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.