Last day with Sarah

Today is my last day of internship, in past days I have really enjoyed meeting new people and getting to know about their back grounds and their professions. All the medical library staff was friendly. I saw some historical books and Persian manuscripts. But today when I met with Sarah , she showed me some really amazing things. I saw books that were written in 1400's, and I was thinking that book is written before Columbus discovered America. Sarah who is preservation librarian take care of over 30,000 books. That means she have huge responsibility. She also take cares of Cushing Center's environment. she also organize tours. The most interesting thing that she likes about her job is that she is doing most different thing in the library and creating a difference.

Mark Gentry

On Thursday, the first person I met was mark. He is a clinical support librarian. A few things about him, he graduated in Anthropology and went to China to teach English. Then he got interested in other profession, after a lot of research he came across the Librarianship. It was interesting for him because he always wanted interaction with people and students, basically his work involves to teach students, helping them to use the resources available for them. His favorite thing about his job is that he can help people and can make a difference. He even went to Uganda to teach librarians there to make them aware of the resources that were available for them. I really enjoyed my time with him.

Janene Batten

I met Janene today, who is the Reference Librarian for the Yale school of nursing. She spends time at both the school and the medical library. she had a undergraduate degree in education. She worked in school library as well. She's worked in the medical library for 7 years as a Nursing School librarian and her main charge there is to help nurses, faculty, clinicians, with any information needs. She works with about 300 students and 600 faculty members. There isn't any typical workday for her. everyday she do new things which she really likes. According to her, a good thing about working in the library is that there are lot of opportunities for you. Her memorable experience is when she got an staff award at graduation ceremony.

Diane Turner

My favorite thing of the day was the meeting with Diane. She is the head of human resources for the Yale library. She majored in history and specialized in counseling. She have done many jobs but her jobs mostly involved working with students in college. Basically her work involves to hiring people and counseling library staff if they are laid off. I asked her what she most like about her job, and she said the smile she get to see after she offers someone a job is very rewarding for her. The interesting thing about her is that she been to many international countries, including South Africa, Seira Leone and Uganda. She has a really interesting personality. I really enjoyed my time with her.

Lynn Sette

On Wednesday, I met Lynn, who is a Reference librarian. Lynn got her masters in library science in 1985. As a reference librarian, Lynn teaches classes and provides consultations. Lynn also chairs a Marketing & Promotion committee to ensure that faculty, staff and students of the Medical Center are aware of the resources and services offered by the Library. In her work day, she attends meetings , setup classes for residents, answer questions. She have also worked on project for school nurses. Her goal was to provide resources for theirs research. What she likes most about her job is that she gets to try new things, and she can do things the way that she want to.

Webmaster Hongbin

The last person I met on Tuesday was Hongbin. I was very excited to meet him, because the title "Webmaster" fascinates me. I learned a little bit about him, for example, he was a journalist in Beijing. He actually majored in journalism. Then he studied information science and worked in New Orleans. But after Hurricane Katrina , he came here. Basically, his job is to create websites and maintain them. He also has to track statistics of websites, how many people view the links. He also substitute popular links for less use links on certain pages. He also runs focus group studies to ask students and faculty about their likes and dislikes on the library websites. It was a very interesting meeting with Hongbin. The most adventure of this meeting was that I got to know more about China. I am really interested to visit China.

Meeting with Liaison Librarian

I met with Denise who is Liaison to the anesthesiology and cancer center. She connects with the faculty, promotes and markets the use of resources and new resources. She makes people know what tools they have to use, and by creating an online site she lets people use easier ways to locate the resources. The most challenging thing about her job is finding new ways to help other Liaisons within limited time. She also works with Holly who is a Liaison to the OBGYN department. They both work to find new resources for their departments. She downloads resources, searches through data like tools to store resources, and visit operating rooms to speak with surgeons. Her memorable experiences include having worked with surgeons in the ER, attending a anesthesiologist meeting, and telecommuting. Recently she has been to Japan, where she continued to communicate through Skype. Well its really amazing to know how technology have progressed.