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.

LAST DAY!!!!!!

Today is my last day at the CHILI Yale Internship. I just would like to thank everyone who took some time off during their busy day to chat with me. This has been a really great experience. Before starting this internship, librarians were just people, boring people, who find books for you, but now I know that librarians are the ones that connect the information to the world. As for medical librarians, they are the ones who connect doctors to the information they need to cure patients. I had a wonderful experience, a special thanks to Mr. Charles Greenberg for this wonderful opportunity.

Sarah Burge

Today I had the opportunity to meet with Sarah Burge. As an undergrad she majored in Art and Art history. As a graduate student Sarah studied library science and focused on book and paper preservation. She has been working at the Yale Medical Library for five years. She is working on a project called "Locked Stacks", which is to preservative the rare books of the library. These historical books are very different from today's books, so they need special care. The library has about 120,000 rare bound books. Most of these books have been donated to the library. I really enjoy the interview with Sarah today.











Sarah looking at an ancient 3D glasses

Diane Turner

Today I had the opportunity to meet with Diane Turner. She is the head of the human resources for the Yale Library. She has been working at Yale for 32 years. Most of her job involves hiring people and providing counseling to the ones that are getting laid off. She is also responsible for staff training and human relations. She loves to learn and interact with people. The difference between the Medical library and the other libraries is the fact that they deal with life and death situations. The characteristics needed for her job are: respect, communication skill, and sound judgment. I really enjoy my time with Diane. She is a wonderful person.

Day with Denise

Today I interviewed Denise. She started out getting a masters degree in American History. Because of her lack of interest in teaching, she earned her library degree and started working at Smith college as a librarian for 3 years. She worked at Connecticut College managing a small department for 1 year. Currently she has a job share position, half time. Now she had been working at Yale Medical library for 5 1/2 years. Denise works as a liaison program coordinator. One of the things she does is write monthly Liaison email messages for the other liaison staff to send to the department they are working with. Denise works with the Cancer Center, the Anesthesiology Department, and Comparative Medicine. One thing she loves about her job is the flexibility and the environment. One of the things that she had learned while working here is that it ok to admit when you do not know something. The characteristics needed for her job are: Self confidence and the art of persuasion.
Today I learned that working with people who like you and that you like can really make your job easier.