MLGSCA Paraprofessional Scholarship Award winners
Posted on April 23, 2014 by Kelli Hines | No Comments
Congratulations to the winners of the MLGSCA Paraprofessional Scholarship Award!
Juan Jamie (Paraprofessional Student) expects to complete his MLIS degree in June 2016 at UCLA. He stated that “from a young age, libraries have always been a large part of my life, and as a library assistant at the (UCLA) Biomedical Library for the past 15 years, they continue to shape my beliefs in the impact and differences these institutions can make.” With his Master’s degree, he hopes to better serve the public, and provide information that improves the decision-making process within medicine. His passion is to “improve the use of information within the health sciences is driven by my desire to explore and implement better ways for the health and sciences industry to acquire, disseminate and make readily available the information needed to assist patients and consumers beyond academia”. He has a strong interest in social media (Facebook, Twitter and instant messaging) and how the library can incorporate it as a tool to connect to a new generation of customers.
Sandra Chase plans to complete her MLIS degree Dec 2015 from SJSU. She is thrilled to begin a career as a medical librarian. For the past 7 years, Sandra has worked as a pathology laboratory assistant for Sharp Healthcare and is excited at the chance to use her existing healthcare career experience in her chosen field of librarianship. Sandra said that she found her niche after reading one of her old favorite books “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (about a young girl who loves the New York Public Library and wants to be a librarian). She said “Librarians get to use their skills to help people, they sometimes get to teach people how to use the library’s many resources, and then they get to go home and have dinner with their families!” Sandra loves providing both efficient and friendly service as well as helping people. She cannot wait to begin the next chapter of career life in the library!
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