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Charles J. Greenberg MLS MEd

Liaison to:

  • Department of Surgery
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Deans and Administration, YSM
  • Human Investigation Committee
  • Office of Multicultural Affairs

Other Programs:

  • Library Advisor, Yale Interdisciplinary Committee on Bioethics  
  • Project Co-Director, Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library (http://ymtdl.med.yale.edu)

Personal Librarian for students in:

  • School of Medicine


Contact me at:

As your Librarian, Charlie 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.

About your librarian

Online Profiles:
http://myprofile.cos.com/greenbc
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/faculty/greenbergc/greenbergc.php

Blog: 
http://surgery-update.blogspot.com

Contact me for assistance with:

  • Technology and Education
  • Reference and Information Services
  • Library Leadership/Management          
  • Best-Evidence Research Techniques
  • Internet Biomedical Resources
  • Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  • Institutional Repositories         
  • RSS and Blogging for Outreach

Selected Publications

  • Greenberg, CJ and Forrest JN. Factors that influence voluntary participation in a graduate professional student ETD project.  Proceedings of ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery, 8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/papers/084Greenberg.pdf
  • "Open Source software for Libraries." MLA News, 343 (February 2002), p. 8.
  • “ArcView GIS version 3.1”. Bulletin of Medical Library Association , 87(1999) pp. 499-500.

 

Adjunct Library and Information Science Instructor

  • Southern Connecticut State University, Information and Library Science, Medical and Health Science Librarianship, Advanced Reference: Tools and Services
  • San Jose State University, School of Library and Information Science, Medical Librarianship

IMLS Grant Project Director

  • High School to Health Sciences Librarianship and Informatics [2005-2008 IMLS LIBRARIANS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AWARD NO. RE-03-05-0020-05, NANCY RODERER, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR]

Professional Philosophy

The most consistent efforts and professional accomplishments that I have embraced are life-long information skills, effective teaching with technology, and open knowledge to address global inequities in education and research.

During my academic appointments at Columbia University, I returned to my own learning goals at Teachers College, focusing on communication, computing, and technology in education. The international focus at Columbia provided my initial opportunities for bridging cultural differences with information literacy and knowledge management techniques.  During my current appointment at Yale University, citation management, evidence-based decision making, and Internet communication and research techniques have become core competencies in the health sciences professions.

As a technologist and librarian, I am proud to have developed an international conscience. I participate in the electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) open knowledge movement as the creator and manager of an open access repository. The open knowledge movement, focusing on the reduction of disparities in scholarship, will continue to foster international exchange. In our world of mutual dependence and global integration, we must produce discovery and reject the perpetuation of knowledge inequities.

Education is a uniquely human privilege. To fulfill a constructive mission in life with composure and confidence, one must enter the worlds of learning, first as students and later as mentors for the next generation.  Educators, those that imagine, construct, and apply structure to teach others, are awakened to their own mission to respond to learners. I am fulfilled and continually renewed by my role as a librarian and academic educator for seeking minds”