Meeting with Curriculum Support Librarian (Continue from July 7,2009)

After meeting with Holly and Denise, I met with Judy, a Curriculum Support Librarian. She works with faculty and medical students, in their connection to the library and different soft wares. She manages a black board where she helps teachers put their notes, quizzes and tests online and helps the students be able to see and take them. She is also Liaison with the Basic Science Department of the school of medicine that includes 10 different topics like Biology, Anatomy, etc. She is a person librarian to 600 students who include medical physicians, graduates, and undergraduates. Other soft wares or things that she is managing are Exam Master-online medical testing, Image Collections or Online Software-for faculty and some students to see images of the body, and VH dissection- to be used by 1st year medical students to where they can dissect a human body on the Internet. She also does lechers at the Grand Ground where she talks about the library and how she can help both the students and faculty. What I found interesting was that she also had majored in something different before majoring as a Medical Librarian. She had majored in a Humanity major in English, but after graduating she felt that teaching wasn't really something she wanted to do and after working in a library for some time she decided to get her degree and become a Librarian. She loves working as a medical librarian because she feels that it's never boring because there is always something going on but also because there is a lot of interaction between teachers, students, and herself. She has been working at the library for 13 years and hope to continue to work there in the years to come, but is open to branch out and do more new things while still doing the job she loves. I have learned already so much just on my first day and can't wait to learn more about the other roles that people have that help keep the medical library up and running and accessible to others.

Meeting with Liaison Librarians (Continue from July 7, 2009)

After the tour I met with Holly and Denise. They both are Liaison Librarians, which means that they both work together with other people like physicians, staff, administrators, and patients promoting and marketing the use of resources from the library. Holly also supports OBGYN while Denise supports Psychology, but they both help each one by getting resources for them. What I found interesting was that both of them majored in different studies before getting their degree as Medical Librarians. Holly had majored in English while Denise had majored and got a PHD for American History. Both of them wanted to become teachers, but after getting an opportunity to work at a library, both felt that being a medical librarian was a better option. Through out their years of working in the library, Holly for 8 years and Denise for 4 years, they both have been enjoying and love their occupation, mostly because of its flexibility, because they both have children, and the opportunity that is allowed for trying new things. They both also work as Personal librarians for medical students from Yale, in which they help find resources that they might need. Lastly they both help motivate others to become medical librarians like them.

My First Day as a Chili Intern (Tuesday July 7, 2009)

Hello every one, my name is Yezmin Crespo and starting today I will be getting the opportunity to learn more about the medical library, the job opportunities, and much more, as the new C.H.I.L.I intern. My day began with getting to briefly meet some of the staff who work at the library during a CRS meeting. There I also got to hear about proposals to better a program that the library has called Meebo. I learned that through Meebo, people could and are able to go to this site and ask librarians questions on resources they can use for projects or research, live through the Internet. It was very interesting. After the meeting Mr. Greenberg gave me a tour of the medical library, which I found quite fascinating. I couldn't believe how big the library was and how much great information it held. It was truly amazing. During the tour Mr. Greenberg showed me a picture of Mr. Cushing (1869-1939) who was a Founder of the Library and also one of a few surgical neurologist who promoted the use of wearing gloves during a surgery to prevent the contamination and death of patients.

April,16th,2009 (My last day)

Today I was very sad to leave the Yale Medical Library and these 12 days that I have spent there they were very memorable. I had an exciting conversation with Hongbin who is a Web Services Librarian and he designs the webpage of the library. It was a plesure to meet him.

April 15th, 2009 (11th day)

Today I went to a Lecture which was about Ecology. It was most importantly dedicated to Charles Darwin and his 200th Birthday which was held at the Yale Medical Library. I learned alot of neew things that there wasn't a tree of life until today. The lecture was given by the one and only professor at Yal University. He majored in biology and was having a very interesting speech to us telliung us how the other students from Harvard and other colleges were making the tree of lives and showing us where the humans were located and where the animals were located. The hour speech just seemed like it was 5 minutes becaue it was so interesting you didn't even know how the time flyed by. There was also a exhibition on second floor where the Rotunda is located and at the first floor was Darwin's book of The Orgin of Species. I loved the way the professor stated his opinion's.

April 14th, 2009 (10th day)

Today I was interviewing Bob and Mark. Bob is a Business Manager at Yale Medical Library and mark is Clinical Support Librarian Coordinator and a Library technology Services and Support. Bob joined 2 years ago and he is very serious about his job because he is the person who takes care of the finance in the library like paying the bills, security, and making sure that the budget that they have doesn't go over the limit. Mark on the other hand is very busy and also very serious because he is working on this important project and when he showed it to me it was very difficult for me to understand that what their goal is in the project. Bob loves math and one interesting thing about him is that he was a college professor in math(algebra) and that was very different from what he's doing because he works in a library taking care of finance but he's also doing all that's possible for him accomplishing and finishing his goal. Bob also worked in an Insurance company doing underwriting and that's very interesting. Mark worked for 9 years in this library and he basically likes to help students with research projects and kind of help that the student will need. He even takes care of the computers in the library by looking after them if any sort of problem occurs so it's very fun knowing them and about their profession.

April 13th, 2009 (9th day)

Today I met with Kenny who is the Director and I also met with Janene. Kenny is a very funny person and has a good sense of humor she showed me how the Yale Medicl Library is in a shape of a "Y", she even shared some important things in her life like her two daughters and Kenny said that if her daughters are happy then she is happy so that's one thing I really liked about her. She is a very nice person who is very well organized and likes to get things done on time, her profession helps others by helping students, doctors, and nurses with researching. When I met with Janene I found out one thing that really interested me and that was that she is from Australia and I was surprised because there are really alot of diversified people and you get to know alot of new things. Janene is a Librarian at the Yale School of Nursing and she is currently working with the nurses at Yale New Haven Hospital. I learnes alot from Janene because today she told me that her job is very dynmaic and its totally not boring because you get to do new things and your pretty much occupied the whole time that your working.