My Last Day of My Internship

When I got to the library today I met with Kelly Perry who gave me a demonstration on how the library scans books that are read on the computer. They use a machine with two cameras at the top that take a picture of each page of the book that get automatically downloaded to the computer. Each page can be turned either by hand or with a vacuum handle. Although the machine can work by itself it needs someone there to make sure everything is going the way it is suppose to. All of the settings for the machine are computer controlled. You can change, for example, how fast it is taking the pictures. Kelly normally has the settings on 2400 pages per hour, but when she had me try she slowed it down to 1200 pages per hour. After the pictures were taken Kelly showed me how she had to crop the picture to only show the one page of the book. Then she showed me what the finished product would look like on the internet archive.

After I was done talking to Kelly I went and worked on my healthflick video and was able to complete it.

I have enjoyed my time at the Medical Library, and I am happy that I got to meet the great people that I interviewed. I will  definitely be back to visit, and anyone who has the chance should check out the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library.

Day 7 of My Internship

The first person I met with today was Denise Hersey. Denise went to the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate degree and the University of Massachusetts for a graduate degree, then went to Southern Connecticut State University for her Masters Degree in library science. Denise's first graduate degree is in American History. Denise does outreach library assistance at Yale Hospital near the operating room (OR). She brought me over to the hospital to show me what she does exactly and to meet some of the people she works with there. Some of the main people she works with are anesthesiologists, which is what I hope to become when I am older, and she helps them with their research. She gives them any material they may need when they are in between surgeries. Denise set up the location where she is directly in the hospital so that she goes to the doctors and residents instead of them having to come to her in the library. She has been working at the Medical Library since 2005. She has gained technological skills and she has learned medical terminology since she has been working here.

After meeting with Denise I traveled to Yale's main library to meet the University Librarian, Susan Gibbons.
Ms.Gibbons is in charge of all the Yale Libraries, except for the Law Library, and she keeps all of the staff working. Ms.Gibbons got her undergraduate degree at the University of Delaware, her masters degrees in library science and history at Indiana University, her MBA at the University of Massachusetts, and he PhD for higher education at the University of Rochester. Before being recruited to work at Yale, Ms.Gibbons was the Dean of Libraries for 12 years at the University of Rochester. She has been working for Yale for about 19 months. Ms.Gibbons enjoys the great people that she works with and says that they go out of their way for her. She has gained change management skills and has learned to be more clear in communication. Ms.Gibbons says one of the benefits of working for Yale is that there is always a way to learn. For example, there are speakers that come from all over the place, there are plays, etc. In ten years she sees herself still at Yale, but starting to look at what is next. Before she retires she wants to take a step back in her career, in the library interacting with the library users. Ms.Gibbons sees the library in the future as broadening what they do and having more services involved in teaching. Mrs.Gibbons has two daughters, 9 and 13, whom she is very proud of. In her free time she enjoys reading, which is the only thing that takes her mind off of work. She also enjoys spending time with her family. It was a pleasure to meet with Ms.Gibbons!
      

Day 6 of My Internship

Today I started off by interviewing Jan Glover. Her job at the library is Education Services Coordinator. She organizes class and teaches about research material. Jan has been working at the Medical Library for 25 years. She went to the University of Denver, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Maine. She loves giving tours of the Cushing Center and likes to uncover studies that haven't been published yet. Jan told me that it is easier for articles with positive results to get published and faster than articles with negative results. She says the whole truth includes the negative results too. Jan loves that working at the Yale Medical Library provides her with changing assignments and new things to try. Jan is most proud of when she came up with the Personal librarian Program in 1996. This is now a program used worldwide, which we both think is pretty cool.
After interviewing Jan, I picked up the video equipment for my healthflick  video. I spent the rest of my day working on this video with Mr. Greenberg. We tried recording in different rooms of the library and tried out different ideas of my presentation. It was very interesting, and I will be working on the video for the rest of my internship!

Day 5 of My Internship

Today was day five of my internship, and i interviewed two people, Kenny Marone, and Claudia Merson.

Kenny Marone is the director of the medical library. She went to college at Albertus Magnus College where she studied history. She went to Albertus Magnus College because she read an article in the New York Times that said women who go to women colleges do better than going to a college with men. She came to work at the Yale Medical Library because it is one of the greatest libraries in the world. Kenny enjoys helping people with their questions and hiring people who make a difference. She loves the rare book collections at the library and, also loves, that her job does some good for the world. Since Kenny has been working at the Medical Library she has learned "grace under fire" and better listening skills. Kenny was an amazing person to talk to and she says she was inspired to be who she is by her grandmother, who was very kind and whom she was very close to.

After my interview with Kenny, I went across town to go interview Claudia Merson. Claudia works with the New Haven Public Schools creating programs for them. For example, she works closely with my school, Hill Regional Career High School, to create programs such as S.C.H.O.L.A.R.S. Claudia went to NYU and transferred as a junior to Georgia State and then went to Harvard. She studied English and Linguistics at Georgia State and Education at Harvard. Before coming to work at Yale she taught English in Bangladesh and other countries in Europe. She has been been working at Yale since 1995. Claudia's best memory and proudest moment of working at Yale is when she signed the partnership with Career High School. Claudia enjoys drawing, cooking, and traveling.

Day 4 of my internship at the Medical Library

Today I met with three people, Melissa Grafe, John Gallagher, and Mark Gentry.

I started out by talking with Melissa who is the Medical Library Historical Librarian. She has been working at the Medical Library since July 2001. Before I sat down to talk with her she showed me the collections of books and paintings they have collected over the years. We looked at looks from the 1200s, which was really cool! Melissa went to college for history and politics. She got her PhD at John Hopkins. She says the most exciting part of her job is finding stuff that you don't expect to see. She loves all the people she gets to meet and enjoys working with one of the best collections in the country.

Then I met with John Gallagher who is Medical Library Associate Director. he has been working here for 13 years. Mr.Gallagher went to school in Ireland, where he was born and raised. He loves all the people he gets to meet and help out. He says that he wishes that he could find a way to make everyone's job easier. Outside of the library he like to garden, read, and spend time with his family.

Lastly, I met with Mark Gentry, who is a Clinical Support Librarian and the coordinator of Medical Library Technology services andsupport. He attended classes at seven different colleges, and managed to earn degrees at three of them. Mark enjoys helping people with what they need and getting the information at they need. He also enjoys all the intelligent people he gets to assist at a place like a medical center. His teachers in college inspired him to be the person he is today. Mark likes to play the guitar, read, watch movies, and travel outside of his job.

Day 3

Today was my last day of my first week at the Yale Medical Library. When I arrived I picked with the video equipment that I will be using for my Healthflick video. Then I met Lei Wang, who is an Instructional Design Librarian. Lei briefly showed me how to use the equipment and explained more about the video. I then interviewed Lei to get to know him a little better, as he will be helping me with my video. Lei went to college in China, where it is very competitive to get in. He studied English in college because he liked language studies. Lei went on to graduate school at The University of Michigan, where I hope to go to college. He had his first job as a librarian at The University of Michigan's library. He came to Yale when he saw a job posted, and now he creates videos to educate people on resources in the library. Lei is proud of the over 100 videos he has created and can be seen worldwide. Although Lei wishes for more time to maintain the amount of productivity, he enjoys doing things  that are innovative and enjoys that his job always bring new challenges. Lei loves that there is always something going on in New Haven, like concerts and plays. He says Yale is just the right size. Lei is inspired by every single person he meets and says that everyone has taught him something.