Day Seven: Interview with Mrs. Glover and Mr. Gentry

Today I started my Internship day by interviewing Ms. Jan Glover.
 Jan started working at Yale Medical Library in 1977.  Back then, she said that because of the low rate of women working professionally, young women just took any job they were offered. But. Jan went to library school after college and received her Masters in Library Science. Jan is mostly interested in information skills for clinical medicine and wants her students to learn how to look for information in the most effective ways. Even before she became a librarian, she was interested in  medicine, but she never wanted to work with it. So she became a medical librarian!



After meeting Jan, I went to interview Mr. Mark Gentry. Mark told me that when he was 13, he decided to become a rock and roll musician. Then when he was 18 years old, he decided to become a lawyer.  Finally decided to become an anthropologist. Mr. Gentry taught as an ESL teacher in China and other overseas places.
Then he decided to become a medical librarian, which has been a really interesting career for him..

I had great time interviewing Ms.Glover and Mr. Gentry, as I learned lots of things about them and how they found the profession of medical librarianship.  I also learned that you can try different fields on for size and see what interests you. Then you can always change. You don't always have to work with what you love directly.You can work with what you love indirectly,  just like Jan.

Day Six: Interview with Diane Turner

Today I interviewed Ms.Diane Turner, who is the Associate University Librarian for Human Resources. Ms. Turner has worked in this position for 34 years. Originally Ms. Turner actually wanted to work as a Dean of Admissions,  because of her love for academia and the interaction with students that happens. She enjoys being around others, understanding the challenges that library staff face, and constantly multitasking . Ms. Turner had many things that inspired her, but the ones who inspired her most were her parents and her siblings, who were great role models for her.
For Ms. Turner,  there are many important criteria for being a librarian, including communication skills, as well as an appreciation for the diversity of opinions and ways that people problem-solve. After talking to Mrs. Turner for few minutes, I felt like I knew her for really long time and felt really comfortable during the interview. She has became one of my role models.

Day Five: Interview With Melissa Grafe

          Today, I started my internship day interviewing Melissa Grafe, who works in the Historical Medical Library. While I was waiting for Ms. Grafe, I also met George Moore, who works for Access and Delivery Services. George talked to little bit of what he was doing at that movement, looking for a quote describing the experience of Dr.Harvey Cushing. George was examining many of Dr.Cushing's diaries that described his day-to-day activities and things he did at the laboratory.
    Mr.Moore said that he just loves what he does, and since he has been working here at the library for 40 years, he feels like he is actually a library holding. He feels like he is connected to the library in many ways. I was able to see Dr. Cushing's diaries and get a look at his office. It was so peaceful in his office that I felt like I was actually traveling back in time.
When Interviewing Ms. Grafe, I found out that she loves the combination of medicine and history, a reason why she applied to work at the Historical Medical Library.
     Ms. Grafe has a Ph.D in History of Medicine from John Hopkins University. Another reason why she applied for the Historical Medical Library position is that it involves teaching, and she loves teaching. Ms. Grafe showed me the entire collection of  historical manuscripts.
    During my interview, I learned how Ms. Grafe combined her love for medicine with her love for history and books to create a career that she enjoys and makes living. I am really grateful for this opportunity.

Day Four: Interview with Lei Wang

Today after I was done interviewing Mr. Hughes, I went on to interview Mr. Wang, who is an Instructional Designer.
While interviewing Mr. Wang, I learned many new things, as well as some  things that are required for you to become a Medical Librarian. You need a Masters Degree in Library Science focusing on health sciences materials and services. The  reason why Mr. Wang choose to work as an Instructional Designer was because he loved designing with software, and he also loved teaching. So he decided to combine those two passion and became a instructional designer, where he designs new ways to teach students about software and skills. Mr. Wang was interested in  teaching, and he knew that learning can be really hard. To make learning easy he wanted to design demonstrations that would be best to transfer his knowledge to students.
Mr. Wang like lots of things about information technology, which supports his enthusiasm to be able work as an instructional designer. From Mr. Wang, I learned that anyone can make their love and passions for something into a career and make a living out of it. It can be like fairy tale but once you have the will, anything is possible.
I thank Mr. Wang for giving me this wonderful opportunity to learn about his interests and how became an instructional designer in a medical library..

Day Four: Interview with Mr. Hughes

Today I Interviewed Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes in the Business Manager at Yale Medical Library.

In the past Mr. Hughes worked at the Athena Insurance company, and he wanted to try a change in his life, which is why he applied for job at Yale Medical library. He appreciated that the Yale Medical library was also part of the acadamic life at Yale. He also considered other alternatives for his career, such as insurance underwriter, high school mathematics teaching, or working as a computer science teacher.

There are three main jobs that he is required to do, including making sure bills gets paid, overseeing the payroll, and the security of the library.

The types of knowledge a person should have in order to become a business manger include mathmatics, knowledge of how to use productivity applications, and also have business background.

The major things that inspired Mr. Hughes to become business mManger are educating people at Yale University and enjoying mathematics. One interesting thing about being a business manger is that you get to meet interesting people everyday. Talents and skills essential to be an effective business manger are understanding finance, good math skills, financial expertise, and know computer systems and databases.

Another prerequisites for being a business manger is to have a Masters of Business Adminstration .

Second day: My Interview with Mr. Bean and Ms. Norton

Today, after interviewing Ms. VanTine, I went on to interview Mr. Bean and Ms. Norton,who both work in Access and Delivery Services department at the Yale Medical Library.

I started my interview with Mr Bean, who used to work in the US Air Force . Eventually he decided to leave the Air Force, and he wanted to work in place which had an academic enviroment . First he came back to United States and worked at Barnes and Nobles for couples of years. Later on, he worked at Yale School of Management for 3 years and at Yale Sterling Memorial Library . He then applied for a position at Yale Medical library and was successful. Mr. Bean has steadily worked his way up to his current responsibility.

Mr. Bean believes that an effective librarian has both personal qualities and professional skills. The personal qualities you should have include being able to "read" people's needs and be friendly. The professional qualities include a Master of Library Science degree . Mr. Bean's day-to-day responsibilities are to oversee his department in the evening, supervise a variety of activities, and solve patron problems.

Mrs. Norton, who supervises the Access and Delivery Services Department , says that she also came to her career indirectly. Mrs. Norton always wanted to work in a museum. If she had not ended up in a health sciences library, she might have sought work in some type of museum or historical society.

When Mrs. Norton was young she used to volunteer at museums.  She has worked as reference librarian, cataloger and eventually as an interlibrary-loan librarian. Eventually her career led  to the position she is in now in New Haven.

Mrs. Norton thinks that librarians should be energetic and have a good nature, always wanting to help people in need of information. Librarians need to have a Masters Degree in Library Science but also believes that a person should seek experiences in the front line of  library service. 

Second Day: Interview with Melissa Vantine

Today after interviewing Mr. Gallagher, I interviewed Ms. Vantine, whose first name is Melissa. Melissa has worked at the Yale Medical Library for 10-years. Melissa is a part of Collection Development and Management. Ms. Vantine originally wanted to become Horticulturist .
Melissa says that she fell into this profession. She partially gives credit for working in Collection Development and Management ; in fact she used to work at the library during her studies. She likes to organizing things.

Melissa likes working at the Yale Medical Library. Also, because she gets to learn new things everyday, it's kind of like a school for her where she is always learning new material related to her job. She loves helping people in general, which also is one of the reasons why she choose the field she works in right now.

Melissa has many duties related to her job, such as, ordering books, cataloging books and paying invoices.

According to Melissa, for a person to become a part of collection development and management, you should have Masters in Library Science, or be a library paraprofessional. In Melissa's job you should Know about call numbers and cataloging rules, as well as know how to be organized.

Melissa loves to be in the library, especially the academic part with conferences she has to attend. Conferences are also very educational. Personal qualities that a person should have are good communication skills, good listening skills and know how to organize.

Second Day: Part One- Interview with Mr. Gallagher

Today I interviewed Mr. Gallagher. He is the Associate Director here at the Yale Medical Library. Mr. Gallagher briefly gave me a description of what his job is about. Mr. Gallagher has been working here for 12 years.

Mr. Gallagher at first didn't know what he wanted to do in future. He had many jobs in the past some of which includes, working for UPS, worked at evening circulation for a public library , Construction worker, FedEx, Head of circulation here and now he is the associate director. Now Mr. Gallagher is in the position that he wanted to be. Some of the things he does around the library includes represent the library on curriculum matters, works with other committees, manages staff, and he is also a research librarian . He is a Personal librarian to the Medical Students here at Yale University.
According to Mr. Gallagher, for a person to become a Medical librarian, a person should have a Master of Library Science (MLS).

It was my Pleasure meeting Mr. Gallagher .