John Gallagher

On second day, the second person I interviewed was John. He is a Director of Public Services for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. For John it is his second career. Before he was a supervisor for UPS. Then he became evening supervisor for the library. Then he joined circulation department. He is a personal librarian for 10 students. Basically in his typical day, he deals with students and staff issues and read emails and requests. After I interviewed him, he toured me to Cushing Center, which I think was really scary, but I really enjoyed having conversation with him about Harvey Cushing.

Joanna Price

On my second on of internship, I met Joanna Price who is the Coordinator of Community Progress in Science New Haven & State Affair. A little info about her background, she majored in biology and received her PhD and was trained as a scientist. She did stem cell research. But mostly she wanted to work with students so she got interested in this job. She have also taught scholar biology. Her work mostly involve to set up academic programs for high school students. She sets people with other people based on their interest of research. She finds it fascinating that how school system is reforming and and providing students with more opportunity.

Mr.Greenberg

I interviewed Mr. Greenberg and learned a lot about what he does daily. For instance, he is a supervisor and meets at least once a month with every staff member. He also programs staff at the information desk and if there is a problem he is the one to solve it or fills in for someone who is not in. He also teaches students, which is one of his favorite parts of his job, and is a personal librarian to many students. He is a part of ASK LIVE which is a real time reference where he can answer questions that people may have. I learned that he earned a leadership fellowship and has traveled to many countries, to mention a few, Scotland, Australia and Germany. In his typical day, he spend more the 2/3 of his day on computer reading emails and requests and sending the ‘Medical Library News’ each month – highlighting new resources and information about the library’s programs to keep you up-to-date. someday he would like to be a Medical Library Director, awaiting for the right opportunity.

First day as a Chili intern

Today was my first day as an intern at The Cushing/Whitney Library. I was so nervous and also very anxious to see what awaited me in the building. first i met with Mr.Greenberg who is the coordinator of curriculum and research support. He introduced me to all of his staff and told me about their specific tasks. then he gave me the tour of medical library, in which i got to see a lot of fascinating things. i got to see alot of books which were more then 100 years old. and i was very surprised that they were still in good condition in the care of the library staff. then we went to Cushing center and at first i wasn't expecting to see what i saw. basically Cushing center was full of Human brains preserved in jars. and it was kind of scary to me. because i never got to see these kind of things before. and the thing which really overwhelmed me was the pictures of random people who were suffering from such traumas and the thought that their brains was in jars lined up on scale was really scaring. my first day at medical library was really good.

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.

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