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Denise Hersey, MA, MLS

Liaison to:

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

Other Programs:

  • Yale Cancer Center

Personal Librarian for students in:

  • School of Medicine


Contact me at:

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.

About Your Librarian

Denise is a Coordinator for the Cushing/Whitney Library’s Liaison program. 
The liaison program was designed to seek out users where they access information and to engage them as partners in developing library resources and services. Librarians are assigned to departments, schools and other functional units on the medical campus. They offer services that support the academic and research goals of their assigned groups.

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