Sunday, February 5, 2012

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 .


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