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

Day Two

Meeting with Mr. Paul Huard and interview with Mr. Mark Gentry

My day began with observing a meeting with Mr. Paul Huard, a Australian Librarian, and the faculty here at the Medical Library. Mr. Huard gave a brief synopsis of his career. His first career was a high school teacher and years after, he became a librarian because he felt like he could do more for the students. After he introduced himself, the faculty here at Yale introduced themselves round-robin style and gave a synopsis of the responsibilities of their job. The highlights of this meeting was to discuss how can each library provide better customer service. They discussed the differences between the two libraries, and discussed how can they change and improve. Mr. Huard emphasized what methods can be used to help students find reliable information, and what can both libraries do to improve the student/librarian relationship.
Later, I began my interview with Mr. Mark Gentry. Mr. Gentry works in Technology and clinical support. He works with doctors who work in a clinical setting, and visits hospitals and other countries for outreach, support, and training. He's earned a bachelors and masters degree in Anthropology and earned a 2nd Masters degree in Library science. He began his career believing he wanted to be an Anthropology professor because of his attraction to research and the college atmosphere. Mr Gentry counts helping doctors, supporting clinicians, and making the library accessible to the users, amongst the most important aspects of his job. He is has worked on a special project in Uganda, working with clinicians there and worked here in the U.S. with Uganda people assisting them with their clinical experiences here. He is currently working on an iPad project as well. All 150 Yale Medical students will be supplied with an iPad so they can conveniently study and research on the go. He's a main component on making the Yale campus more mobile.