Meeting with Liu Hongbin/ Mark Gentry

Today I met with Liu Hongbin. Liu is originally from China, and attended school there as well. He then went to the University of Iowa and received his MLS while there. Hongbin is the Web Services Librarian and has been so for four years. Liu does web design and managing and computing. He created the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library website and maintains it. Last year the website received more than eight million hits. Currently, Hongbin has to move web content information into the content management page and redesign the historical medical library website page, which has been the same for ten years. The most challenging thing about Liu's job is having so many things to learn, while the easiest is knowing how to do his job and talking to helpful people from different departments. One of the most memorable professional experiences Hongbin has had is the August launch of the new website, which received a message from a professor at the law school library complimenting and congratulating him on the work he had done.


After meeting with Liu Hongbin, I met with Mark Gentry. Mark is the Clinical Support Librarian and the Coordinator of Library Technology Services & Support. Mark attended Trent University for his bachelors, then UCONN for his masters in Anthropology, and finally Southern Connecticut State University for his MLS. Mark is also the internal medicine liaison. A project that Mark is currently working on is a collaboration between Yale University and the Makerere University in Uganda. He makes CDs for people going to Uganda, which contain information on several diseases, program documents, how to get access to the internet and library, and maps. In Uganda, Mark helped with technical things and did classes with librarians, as well.

Mark has made web pages for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. One of the web pages is PDA/Mobile Devices Resources and Information. He supports mobile devices through classes and training on them. Mark helps patrons, does trainings, troubleshoots, and tries to get systems to work. Many of Mark's most memorable professional experiences include helping someone find what they are looking for.