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3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875
Phone: 215.895.2474
Fax: 215.895.2494
info@ischool.drexel.edu
Career Reports from Library Professionals
Medical Librarianship  Nina Long, Director of Library Services & Archivist, Curator of The Wistar Museum Collections, The Wistar InstituteI manage the scientific research library for Wistar, a basic science cancer research center. I am also Archivist and maintain historical document collections (dating to early 1800s) as well as a rare book collection and institutional records, and I am Curator of the Wistar Museum Collection, an anatomical teaching collection started by Caspar Wistar, M.D., circa 1808. As Curator I also have responsibility for our institutional art collections, historical furniture, and a Civil War collection including armaments. In addition to the MSLIS I have a certificate from the National Archives' Modern Archives Institute and have taken extensive archives and museum management courses over the past fifteen years.  Dan Kipnis, Senior Education Services Librarian, Thomas Jefferson University I teach workshops, participate in staff development and produce promotional and instructional materials for the Scott Memorial Library, a department of Academic and Instructional Support and Resources (AISR) and Thomas Jefferson University as a whole. I deliver information management education to meet the learning needs of TJU faculty, staff, students and researchers. Throughout the year I teach numerous workshops on how to use knowledge-based resources such as MEDLINE and PubMed. In addition, I offer workshops on bibliographic management software including Refworks. Law Librarianship
 Natalie P. Ellis, President of Library Services Group of Philadelphia and Library Services, Inc. of Baltimore After working as law librarian at the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland for many years, I continue my involvement in the field by locating professional opportunities in Baltimore and Philadelphia area law libraries and recruiting librarians for these professional positions. This approach offers diversity and gratification in varied workplaces and eliminates the tendency to become involved in office politics, all strong points in favor of this form of law librarianship. Art Librarianship
 Karen Lightner, '86, Head of the Print and Picture Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia The department is composed of a reference collection of images of Philadelphia, extensive collections of fine art, including 19th-century drawings, a portrait collection, printmaking since the 15th century, photography, and a circulating collection of photographs and illustrations cut from magazines and books. I manage the collection and assist researchers in finding the images they seek in both the circulating and reference collections (often scanning images and burning them to CDs for the patrons). I promote the collections through exhibitions, give presentations to art school classes, arrange for conservation treatment and re-housing of fragile items, and meet with artists or visit galleries to purchase new material for the collections. The job is more a curatorial than librarian position. Prior to receiving the Master of Information Studies at Drexel, I earned a Master of Fine Art degree from Visual Studies Workshop/SUNY at Buffalo. Having an artistic background has been of great value in doing this work, and I love my job! For more information on the Print and Picture Collection visit www.FriendsofPIX.org. |
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