Meeting Daniel Dollar and Lei Wang

Today I met with Daniel Dollar; he is the Head of Collection Development and Management for the Cushing/ Whitney Medical Library. Daniel has helped develop the rich collection of electronic and print resources that the library offer by selecting items for purchase. Daniel has a degree in political science, and he went to college for a total of eight years. Mr. Dollar's mentor was Kim Parker, because she taught him how to do his job properly. Daniel loves his job because he likes to help people and he loves to learn about new things in the process of helping someone else. The skills that someone would need to succeed in this career is to be humble, a helping spirit, and the love of electronics. The most challenging thing about Daniel's job is managing people because you have to try to always be respectful and make sure that everyone needs are met to the best of your ability. In five years Daniel sees his career becoming completely electronic because things right now are being mostly bought online and not in print. Daniel Dollar has been in this profession for 12 years. While meeting with Daniel I had the pleasure to meet Melissa Vantine and Mary Hughes. Both of these ladies gave me a lot of information. Mary told me about the HINARI program that is for undeveloped countries, to help them access journals at reduced price or get them for free. Melissa showed me how she organizes information about the books they order or already have. I enjoyed my time with Daniel, Melissa, and Mary !

After meeting with Daniel I met with Lei Wang . Lei is the Instructional Design Librarian for the Cushing/ Whitney Medical Library. Lei helps create web-based online objects, allows students to have access to education, teaches PowerPoint classes, and does the online reference services. Lei's favorite thing about his type of work is learning and playing with new technologies. Some of the skills that someone would need to succeed in his career is media production skills, web programming, web skills, instruction skills, and be a good teacher. The most challenging things about Lei's work are online learning projects, managing time, quality of projects, and the constant change in technology. Lei has been in this type of work for five years. Today was a great day because I learned so much from Daniel, Melissa, Mary, and Lei. I am so grateful that i had the opportunity to sit down and interview them because it was so interesting.

Meeting with Lynn Sette

Today I met with Lynn Sette. Lynn is a Reference Librarian at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Lynn has medical students that see her as their personal librarian. Ms. Sette also works as a library liaison, a task that matches the staff with a department, like the pediatrics department. For the Library Lynn does marketing and publicly of new resource events. The most challenging thing about her job is that technology updates constantly. Lynn likes her job because she loves to help people. Lynn has been in this job for thirty years. I enjoyed My interview with Lynn because she was so friendly and kind.

After interviewing Lynn I sat in on a meeting with Lynn and Sarah Burge. The meeting was about picking pictures from the 1600s and making a card set out of them for the Library. I learned from Sarah that in the 1600s people would copy down from one book because all books were handwritten. I learned that most Library's of that time had about four books which was considered a lot because they were handwritten. I saw beautiful Arabic pictures of animals, trees, and plants. This collection is for the Ameel Project. There are two sections already and their names are: Oasis Of the Middle East and Iraq Recollection Project. They will add the Ameel NEH Project which is these groups of pictures. I enjoyed this very much because I love art and history. So having them combined together made this experience even better.

My first day as a Chili Intern

Hi, my name is Shelby Brewer and I am the new Yale Chili Intern. Today I met with Mr.Greenberg and he gave me a tour of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. I have to say that it was very interesting. We visited the Reference and the Historical part of the Library. The Historical Library was my favorite part because it was so relaxing and cozy. I enjoyed looking at the old books and the paintings of John Fulton and Arnold Klebs. Mr.Greenberg introduced me to several staff members while on our tour. Those staff members were : Daniel Dollar, Jan Glover, Judy Spak, and Janen Batten.

While on my tour with Mr.Greenberg I learned a lot about the history of the Cushing / Whitney Medical Library. I learned that Dr. Harvey Cushing was the founder of the Cushing / Whitney Medical Library and that he donated the first books to the library. Dr. Cushing also convinced his friends Dr. John Fulton and Dr. Arnold Klebs to donate their medical books to the library. These three men called themselves the "Trinitarians". John Hay Whitney's spouse, the daughter of Harvey Cushing, donated money to help extend the library. He was Dr. Cushing's son-in-law. This library has so much to offer. It has an adopt a book program, personal librarians , and historical book collections. My first day as a Chili Intern was great !