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.