Second day

Today was my second day at the Medical Library. Today was very exciting as it started off with an interview of Ms. Melanie Norton, who supervises the Access and Delivery Services department. Mrs.Norton was the first in her family to go to college.She received her undergraduate degree from Alfred University and then her graduate degree from the University of Kentucky. Mrs.Norton started off as a reference librarian at the Rochester Institute of Technology and then moved to North Carolina where she worked at North Carolina State University as the Head of Interlibrary Loan, which is borrowing books from other libraries. Later she started working at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical Library, where she was Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery. After ten years of being in North Carolina she saw a job opening at Yale and applied, thinking it was never the less a long shot.  Her instinct proved correct!
Mrs.Norton has now been working at the Yale Medical Library for two years, supervising the circulation desk and inter-library loan operation. She looks forward to seeing all of her co-workers everyday. Her proudest moment occurs when different library departments work  together when help is needed. Ms.Norton says everyone inspires you at different point in her life, but her most current inspiration is her boss, Associate Director John Gallagher. After getting to know her a little better, she showed me around the library a little more. I met some more very nice and interesting people. She showed me her most recent project, where they are trying to relocate all of the books in the basement into storage, so that students will have additional study areas. Mrs.Norton enjoys everyone she works with and is so thankful for everyone in her life.

After spending some time with Mrs.Norton I sat in a meeting with Mr.Greenberg and staff from the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. At the meeting I saw how different departments worked together. The goal of their meeting was to make sure that published articles based on clinical research support from Yale also credited their support from Yale. It was very interesting to learn about tracking emerging literature and see how online tools improve productivity.

First Day

Today was my first day at the Yale Medical Library. It began with a tour of the library and an outline of what I will be doing for the next couple of weeks. Mr. Greenberg, Research Services Librarian, showed me around the library and introduced me to people I will soon get to know better. One of the most interesting rooms was Harvey Cushing's room downstairs. The Medical Library is named after Dr. Cushing, so it was interesting to see his work. While walking through the library Mr.Greenberg pointed out how many of their books and journals are now online instead of on the shelf.

Once we finished the tour, I sat down for an interview with Mr. Greenberg. He went to a the State University of New York at Albany.  He lived in New York and enjoyed the campus when he visited it. He studied liberal arts there focusing on English and History. Mr. Greenberg now works at the Yale Medical Library as the Research Services Librarian. He has been a librarian for more than 30 years. He worked at Colombia University for 13 years before he saw an advertisement for a position at Yale. He has been working at Yale for the past 14 years. Mr. Greenberg says he enjoys teaching classes to doctors or students and helping doctors one-on-one. He, also appreciates that he gets to meet new people and "become the face of the library". Mr.Greenberg's occupation has led him all over the world including Cape Town, South Africa, Peru, and Hong Kong. He is most proud of teaching library science  for 10 years. He is also very proud of his blog that he enjoys writing outside of his job. Mr. Greenberg also enjoys swimming and cooking in his spare time. Lastly, although he may have not lived up to his childhood dream job of being a guitar player or a writer, but he aspires to one day be a Library Director.