Day 4 of My Internship

Today was my fourth day here at Harvey Cushing Medical Library. Today, I got to meet with Lei Wang, the Instructional Design Librarian. Today, Mr. Wang showed me how I will be editing my Health Flick. To do so, I will be using a software called iMovie, which is a movie editing program that is available on Macintosh computers. In order to edit a movie on the software, you first have to upload the footage you want to edit to the program. After that, you create a new project. Once you have done that, you are able to add a title page, cut off segments of the footage you don't want or messed up on etc. Also in the program, when you are saving it, you can save it to be compatible to whatever device you want people to be able to view it on whether it is a iPod, iPhone, iPad, computer etc.

After practicing editing my video, I had the chance to sit down with Mr. Wang and get his insights on working here in the library. After being asked "Do you think you gain a better understanding of yourself from your career?" He replied "Yes, you never know what you are capable of doing until you give it a try. You are unaware of your full potential until you take the step to find out whether the task at hand is accomplish-able."

Mr. Lei Wang

After I met with Mr. Wang, I met with Mr. John Gallagher. He is the associate director here at Harvey Cushing Medical Library. While I was there, Mr. Gallagher and I talked about his position here at the library. I asked him "How did you succeed in obtaining your career?" He responded "The opportunity unfolded its self. I opened that door and everything just fell into place. I was originally working for UPS, however I was looking to change jobs, a friend of mine told me to apply for a job here and here I am 13 years later" As the associate director, Mr. Gallagher is entitled to help you search for any information in the Medical Library's databases, instruct group sessions, and send you the medical library news each month, highlighting new resources and information about the library's programs to keep you up-to-date.

Mr. John Gallagher

First Day as a Chili Intern

Today was my first day as a Chili Intern and I met with Mr.Greenberg who then took me on a tour around the Medical Library . I was introduced to many parts of the library that i didn't know existed, such as the Cushing Center which contains many of Harvey Cushing's collections such as different types of brain tumors he studied. Who would expect an area in a library dedicated to studies of brains?  No other library has that, which is fascinating to me.

After viewing the Cushing Center, I toured the Circulation Desk where i met the librarian Melanie Norton and the manager of the Circulation Department. I interviewed Mrs. Norton first. She received her undergraduate degree from Alfred University and then her graduate degree from the University of Kentucky. She started off as a reference librarian at the Rochester Institute of Technology and then started working a North Carolina State University as the Head of Interlibrary Loan, then the University of N.C. at Chapel Hill which she was Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery. She came to Yale as a Head of Interlibrary and Document Delivery, and as of  six months ago she is Head of Access and Delivery Services. Her uplifting spirit and outgoing personality made her a great applicant for this position.  She also discussed with me how her working conditions are always exciting and how if she ever needs help with something her colleagues are always there with  helping hands. After our interview i went and interviewed Rick Bean who is the manager of the Circulation Department.Rick became the Evening and Weekend Circulation Supervisor in 2000. After over twenty years of service, Rick Bean will be retiring from the Medical Library. Rick has contributed to many initiatives in the Medical Library, but will likely be most remembered for his cooking, wit, and willingness to help others.

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.

Meeting with Janene Batten

Today I Interviewed Janene Batten, she went to Southern Connecticut State University. After earning her degree she worked for 3 years at a hospital library. When I asked her how the hospital library was different, she told me it was not that different but the hospital library was inside of a hospital. She later started working at Yale Medical library. She is the Nursing Librarian for the School of Nursing and currently supervising the Medical Historical Library. As a nursing librarian she works with students, teaching them how to find information and she also worked closely with nursing faculty on the Curriculum Committee.
Since November, as the acting Historical Medical librarian, Janene finds information, answers question and works in the administration. She enjoys learning about Harvey Cushing , the father of neurosurgery.

Today I learned that they are many careers within one career. I also learned that sometimes knowing history can help you to understand the modern world.










An old book from the Historical Medical Library.

Afternoon with Jan and Lei

Jan Glover work at the Medical Center in Portland, Maine for 11 years. Then came to work at Yale. She been working there for 23 years. She is the only person so far that I interviewed who decided in high school that she wanted to become a librarian. She went to University of Rhode Island to get her MLS. Jan is a typical public services librarian: her job is to educate new students and staff about the resources of the library. She also works on systematic reviews, when a group of scientists evaluate the accuracy of many research results. Jan really like her job because it teaches her a lot about medicine. One of the things she is doing now is creating a tour for the Cushing Center, and she is surprises about of how much she is learning about brains.

Moments later I chatted with Lei Wang. One of the things I like about Lei was how passionate he is about his job. He is a instructional design librarian. He translates tasks such as accessing library information online into short movies, making them available to everyone. He is also a library liaison for neuroscience and making sure they receive the information they need. One of the coolest things about Lei's father is that he has a library at home in China with more than 10 thousand books, including his own online catalog, to make it easier for him to find books. To be a Instructional design librarian you need to have curiosity, to have the courage to try new things, and have good customer services skills.

1st day!!!!!!

Today: Today was my 1st day at the Yale Medical Library CHILI Internship. I had the opportunity to meet the staff and librarians during a special tour of the building with Mr. Greenberg ( pictured at left with the Healthflicks video coordinator Michelle Lewis ). I saw many art works, and exhibits of many ancient objects that were donated to Yale library. My favorite was the Cushing Center, where I got to see brains of people who died from cancerous tumors. Some of them are 75 years old. What amazed me the most is how well these brains are persevered.
What I learned: This is my 1st internship.Today I learned that i am growing up fast, and that life comes with many responsibilities. I also learned that life is precious and we have to try to live everyday to the fullest.

One of Dr. Cushing's patients.