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.