Meeting With Mark Gentry and Hongbin Liu

Today I met with Hongbin Liu. Hongbin is a Web Services Librarian at the Cushing/ Whitney Medical Library . His job is basically is to maintain the Library web site. He is originally from China and he attended school there. Hongbin went to the Unversity of Iowa where he received his MLS. Hongbin chose this career because he likes computers and he likes having interacting with people. His favorite part of his job is creating new things. Some of the skills that someone needs to succed in this career are computer skills and flexibility. The most challenging thing about Hongbin's job is that you have to constantly learn new things. Hongbin uses a software called Dreamweaver Macromedia 8 to update the website. Hongbin has been at Yale for five years and he plans on remaining at Yale for a very long time. I enjoyed this interview very much because I got to learn so many new things about computers.

After meeting with Hongbin Liu I met with Mark Gentry. Mark is a Clinical Support Librarian the Cushing / Whitney Medical Library. Mark is a Liaison to Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale Cancer Center, Graduate/ Postgraduate Medical Education, Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Mark has a Bachelors degree in Anthropology and a MLS degree. His favorite thing about his job is working with people and he likes the variety. Some skills that someone would need to succeed in this career is Flexibility, computer skills, and a good attitude. The most challenging thing about Mark's job is that you have to always try to keep up with the change. The things that motivate mark to come to work everyday are the students and their gratitude. On Saturday Mark will be going to Uganda in Africa. He is going there to help build the knowledge of Students, Teachers, Doctors, and Librarians. Mark has been working at Yale for ten years and he enjoys every part of his job. I enjoyed my interview with Mark because he was so friendly and he had a great personality.