Day Four: Interview with Lei Wang

Today after I was done interviewing Mr. Hughes, I went on to interview Mr. Wang, who is an Instructional Designer.
While interviewing Mr. Wang, I learned many new things, as well as some  things that are required for you to become a Medical Librarian. You need a Masters Degree in Library Science focusing on health sciences materials and services. The  reason why Mr. Wang choose to work as an Instructional Designer was because he loved designing with software, and he also loved teaching. So he decided to combine those two passion and became a instructional designer, where he designs new ways to teach students about software and skills. Mr. Wang was interested in  teaching, and he knew that learning can be really hard. To make learning easy he wanted to design demonstrations that would be best to transfer his knowledge to students.
Mr. Wang like lots of things about information technology, which supports his enthusiasm to be able work as an instructional designer. From Mr. Wang, I learned that anyone can make their love and passions for something into a career and make a living out of it. It can be like fairy tale but once you have the will, anything is possible.
I thank Mr. Wang for giving me this wonderful opportunity to learn about his interests and how became an instructional designer in a medical library..

Day Four: Interview with Mr. Hughes

Today I Interviewed Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes in the Business Manager at Yale Medical Library.

In the past Mr. Hughes worked at the Athena Insurance company, and he wanted to try a change in his life, which is why he applied for job at Yale Medical library. He appreciated that the Yale Medical library was also part of the acadamic life at Yale. He also considered other alternatives for his career, such as insurance underwriter, high school mathematics teaching, or working as a computer science teacher.

There are three main jobs that he is required to do, including making sure bills gets paid, overseeing the payroll, and the security of the library.

The types of knowledge a person should have in order to become a business manger include mathmatics, knowledge of how to use productivity applications, and also have business background.

The major things that inspired Mr. Hughes to become business mManger are educating people at Yale University and enjoying mathematics. One interesting thing about being a business manger is that you get to meet interesting people everyday. Talents and skills essential to be an effective business manger are understanding finance, good math skills, financial expertise, and know computer systems and databases.

Another prerequisites for being a business manger is to have a Masters of Business Adminstration .

Second day: My Interview with Mr. Bean and Ms. Norton

Today, after interviewing Ms. VanTine, I went on to interview Mr. Bean and Ms. Norton,who both work in Access and Delivery Services department at the Yale Medical Library.

I started my interview with Mr Bean, who used to work in the US Air Force . Eventually he decided to leave the Air Force, and he wanted to work in place which had an academic enviroment . First he came back to United States and worked at Barnes and Nobles for couples of years. Later on, he worked at Yale School of Management for 3 years and at Yale Sterling Memorial Library . He then applied for a position at Yale Medical library and was successful. Mr. Bean has steadily worked his way up to his current responsibility.

Mr. Bean believes that an effective librarian has both personal qualities and professional skills. The personal qualities you should have include being able to "read" people's needs and be friendly. The professional qualities include a Master of Library Science degree . Mr. Bean's day-to-day responsibilities are to oversee his department in the evening, supervise a variety of activities, and solve patron problems.

Mrs. Norton, who supervises the Access and Delivery Services Department , says that she also came to her career indirectly. Mrs. Norton always wanted to work in a museum. If she had not ended up in a health sciences library, she might have sought work in some type of museum or historical society.

When Mrs. Norton was young she used to volunteer at museums.  She has worked as reference librarian, cataloger and eventually as an interlibrary-loan librarian. Eventually her career led  to the position she is in now in New Haven.

Mrs. Norton thinks that librarians should be energetic and have a good nature, always wanting to help people in need of information. Librarians need to have a Masters Degree in Library Science but also believes that a person should seek experiences in the front line of  library service. 

Second Day: Interview with Melissa Vantine

Today after interviewing Mr. Gallagher, I interviewed Ms. Vantine, whose first name is Melissa. Melissa has worked at the Yale Medical Library for 10-years. Melissa is a part of Collection Development and Management. Ms. Vantine originally wanted to become Horticulturist .
Melissa says that she fell into this profession. She partially gives credit for working in Collection Development and Management ; in fact she used to work at the library during her studies. She likes to organizing things.

Melissa likes working at the Yale Medical Library. Also, because she gets to learn new things everyday, it's kind of like a school for her where she is always learning new material related to her job. She loves helping people in general, which also is one of the reasons why she choose the field she works in right now.

Melissa has many duties related to her job, such as, ordering books, cataloging books and paying invoices.

According to Melissa, for a person to become a part of collection development and management, you should have Masters in Library Science, or be a library paraprofessional. In Melissa's job you should Know about call numbers and cataloging rules, as well as know how to be organized.

Melissa loves to be in the library, especially the academic part with conferences she has to attend. Conferences are also very educational. Personal qualities that a person should have are good communication skills, good listening skills and know how to organize.

Second Day: Part One- Interview with Mr. Gallagher

Today I interviewed Mr. Gallagher. He is the Associate Director here at the Yale Medical Library. Mr. Gallagher briefly gave me a description of what his job is about. Mr. Gallagher has been working here for 12 years.

Mr. Gallagher at first didn't know what he wanted to do in future. He had many jobs in the past some of which includes, working for UPS, worked at evening circulation for a public library , Construction worker, FedEx, Head of circulation here and now he is the associate director. Now Mr. Gallagher is in the position that he wanted to be. Some of the things he does around the library includes represent the library on curriculum matters, works with other committees, manages staff, and he is also a research librarian . He is a Personal librarian to the Medical Students here at Yale University.
According to Mr. Gallagher, for a person to become a Medical librarian, a person should have a Master of Library Science (MLS).

It was my Pleasure meeting Mr. Gallagher .

Tour of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library - Yale University

Today is the first day of my CHILI Intern. My first day as an intern went really well. Mr. Greenberg gave me a tour of the Medical Library. There were lots of interesting things which I did not know about. For instance, I didn't know the history of Harvey Cushing/ John Hay Whitney Medical library. It was very fascinating. the library dates back to 1941 and is very unique in its own ways. It had served the public and the Yale medical students throughout its years. One of the things that fascinating things I saw was the medical tool display located in the medical objects collection of the Library. It was very interesting for me to see the surgical tools that date back to Roman Empire. It was really interesting for me to be able to see the tools that they used to used conduct any kind of medical process. Another thing that was interesting was the special reference books present in the library on consumer health, end of life, medical teaching. The tour of the library demonstrated how technology is taking over the libraries but there is still a place for books.
Later, I interviewed Mr. Greenberg. I learned the importance of a Medical Library and librarianship is general. Mr. Greenberg originally wanted to work in either the library science or education field. Graduated a semester early, he applied first to library science graduate school and was offered a graduate assistance scholarship covering all costs. He took the first job he was offered, which was at a Public library. later, he became a Medical Librarian.
Mr. Greenberg has created two special projects with students (C.H.I.L.I. internship and Healthflicks). Mr. Greenberg is very passionate in his work.

Harvey Cushing

After graduating from Yale, Dr. Cushing received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1895 and taught at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School before accepting appointment as Mosely Professor of Surgery at Harvard in 1912.