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

Second day

Today was my second day at the Medical Library. Today was very exciting as it started off with an interview of Ms. Melanie Norton, who supervises the Access and Delivery Services department. Mrs.Norton was the first in her family to go to college.She received her undergraduate degree from Alfred University and then her graduate degree from the University of Kentucky. Mrs.Norton started off as a reference librarian at the Rochester Institute of Technology and then moved to North Carolina where she worked at North Carolina State University as the Head of Interlibrary Loan, which is borrowing books from other libraries. Later she started working at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical Library, where she was Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery. After ten years of being in North Carolina she saw a job opening at Yale and applied, thinking it was never the less a long shot.  Her instinct proved correct!
Mrs.Norton has now been working at the Yale Medical Library for two years, supervising the circulation desk and inter-library loan operation. She looks forward to seeing all of her co-workers everyday. Her proudest moment occurs when different library departments work  together when help is needed. Ms.Norton says everyone inspires you at different point in her life, but her most current inspiration is her boss, Associate Director John Gallagher. After getting to know her a little better, she showed me around the library a little more. I met some more very nice and interesting people. She showed me her most recent project, where they are trying to relocate all of the books in the basement into storage, so that students will have additional study areas. Mrs.Norton enjoys everyone she works with and is so thankful for everyone in her life.

After spending some time with Mrs.Norton I sat in a meeting with Mr.Greenberg and staff from the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. At the meeting I saw how different departments worked together. The goal of their meeting was to make sure that published articles based on clinical research support from Yale also credited their support from Yale. It was very interesting to learn about tracking emerging literature and see how online tools improve productivity.

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 .