Wishing MSK Director of Library Services Donna Gibson a Happy Retirement!

Yesterday our beloved Director of Library Services, Donna Gibson, retired. Donna served the MSK Library for 19.5 years and was the Director for 14.5 years. We are so grateful for her commitment to MSK Library and her unwavering dedication to fostering a culture of discovery and learning. She leaves behind a legacy of innovation, excellence, and service that will continue to inspire. Donna, we will miss you!

Donna will be enjoying her retirement with her family in in Ontario, Canada. If you’d like us to relay her any retirement wishes, please email us at asklibrarian@mskcc.org

 

Celebrating 2023 MSK Library Kudos

This 2023 selection of “kudos” and thanks we received from the MSK community is making us blush! MSK, you keep us going! This year we received praise for our services that supported grant applications, clinical & basic science research, education, clinical guideline development, and much more:

“You are amazing!”
-Clinical Nurse III, Department of Pediatrics

“Absolutely perfect, this is wonderful, THANK YOU.”
-Clinical Nurse IV, Nursing Department

“Thank you for your amazing help!”
-Fellow, Graduate Medical Education

“OMG. I wish had you for my dissertation work!”
-Senior User Experience Researcher, DigITS

“This is so incredibly helpful. I am grateful for your assistance and look forward to reviewing the articles. THANK YOU!!!!” 
-Clinical Social Worker, Department of Social Work

“What an incredible resource the library offers. Thank you so much!”
-Graduate Research Assistant, Sloan Kettering Institute

“Your lecture to the ortho service was fantastic! I learned a lot.”
-Chief Attending, Surgery

“These explanations and links have been incredibly useful! You are such a blessing, thank you so much!”
-Fellow, Head and Neck Surgery

“My goodness!! Librarians are God sent!! Honestly!!”
-Clinical Nurse II, Breast Imaging Center

“Thank you! This is an excellent search. Thanks for getting this to us so swiftly, we really appreciate it.”
-Assistant Attending, Department of Surgery 

Our Synapse service also got props:

“Thank you so much! Wow, both Synapse and CV Central are really amazing. Thanks for providing these services for us.”
-Assistant Attending, Radiology

Our Document Delivery Services team was swimming in kudos this year, here’s just a small sampling from MSK employees:

“Thank you so much! I appreciate it greatly!”
-Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Practice Providers

“Thank you! This is very helpful information.
-Research Scholar, Medical Physics

“Thank you…This is really appreciated.”
-Associate Attending, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

“Great, thank you so much for your help.”
-Instructor, Radiology

We also got some nice comments from other libraries:

“You are INCREDIBLY AMAZING!!!   Thank you thank you…the physician was standing right here and was very pleased at your amazingly fast lightning speed response!”
-Medical Librarian in Montana

“Appreciate the great speed in filling this. Makes us look like Major Stars.”
-Medical Librarian in New Jersey

 

Holiday Greetings & Metrics from the MSK Library

The end of year is rapidly approaching and the MSK Library team has been very busy supporting and collaborating with our user community. To gain a sense of what we’ve been up to this year, take a moment to explore our new Library Dashboard, with a fresh look and feel, outlining the team’s activities via metrics. The information presented represents a snapshot of the work we do.

These metrics focus on a variety of services and resources such as:
1. literature search and document delivery requests; 
2. class attendance;
3. content usage for our digital journal and book collections;
4. website traffic;
5. our new FAQs section, designed to help users find quick answers to our most popular client questions;
6. Synapse and the increasing number of MSK authors and their publications;
7. research data management and how we are tracking the MSK Data Catalog views, where MSK researchers are depositing their data sets, and the growing interest in data management plans;
8. our quarterly virtual event, Advancing Authorship Series;
9.  and the SKOAP Fund request submissions we are tracking for authors who need financial support for article processing charges.

We also continued to promote our in-person and Virtual Library Services in support of incoming client requests and encouraged our user community to use our chat feature on the library website as a way to obtain immediate help. 

However you celebrate, I hope you find moments of joy and happiness this holiday season to lift your spirit and restore your energy for 2024. Wishing a very Happy New Year to all!

Cheers,
Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services