Liaison to:

• Dept. of Anesthesiology
• Dept. of Comparative Medicine.

Other Programs:

• Yale Cancer Center

Personal Librarian for students in:

• School of Medicine

As your Librarian, Denise can:

• Serve as your single point of contact to all things library
• Tailor an instruction session for you or your group
• Receive your suggestions for new purchases – books, journals, databases, CAI, videos, and any other type of material
• Help you search for information in any of the Medical Library’s many databases
• Send you the ‘Medical Library News’ each month – highlighting new resources and information about the library’s programs to keep you up-to-date.

Contact Me for Assistance with:

• Understanding and using bibliographic citation management systems such as RefWorks and EndNote
• Assistance with downloading library resources to your PDA (personal digital assistant)
• Creating and refining search strategies to find information on your research topics in databases such as Medline, Scopus, Web of Science
• Finding health data

Education

• MLS, Library Science, Southern Connecticut State Univ., 1998
• MA, University of Massachusetts, 1993
• BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1990

Selected Publications

Kurup V, Hersey DP.  The Perioperative
Librarian: Luxury or Necessity? [in press]

Hersey DP. Reviving the Corporate Medical Library: Using Technology to Become a Cost Center. Journal of the Medical Library Association 2006; 94(3):456-8.

Hersey DP.  The Future of Access Services: Should there be One?  Journal of Access Services 2004; 2(4):1-6.

Morgen EB, Hersey DP.   Electronic Resources Review: Prospero 2.0.  Journal of the Medical Library Association 2003; 91(2):381-2.

Selected Presentations

“Bringing the Mountain to Mohommed: Having a Librarian in the OR Area” presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, May 2007.

“Ringing in a New Service: The Library as a Partner in Publishing” Poster session presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, May 2007, with Holly Grossetta Nardini, MLS, Lynn Sette, MLS, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine.

“Leaving the Labyrinth: Partners in the Publication Process” presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Phoenix, May 2006, with Holly Grossetta Nardini, MLS, Lynn Sette, MLS, Carrie Iwema, MLS, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine.

“Mentoring Programs: Will they Really Replenish our Ranks” presented at the Connecticut Library Association Annual Meeting, Groton, CT, April 2003.

Grants

• Electronic Document Delivery Project, ($1,000); National Network of Libraries of Medicine/New England Region; 2003 & 2004.

• Public Health Information Outreach Grant, “Outreach to Quality Improvement Organizations” ($40,000); National Network of Libraries of Medicine/New England Region; 2005

Professional Memberships

• Medical Library Association
• North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries
• Connecticut Association of Health Sciences Librarians