My second Tuesday at the Medical Library

When I arrived at the Library today, I met with four people; Kelly Perry, Regina Marone, Lynn Sette, and Mark Gentry. Kelly Perry gave me a presentation on how the library scans books that are read on the computer. A machine with two cameras at the top take a picture of each page of the book, and that picture gets downloaded automatically to the computer. The machine has an attachment place where you can put an automatic arm that turns the page when needed. Even though it is a robotic book scanner, it needs someone there to make sure all of the functions are working properly. All of the settings for the machine are computer controlled. You can change how fast it takes pictures and how fast the shutter is. Kelly normally has the settings on 2400 pages per hour, however while I tried to use the machine, we slowed it down to 12000 pages per hour so I could get used to the software and how it works. After the pictures were taken, Ms. Perry showed me how 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.


Then I met with Lynn Sette. Lynn Sette is the Reference Librarian here at Harvey Cushing Medical Library. She is the library liaison to the Pediatrics and Dermatology departments. This means she helps them find information they need when they are doing research and even school projects. When I asked Lynn "What is a satisfying day at work?", She responded "When I get the information that people need to them. Information is what this library is based on, its what people mainly need and what circulates around this library."

Lynn Sette

  

After I met with Ms. Lynn, I met with Ms. Regina Marone. Ms. Marone is the director of the Medical Library. She has overall responsibility for services, programs etc that are going on in the library. She makes sure people can get there job done and tries to make it easy for people to be successful. She also works with faculty and raises money for the library. A question I asked Ms. Marone was "Have you had any other interns here other than high school students and college students?" She replied " We have had people from China, India , Uganda, and many other places. They all have the same problem ... Network connections. Everybody has to build capacity, which means giving people an opportunity for leadership. Everything here is very diverse". 

Regina Marone

  

Lastly, I met with Mr. Mark Gentry. Mr. Gentry is the Clinical Support Librarian and Coordinator, Library Technology Services and Support librarian. His job is to be involved with working on information that people need and getting it to them as soon as possible. He also Advises and consults people on using clinical resources and finding clinical information. For Mr. Gentry, a successful day at work is when he has helped someone with their work. He says"You want to accomplish something. If you don't accomplish something, whether small or big, then that is not a satisfying day at work." Mr. Gentry is with three other organizations outside of work. He is with the Connecticut Association Of Health Science Libraries, North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries, and The Medical Library Association.

Mark Gentry