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Lei Wang, MLS

Liaison to:

  • Neurosurgery
  • Neurology
  • Neurobiology

Personal Librarian for students in:

  • School of Medicine

 

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As your Librarian, Lei 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

Lei is Instructional Design Librarian for the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. The Medical Library offers a wide variety of online instructional content designed to build competency in information management skills -- skills that are increasingly important as a foundation for effective research and practice in health sciences. Please visit http://www.med.yale.edu/library/education/guides.html for details.

Contact me for assistance with:

  • Questions regarding the design of web-based instructional content;
  • Questions regarding the use of web 2.0 technologies to facilitate research;
  • General questions on the use of Library resources and services.

Background and Experience

 

Education

  • Master of Science in Information. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, 2004

Selected Publications

Bakkalbasi, N, Bauer K, Glover J, Wang L. “Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science”.  Biomed Digit Libr. 2006 Jun 29;3:7. doi:10.1186/1742-5581-3-7

Lei’s Video Tutorials Blog and Podcast (http://cwml-tutorials.blogspot.com/)

Selected Presentations

“Downloading Library 2.0: Podcasting Services & Training for the iPod Generation”, Pre-conference workshop at Internet Librarian 2007 at Monterey, CA.

“Options for Citation Tracking – Google Scholar, Scopus, and the Web of Science”. Presentation at the XXVI Annual Charleston Conference at Charleston, SC in 2006 with Kathleen Bauer, MLS, Yale University Library, and Nisa Bakkalbasi, MLS, Yale University Library.

 “Pyramid Schemes: The Fusion of Evidence Levels and Information Resources” Poster session presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Phoenix, May 2006, with Karen Odato, MLS, AHIP, David Izzo, Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College, and Jan Glover, MLS, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine.

Professional Memberships

  • Medical Library Association