March 30, 2009 (My 1st day)

Hello everyone I'm Anmol Patel, the new C.H.I.L.I intern! Today I was given a tour of the Yale Medical Library. I met Dexter at the Circulation Desk. I took a look at Charles Darwin's work, went around the whole library and had explored all of the great stuff they had. I loved it. My favorite part was when I met new people and learned about their occupation and I'm looking forward to meet other new people.

February 4, (Day 6)

Today was a short day for me and I met with Toby 

February 3, (Day 5)

This is Lei Instructional Design Librarian for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Lei does the online instructional contents for example videos, guides and even tutorials. He is a real help to busy students who do not have time to visit the library "physically."  He creates useful programs that can be downloaded to your computer or even ipod. Lei is very friendly and works well with Mr. Greenberg. 

Contact Lei, 

lei.wang@yale.edu

After meeting Lei I sat down for an Endnote class given by non other than JAN! she made the class very interesting and I learned all about using the program I never even seen before, but before class we spoke briefly about her experiences in China and boy were they interesting and hilarious. I have not interviewed Jan yet but Im looking forward to.

February 2 (Day 4)

Today I met with Sarah and she is the preservation Librarian for the Cushing/Whitney Medical library. Sarah works in the historical library and it's one of the finest historical medical collections. Sarah works on preserving very rare and valuable book there are over 130,000 rare books, journals, pamphlets manuscripts, art and more! She also works with students from the school of medicine. Sarah was nice enough to take me to se the fabulous book collection, I saw ancient book from the 1800's and even earlier books from Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci and too many more to mention. Sarah made the historic library seem so interesting because of all the things people wrote, it really was a great experience to see such a rare collection.

Contact Sarah,

 sarah.burge@yale.edu

After I met Sarah, then i met up with Jason; he is the C&IS Support Specialist.  Jason is in charge of the libraries' computers, Jason is incredible with working on computers. If anyone in the library has technical difficulties with any computer Jason is the one to go to. Jason always had a thing for computers ever since he was a child, and plans on going back to school.

Contact Jason,

jason.reinstedler@yale.edu

January 30, (Day 3)

Today I met with Mark and he does the clinical support. He help Doctors and today when I interviewed him, he was helping a doctor from Uganda in Africa. Mark also knows a lot about PDA's and other hand held gadgets that make research more convienient for Doctors at the office or even on the go. He knows about the latest equipment and he is a very helpful person when it comes to the new smart-phones and PDA Resources & Services .

Contact Mark,

mark.gentry@yale.edu

After I finished interviewing Mark I went over to Bob. He is the Business manager and he is in charge of the finances of the Medical library. He makes sure all the staff gets paid including security which is important. Bob is the person the faculty goes to in order to make financial decisions because he manages the budget, and YES YALE has a budget. So that means he is very good at math..... and he is he loves math and in high school it was his favorite subject. Too bad its not mine =( but his job requires him to have a strong background in mathematics. Bob was a very interesting person and i'll be sure to go to him when I'm having trouble with my math homework. 

Contact Bob,

robert.hughes@yale.edu

January 26 & 27, (Day 1 & 2)

Hello Everyone! Im the new C.H.I.L.I intern. I was given a tour of this breath taking library by Mr. Charles Greenberg and let me just say it is a honor to be here. This week I recieved orientation and joined in a library council meeting at the steiner room. It was about a trip to Beijin, China. I was very fortunate to be able to listen in on all that went on, China is very beautiful and maybe someday I can also go to China. After the meeting I interviewed John Gallagher and Mary Angelotti.

John is the Deputy Director of Public Services for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. I Asked him a few questions and as you know John was born in Ireland, he came to the U.S at the age of 19. Before becoming the Deputy Director he worked in construction foe 6 years and the U.P.S. John didn't plan to become a librarian but when he got offered the job in the year 2000, but he perused it. And now he wishes that there were more hours in a day because he feels that information is extremely valuable and can be needed at any time. John inspired me to look for a job that can be fulfilling just like it is to him, he is a very interesting guy even though he dislikes my favorite soccer team. 

Mary Angelotti is the document Delivery Manager. She has been working in the Medical library for 31 years! that's amazing, and I feel that she has a very important job delivering all the peoples' order on time. Just having that responsibility alone can be quite overwhelming. But not for Mary Angelotti, she loves her job and is happy to be of assistance to anyone who needs it. In high school she wanted to become a teacher and even received a bachelors degree in history. And one day hopes to become a reading teacher for young children; but for now she is very happy with her staff and her helpful job databases. I was a pleasure to have meet someone so hardworking such as Mary Angelotti.

My Forth Day

Today, Thursday August 7th started off with me meeting two new people. Mary and Kelly which both work in document delivery. Mary does the computer work while Kelly scans the copies of the necessary material. I found them both to be pleasant people who enjoy their jobs. Also Kelly showed me the scanner and it was really interesting. After that I shadowed Janene's EBP class. In the picture here it shows a not so well but hopefully effective demonstrations of EBP format. Janene herself had a better depiction. After the class I as well as Mr. Greenberg walked over to the Library downtown to meet with Diane Turner who is a fascinating Women. I was truly honored to meet her. After Meeting with Mrs. Turner i returned to the medical library to attend a Liaison Meeting/Lunch in which they discussed library matters such as budget and orders for journals. It was all new to me to see the inner workings of the library i found it to be a positive experience. My last meeting of the day and/or week was with Bob, he is the business manager and he is a very easy to get a long with type of guy. He seems really in tact like he knows his business and i felt as if he is one of the kind of people that will help anyone in need.