Tour

Friday -- July 9: Today Tillie took me on a tour of Bayview's 240 acre campus. We accomplished this by boarding a shuttle that provides transport on campus. We simply stayed on the shuttle as it picked up and dropped people off from one building to another or to parking lots, etc. Tille has been working on a history presentation and is also the longest term member of the library staff (finishing 18 years in December). Very interesting. I won't bore you with the details because Cheri has provided me with a current map of the Bayview campus: http://www.bayviewjobs.org/files/JHBcampusmap.pdf
I've also been working on a little pictorial memory of my visit here -- maybe a little slide show here when I'm finished??

Reception

Had the opportunity to attend the Summer Scholars reception on Wednesday. I also had the opportunity to meet and speak with Anne White-Olson, a biomedical librarian and informationist at the NIH library. http://nihlibrary.nih.gov/LibraryServices/Pages/Informationists.aspx
Since Heather (my daughter) will be doing a year-long residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD; I am hoping to be able to visit the NIH library and NLM at some point while on a visit to Heather. NLM is on the NIH campus.
The presentation for the summer scholars included a talk by Dr. Marie Bernard, a noted geriatrician who is the deputy director of the NIA (National Institute on Aging). One of the gifts to her was a book called Centuries of Caring: The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Story by Neil Grauer. I checked that book out to learn more about Bayview's 230 years of history -- it's earliest years as an "Almshouse" and as the "Bayview Asylum" ( a reflection of its role as an insane asylum). Published in 2004, the "Acknowledments" include this statement: "Crucial help also was given by Linda Gorman, director of Hopkins Bayview's library services; her associates, Irene Kiyatkin and Tillie Horak. . ."

Can it be?

Hard to believe -- can the internship be nearly over? This past week, I spent three days at the library (Wed, Thu, & Fri -- 7/7-7/9. I've nearly completed my list of learning opportunities in all areas of concentration, so I had some time to give back a little. I did things like, attaching spine labels to new books, manning the library when the staff needed to be away, completing the withdrawal process of the books weeded this year, shelving and making a new poster for the library's ongoing used book sale. The library receives many book donations -- both fiction for leisure time reading and medical books. Some of the more popular fiction series are cataloged for check-out. Some are put on a shelf to read and return without check-out. And some are put on the book sale cart. I'm adding a picture of my creation. (An artist I am not, but I had fun -- and people have been buying books, so at least the poster is not scaring people away:)

Wisconsin again:)

OK -- so not really about the internship -- but a few notes about a trip home. Arrived home Wed (6/30) about 10 PM. Spent two busy days at the lab Thu & Fri 7/1 and 7/2. Saturday -- our 39th wedding anniversary. Took Ben to a Madison Mallards baseball game ("baseball like it oughta be"). Sunday -- picnic lunch and parade in Brodhead. Monday -- Independence day observed :) -- spent the day "being domestic" making a pie and cobbler from the black caps & tart cherries that Glen picked, rice krispie bars, and a casserole. Left home at 2:45 AM for a 6:10 flight out of Milwaukee for BWI. Arrived safely to 100 degree weather. Wed., 7/7 -- happy to be back at the Harrison library.