http://bioinfo-career.org/pblog/index.php http://bioinfo-career.org/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100426-141158 article in College and Research Library News talks about an IMLS funded program called Project to Recruit the Next Generation of Librarians(PRNGL). IMLS awarded $194,000 to six partner academic libraries in northern Indiana to support the three-year project. PRNGL introduced college-bound graduating seniors from area public schools to the profession of academic librarianship through employment as summer student assistants. In addition, PRNGL involved mentoring services and tracking of a participant’s career/education decisions.

The five initial partner institutions were: The University Libraries of Notre Dame; Kresge Law Library at Notre Dame; McKenna Library at Holy Cross College; Franklin D Schurz Library at Indiana University South Bend; and the Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources at Valparaiso University. Cushwa-Leighton Library of Saint Mary’s College became the sixth partner institution in 2006.
]]> http://bioinfo-career.org/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100326-160546 Southwest Prep Academy for a College Career Day. Students from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s colleges of Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Social Work, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, School of Information Sciences served on a panel, entertained questions from the students, and staffed tables for the students to come and speak to them individually.

I have been fortunate enough to help with the CHILI program since February 2008, and, although the grant has ended, opportunities like this are still an excellent way to reach students about librarianship. With the help of Ms. Lisa Fried and Ms. Carla Funk at the Medical Library Association headquarters in Chicago and Mr. Charles Greenberg, Yale University, who serves as the CHILI project director, the Memphis project director and UTHSC librarian, Ms. Green, and I requested that the CHILI exhibit be shipped to Memphis for Career Day. The exhibit was quite the head turner, and it garnered comments from many students.

The panel presentation and subsequent question and answer session was very successful; students had more direct questions about information science than any of the other colleges! Students wanted to know about the types of background required to enter the profession, as well as the types of opportunities after earning a master’s degree.

While at the table, Ms Green and I had the opportunity to speak to many students individually. Students came with very specific questions and concerns about the profession. Some had the notion that librarians worked with books all day long; although many do work with books regularly, I explained that other librarians deal exclusively with cutting-edge technology, web development, and other tasks that go against the stereotype of the typical librarian. For example, one young man explained his passion for art, and we explained that librarians must have an artistic eye to produce brochures, flyers, podcasts, posters, and other print and electronic materials.

The level of student engagement was very high, and it was an excellent opportunity to expose students to medical librarianship, where they could be part of the healthcare team in a vital, supporting way.


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Any self-identified Native American or Alaskan Native high school sophomore or junior is eligible to apply for participation in CAIC's 2010 Summer College Seminar, July 12-24. The free camp combines the real-life experience of living in HSU's college residence halls with classes and projects in a variety of cultural, mathematical and real-life creative technical areas using computers, along with fun social activities and field trips to native and tourist sights in the local area. Successful completion of Algebra before the camp commences is required. GPAs of 2.5 are preferred, but not required.


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Roslyn Shanklin is a Hill Regional Career High School sophomore that has been blogging her experience in the Yale Student CHILI Blog. Among the things she learned about was high speed historical book scanning. Roslyn's internship receives financial support from the Yale Public School Partnership Program ]]> http://bioinfo-career.org/pblog/index.php?entry=entry091210-115207 http://bioinfo-career.org/pblog/index.php?entry=entry090925-083332
On May 16, before the 2009 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, three Associate Fellows from the National Library of Medicine spent the morning working with high school students. In conjunction with Careers in Health Information, Librarianship and Informatics (CHILI) and Charlie Greenberg of Yale University, Amy Donahue, Kathleen Amos, and Paula Maez hosted a variety of health information sessions for students in the Leeward Community College Upward Bound Program.

About 18 high school students participated in the half day event beginning with a group introduction session of Medical Terminology Jeopardy followed by four learning sessions. The sessions exposed the students to health information resources and pathways into information and health careers. Health information resources covered included MedlinePlus, Household Products Database, and Toxtown. The students were also introduced to public health through an online interactive exercise as well as provided an introduction to the field of medical librarianship. The day ended with a lunch and allowed for informal discussions between the Fellows and students.

CHILI, funded by a grant from the US Department of Education Institute for Museum and Library Services, is a program aimed at introducing biomedical careers to high school minority students. Seven institutions are cooperative partners of this program and include Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Howard University, Georgetown University, Houston Academy of Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. The Leeward Community College Upward Bound Program is one of the nation wide college preparatory programs aimed towards underserved and low income high school students. Upward Bound programming is offered at no charge.
]]> http://bioinfo-career.org/pblog/index.php?entry=entry090826-132638 HOT (Hurried, Original, and Timely).

One especially Hurried day found Jahleel Nelson attending a ribbon cutting ceremony in East Memphis at a local community college library. Jahleel writes, “When I walked inside the library, it was like walking into a mall. As I walked around, I noticed how the library functions and how it was built to fit students, faculty, and the staff’s needs and requirements. The 69,300 sq. ft. facility is equipped with a cyber café/poets corner, an art gallery, a multimedia computer lab/classroom, a conference room, an auditorium, and an eye catching view of the lake. After 15 minutes of touring, sadly, it was time to leave and continue my busy day.” From there Jahleel grabbed lunch on the run and headed downtown to attend graduation ceremonies for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Allied Health Sciences, and Graduate Health Sciences. These two experiences were designed to give Jahleel an idea of the roles of some academic health sciences librarians—space design and planning, and marching with campus faculty during graduation ceremonies.

This year’s interns participated in conference calls from their homes. This was an Original concept for everyone except Minnie Pruitt—she has previously participated in conference calls in connection with a school organization. Since earning a bachelor’s degree is required before gaining acceptance into a graduate library school program, an emphasis on education is central to the Memphis CHILI internship. During one telecommute day, interns were asked to share their thoughts and reactions to one commencement speech that was recently given to graduating seniors at any college or university in the US. Commencement speeches were not assigned, the interns choose which speech resonated most with them. Minnie writes, “I chose to speak on President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame University. He spoke about America needing to come together and become one instead of separating ourselves. I was really touched by his words and so were the other interns.”

This summer’s internship was very Timely because interns had an opportunity, thanks to TaJuana Redmond, to tour a pharmacy lab, use the facility, and even make a product! In Terence’s journal he writes, “Dr. May taught us how to make lip chap and liquid medicine from scratch.” Also through planning efforts by Ms. Redmond, another timely encounter allowed the interns to meet a representative from LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center. According to Terence, “Ms. Dalene Wilson, Director of Volunteer Services, talked to us about volunteering at Le Bonheur. I have a friend who volunteers at LeBonheur as a baby hugger. I belong to two organizations that could provide a great service to LeBonheur—the Harding Academy Football Team and Youth United Way. I am considering a proposal to give to my football coach and to the Youth United Way Executive Board asking that our organization volunteer at LeBonheur. Even if those organizations do not volunteer, I will consider volunteering on my own because I love working with children and I love volunteering to help others who are in need.” Terence helpful attitude and cooperative nature was evident through the internship as he took on increasing responsibilities.

Each week one intern functioned as a team leader. Team leaders coordinated all activities for the week, served as the liaison between the interns and the project managers, and provided oversight for all intern projects that were due that week. Yolanda was team for the last week and, by far the busiest, week of the internship. As team leader Yolanda sent and responded to e-mail messages past 8:00 p.m. discussing many program topics. In her narrative highlights of the day before the finale, Yolanda writes, “After the rehearsals, we ended our second conference call at 4P.M. For the remainder of the day, I wrote my interview report for Ms. Jackson, created two presentation power-points for tomorrow, revised my script and coordinated it with slides in the first power-point, familiarized myself with the CHILI project grant overview script and coordinated it too with slides in the second powerpoint, and added some final touches to the Finale’s program that Ms. Green sent me. Although finally retiring for the day rather late, I could not sleep, in anticipating the last events of CHILI that tomorrow held.”

The 2009 CHILI internship in Memphis was HOT. The interns Hurried from one event to the next, explored podcasting and telecommuting, created Original covers for their program brochures, and participated in Timely events that could only happen in Memphis at the health science center through coordinated efforts between Brenda Green and TaJuana Redmond, project leaders for the Memphis CHILI program.
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The application deadline for the Association of Research Libraries’ (ARL) Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (the Initiative) is on Monday, August 31, 2009. The Initiative is a program designed to recruit LIS graduate students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic and racial backgrounds into careers in research libraries. The Initiative offers a stipend of up to $10,000 in support of LIS graduate education, leadership and career development training, and a formal mentorship program.

More information about the program, qualifications, and application process can be found at

http://www.arl.org/diversity/init/index.shtml

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and ARL member libraries, offers a stipend up to $10,000 (over two years) to attract LIS graduate students from underrepresented groups to careers in research libraries. These stipends can be combined with other financial aid to provide an extra incentive for completing library and information science degrees. This initiative reflects the commitment of ARL members to create a diverse research library community that will better meet the challenges of changing demographics in higher education and the emphasis of global perspectives in the academy.

For questions about the program or the application process please contact Mark A. Puente, Director of Diversity Programs, by e-mail at mpuente@arl.org
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Yezmin Crespo and Jemima Mbaka each spent two weeks (30 hours) in Yale's Medical Library learning about what health information professions and institutions do. They blogged their experience at the Yale CHILI blog .]]> http://bioinfo-career.org/pblog/index.php?entry=entry090723-092202 WHAT:
CHILI library interns at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library!

WHO:

Linda Jimenez will be a senior at South High School this fall. In her application for the Internship position, she wrote that the perspective that she’d bring to this Internship is that of “a young student trying to figure out the library system.” She also wrote that she believes that “a librarian has other duties besides shelving books…and I would like some insight into a librarian’s work.” Linda recently completed a Psychology 1001 class at the Metropolitan State College in Denver. She hopes to make a difference in the world by making people happy, but she’s not sure how she’d do that or exactly what she wants to be when she grows up. Linda is primarily interested in “genetics, political science, biology, psychology, and teaching.”


Annika Jones comes from the Denver School of Science and Technology and has already had a four-month Internship with the Children’s Hospital Emergency Department. About libraries and librarianship, Annika writes: “Librarians help people search for information more effectively and give them advice on how to research information. They also search, order, and organize books that they believe are relevant and useful to their library. They work with computers to update the library system electronically and work with other libraries and librarians throughout their area. They have to keep up with the changing world around them, with things like research and technology, in order to perform in their job to the best of their ability.” Annika wants to be a Pediatrician when she graduates from college.

WHERE:
Check out the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus CHILI Library Interns’ wiki! You can see what they are currently working on, read the articles that they’ve written about the Health Sciences librarians, see the pictures, and watch their video project develop.
http://chili09hsl.pbworks.com/
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