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Judy Spak, MLS. AHIP

Liaison to:

  • Cell Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Immunobiology
  • Laboratory Medicine
  • Microbial Pathogenesis (Section of)
  • Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
  • Pathology
  • Pharmacology
  • Physician Associate Program
  • Surgery- Anatomy
  • Therapeutic Radiology

Other Programs:

  • Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine

Personal Librarian for students in:

  • Combined Graduate Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
  • Physician Associate Program (with Jan Glover) 
  • School of Medicine


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As your Librarian, Judy 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

Current Position Responsibilities

As Curriculum Support Librarian, Judy provides direct support to the Medical School curriculum in many ways.

Judy is the Blackboard System Administrator at YSM.  While Blackboard is not a library resource, Judy provides all training of faculty, staff and students and advises the Office of Education on best practices in the use of learning management systems..  She troubleshoots Blackboard technical issues and coordinates with ITS on all issues related to Blackboard.

The Library also provides critical content for the curriculum by purchasing educational software that is used both directly in the curriculum and as review resources for students.  Judy coordinates with faculty to select, review and acquire CAI (computer-assisted instruction) materials to enhance teaching and learning at the Medical School.

Together with Jan Glover, Judy coordinates the Personal Librarian program at the School of Medicine. 

Education

  • MLS, Southern Connecticut State University , 1996
  • BA, Humanities, New College of Hofstra University, 1985

Selected Publications

Spak J, Glover, J. The Personal Librarian Program: An evaluation of a Cushing/Whitney Medical Library outreach initiative. [in press]

“Quiet Revolution: Evaluating a Personal Librarian Program to Better Meet the Evolving Information Needs of Students” Poster session presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, May 2007, with Jan Glover, MLS, AHIP, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale School of Medicine.

“WebPath: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education on CD-ROM”. Software review in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 88(2), April 2000, pp. 205-207.

“Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: CourseInfo at the Yale School of Medicine”, panel member at the Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) IS: Instructional Services Special Interest Group workshop, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, August 18, 1999.

"From Selector to Liaison: Redefining the Role of the Subject Specialist in an Academic Medical Center Health Sciences Library", poster session presented with Matt Wilcox at the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Meeting, Portland, ME, October 1999.

Selected Yale Committees

  • School of Medicine Curriculum Committee
  • Physician Associate Program Self-Assessment Committee
  • Medical Center Academic Computing Steering Committee
  • Biomedical Education Support Committee, chair

Honors and Awarded

Recipient of Team Award at Yale University Library Service Quality Award ceremony for work on Orbis 2 WebVoyage (OPAC) Work Group of the Implementation Team, October 21, 2002

Awarded Special Appreciation Award by the Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Class of 2001 during the Program’s Commencement ceremony, September 10, 2001.
               
Recipient of Team Award at Yale University Library First Annual Service Quality Award ceremony for work on Task Force on Services to Persons with Disabilities, October 5, 2000.
               
Member Beta Phi Mu (International Library and Information Science Honor Society)

Professional Memberships

  • Medical Library Association

  • Academy of Health Information Professionals, Distinguished Member

  • North Atlantic Health Science Libraries