Monday, June 22, 2009

Japanese Medical Librarian Tours Atherton Library




On May 21st, Yumi Yamashita from the Kyoto Prefectural University
of Medicine visited Atherton Library on her week-long tour of local
medical and health sciences libraries.
In Honolulu to present a poster session at the Medical Libraries
Association conference (“Exploring the information needs in
Japanese Medical University Library”), Ms. Yamashita was
determined to visit as many libraries as possible during her brief stay.
She had actually visited Meader Library the previous day not
realizing it is not the health sciences library. Linda arranged to pick
her up the following day, Thursday,and brought her here to the
Hawaii Loa campus.
After being introduced to Atherton staff, Linda gave her a tour of
the library, the ETC, and the rest of the Academic Center.
Ms. Yamashita was very impressed by the size of our nursing print
and e-journal collections and by our use of technology in the library.
She had the opportunity to view the MLA conference YouTube
video created by Linda and An last year. An then gave her a brief
tutorial on using Windows MovieMaker and uploading videos to
YouTube. Afterwards, Linda made the arrangements for Ms.
Yamashita to tour the Hawaii Medical Library at the Queen’s
Medical Center and then drove her there.
According to Linda, Ms. Yamashita was awed by the beauty of our
surroundings andexclaimed upon her arrival on campus -
“This is Hawaii!”

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