1. Introduce yourself (name & position):
My name is Ajaye Bloomstone and I am the Acquisitions
Librarian at the LSU Law Library in Baton Rouge, LA.
2. Does your job title actually describe what you do? Why/why not?
It does in that I am responsible for all of the
acquisitions responsibilities at the Law Library. Since we are a DOCLINE
library within the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, I am also
responsible for generating DOCLINE requests for the Law Library’s community and
filling requests when possible for other medical libraries participating in DOCLINE.
It’s not uncommon that law reviews and other legal resources will have
information of a medico-legal nature needed by those in the medical
professions. I work closely with our Law Center faculty, staff, and
administration with regard to obtaining publications in all formats, such as
review copies for professors and materials for Law Center programs: Apprenticeship Week, the Trial Advocacy Program, our Summer in France, and
other programs developed to supplement the curriculum.
3. What are you reading right now?
Professionally I’m going through The Complete
Guide to Acquisitions Management and Guide to Ethics in Acquisitions,
and personally I’m reading through several industrial and organizational
psychology texts given to me when our former HR manager retired (yes, really!)
4a. If you could work in any library (either a type of library or a specific one), what would it be? Why?
While full time at the LSU Law Library, I also established and managed a one-person medical library in a specialty discipline for 14 years on a part-time basis, giving me an entre into the world of medical librarianship. I’d thought about becoming a veterinarian in high school and took the appropriate science courses, but during college, academic librarianship and the MLS intervened. Long ago, I applied for a library position at the San Diego Zoo, my dream job at the time, and at some point I’d like to get my hand back into medical librarianship.
4b. You suddenly have a free day at work, what project would you work on?
In conjunction with the Law Center’s realignment with our main campus, we recently adopted a new financial system. All of our coding information for financials has changed, so I’d like to spend more time to work on understanding the system, isolating the specific new codes for use with the Library and Law Center’s purchases I generate, and become more familiar with the new ledger system to easily and quickly access the information that our Library needs.
While full time at the LSU Law Library, I also established and managed a one-person medical library in a specialty discipline for 14 years on a part-time basis, giving me an entre into the world of medical librarianship. I’d thought about becoming a veterinarian in high school and took the appropriate science courses, but during college, academic librarianship and the MLS intervened. Long ago, I applied for a library position at the San Diego Zoo, my dream job at the time, and at some point I’d like to get my hand back into medical librarianship.
4b. You suddenly have a free day at work, what project would you work on?
In conjunction with the Law Center’s realignment with our main campus, we recently adopted a new financial system. All of our coding information for financials has changed, so I’d like to spend more time to work on understanding the system, isolating the specific new codes for use with the Library and Law Center’s purchases I generate, and become more familiar with the new ledger system to easily and quickly access the information that our Library needs.
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