Today was my last day. I interviewed Kenny who is basically a cheif problem solver in the library. She makes sure the librarians have the resources needed to do their job. She also helps create a stable environment for the librarians in which they can be focused on their patrons. Kenny believes that the most benificial aspects of her job are her excellent co workers, the divirsity of the job, and the many interesting things you get to do. Kenny loves the university environment and loves the fact that she knows her job is making a difference in the lives of others. Over the length of her career Kenny has learned that one needs to stay calm and keep their cool so the problem can be solved.


After meeting with Kenny, Sarah gave me a tour and showed me some of the oldest books in the library. It was amazing to see how these books were kept in better condition than some of the newer books. The books dated to as far back as the 15th century. They were different sizes and made up of different materials. Some of the older ones were even hand written.

Kelly and the book scanner

After meeting with Joanna Price and Diane Turner I met Kelly and got a demonstration of the books scanner. Click this link to see what the book scanner is and how it operates: http://www.screencast.com/t/MmRiMmJhZD. The Yale medical library is working on a project with different librarys in which books are scanned to be put online. The final purpose of this project is to have an online library. Yale is in charge of getting Anisthetic pediatric vaccination books scanned and simulated as books online. Some examples of books that are already online and simulated can be seen if you click on the following link: http://cushing.med.yale.edu/cushingbooks.html.

The last person i met today was Hongbin. He his the webmaster of the medical library. He maintains the website and gets to use his creativity to implement his ideas. He came to this library after moving here because of the incident at New Orleans. Hongbin must find different ways of how the users would like the website and how it can become more and more user friendly. To see the library's website that Hongbin is charge of click the following link: http://www.med.yale.edu/library/. The work that he does affects people by allowing them to use the library online and by having information available at all times. Over the length of his career Hongbin has learned that patients in the key to sucess and that one must not always take matters too seriously.

you can find Lei's tutorials by subscribing to an RSS feed

Today i was to meet with Daniel Dollar and the rest of the CDM department. They basically order books, organize and pay for catalogs, and they work with the invoicing payments. They are also part of an E response team which helps patrons who need assistance through an online system. Daniel updates and renews books and articles online. He works with the collection development committee to make decisions on what to purchase and what not to purchase. Daniel is also part of a program called HINARI which helps poor countries with health information and sales. he will be going to South America to work and train people with the program for a whole week. Over the length of his career Daniel has learned that one must think before they act and that will lead to the right decisions.



Next I met Lei Wang. He is an instructional design librarian. He is is one of the few people in the country who works this job! Lei helps bring user education online. He works with curriculum research support to bring certain topics online such as anything that the library teaches. He believes that you can know everything but it doesnt mean that you can teach it. Lei creates tutorials that help doctotrs for example on certain things they may need to learn. You can find Lei's tutorials by subscribing to an RSS feed. Lei's degrees in media production and educational production help him with the tutorials he creates. His previous undergrad. major cultivates a sensitivity to language and to understand it. Throught the years he has worked in the library, Lei has learned what are the best ways to find information and he has formed habits in information seeking behavior. As a librarain he also help people to obtain these skills. Over the length of his career Lei has learned that one must take things slowly and that they must think before they act.



The last person i met today was Jan. She is works with the educational services and she makes sure information is affective and efficient. Jan had a love for libraries ever since she was young. She always knew that she wanted to be a library. The only unexpected thing is that she did not know she would be working in a medical library with a degree in library science. She helps with teaching, support researching for systematic reviews. Over the length of her career Jan has come to a conclusion that working with a team makes the result much more brilliant

The first person i was to meet today was Toby Appel. She is head of the historical library and she has a PHD in history of science and a history of medical library degree. She also has a masters of library science which enables her to work as a library. Toby worked for a scientific society with her first degree and then she found out that she was much more interested in library science. She ended up going to library school and became certified to work here. Over the length of her career Toby Appel has learned important lessons such as to do your best to get along with others so that work can be accomplished.



I next met with Lynn Sette who works in the reference department. She is a circulation and research supporter for education and information. Lynn answeres questions, teaches classes, and works with 10 different Yale students every year. She became introduced to the field when she checked out books part time. Lynn when to school and worked part time so she can get her degree in library science. This was a difficult challenge for er because you could not take courses online like you can now. Over the length of her career Lynn Sette has learned that one must learn how to find different information.



Holly and Denise are in charge of the Liaison program. Liaison means relationships and what they do through this program is help each department with different researches . They also help these departments keep up with necessary skills that they need. They both believe that the environment they work in gives them many benefits. Some of these benefits include working together, respect to one another, no competitiveness over the work, variety of different work, and the appreciation gained from the work they do.


The last person that i met today was Janene Batten. She helps nursing students and faculty nurses at the hospital. She also works in historical library projects and helps develop the website. She is originally from Australia and her major there was biology and earth science. When she came to America she obtained her masters in library science and was certified to work at the library. She believes that her previous degree helps her a lot with the work she does now because of the science aspect of it. Over the length of her career Janene has learned that one needs to be flexible and to be able to change with the times.

The Amazing Life of Harvey Cushing

Harvey Cushing's Biography

http://cushing.med.yale.edu/cushing/

July 2nd

Today I worked on the health flicks videos for most of the day. I learned to edit videos and control the different audio and visuals pertaining to it. The topic we just completed was a video about stress. I used to work with Sarah but she is no longer in the program so I now work with Jackie. She is a very nice person to work with and she was able to teach me a lot about photo video editing. After I was done I took pictures all around the library especially the Cushing Center.