do the videos as classes he works with Jan who gives him the script, all the writing part of the class, so that Lei can record it and put as a video online. He enjoys his job because he makes resources more available online, he can serve as a consultant for questions about the library or online sources, he's getting to do something he likes, he can express his creativity, and by the script that Jan gives him he can learn in the process of creating the video. You can actually see a video at http://www.med.yale.edu/library/education/guides/screencasts/finditfast/finditfast_1/ or by going to the Yale medical library website and go to Guides and Tutorials and click on any video there. Things that he feels could improve is to be able to learn as fast as new technology comes out and easier technology could be created that would allow for him to do his job in a shorter amount of time. For example, right now it takes Lei about 45 days to get a whole session of video classes done. With easier technology he could hopefully get the whole session done in less time.

Meeting with Educational Services (Continue from July 8, 2009)

Today I met Jan who is an educational services librarian. She mainly organizes educational experiences that have to do with the library and teaches about the use of the library. Jan also does 3 hour classes to medical students to get resources for their theses. She has seen that her most busiest time of work is during June, July, and August because of summer programs and the process of new medical students coming to the library. Other programs she is involved in are mentoring new librarians, liaison program with psychology (children's mental health), clinical scholar (people who are physicians who do in depth research on health), and dentistry. She also does systematic reviews on literature for studies and works with the Personal Library Program with Judy to divide around 300-600 students among the reference librarians. Another program that she did that she really enjoyed was a Pilot Program. The director of the library, Kenny, rented her out for three years to where she helped kids to cope with domestic violence and other traumatic events. What she hopes to improve or hopes could be improved is for the improvement of the way younger kids and teens learn, more ways of learning and teaching on an online world, working with search engine producers to help organize the information for easier ways to search information, and that certain information and resources should be organized according to the different age groups. In other words look at the different age groups and adapt the resources to them, like for example younger people should be able to access more online or electronic resources.

Preservation Tour (Continue from July 8, 2009)

After meeting with Claudia Merson, I met with Sarah, who gave me a preservation tour. Her occupations deals with preserving and exhibiting historical items, like books. She works with two other students from Yale, trioging over 140 thousand books. In other words working to fix historical books, from the 13th century to the 19th century, that might have gotten damaged either during travel/transport or aging, by the ones who are the most damage to ones that can last longer without being fixed. Some of the books she has and tries to preserve were made with materials that over time have become deteriorated, like for example books with paper made of wood pulp have deteriorated more than paper made with cotton. Sarah really enjoys her job because she's doing a lot of hands on work and also being a part of preserving historical items and some of the world's finest items in the world, so that others in the future can see and learn about the history of medicine and of science. During the tour I also learned some fun fact like the first paper was made of cotton, then later with wood pulp and also with animal skins, like calves. I also learned that it wasn't until the 1950s or 1960s that women were allowed to come to Yale to work and get an education.

July 8, 2009 (My Second Day)

My second day began with a walk to Claudia Merson's office. Claudia is the director of partnership between Yale University and public schools. She works with school principles, administrators from Yale, and librarians (because they have a lot of information on different topics) to set up different activities for students to expand their knowledge beyond the education they learn in school. She has a partnership with Hill Regional Career High School and COOP where she's been apart of for 10 years and has set up programs like SCHOLAR, tutoring programs, and many other programs, in hope of letting students experience and learn more educational things. Claudia really enjoys her occupation and says "It's the best job in the world" because she loves being able and being a part of giving more opportunities for students and extending and enriching the public school curriculum. What she is most excited about is the SCHOLAR program that is now reaching its 11th year. She loves how this program allows high school students be able to experience how their lives might be during their college years. What I found most interesting about Claudia was that she had first majored in the college of NYU in a theater major and later in Georgia State as an English major and Linguist minor. What also was interesting was that when she was young she wanted to be an actress and she says that when she retires she wants to be a world famous cartoonist.

Meeting with Curriculum Support Librarian (Continue from July 7,2009)

After meeting with Holly and Denise, I met with Judy, a Curriculum Support Librarian. She works with faculty and medical students, in their connection to the library and different soft wares. She manages a black board where she helps teachers put their notes, quizzes and tests online and helps the students be able to see and take them. She is also Liaison with the Basic Science Department of the school of medicine that includes 10 different topics like Biology, Anatomy, etc. She is a person librarian to 600 students who include medical physicians, graduates, and undergraduates. Other soft wares or things that she is managing are Exam Master-online medical testing, Image Collections or Online Software-for faculty and some students to see images of the body, and VH dissection- to be used by 1st year medical students to where they can dissect a human body on the Internet. She also does lechers at the Grand Ground where she talks about the library and how she can help both the students and faculty. What I found interesting was that she also had majored in something different before majoring as a Medical Librarian. She had majored in a Humanity major in English, but after graduating she felt that teaching wasn't really something she wanted to do and after working in a library for some time she decided to get her degree and become a Librarian. She loves working as a medical librarian because she feels that it's never boring because there is always something going on but also because there is a lot of interaction between teachers, students, and herself. She has been working at the library for 13 years and hope to continue to work there in the years to come, but is open to branch out and do more new things while still doing the job she loves. I have learned already so much just on my first day and can't wait to learn more about the other roles that people have that help keep the medical library up and running and accessible to others.

Meeting with Liaison Librarians (Continue from July 7, 2009)

After the tour I met with Holly and Denise. They both are Liaison Librarians, which means that they both work together with other people like physicians, staff, administrators, and patients promoting and marketing the use of resources from the library. Holly also supports OBGYN while Denise supports Psychology, but they both help each one by getting resources for them. What I found interesting was that both of them majored in different studies before getting their degree as Medical Librarians. Holly had majored in English while Denise had majored and got a PHD for American History. Both of them wanted to become teachers, but after getting an opportunity to work at a library, both felt that being a medical librarian was a better option. Through out their years of working in the library, Holly for 8 years and Denise for 4 years, they both have been enjoying and love their occupation, mostly because of its flexibility, because they both have children, and the opportunity that is allowed for trying new things. They both also work as Personal librarians for medical students from Yale, in which they help find resources that they might need. Lastly they both help motivate others to become medical librarians like them.

My First Day as a Chili Intern (Tuesday July 7, 2009)

Hello every one, my name is Yezmin Crespo and starting today I will be getting the opportunity to learn more about the medical library, the job opportunities, and much more, as the new C.H.I.L.I intern. My day began with getting to briefly meet some of the staff who work at the library during a CRS meeting. There I also got to hear about proposals to better a program that the library has called Meebo. I learned that through Meebo, people could and are able to go to this site and ask librarians questions on resources they can use for projects or research, live through the Internet. It was very interesting. After the meeting Mr. Greenberg gave me a tour of the medical library, which I found quite fascinating. I couldn't believe how big the library was and how much great information it held. It was truly amazing. During the tour Mr. Greenberg showed me a picture of Mr. Cushing (1869-1939) who was a Founder of the Library and also one of a few surgical neurologist who promoted the use of wearing gloves during a surgery to prevent the contamination and death of patients.

April,16th,2009 (My last day)

Today I was very sad to leave the Yale Medical Library and these 12 days that I have spent there they were very memorable. I had an exciting conversation with Hongbin who is a Web Services Librarian and he designs the webpage of the library. It was a plesure to meet him.

April 15th, 2009 (11th day)

Today I went to a Lecture which was about Ecology. It was most importantly dedicated to Charles Darwin and his 200th Birthday which was held at the Yale Medical Library. I learned alot of neew things that there wasn't a tree of life until today. The lecture was given by the one and only professor at Yal University. He majored in biology and was having a very interesting speech to us telliung us how the other students from Harvard and other colleges were making the tree of lives and showing us where the humans were located and where the animals were located. The hour speech just seemed like it was 5 minutes becaue it was so interesting you didn't even know how the time flyed by. There was also a exhibition on second floor where the Rotunda is located and at the first floor was Darwin's book of The Orgin of Species. I loved the way the professor stated his opinion's.

April 14th, 2009 (10th day)

Today I was interviewing Bob and Mark. Bob is a Business Manager at Yale Medical Library and mark is Clinical Support Librarian Coordinator and a Library technology Services and Support. Bob joined 2 years ago and he is very serious about his job because he is the person who takes care of the finance in the library like paying the bills, security, and making sure that the budget that they have doesn't go over the limit. Mark on the other hand is very busy and also very serious because he is working on this important project and when he showed it to me it was very difficult for me to understand that what their goal is in the project. Bob loves math and one interesting thing about him is that he was a college professor in math(algebra) and that was very different from what he's doing because he works in a library taking care of finance but he's also doing all that's possible for him accomplishing and finishing his goal. Bob also worked in an Insurance company doing underwriting and that's very interesting. Mark worked for 9 years in this library and he basically likes to help students with research projects and kind of help that the student will need. He even takes care of the computers in the library by looking after them if any sort of problem occurs so it's very fun knowing them and about their profession.

April 13th, 2009 (9th day)

Today I met with Kenny who is the Director and I also met with Janene. Kenny is a very funny person and has a good sense of humor she showed me how the Yale Medicl Library is in a shape of a "Y", she even shared some important things in her life like her two daughters and Kenny said that if her daughters are happy then she is happy so that's one thing I really liked about her. She is a very nice person who is very well organized and likes to get things done on time, her profession helps others by helping students, doctors, and nurses with researching. When I met with Janene I found out one thing that really interested me and that was that she is from Australia and I was surprised because there are really alot of diversified people and you get to know alot of new things. Janene is a Librarian at the Yale School of Nursing and she is currently working with the nurses at Yale New Haven Hospital. I learnes alot from Janene because today she told me that her job is very dynmaic and its totally not boring because you get to do new things and your pretty much occupied the whole time that your working.

April 9th, 2009 ( 8th day)

Today I was with Kelly who was scanning journals and books that students from other libraries would want and they would request the Yale Medical Library so Kelly was doing that and she is the Library Assistant and i had a great time with her. I also helped her scan journals so that I can get to know how I can do it so it was very easy, but you had to make sure that your hand didn't come in the because it was a camera scanning machine which is for journals that are very old and when the journal becomes very brittle then it will be very hard for you to scan it because you need to bend the journal so this machine is very convenient and very helpful. Also Kelly has been working on this for more than 10 years.

April 8th, 2009 (My 7th day)

Today I was at the Collection and Devolopment Management section which was very fun and it was very nice because I got to meet to alot of nice people who were Mary Hughes, Melissa, and Cindy. Mary Hughes and Melissa are the Acqusition Assistant Librarians and they have very fun jobs like dealing with the stuff that are coming in the library. Mary is very fun and has a good sense of humor. Melissa was a landscaper and i was like what a change because your a painter dealing wiht colors and then your working with computers and different types of software. When I was interviewing Melissa she was working on a prject that was given by her boss and it was very complicated because she was orderin books online and putting them into the catalog. The last person I interviewed was Cindy is the Collection Devolopment and Acquisition Librarian and she takes care of bugdet and I also met with Daniel who takes care budget and tries to solve problems that occur in his department with budgets and other stuff. I learned aboout the software HINARIwhich was very fun. So today was quite a busy day and it was very fun meeting with new people and finding about their profession and what they like to outside and inside of the office.

April 7th, 2009 (6th day)

Today I was with George the Librarian at the circulation desk and he told me some interesting things such as how they keep old journals safe and showed me a certain type of machine that seals the journal and keeps it from getting damaged. I interviewed John who is from Ireland and he is the Deputy Director of the whole Yale Medical Library at the Ciculation Desk. He als asked me questions to find out more about me and it was very fun. I interviewed Mary who is the Document and Delivery Librarian and she haels out doctors and nurses find the correct citations and also help them find journals that they woyuld like to check out and look into systems if they have it and if they don't not a problem they can get it from other libraries. Mary also told me that there are alot of Medical Libraries. I also met Michael who is a Medical librarian and he is from Uganda which is very interesting and he has been working in the Yale Medical Library for two and a half months. He says that he enjoys it and he also worked at a medical library in Uganda where he also was a Medical Librarian. I had a great time today and looking forward to interview other people.

April 6th,2009 (5th day)

Today I met with Jan and we learned about her experience in the Yale Medical Library. She taught me about PubMed and how it's a great source for quick and specific searching tool. I really liked the Tutorials that Jan told me to watch because I had a better look at how I can use it and how it will come in help when I will be in college. I talked to Jan about her teaching classes and her experiences withthem and she said that it's very fun and that she has been teaching the majority of the classes.

April 2, 2009 (My 4th day)

Today I was with the Circulation desk where I met with Alah and George. They were very nice and they helped me understand what they do behind the circulation desk and theat was very fun. I also met Rick and he is the Circulation manager and he also provides excess to everything in the library. He likes to provide the best customer service and really enjoys helping the patrons at the Yale Medical Library. I learned different things from Rick like where the Reserved books go, that there is a certaing amount of days for certain books that can be checked out, and if any of the patrons or customers have a problem then they may ask for help from the circulation desk and they will help you clear the fine if it's not your fault. I also helped Alah checking in books and helped stack the book as well.

April 1, 2009 (My 3rd Day)

Today I was introduced to Jan and was able to attend one of her classes called EndNote Basics this was a very fun class where you learn how to manage citations. It was terrific because Jan was teaching it. I observed and saw how interesting things you have to go through in order for you to become a librarian. I can't wait till I meet Jan and interview her!!

March 31, 2009 (My 2nd Day)

Today I met with Lynn, Lei, and Judy. I interviewed them and I got a chance to find out what they do. I was very pleased and I enjoyed. My favorite part was when we talked about high school days and how fun they were. I learned alot not only that they are librarians, but what type of librarians they are Lynn is an Academic refernce Librarian, Lei is a Medical Librarian and he also designs webpages, and Judy is a Curriculum Support librarian. One thing that I learned was that there are alot of types of librarians.

March 30, 2009 (My 1st day)

Hello everyone I'm Anmol Patel, the new C.H.I.L.I intern! Today I was given a tour of the Yale Medical Library. I met Dexter at the Circulation Desk. I took a look at Charles Darwin's work, went around the whole library and had explored all of the great stuff they had. I loved it. My favorite part was when I met new people and learned about their occupation and I'm looking forward to meet other new people.

February 4, (Day 6)

Today was a short day for me and I met with Toby 

February 3, (Day 5)

This is Lei Instructional Design Librarian for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Lei does the online instructional contents for example videos, guides and even tutorials. He is a real help to busy students who do not have time to visit the library "physically."  He creates useful programs that can be downloaded to your computer or even ipod. Lei is very friendly and works well with Mr. Greenberg. 

Contact Lei, 

lei.wang@yale.edu

After meeting Lei I sat down for an Endnote class given by non other than JAN! she made the class very interesting and I learned all about using the program I never even seen before, but before class we spoke briefly about her experiences in China and boy were they interesting and hilarious. I have not interviewed Jan yet but Im looking forward to.

February 2 (Day 4)

Today I met with Sarah and she is the preservation Librarian for the Cushing/Whitney Medical library. Sarah works in the historical library and it's one of the finest historical medical collections. Sarah works on preserving very rare and valuable book there are over 130,000 rare books, journals, pamphlets manuscripts, art and more! She also works with students from the school of medicine. Sarah was nice enough to take me to se the fabulous book collection, I saw ancient book from the 1800's and even earlier books from Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci and too many more to mention. Sarah made the historic library seem so interesting because of all the things people wrote, it really was a great experience to see such a rare collection.

Contact Sarah,

 sarah.burge@yale.edu

After I met Sarah, then i met up with Jason; he is the C&IS Support Specialist.  Jason is in charge of the libraries' computers, Jason is incredible with working on computers. If anyone in the library has technical difficulties with any computer Jason is the one to go to. Jason always had a thing for computers ever since he was a child, and plans on going back to school.

Contact Jason,

jason.reinstedler@yale.edu