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.