| Meet your new dedicated medical school librarian. You can find a list of the services that she can provide here on the Health Sciences Library website. Name: Rachel Blume Role: Medicine and Research Services Librarian, Health Sciences Library in Seattle. How will students find you? I will be working a hybrid schedule available online at rblume@uw.edu as well as in my office twice a week in the health sciences library. I’m happy to help anyone throughout WWAMI. Where are you from? I am a Pacific Northwest native having grown up in Sequim, WA backed up against the Olympic National Park but I’ve spent time living in Utah, Texas, and Oregon. |
| What did you do most recently? I was the Health Sciences Librarian at Baylor University. Why did you become a librarian? I became a librarian because of the uniqueness of the whole idea of libraries as this place for free access to information – but I stayed because of the experience of helping students succeed. What interests you about helping medical students? My interest in helping students is really about student success. As a first generation student from an underrepresented group, an education changed my life. I like having even a small part in helping do that for others. At Snow Canyon State Park, Utah |
| What do you look up in the library for yourself? It depends on what kind of library I am in, but at the public library I am a pretty avid reader and enjoy a lot of fantasy as well as the classics like Pride and Prejudice or The Hobbit. What would you be if you were not a librarian? I would be probably a veterinarian or do something related to the water, like marine biology. Anything to be by the ocean! |