Day in the Life of a Library Assistant | Hospital Library

This is interesting to know I did want to get a job working as a library assistant and just work at a library that's what I want to do for now unless something else interests me.

I studied library and information science in Egypt and I want to obtain a master’s degree from America. Can you help me?

Are there times you have to work in their by yourself?

I was the Medical Library Assistant at Community Hospital in Indianapolis Indiana for 30 years - I was in charge of the Interlibrary Loan department. I borrowed and loaned books and journal articles - most of it was either for research or for direct patient care and the articles had to be gotten by either fax or pdf email. I borrowed around 3 to 4 thousand articles per year and the ones that I borrowed were from all over the United States medical libraries and universities we were charged a fee for them so I had to keep track of a budget too. Thousands of times doctors would come in with a list of articles they needed in say 3 days and that list many times was 15, 16 articles. And if the articles could not be obtained locally from other medical or college libraries here in town than I had to get them from places like the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic or even London Lending Library in England. I never knew what was going to be needed at the beginning of the day but it was very tedious sometimes but I loved my job and really answered to no one and the doctors, nurses, and administrators were very grateful so it was a very rewarding job. I also obtained articles from our journal collection for other medical libraries in Indianapolis.

Iv been invited for a library position fingers crossed.

Thnku mam iam frm india iam also a librarian in school

Awesome video! I’m trying to find a job that I’ll be able to handle just incase my parents die and I won’t have someone to depend on. Working at a library seems fine. 😀

What kind of tasks are on your to-do list?

This was really interesting! I currently do the MLIS program. I worked in a medical archives center which was really different from the public library that I'm used to. Did you have an interest in the medical field before? :)