Toby Appel

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 have also done a major exhibit on Darwin. She have published her journal on alternative medical group which she was working for almost ten years. Basically She purchases new and rare books. She teaches classes, offers reference services, and does exhibits for the Library. I had a great time with her.

Lei Wang

I met Lei on my second day, and it was a interesting conversation. A little about him: He has been working here for 5 years and he is an instructural design librarian. For his undergrad he went to college in China and majored in English. He also worked as a instructor in university. Then he became interested in library for primary reasons. He say that was fascinating for him that he could help people that he really wanted to. He also is a personal librarian for students. what he most like about his job is that he get to try new things, and can pick his own project. Basically he makes online E-tutorial lessons for students and staff, and he have received Service Quality Improvement Award.

Mary Angelotti

After interviewing John, I met with Mary.She is the manager of document delivery services. She is very funny. Her department deals with getting books for the Yale Medical Library and medical students. She has been working in Yale for 33 years. Mary wanted to be a Teacher first and she got her bachelor in education. She also did master in health science but after her education, she got married and became a house wife. After a while she got to know about library science. Her work day may involve helping others, giving assistance where needed in her department. and scanning things. She don't get enough time for herself because the time pressure of specific tasks of her. After having conversation, she showed me the scanner in the basement where they scan books and she showed me the process of sending books to patrons. That was really interesting.

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.