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We are excited to announce an exciting opportunity at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Come be a part of our team, or share with your friends!   System and Application Specialist Position Focus: Reporting to the Assistant Director of Technology and Innovation Services, the System and Application Specialist works with the rest of the Technology and Innovation Services team to design, develop, improve, maintain and secure the Medical Library’s systems and applications. This position focuses on system and application solutions crucial to the Medical Library’s goal of providing secure and user-friendly access to its collections and services. This position assists in the recommendation, development and implementation of the best system solutions in response to the needs of the Library and its users. Using languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, or Python, the successful candidate produces code that turns user needs and creative ideas into intuitive tools. Responsibilities: Perform analysis to identify specifications of system and application projects to meet the stakeholders’ expectations and users’ needs, scheduled timelines, and budgetary targets. Assist the Assistant Director of Technology and Innovation Services in creating, communicating and managing project plans, including architectural design, data schema, technology selection, and methodologies to apply. Perform small to moderate programming tasks in support of the development and delivery of systems and applications. Maintain the Medical Library’s servers to meet service needs and support application deployment. Provide ongoing maintenance and support for applications hosted by the Medical Library. Collaborate with the Web Services Librarian to help implement user-centered interfaces for systems and applications. Collaborate with the Medical Historical Library and University Library IT staff to identify and implement practical, innovative discovery solutions to our digitized collections. Respond to information security incidents quickly with solutions. Troubleshoot and rapidly resolve problems with systems and applications. May participate in the Library’s education program by offering technology training sessions for end users. Collaborate with Yale ITS staff, University Library IT staff, Yale New Haven Hospital ITS staff, vendors, consultants and product specialists. Apply and keep current with existing and emerging technologies and methodologies. May perform other duties as required or assigned. Required Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree and one year of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Required Skills/Abilities: Demonstrated ability in programming in at least one of the following languages/frameworks: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python. Ability to implement code written in other languages in the group. Demonstrated ability in programming for MySQL or other major databases. Demonstrated ability in administering Unix/Linux server systems. Demonstrated ability in software development in a team environment using versioning tools such as Git for management, documentation, and sharing of source code. Knowledge of mitigating security vulnerabilities in networked applications. Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication and analytical ability. Experience working collegially and cooperatively within and across organizations. Excellent customer service skills, flexibility and dedication to innovation, creativity, and excellence. Demonstrated ability in managing multiple priorities. Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, library and information science, or a related field of study. Prior work experience in academic libraries or health science libraries. Experience with Apache Solr. Familiarity with library data formats and standards (MARC 21, Dublin Core, METS, MODS). Experience using Vagrant, Docker or other containerized development/deployment strategies. Project management skills. Experience providing technology teaching, training and consultation. Experience creating programs to process, analyze, and present scientific data.

We are excited to announce an exciting opportunity at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Come be a part of our team, or share with your friends!     System and Application Specialist (requisition #49815BR)   Position Focus: Reporting to the Assistant Director of Technology and Innovation Services, the System and Application Specialist works with the rest of the Technology and Innovation Services team to design, develop, improve, maintain and secure the Medical Library’s systems and applications. This position focuses on system and application solutions crucial to the Medical Library’s goal of providing secure and user-friendly access to its collections and services. This position is responsible for recommending, developing and implementing the best solutions in response to the needs of the Library and its users. Using languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, or Python, the successful candidate produces code that turns user needs and creative ideas into intuitive tools.   Responsibilities: Provide technical guidance and recommendations for projects, including architectural design, data schema, technology selection, and methodologies to apply. Perform analysis to identify system and application project specifications to meet the stakeholders’ expectations and users’ needs, scheduled timelines, and budgetary targets. Create, communicate and manage project plans. Perform programming tasks in support of the development and delivery of applications, programs, and systems. Collaborate with the Web Services Librarian to help implement user-centered interfaces for systems and applications. Collaborate with the Medical Historical Library and University Library IT staff to identify and implement practical, innovative discovery solutions to our digitized collections. Provide ongoing maintenance and support for applications and systems. Respond to information security incidents quickly with solutions. Troubleshoot and rapidly resolve problems with systems, programs and applications. May participate in the Library’s education program by offering technology training sessions for users. May participate in the Library’s personal librarian program. Collaborate with Yale ITS staff, University Library IT staff, Yale New Haven Hospital ITS staff, vendors, consultants and product specialists Apply and keep current with existing and emerging technologies and methodologies. May perform other duties as required or assigned.   Required Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree in a related field and 2-4 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.   Required Skills/Abilities: Demonstrated ability in programming in at least one of the following languages/frameworks: Ruby/Rails, Java, PHP, Python/Django, JavaScript/Node.js. Ability to implement code written in other languages in the group. Demonstrated ability in programming for major databases, such as MySQL, Postgres, MangoDB, etc. Demonstrated knowledge of the Unix/Linux terminal environment. Demonstrated ability in software development in a team environment using source code versioning tools such as Git for management, documentation, and sharing of source code. Demonstrated ability to mitigate security vulnerabilities in networked applications. Demonstrated excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication and analytical ability. Experience working collegially and cooperatively within and across organizations. Excellent customer service skills, flexibility and dedication to innovation, creativity, and excellence. Ability managing multiple priorities.   Preferred Qualifications: ALA-accredited master’s degree in library and information science, or bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field of study. Prior work experience in academic libraries or health science libraries. Project management skills. Experience with Apache Solr. Familiarity with library data formats and standards (MARC 21, Dublin Core, METS, MODS). Experience providing technology teaching, training and consultation. Demonstrated use of continuous integration and/or continuous deployment using Jenkins, Travis, Mavin, Ansible, or other similar packages. Experience with development operations using Heroku, Vagrant, Docker and other containerized development/deployment strategies. Ability using issue tracking systems. Experience creating programs to process, analyze, and present scientific data.    

Stephen Malawista had been associated with the Yale School of Medicine for over 50 years until his death last fall. His research bridged rheumatology, cell biology, inflammation, and infectious diseases. As a colleague Gerald Weismann said of him, “One might call him one of the most original, wide-ranging, and persistent biomedical researchers of his generation. He has made an unusually large number of original contributions, working in a rather unorthodox fashion. Rather than moving in a strictly linear fashion, his work has branched and regrouped as it progressed over many years.”  Malawista is best known as the co-discover of Lyme Disease. Through the work of his team on the elucidation of all aspects of the disease and its treatment, Yale and Yale-New Haven Hospital have long been a major center for Lyme Disease research.Malawista was born in Manhattan in 1934 and graduated from Harvard and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He first came to Yale in 1958 for residency training under Paul Beeson, but he interrupted his residency to study inflammation and gout as a clinical associate under B. N. La Du and J. E. Seegmiller at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (NIAMD). After completing his residency at Yale in 1963, he served as a special NIAMD fellow at Yale under Aaron Lerner.  He became a member of the faculty at Yale in 1966 and served as Chief of Rheumatology for 21 years.Before he died, Malawista gave his manuscript papers (the Malawista Papers) to the Historical Library. The Malawista Papers contain correspondence with editors, reviewer reports, drafts of articles, photographs, and handwritten notes.

The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its seventh annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the Historical Library. The Medical Historical Library, located in New Haven, Connecticut, holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation and vaccination. The Library owns over fifty medieval and renaissance manuscripts, Arabic and Persian manuscripts, and over 300 medical incunabula.  The notable Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings has over 2,500 fine prints, drawings, and posters from the 15th century to the present on medical subjects.  The library also holds a great collection of tobacco advertisements, patent medicine ephemera, and a large group of materials from Harvey Cushing, one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery. The 2014-2015 travel grant is available to historians, medical practitioners, and other researchers who wish to use the collections of the Medical Historical Library.  There is a single award of up to $1,500 for one week of research during the academic fiscal year July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015.  Funds may be used for transportation, housing, food, and photographic reproductions. The award is limited to residents of the United States and Canada. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and a description of the project including the relevance of the collections of the Historical Library to the project, and two references attesting to the particular project. Preference will be given to applicants beyond commuting distance to the Historical Library.  This award is for use of Medical Historical special collections and is not intended for primary use of special collections in other libraries at Yale.  Applications are due by Sunday, APRIL 27th, 2014.  They will be considered by a committee and the candidates will be informed by JUNE 6th, 2014. An application form can be found on our website. Applications and requests for further information should be sent to: Melissa Grafe, Ph.D John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library Yale University P.O. Box 208014 New Haven, CT 06520-8014 Telephone: 203- 785-4354 Fax: 203-785-5636 E-mail: melissa.grafe@yale.edu

The Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876-80), a landmark publication in medical photography, is on view in the Rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library through November 15th, 2013. This collection of texts and photographs represents the female patients of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière hospital and asylum during the years of his tenure as director. The patients, diagnosed primarily with hysteria or epilepsy, were treated at the asylum even as they acted as experimental subjects for Charcot’s development of the hysteria diagnosis. This collection represents a transformative moment in the history of the diagnosis, treatment, and representation of mental illness. The exhibit was organized by Courtney Thompson, doctoral student in the Program in the History of Medicine, and Susan Wheeler, Curator for Prints and Drawings at the Medical Library.