Finalizing the Concussion Video with Jeffrey

Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3CALzuZOIk

For today, I was supposed to have a meeting with Mark Gentry, but he wasn't available today. So, then i had to work on my concussion video. I learned about this new program called Garage Band. It was pretty cool. I got to hear all types of sounds and transfer them to parts of the video. For example, you get choose from piano, guitar, bass, or percussion sounds. I used a mix guitar and electrical sound in the beginning. Then, Jeffrey helped me with transferring the sound files to the video, and he added the credits. Final, the concussion was finalized, and uploaded on youtube as a HealthFlixs video. After the video was done, I researched about blood and the importance of donating blood. I wrote a mini story dealing with blood. The basic gist of my story is that there's a student named Bill who passes by American Red Cross Drive, and he learns about the urgent need of blood and how "Someone needs blood for every 2 seconds."Then, from that day, he was informed and passed the news to his friends. At the end, they gather together to encourage more people in the community to donate blood by making posters and signs. So today was just a research and video-editing day for me, and I had fun.

Interview with Lei & Editing of the Concussion Video

Today, I got to interview Lei who is charge of the Curriculum and Research Support. He's been working here for about 6 years. The best thing he likes about his profession is that he gets to help doctors find articles and information more efficiently. Also, he mention a change in his work. What i mean by that is that he notice how before technology was not as advanced thus it was more time-consuming to finish the work. Since, technology has been progressing, he and others workers were able to access to advanced tools which saves a lot of time and is easier. After that interview, I worked with Jeffrey on the concussion video. I learned about a new program called Final Cut Express. It was really easy to manage. I learned how to cut out scenes from each shot, and add recordings. We finished most of the editing of the video; we just have to add some effects to the video then we're done. As you can see, I got to meet with Lei who is passionate about his profession, and I learned how to edit a video using Finish Cut Express. Overall this day was great.

Meeting with Rick & First shooting of the concussion video

For today, I had a meeting with Rick, who is charge of Access and Delivery Services in the evening. He's been working at the Yale Library for about 20 years, and for the most part he enjoys it. He is also does customer service. Also, he mentioned the team atmosphere here; everyone is always supporting and interacting with each other. Then, I got to meet some of the staff at the circulation desk. I even got to be a shadow for the people in charge of finding articles and delivering them to library library users or external customers. It was pretty informative and neat because Velma showed me how they deliver these articles using different software programs. After that, I got to work with Jeffrey again on the concussion video. The place where we decided to shoot at was at the Harvey Cushing Center where the brain tumors are displayed. I managed to get through the whole process of rehearsing. The video idea became movie making, because you have do many takes and memorize your script in order to perfect the video. In addition, Charlie showed me a cool website called: http://burn-studios.audiotool.com/. This website allows to make your own electronic sounds or music files. It gave me idea to maybe use that in the concussion video. In concluding, this day was fun becauseI again got to try something new.

Meeting with Jeffrey Star on developing a health flixs video

My second day as a Chili intern; I got to meet with Jeffrey Star who is helping me develop a Healthflicks video. At first, I had to brainstorm and come with an idea for the video. Since I had the chance to visit Harvey Cushing's collection of brain tumors, I thought that would be a good place to use for a video background, and then we came up with an idea to use concussion as the topic of the video. I think that concussion is a great topic for the video because it's common for youth. By making this video, students would be able to get an idea what to do and why is it important to prevent this from happening. Then I had to do preparation for the video. So I did research and compiled a finalized script. Most likely the making of the video takes place tomorrow. Overall this day was great and innovative because I got to try something new.

First Day at the Medical Library & Cushing Center

My first day at Cushing Center was exciting. I got to meet Charles Greenberg who is the coordinator of curriculum and research support. First I received a basic overview of the chili internship. Then, I got to meet the library staff, and I received a tour of the library which was very informative and interesting. I got to see how books were organized for efficiency. My favorite part of the tour was visiting Harvey Cushing's collection of brain tumors; it was interesting to see actual brain tumors from his patients and to read about these brain tumors. After the overall tour, I had to come up with interview questions. I even had the chance to interview Mr. Greenberg. From my interview with him, I can conclude that Mr. Greenberg is passionate about his career, and he enjoys teaching. Also, he favors a collaborated teamwork because more things can be accomplished. The people he works with is what makes his work more worthwhile as well as the students he teaches. As you can see, my first day couldn't have been any better, I gain a lot of knowledge about the library as well as the staff that worked there.

LAST DAY!!!!!!

Today is my last day at the CHILI Yale Internship. I just would like to thank everyone who took some time off during their busy day to chat with me. This has been a really great experience. Before starting this internship, librarians were just people, boring people, who find books for you, but now I know that librarians are the ones that connect the information to the world. As for medical librarians, they are the ones who connect doctors to the information they need to cure patients. I had a wonderful experience, a special thanks to Mr. Charles Greenberg for this wonderful opportunity.

Sarah Burge

Today I had the opportunity to meet with Sarah Burge. As an undergrad she majored in Art and Art history. As a graduate student Sarah studied library science and focused on book and paper preservation. She has been working at the Yale Medical Library for five years. She is working on a project called "Locked Stacks", which is to preservative the rare books of the library. These historical books are very different from today's books, so they need special care. The library has about 120,000 rare bound books. Most of these books have been donated to the library. I really enjoy the interview with Sarah today.











Sarah looking at an ancient 3D glasses