(l-r: Cheryl Suzuki-Part-time Library Assistant; Jenn Alm-Distance Education Librarian; Linda Uchida-Health Sciences Librarian; Yumi Yamashita-Kyoto Prefectural University Medical Librarian; Lydia Lee-Natural Sciences Librarian; An Hollowell-Library Assistant)On May 21st, Yumi Yamashita from the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine visited Atherton Library on her week-long tour of local medical and health sciences libraries.
In Honolulu to present a poster session at the 2009 Medical Libraries Association (MLA) Conference (“Exploring the information needs in Japanese Medical University Library”), Ms. Yamashita was determined to visit as many libraries as possible during her brief stay. She actually visited Meader Library, downtown campus, the previous day not realizing it is not our health sciences library. Linda Uchida, Health Sciences Librarian, was notified of her interest in touring our library and arranged to pick her up the following day and brought her over to the Hawaii Loa campus.
After being introduced to Atherton staff, Linda gave her a personal tour of the library, the ETC, and the rest of the Academic Center. Ms. Yamashita was very impressed by the size of our nursing print and e-journal collections and by our use of technology in the library. She had the opportunity to view a YouTube video created by Linda and An last year to market this year's MLA Conference in Honolulu. An also gave her a brief tutorial on using Windows MovieMaker and uploading videos to YouTube. Afterwards, Linda made the arrangements for Ms. Yamashita to tour the Hawaii Medical Library at the Queen’s Medical Center and then drove her there.
According to Linda, Ms. Yamashita was awed by the beauty of our surroundings and exclaimed upon her arrival on campus - “This is Hawaii!”
