Meeting with Human Resource Administrator(continue August 4, 2009)

So after getting to know more about Charlie, I met Diane Turner, who is the human resource administrator of all libraries. She is responsible for hiring staff, how the staff gets paid, and recruiting new employees. Also she makes decisions about human policies, trains and coaches the staff. She went State University in Albany, New York to get her degree. No two days are the same for her because she goes to a lot of meetings, catches up on her emails, and has the opportunity to meet different people, though she wishes that she had more time in the day. In the 32 years of her career, her memorable experiences are doing outstanding work, making new discoveries, and seeing people overcome their frustrations. She currently is working on getting agencies in need and taking in new students. Her job has allowed her to travel around the world like South Africa, Togo, South America, and California. She says that the achievement that she is most proud of is her children and "having the voice to do the right thing". In the next 5 years she sees herself telecommuting and tele-conferencing but still hopes to have fun in her job.

Getting to know more about Charlie(continue August 4, 2009)

After my meeting with Judy and Lynn, I had the chance to know more about Charlie Greenberg. He is a Liaison for surgery and emergency medicine as well as coordinator of curriculum and research support. For the past 11 years in the medical library he has managed the information desk as well as the chili program. By communicating with people through email, telephone, appointments, etc he understands what the users of the library likes and dislikes, therefore thinking about new ways to improve the resources. He also teaches people how to use tools in the computer like Refworks. He finds ways to his relationship with the users of the library.

As a teenager he hadn't considered becoming a medical librarian though he spent his time reading and studying in the library. In 1981, he was offered an interview by the public library in Rocklyn, New York. There he taught people how to use the pc Apple computer. He had been hired to work for the Law school Library where he videotaped graduations and was a reference librarian for 2 years. After 4 years he got bored of the job and discovered that he didn't need a medical degree in order to become medical librarian and switch to the medical library in 1989.

He is working on an electronic way in which Yale students can put their thesis on line, and on the Yale Research Institution website. Also he is part of the International Librarian Leadership program, which focuses on helping librarians serve their doctors, and hosts librarians from around the world. A memorable experience was when he presented in front of a group of surgeons which he says was interesting to do. Librarianship has enabled him to travel around the world like Australia, Germany, Scotland, Sweden and Armenia. You can find out more about his experience in Armenia at http://ysmuvisit.blogspot.com/. He also hopes to travel to South Africa. According to him one of the most challenging thing is making people feel more comfortable using technology. Overall, Charlie loves his job because he likes his hours, the ability to create new projects, the environment and his colleagues.

Meeting with Curriculum Support Librarian (continue August 4, 2009)

I also met with Judy who is a Curriculum Support Librarian in the medical library. She is Liaison to the Basic Science Department of the school of medicine. Sometimes she works at the information desk. Also she attends meetings, respond to technical problems, and is working on organizing orientations and schedule for the new medical students. Her meetings have allowed her to travel around the country such as Utah, Denver, Vancover, and Dallas. During the meetings, discussions are about networking and new things. When she was my age she didn't know what career she wanted to follow. She had a bachalor degree in English but got a librarianship degree from Southern Connecticut. She loves being a medical librarian because she enjoys working with her collegues, learning new things all the time, and interacting with the medical students. She has been in this job for 14 years and isn't ready to retire. What keeps her happy is her interactions with people and being recognized for her efforts.

Meeting with Library Publicity( August 4, 2009)

Yesterday I met with Lynn who does marketing, promoting, and publicity. She keeps people aware of what is going on by scheduling events for people to visit the library and making annoucements which appear on the Yale website . She is also a Liaison for pedriatrics and dermatology. Her activities varies from day to day. She doesn't spend the day sitting at the desk all day. For instance she attends meetings and goes to the hospital. She received her library degree at Southern Connecticut. She also has a Phd in anthropology, humanities and technical services. Actually she had wanted to become a teacher but there wasn't enough jobs at the time. It was in 1979 that she had gone to the medical library and discovered that there was a job opening. She has ever since been in the medical library for 30 years. What keeps her happy in her job is the people she works with, the support that she receives from her collegues, and the physical environment. One of her memorable experiences was when the medical library was opened after it was rennovated. She is working on supplying articles to nurses and on creating resources for the consumer health website for the public.

My first day as a CHILI intern

Hi everyone! My name is Jemima Mbaka and I am the new Chili Intern at Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Yesterday, August 3, was my first day as an Chile Intern. First, I met with Mr. Greenberg who gave me a tour around the Medical Library. The Library is such an amazing place filled with so much information about different health issues. During the tour I learned that the founder of the Library, Harvey Cushing, was a neurosurgeon who was one of the first doctors to pay attention to infection control while operating on a person. He understood that germs were one of the reasons for illness and death during his lifetime. I also learned that he was also a collector of books, especially medical books. He approached the president of Yale University at the time to permit him to open the medical library, and he was willing to donate all of his books in return.

After the tour I met with Bob Hughes, who is the business manager. He decides the budget of the medical library, how the staff gets paid, secures the people who visit the library as well as the library itself, and also is invovled in building rennovations in the library. He loves his job but also says it is a challenge to figure out the budget spending.

After our meeting, I met with Lei who is the instructional designer. He provides online education unit for the library. He helps people find their way locating certain resources in the library. He is right now working on instructional videos on how to get medical resources on your cell phones, and creating tutorials for students interested in nursing.

Meeting with Library Human Resource (Continue July 15, 2009)

After meeting with Janene, I met with Diane Turner, who is the head of Human Resources. She the 32 years of working she has been responsible for hiring, for salary and how much people are paid, training, and recruiting. She also has done Community Relations with schools, like Hill Regional Career High School, in Book Bowl, curriculum, looking at libraries, advising on research, and media specialist. Other programs she's been involved in are Book Drives for Little Children, with COOP doing a program where students in their history classes research their own history or their family's history, and had worked on different Boards like the one on AIDS. All her life she's wanted to do this kind of job because she loved working wiith people, solving challenges, and finding people the right jobs. Some benefits that she feels the community receives from what she does is the availability to resources and strengthening the view of the public schools. Somethings she hope could improve was the violence and the high school drop outs. Another future goal is to raise funds for the United Ways Agency. Some memorable experiences that she's had involve personal stories that she's heard and the people she's met. Some things that she has seen change from the time she began working is the technology, diversity, the social changes like for instance the style of clothing that people wear, and most important the white house with our new president Obama.

Meeting with Nursing Librarian (Continue from July 15, 2009)

After I met with Toby and Flo, I went to the Yale School of Nursing, where I met with Janene. She's worked in the medical library for 7 years as a Nursing School librarian and her main charge there is to help nurses, faculty, clinicians, with any information needs. She works with about 300 students and 600 faculty members. She also teaches whole classes of 80 people on how to search. When not teaching, she's designing classes like orientation classes for new students. She also does a program with public and private school nurses all over Connecticut, giving them resources that are useful and important for their career. She enjoys her job because she feels it's always interesting and she's always learning new things. Some future goals she has are to be better at what she does and also become an Expert in the field of nursing librarian. Some memorable experiences that she's had were when she presented to school nurses at a conference. She enjoys the aspect of talking and teaching the school nurses on resourceful ways to find information. Not only does she work at the School of Nursing but also at the Medical library, but she spends half the time mainly at the School of Nursing so that the students and faculty have easier access to her. Even though the professional environment is busy and constant she likes how her job is interesting and the fact that she can set her own work time and schedule.