Day 6 of My Internship

Today I started off by interviewing Jan Glover. Her job at the library is Education Services Coordinator. She organizes class and teaches about research material. Jan has been working at the Medical Library for 25 years. She went to the University of Denver, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Maine. She loves giving tours of the Cushing Center and likes to uncover studies that haven't been published yet. Jan told me that it is easier for articles with positive results to get published and faster than articles with negative results. She says the whole truth includes the negative results too. Jan loves that working at the Yale Medical Library provides her with changing assignments and new things to try. Jan is most proud of when she came up with the Personal librarian Program in 1996. This is now a program used worldwide, which we both think is pretty cool.
After interviewing Jan, I picked up the video equipment for my healthflick  video. I spent the rest of my day working on this video with Mr. Greenberg. We tried recording in different rooms of the library and tried out different ideas of my presentation. It was very interesting, and I will be working on the video for the rest of my internship!

Day 5 of My Internship

Today was day five of my internship, and i interviewed two people, Kenny Marone, and Claudia Merson.

Kenny Marone is the director of the medical library. She went to college at Albertus Magnus College where she studied history. She went to Albertus Magnus College because she read an article in the New York Times that said women who go to women colleges do better than going to a college with men. She came to work at the Yale Medical Library because it is one of the greatest libraries in the world. Kenny enjoys helping people with their questions and hiring people who make a difference. She loves the rare book collections at the library and, also loves, that her job does some good for the world. Since Kenny has been working at the Medical Library she has learned "grace under fire" and better listening skills. Kenny was an amazing person to talk to and she says she was inspired to be who she is by her grandmother, who was very kind and whom she was very close to.

After my interview with Kenny, I went across town to go interview Claudia Merson. Claudia works with the New Haven Public Schools creating programs for them. For example, she works closely with my school, Hill Regional Career High School, to create programs such as S.C.H.O.L.A.R.S. Claudia went to NYU and transferred as a junior to Georgia State and then went to Harvard. She studied English and Linguistics at Georgia State and Education at Harvard. Before coming to work at Yale she taught English in Bangladesh and other countries in Europe. She has been been working at Yale since 1995. Claudia's best memory and proudest moment of working at Yale is when she signed the partnership with Career High School. Claudia enjoys drawing, cooking, and traveling.

Day 4 of my internship at the Medical Library

Today I met with three people, Melissa Grafe, John Gallagher, and Mark Gentry.

I started out by talking with Melissa who is the Medical Library Historical Librarian. She has been working at the Medical Library since July 2001. Before I sat down to talk with her she showed me the collections of books and paintings they have collected over the years. We looked at looks from the 1200s, which was really cool! Melissa went to college for history and politics. She got her PhD at John Hopkins. She says the most exciting part of her job is finding stuff that you don't expect to see. She loves all the people she gets to meet and enjoys working with one of the best collections in the country.

Then I met with John Gallagher who is Medical Library Associate Director. he has been working here for 13 years. Mr.Gallagher went to school in Ireland, where he was born and raised. He loves all the people he gets to meet and help out. He says that he wishes that he could find a way to make everyone's job easier. Outside of the library he like to garden, read, and spend time with his family.

Lastly, I met with Mark Gentry, who is a Clinical Support Librarian and the coordinator of Medical Library Technology services andsupport. He attended classes at seven different colleges, and managed to earn degrees at three of them. Mark enjoys helping people with what they need and getting the information at they need. He also enjoys all the intelligent people he gets to assist at a place like a medical center. His teachers in college inspired him to be the person he is today. Mark likes to play the guitar, read, watch movies, and travel outside of his job.

Day 3

Today was my last day of my first week at the Yale Medical Library. When I arrived I picked with the video equipment that I will be using for my Healthflick video. Then I met Lei Wang, who is an Instructional Design Librarian. Lei briefly showed me how to use the equipment and explained more about the video. I then interviewed Lei to get to know him a little better, as he will be helping me with my video. Lei went to college in China, where it is very competitive to get in. He studied English in college because he liked language studies. Lei went on to graduate school at The University of Michigan, where I hope to go to college. He had his first job as a librarian at The University of Michigan's library. He came to Yale when he saw a job posted, and now he creates videos to educate people on resources in the library. Lei is proud of the over 100 videos he has created and can be seen worldwide. Although Lei wishes for more time to maintain the amount of productivity, he enjoys doing things  that are innovative and enjoys that his job always bring new challenges. Lei loves that there is always something going on in New Haven, like concerts and plays. He says Yale is just the right size. Lei is inspired by every single person he meets and says that everyone has taught him something.

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.

First Day

Today was my first day at the Yale Medical Library. It began with a tour of the library and an outline of what I will be doing for the next couple of weeks. Mr. Greenberg, Research Services Librarian, showed me around the library and introduced me to people I will soon get to know better. One of the most interesting rooms was Harvey Cushing's room downstairs. The Medical Library is named after Dr. Cushing, so it was interesting to see his work. While walking through the library Mr.Greenberg pointed out how many of their books and journals are now online instead of on the shelf.

Once we finished the tour, I sat down for an interview with Mr. Greenberg. He went to a the State University of New York at Albany.  He lived in New York and enjoyed the campus when he visited it. He studied liberal arts there focusing on English and History. Mr. Greenberg now works at the Yale Medical Library as the Research Services Librarian. He has been a librarian for more than 30 years. He worked at Colombia University for 13 years before he saw an advertisement for a position at Yale. He has been working at Yale for the past 14 years. Mr. Greenberg says he enjoys teaching classes to doctors or students and helping doctors one-on-one. He, also appreciates that he gets to meet new people and "become the face of the library". Mr.Greenberg's occupation has led him all over the world including Cape Town, South Africa, Peru, and Hong Kong. He is most proud of teaching library science  for 10 years. He is also very proud of his blog that he enjoys writing outside of his job. Mr. Greenberg also enjoys swimming and cooking in his spare time. Lastly, although he may have not lived up to his childhood dream job of being a guitar player or a writer, but he aspires to one day be a Library Director.

Last Day: Interviewing the Medical Library Director

Today i interviewed Kenny Marrone, who is the Director of the Yale Medical Library. She attended Albertus Magnus and received her Bachelors Degree in History, as well as a Masters Degree in Library Science. She loves her position as director, because she is able to contribute in positive ways and is able to manage who manage exceptional staff that are hired. In order to be successful in her profession she had to be a good team member, be able to work well with individuals, and be a leader. Also, she discussed with me how much she enjoys her working environment because all the workers are very friendly, and she always has a sense of satisfaction when a job is done well. Overall, Mrs.Marone loves her job and enjoys being able to listen to workers discuss what they are proud of and how much of a difference they have made.