{"id":196,"date":"2022-07-22T00:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-tcyph001\/?p=196"},"modified":"2022-07-22T00:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:59:18","slug":"the-specialty-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/mlis-tcyph001\/2022\/07\/22\/the-specialty-library\/","title":{"rendered":"The Specialty Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edward E. Brickell Medical Sciences Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first became acquainted with this library twelve years ago when my son was in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at CHKD next door. When you’re in the PICU for nearly four months, you wander. You can’t go too far but you can’t stay in the hospital all the time either. So, in the dead of winter, usually in the middle of the night, I would stand outside this library and stare up at it and wonder if somewhere in there was the answer that was going to bring my kid home. I even tried the door a few times but it was always locked. Maybe it was a metaphor. Or maybe, as I discovered on a recent visit, only one set of the doors is actually unlocked. Once my son was transferred to Boston Children’s Hospital I would do the same thing at Harvard Medical School next door. Talk about aww (Ettarh 2018). And so began my love\/hate relationship with the medical resource libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much less scary in the daylight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This library is “open to the public” but not in a “the public actually knows” sort of way. After trying five sets of doors that were all locked, I was met by an EVMS student who’d forgotten her badge and knew enough to knock on the door and ask the guard for admission. I would not have done that on my own and, probably, neither would the average person. The guard let us in and we showed ID and signed in. Again, not very “public” in my opinion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This library is so quiet it’s like the air itself has been removed from the building. The first floor has a reference desk, a few study areas and a Lay Health Medical collection, and I can’t help but wondering does the “Lay” mean Layman, as in not a doctor? On the first floor you’ll also find a vast array of strange and terrifying rusty medical tools as well as student dissertations and theses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Obligatory scary old medical\/torture devices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There’s a lot of journals hiding in there!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The collaboration spaces are phenomonal and I saw a couple of groups working in them. The collection of journals and periodicals is incredible. There are so many they use a special system to open and close the stacks. The Library of Congress classification system is used here and the vast majority of the collection is medical (No Lianne Moriarty books here, folks!). I spent the majority of my time here on the third floor, and somehow accidentally on purpose ended up in pediatric cardiology journals, got lost, got sad, and left. This is not a comfortable, welcoming, or hang out type of environment but I guess it helps people learn how to use those creepy instruments on the first floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ettarh, F. (2018, January 10).\u00a0 Vocational awe and librarianship: The lies we tell ourselves.\u00a0In the Library with the Lead Pipe.<\/em>\u00a0https:\/\/www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org\/2018\/vocational-awe\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rubin, R. E. and Rubin, R. G. (2020).\u00a0Foundations of library and information science<\/em>\u00a0(5th ed.). ALA Neal-Schuman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos: Tennille Cyphers (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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