Day Nine.

After taking a breath from everything I have to catch up on, the end does not seem too far away. Don't get me wrong, i love this field, but i truly have not found my passion for any field yet and librarianship is something you really have to want to be doing what you're doing in order to survive your position. Having come in around just 5 minutes early (usually I'm 45 minutes early) was quite a rush. I was immediately pulled in from having just walked in the main lobby to being pulled into something else on our schedule. But WOW! it was amazing. Besirat and I were able to look at some of the artifacts the library had. This included doctors kits from over a hundred years ago and other pretty barbaric tools haha. But seeing how the medical field had advanced so quickly has really got me thinking about our medical future. If mankind has advanced so much in the medical business in one hundered years, think about the next hundred! People will be looking back at us and saying "wow, do you see how barbaric their machines are?? How could they ever operate on someone like that!!" After our adventure with historical/medical artifacts we were introduced to the rare books collection. This collection was my favorite part of the day because knowing i was touching a book that has been around more than 500 years before me was insane to think about. I got to hold the original ORGIN OF SPECIES by CHARLES DARWIN. Although that doesn't sound like much, for a science geek that is a dream. Later that day we interviewed Mrs. Lisa Traditi and found out what the Head of Education does at a medical library. That was fun because she was a fun person. After Lunch, a.k.a. MACARONI! we continued on our learning process and got a great introduction to PubMed, a great medical recourse that i'd be willing to use for school in a heartbeat. All in all, it was a really nice day as a Chili Intern.