Day Seven!

Today I did a series of interviews with Mr. Hongbin Liu, who works as the webmaster for the Medical library, Daniel and his staff that work together as the Collection Development and Management team. Hongbin manages the website for the Medical library and helps make it convenient for those who don't physically come to the library. He always liked computers and enjoys managing the website. He recommended if you want to be a webmaster like he is, you should be funny, enjoy learning, and you shouldn't take yourselves too seriously. I then met with Daniel, Chris, Bill and Caitlin. They all work together to purchase, subscribe, and lease online books and journals. These materials are available for the Medical students and faculty to use to their advantage. Chris catalogs books for the library's use. Caitlin, Bill and Daniel find and purchase online journals and books they think will be beneficial for the library to have. Caitlin and Bill said the most difficult part of their job is trying to budget the fund given to them by the University just right; not over spending, and not under spending. Daniel says the most difficult part of his job was being a good manager. The e-collection's staff main focus is to manage the shift from a print based library to an online based library....not entirely online though :)

Today I made lots of progress! I finished my Healthflicks video! Enjoy! :)

http://www.youtube.com/healthflicks#p/a/u/0/Sut0Uz-cfZM

Day Five & Six

Day Five: HealthFlicks

Today was dedicated to the development of my Healthflicks video. I can't wait til it's finished and shared on the web!

Day Six: Interview with Mrs. Diane Turner

Today I took the shuttle bus across the Yale campus to the main library. There, I met Mrs. Diane Turner. She's had a very colorful personality and I enjoyed talking with her. She told me about her job at Library Human Resources and how she hires librarians and decides the salaries of the many people the library employs. She has the responsibility of helping build a team of almost 600 employees and listening to them, so she knows how she could improve the team. Before coming to Yale, she worked in admissions at a University in New York and helped determine students financial aid. She says her job here is important because she recruits, develops, and retains the very best staff possible. She also likes being part of a senior admissions team and being able to attract great talent.
For the second half of the day, I put my ideas for my HealthFlicks video into reality. I learned how to use iMovie and created from scratch what will be my video on Sickle Cell anemia.

Day Four: Part Two

Interview with Mrs. Melissa Grafe

I interviewed Mrs. Melissa Grafe today, and she seemed to be one of the more personable people I've met here during my internship this week. Mrs. Grafe works here as the Medical Historical Librarian. She has the daily difficult task of managing the entire historical collection of books, medical instruments, and other library staff. She's a lifelong fan of history and has worked in museums in the past. She was attracted to Yale Medical Library because of its rich history and immense collection of books that support the history of medicine; new and old. While she has been employed by Yale for only a brief period of time, she seemed to have already made a large impact with other members of the staff. A typical day for her consists of many meetings, lots of questions, and today, she's holding a class for the public, showing some library treasures. As I spoke to Mrs. Grafe, she seemed very knowledgable, willing to help, and friendly. She's working on a project in partnership with other medical libraries called the Medical Heritage Library, a collaboration of medical libraries at prestigous universities such as Columbia, Yale, and Harvard, putting their collection of medical books online to give more people access to them.
After the interview, she showed me the collection of old books stored in the basement of the library, preserved books that date back to 1500s and earlier.

Day Four: Part One

Interview with Mrs. Lynn Sette

This morning I interviewed Mrs. Lynn Sette. She's the marketing face of the library. Due to the dropping numbers of students that actually visit the library, they had to find a way to make the library more appealing to students. She was inspired from her mentor who worked here for many years in what is now called the Collection Development department. She held her first job in education as a Special Education teacher and soon discovered her passion for librarianship. She says the most difficult thing about her job is the continuously changing technology, and one of the most important things about her job are that she provides practicing pediatricians and dermatologists with the proper research techniques and databases to find anything they are looking for quickly and efficiently. A few personality traits she recommends if you want to peruse the same career are that you have to be a "go-getter", have patience, and good listening skills. A few things that keep her at peace, here at the Medical library, are her co-workers and a good boss.

Day Three: Part Two

Interview with Mrs. Janene Batten

For the second half of the day I interviewed Mrs. Janene Batten. She works closely with the nursing students and practicing nurses as their librarian; their contact person when they need to research on a topic related to their practice. Librarianship is her second career. She previously worked as a teacher and then a librarian in a children school. During the interview she expressed the benefits of autonomy and flexibility keep her work enjoyable.

Day Three: Part One

Interview with Mr. Lei Wang

Mr. Lei Wang designs online educational modules for easier access for users. His personality and his need for organization were his main attractions to his field of work. Being a librarian was not always his first choice; he taught, wanted to be an I.T. Professional, and enjoyed research. He says the most difficult part about his job is the continuously changing technology and inability to keep up with the newest things. Has recently received a national award this past May and considers that his most memorable professional experience. Special projects that he is currently working on includes a partnership with Medical School professors in making educational videos for teaching purposes.

Day Two

Meeting with Mr. Paul Huard and interview with Mr. Mark Gentry

My day began with observing a meeting with Mr. Paul Huard, a Australian Librarian, and the faculty here at the Medical Library. Mr. Huard gave a brief synopsis of his career. His first career was a high school teacher and years after, he became a librarian because he felt like he could do more for the students. After he introduced himself, the faculty here at Yale introduced themselves round-robin style and gave a synopsis of the responsibilities of their job. The highlights of this meeting was to discuss how can each library provide better customer service. They discussed the differences between the two libraries, and discussed how can they change and improve. Mr. Huard emphasized what methods can be used to help students find reliable information, and what can both libraries do to improve the student/librarian relationship.
Later, I began my interview with Mr. Mark Gentry. Mr. Gentry works in Technology and clinical support. He works with doctors who work in a clinical setting, and visits hospitals and other countries for outreach, support, and training. He's earned a bachelors and masters degree in Anthropology and earned a 2nd Masters degree in Library science. He began his career believing he wanted to be an Anthropology professor because of his attraction to research and the college atmosphere. Mr Gentry counts helping doctors, supporting clinicians, and making the library accessible to the users, amongst the most important aspects of his job. He is has worked on a special project in Uganda, working with clinicians there and worked here in the U.S. with Uganda people assisting them with their clinical experiences here. He is currently working on an iPad project as well. All 150 Yale Medical students will be supplied with an iPad so they can conveniently study and research on the go. He's a main component on making the Yale campus more mobile.

Day One

Tour of the Yale Medical Library and Interview with Mr. Charles Greenberg

My first day as a C.H.I.L.I intern went well. Mr. Charles Greenberg lead me on a rather detailed tour of the Yale Medical Library. The history of the library dates back to 1941 and has been at the service of countless medical students throughout the years. There was one thing that interest me most: The archives of the library.
During the tour, Mr. Greenberg pointed out a few surgical tools on display that dated back to ancient Roman times of the 2nd century and some that were used during the Revolutionary War. Immediately, this caught my attention. It was interesting for me to be able to see the progression of surgical tools throughout the many years. Some tools were heated and applied to open wounds, and doctors used this method to stop bleeding and reduce bacteria to prepare a body for recovery. It amazes me how over time so much in medicine can change.
During my interview with Mr. Greenberg, I learned a lot about the importance of a medical library, and librarianship in general. Mr. Greenberg originally wanted to work in education but towards the end of his undergraduate studies he descided he wanted to work as a libarian. When applying to graduate school, he was offered a full ride, and took the first job offering he was given at a public library. He enjoys his job here at Yale Medical Library very much and stated the management and flexibility of his job makes him perfer Yale over other University Libraries. He has created two special projects with students (C.H.I.L.I. and Healthflicks) and this will contiune his legacy. Mr. Greenberg is very passionate in his work.

Also, I had a brief interview with Mrs. Velma Williams of the Document Department. In the document deartment she aids other libraries with books and articles they may need via web. She has sent books and articles from the Yale Medical Library to all 50 states, and several other countries including Hong Kong, South Africa and a wide variety of other places.

My Last Day at the Medical Library

For my last day, I had an interview with Hongbin whose position is the Webmaster of the Medical Library. He has been here for almost 5 years. He is responsible for managing the website, and updating it. Also, he attended college at China, then he attended college in the U.S for his graduate studies. After that interview, I blogged about my experience here which I am doing right now. In concluding, I just want to thank all the staff members for taking their time to meet with me and answer questions. It was pleasure meeting everyone. I learned so much from this opportunity. Before, I used to think the library as a place where you get books, but my perspective changed. The medical library staff does many significant things; they make access to books, articles, and journals easier for people, inform people how to look up information effectively, and provide a place to study and check out books. They even reach out to medical students and doctors to help provide research for them. I would especially like to thank Charlie for letting me to do this internship. It was definitely an amazing experience of being a Chili intern. Lastly, I would recommend high school sopomores, juniors, or seniors to apply for this internship.

A day learning about the collection development and management with Daniel & Co.

For the most part of my day, I got to meet the staff who is charge of the collection development and management. The manager whose name is Daniel. Currently, he has two jobs; he does the same position, but he does it for the Medical Library and University. He has been here for about 10 years. The way he interprets his profession is similar to a puzzle; It's always constantly changing, therefore gaining more responsibilities. The main task he does is organize these profits to decide how these profits are to be spent on certain books and resources. He started at D.C, where he got to work in the library congress. Then, he ended up getting a profession here. The interesting thing I learned today was that last month he got to travel to Guyana, South Africa where he taught a class. He described that experience as exciting and significant.Then after my interview with Daniel, I got to meet with Holly. She is currently on a fellowship. So, she gets to work on projects, and learn and be involved with the collection development and management. Also, she also working for the Cushing Center by working with other colleagues to come up with a database from all the research and medical writings of Harvey Cushing. After, I met with Diana. She introduced me to GoogleScholar. It's really efficient. Basically, if you looked up something on Google, and on the side if it says Yale has access to it, you can just click on it and the whole article shows up. So, it's very useful and practical for research. The end of my day, I got to meet with Melissa. She is in charge of ordering books, and organizing information. In fact, she has undergraduate degree in agriculture which I thought was really cool. As you can see, everyone I got to interview today enjoyed their profession, and they all taught me all sorts of new stuff. I enjoyed my afternoon there.

Interview with Kelly and Sarah

• For today, I got to go down to the scanning room. As you can see above, it's a high tech scanning machine in which they used. It was pretty interesting to see old books. They would scan pages of each book. then they would edit the photo, and lastly, they would convert it to PDF format to have people all over access to that file. It makes the access to these old scanned copies of the books much easier for people. I actually got the chance to use the scanning machine which was exciting. I tried both automatic and manual mode. As you can see, I learned how to use a scanning machine, and it was really nice to meet Kelly and Kristen.

• The second part of my afternoon. I got to interview the Preservation Librarian, Sarah McGlynn. She told me a quick explanation of the Historical Library. Then, she showed me the place where they kept old books in security. They arranged by time period. So, it was really nice to get the chance to see actual books from 11-19th century. She mention how some older books used plates to make the text stand out, and they also used animal skin as the cover. You can really see how things change in terms of resources and its usages. Not only did they have ancient books, but also ancient paintings. If you're wondering about his position, she preserves the physical aspects of the books thus adequate lighting and temperature is essential. Overall, I enjoyed meeting Sarah, and she is very motivated and passionate about her profession. She definitely has a great curiosity towards the way people before decipher mental conditions through drawings and other various ways. You can learned a lot of interesting facts about the library and the books from her especially in a historical perspective.
  

Meeting with Judy and Kenny.

• Around 3:00 p.m, I got to interview, Judy Spak, who is a part of the Curriculum and Research Support. She definitely enjoys her profession mainly because she's able to help people find information, solve problems, and teach patrons how to access and use electronic sources. She has been in this profession for 15 years. Also, she is motivated to stay in her current profession because she is challenged and her coworkers are friendly. The neat thing I learned today from her was that her section administers the Black Board which is mainly training.

• The other half of the afternoon, I meet with the Library Director, Kenny Marone who has been working here for 30 years now. She mentions how her profession is constantly changing in terms of technological changes. For a background, she tells me how she is was always interested in history; in fact that was her initial major in college. She thinks her profession is fascinating because she gets to learn how to work with databases and electronic devices. The interesting thing I learned from her was that the medical library had their own website and last year, it got 9.2 million hits. My favorite part of the interview besides getting the chance to met her was gaining some information about "Anthropology." At first, I didn't know what it meant so I asked, and she told me "It was the study of humans." A cool fact I learned from her: Chimpanzees are known to have 99.4% correlation with human genes. This made me think about evolution and natural selection. So it was nice to be able to learn about new things, and to interview Judy and Kenny. There's a website you can go to find out more information about Anthropology which is http://anthropology.net/.

  
  

Attending the History of Health Sciences Lecture

I attended this History of Health Sciences Lecture at 4.00 p.m. The presenter on the left was giving out a speech about Shen Kuo. He is known as a polymathic Chinese scientist. He has contributed tremendous amounts of remarkable works in many fields such as Mathematics, Astronomy, Archaeology, Meteorology, Climatology, and etc. I thought the speech was very informative and elegant. I admit this is my first time encountering the name, Shen Kuo, and I'm glad I had the chance to learn about him. So I suggest anyone who hasn't heard of Shen Kuo, you should definitely research about him; he deserves great recognition from people. My day at the lecture was great.

Finalizing the Concussion Video with Jeffrey

Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3CALzuZOIk

For today, I was supposed to have a meeting with Mark Gentry, but he wasn't available today. So, then i had to work on my concussion video. I learned about this new program called Garage Band. It was pretty cool. I got to hear all types of sounds and transfer them to parts of the video. For example, you get choose from piano, guitar, bass, or percussion sounds. I used a mix guitar and electrical sound in the beginning. Then, Jeffrey helped me with transferring the sound files to the video, and he added the credits. Final, the concussion was finalized, and uploaded on youtube as a HealthFlixs video. After the video was done, I researched about blood and the importance of donating blood. I wrote a mini story dealing with blood. The basic gist of my story is that there's a student named Bill who passes by American Red Cross Drive, and he learns about the urgent need of blood and how "Someone needs blood for every 2 seconds."Then, from that day, he was informed and passed the news to his friends. At the end, they gather together to encourage more people in the community to donate blood by making posters and signs. So today was just a research and video-editing day for me, and I had fun.

Interview with Lei & Editing of the Concussion Video

Today, I got to interview Lei who is charge of the Curriculum and Research Support. He's been working here for about 6 years. The best thing he likes about his profession is that he gets to help doctors find articles and information more efficiently. Also, he mention a change in his work. What i mean by that is that he notice how before technology was not as advanced thus it was more time-consuming to finish the work. Since, technology has been progressing, he and others workers were able to access to advanced tools which saves a lot of time and is easier. After that interview, I worked with Jeffrey on the concussion video. I learned about a new program called Final Cut Express. It was really easy to manage. I learned how to cut out scenes from each shot, and add recordings. We finished most of the editing of the video; we just have to add some effects to the video then we're done. As you can see, I got to meet with Lei who is passionate about his profession, and I learned how to edit a video using Finish Cut Express. Overall this day was great.

Meeting with Rick & First shooting of the concussion video

For today, I had a meeting with Rick, who is charge of Access and Delivery Services in the evening. He's been working at the Yale Library for about 20 years, and for the most part he enjoys it. He is also does customer service. Also, he mentioned the team atmosphere here; everyone is always supporting and interacting with each other. Then, I got to meet some of the staff at the circulation desk. I even got to be a shadow for the people in charge of finding articles and delivering them to library library users or external customers. It was pretty informative and neat because Velma showed me how they deliver these articles using different software programs. After that, I got to work with Jeffrey again on the concussion video. The place where we decided to shoot at was at the Harvey Cushing Center where the brain tumors are displayed. I managed to get through the whole process of rehearsing. The video idea became movie making, because you have do many takes and memorize your script in order to perfect the video. In addition, Charlie showed me a cool website called: http://burn-studios.audiotool.com/. This website allows to make your own electronic sounds or music files. It gave me idea to maybe use that in the concussion video. In concluding, this day was fun becauseI again got to try something new.

Meeting with Jeffrey Star on developing a health flixs video

My second day as a Chili intern; I got to meet with Jeffrey Star who is helping me develop a Healthflicks video. At first, I had to brainstorm and come with an idea for the video. Since I had the chance to visit Harvey Cushing's collection of brain tumors, I thought that would be a good place to use for a video background, and then we came up with an idea to use concussion as the topic of the video. I think that concussion is a great topic for the video because it's common for youth. By making this video, students would be able to get an idea what to do and why is it important to prevent this from happening. Then I had to do preparation for the video. So I did research and compiled a finalized script. Most likely the making of the video takes place tomorrow. Overall this day was great and innovative because I got to try something new.

First Day at the Medical Library & Cushing Center

My first day at Cushing Center was exciting. I got to meet Charles Greenberg who is the coordinator of curriculum and research support. First I received a basic overview of the chili internship. Then, I got to meet the library staff, and I received a tour of the library which was very informative and interesting. I got to see how books were organized for efficiency. My favorite part of the tour was visiting Harvey Cushing's collection of brain tumors; it was interesting to see actual brain tumors from his patients and to read about these brain tumors. After the overall tour, I had to come up with interview questions. I even had the chance to interview Mr. Greenberg. From my interview with him, I can conclude that Mr. Greenberg is passionate about his career, and he enjoys teaching. Also, he favors a collaborated teamwork because more things can be accomplished. The people he works with is what makes his work more worthwhile as well as the students he teaches. As you can see, my first day couldn't have been any better, I gain a lot of knowledge about the library as well as the staff that worked there.

LAST DAY!!!!!!

Today is my last day at the CHILI Yale Internship. I just would like to thank everyone who took some time off during their busy day to chat with me. This has been a really great experience. Before starting this internship, librarians were just people, boring people, who find books for you, but now I know that librarians are the ones that connect the information to the world. As for medical librarians, they are the ones who connect doctors to the information they need to cure patients. I had a wonderful experience, a special thanks to Mr. Charles Greenberg for this wonderful opportunity.

Sarah Burge

Today I had the opportunity to meet with Sarah Burge. As an undergrad she majored in Art and Art history. As a graduate student Sarah studied library science and focused on book and paper preservation. She has been working at the Yale Medical Library for five years. She is working on a project called "Locked Stacks", which is to preservative the rare books of the library. These historical books are very different from today's books, so they need special care. The library has about 120,000 rare bound books. Most of these books have been donated to the library. I really enjoy the interview with Sarah today.











Sarah looking at an ancient 3D glasses

Diane Turner

Today I had the opportunity to meet with Diane Turner. She is the head of the human resources for the Yale Library. She has been working at Yale for 32 years. Most of her job involves hiring people and providing counseling to the ones that are getting laid off. She is also responsible for staff training and human relations. She loves to learn and interact with people. The difference between the Medical library and the other libraries is the fact that they deal with life and death situations. The characteristics needed for her job are: respect, communication skill, and sound judgment. I really enjoy my time with Diane. She is a wonderful person.

Day with Denise

Today I interviewed Denise. She started out getting a masters degree in American History. Because of her lack of interest in teaching, she earned her library degree and started working at Smith college as a librarian for 3 years. She worked at Connecticut College managing a small department for 1 year. Currently she has a job share position, half time. Now she had been working at Yale Medical library for 5 1/2 years. Denise works as a liaison program coordinator. One of the things she does is write monthly Liaison email messages for the other liaison staff to send to the department they are working with. Denise works with the Cancer Center, the Anesthesiology Department, and Comparative Medicine. One thing she loves about her job is the flexibility and the environment. One of the things that she had learned while working here is that it ok to admit when you do not know something. The characteristics needed for her job are: Self confidence and the art of persuasion.
Today I learned that working with people who like you and that you like can really make your job easier.

15-feb-2011

Today I had a demonstration of how the book scanning works. Kelly and Kristen are working on the Medical Heritage Library project, collaborating with other libraries to get rare old books onto the internet so anyone can use them. One reason that this is a great idea is because it helps students and researchers all over the world. They can also use it when they need to. The book scanner has three cameras ( see the Youtube video below). The special thing about the book scanner is automatic but you need someone to make sure the machine is doing all the pages one by one. In a normal day if all the electronics are working properly the staff can probably do 1800 to 2100 pages an hour depending on the condition of the book. If the book is old and not in good condition, it may take longer.

Matt is the Medical librarian for the School of Public Health and also the director of technology . As a librarian he makes information available to Public Health students and teaches them how to acquire, organize and apply information to health problems. He deals with the administrative aspect of Academic Technology. Throughout the years he had spent working at Yale, Matt has learned a little bit of everything. He believe that librarians are the bridge that connect patients to health providers.

Meeting with Janene Batten

Today I Interviewed Janene Batten, she went to Southern Connecticut State University. After earning her degree she worked for 3 years at a hospital library. When I asked her how the hospital library was different, she told me it was not that different but the hospital library was inside of a hospital. She later started working at Yale Medical library. She is the Nursing Librarian for the School of Nursing and currently supervising the Medical Historical Library. As a nursing librarian she works with students, teaching them how to find information and she also worked closely with nursing faculty on the Curriculum Committee.
Since November, as the acting Historical Medical librarian, Janene finds information, answers question and works in the administration. She enjoys learning about Harvey Cushing , the father of neurosurgery.

Today I learned that they are many careers within one career. I also learned that sometimes knowing history can help you to understand the modern world.










An old book from the Historical Medical Library.

Afternoon with Jan and Lei

Jan Glover work at the Medical Center in Portland, Maine for 11 years. Then came to work at Yale. She been working there for 23 years. She is the only person so far that I interviewed who decided in high school that she wanted to become a librarian. She went to University of Rhode Island to get her MLS. Jan is a typical public services librarian: her job is to educate new students and staff about the resources of the library. She also works on systematic reviews, when a group of scientists evaluate the accuracy of many research results. Jan really like her job because it teaches her a lot about medicine. One of the things she is doing now is creating a tour for the Cushing Center, and she is surprises about of how much she is learning about brains.

Moments later I chatted with Lei Wang. One of the things I like about Lei was how passionate he is about his job. He is a instructional design librarian. He translates tasks such as accessing library information online into short movies, making them available to everyone. He is also a library liaison for neuroscience and making sure they receive the information they need. One of the coolest things about Lei's father is that he has a library at home in China with more than 10 thousand books, including his own online catalog, to make it easier for him to find books. To be a Instructional design librarian you need to have curiosity, to have the courage to try new things, and have good customer services skills.

Afternoon with Regina and Lynn

Today I interviewed the Yale Medical Library director Mrs. Regina K. Marone. She had been working at Yale for 32 years. After high school she worked for a phone company for 5 years. Then she went to SCSU, where she majored in Library Science. As a library director she gives advice,writes reports, and works with the Yale donors. To work as a medical director you need to have a good sense of curiosity, have good communication skills and also like to work with people.



Later that afternoon I also interviewed Lynn Sette, a reference librarian. Lynn teaches classes and does marketing and liaison activities. She teaches classes to staff and students to make sure they are aware of the library resources. For marketing she organizes events, makes brochures, sends email and online invitations to the students for the events that are being held at the library. In her liaison responsibility she works with two departments: Dermatology and Pediatrics. She sents them information about new library offferings, such as new journals, books and articles that are publish in their fields.

Today I learned that creativity is sometimes required in a profession. Also, always try to make a difference in the world whenever it is possible. Lastly I learned that as a woman make sure you can take care of yourself so you do not have to depend on a man. Becoming a professional with a career can help with that.

Afternoon with John Gallagher

I spent the afternoon with John.He is the deputy director for the Medical library. He said when he started working as an evening supervisor for the library, he only worked with books. Now he works with books and electronic library resources.

The Yale Medical library has about 9,000 journals and millions of articles on library user computers. To find these articles or journals, an electronic index like Pubmed and Scopus is being used. If the library does not have an article or journal, an Interlibrary loan staff would help find it.

Vermetha, one of the Interlibrary loan staff, would use a national catalog of library holdings like docline and OCLC to find it. This is very similar to any kind of library. If someone is looking for a book at a local library and does not find it, the librarian will look at other libraries to find the book that the person is looking for and borrow it. Vermetha stated that when she started working at Yale 14 years ago, she sent all the requested articles via mail; today she sends them through Email. This demonstrates that technology spreads information quicker and faster.

Today I learned that a library is supposed to be a quiet and inspiring place.I also learned that medical librarians have a role in patient care and research. The big problem regarding medical librarianship is lack of recognition for important tasks that are often invisible.

Curriculum Support

Today I interviewed Judy, a curriculum support librarian that has been working at the Yale Medical library for 15 years. Judy trains faculty, runs the medical learning management system, and serves as the program liaison. Judy helps medical school students access a computer based tutorial program information to help them study for a major test they have to take their second year of medical school. She thinks that librarians play a big role in the field of medicine because they are information specialists, who understand how to search for information. Judy also believes they are great partners with doctors, providing accurate information to help them treat their patients. Judy thinks that curiosity and patience are needed for her job; she says, one has to be able to solve problems and ask questions. Dealing and interacting with people is a big part of her job.
Today I learned that Life is a roller coaster. You might choose to do something and later have to change because of a life situation. For example Judy majored in English, then ten years later she went back to school because the job she had was being eliminated.

Clinical And Mobile Technology Support

Today I had a chance to meet with the Clinical and Mobile Technology Support librarian Mr. Mark Gentry. He had been working as a medical librarian for 23 years. His job is to get the clinical practice information out to the doctors and other health professionals. He uses technology such as computers, iPhones and iPads to transmit the Information. Mr Gentry teaches health professionals how to use the mobile device in their fields. He thinks that his job is important because he is one of the people who works to make sure the doctors get information faster, making jobs easier.

Today I learned that technology is making a great impact in the medical world. For example, last time I went to the hospital my doctor did not give me a prescription, she just asked what pharmacy I wanted to go to and sent the prescription to them. Technology is helping the medical field send information faster.

CDM

Today I had a chat with some of the Collection Development and Management staff. They are the ones responsible for ordering books for the library, managing journals and newspapers. This job allows one to work online which makes it more flexible. Due to technological advancement one does not have to work in a specific office. A degree in Library Science is required in order to work in the field of the library. One has to have a passion for fixing problems and organizing information. Constant new learning skills are needed in the field because things are always changing.
Believe it or not, library staff who collect information and organize it make it easier for doctors, nurses, medical students and other health professional to get information they need.

1st day!!!!!!

Today: Today was my 1st day at the Yale Medical Library CHILI Internship. I had the opportunity to meet the staff and librarians during a special tour of the building with Mr. Greenberg ( pictured at left with the Healthflicks video coordinator Michelle Lewis ). I saw many art works, and exhibits of many ancient objects that were donated to Yale library. My favorite was the Cushing Center, where I got to see brains of people who died from cancerous tumors. Some of them are 75 years old. What amazed me the most is how well these brains are persevered.
What I learned: This is my 1st internship.Today I learned that i am growing up fast, and that life comes with many responsibilities. I also learned that life is precious and we have to try to live everyday to the fullest.

One of Dr. Cushing's patients.