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.