More Quotes About Welch Library Services:

"I just wanted to take a second to express my appreciation for the wonderful service we in Hampton House receive from our Lilienfeld Library. I've come to very much appreciate that facility as a faculty member, and our students couldn't do without it. The staff there is just great and very oriented to solving problems."
David Holtgrave, PhD, Professor and Chair, SPH, Health, Behavior & Society

"Your help was invaluable! I learned things that should serve me well and if I ever get myself involved is having to do a poster, I'll be much better prepared going in to it. THANK YOU!! I feel very fortunate and grateful that you were identified to me and that your are so receptive to showing me the various options for formating a poster and how to manipulate the content."
Susan Markus, Sr. Research Nurse, UAD, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

"I am very much impressed by your responsiveness to requests by your library users. Thanks!"
Michael Sauder, Graduate Student, SOM, SPH, MD/MPH student

"On behalf of all of us at Johns Hopkins International, I would like to thank you for taking the time to speak to and tour our visitors from Tawam Hospital (UAE). As you know, they had the day to tour the hospital and the library was a highlight for them. Your graciousness and effort to help give them an impressive first view of Hopkins is much appreciated."
Helen Reilly, Project Manager, Clinical Product Development, Johns Hopkins Medicine International

"In doing my PhD, I used the library every day."
Laura Taylor, Research Nurse and Postdoc, SON

"Now that's great service!"
Lee Watkins, Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Inherited Disease Research, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

"Today was my first visit to Welch Library & the experience was daunting. [The librarian] was very reassuring. She took time out of her day to explain how I could obtain a journal from the website & showed me the stacks with a thorough explanation of the system. I cannot express my sincere gratitude for her kindness and patience."
Shannon Segres, RN, BSN, SON

"I am in the process of developing a new course for doctoral students on evidence-based practice. I just spent the afternoon going through your evidence-based nursing site on the Welch Library Page. http://www.welch.jhu.edu/internet/nursing.html. This is a tremendous resource!! I know that both students and faculty members will find this site invaluable. Thank you."
Marie T. Nolan, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Director, PhD Program, SON, Johns Hopkins University

"Ms Hesson has been an indispensable resource for students and faculty alike at the Bloomberg School of Public Health."
Marie Diener-West and Sukon Kanchanaraksa, Professors, SPH, SPH

"The new site is quite improved. Particularly putting the PubMed and Electronic Resources boxes right on the front page. Let's face it, that's what most of us faculty use most of the time."
Paul Rosenberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, JHH, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry

"...RefWorks...is a great tool for collaborating with colleagues and for setting up reference lists and bibliographies. We are very grateful for the ever present and continuous help offered by the library staff. Thanks a lot."
Toni Kfuri, MD, MPH, DrPH Program, SPH, SOM, HSR, Hlth Polcy Mgmt

"The new format of welch.jhu.edu is fantastic. Nice layout, and I don't have to keep drilling down to get what I need. I think that the placement of the PubMed, Welch e-Resources, etc queries directly on the main page is a giant step forward and a clear example that you and the developers are very interested in *intuitive* software applications that benefit the user."
Eugene Millar, PhD, Research Associate, SPH, Center for American Indian Health

"I rely on the Welch website for my research and wanted you to know that the revision is a great improvement. Finding articles is much easier with the current site organization. Thanks!"
Pamela Johnson, Assistant Professor of Radiology, SOM

"Well done and hopefully I will continue to learn with Welch Medical Library classes. Thank you."
Vilma Lonsdale, Program Coordinator for Scholarships, CTY, JHU, Academic Centers Financial Aid

"It is such a joy to work Donna Hesson, manager of Lilienfeld Library, who knows the literature so well and knows how to make it most accessible for our students. As I mentioned before, she has a way of taking my heart rate down from 160 to 65 as the pressures of getting three courses together mounts. I have been extremely surprised at what she hasn't said to us: too late not possible do it yourself would have been legitimate words in response to our late submissions. But she has had such a gracious can do! attitude. Her service orientation is incredible, and makes our job a whole lot easier! Many, many thanks. Donna's work on our behalf is much appreciated."
Dana Sleicher, Instructor, SPH, Academics

""I am much impressed by your responsiveness to requests by your library users. Thanks!""
Michael Sauder, SPH, SOM, Epidemiology

"Just wanted to send you this brief note to express my appreciation to you and the Welch Medical Library for providing the Microsoft Reporting Services class here onsite. The class has been excellent. Such a benefit to be able to attend these classes onsite! Additionally, I also like to thank you and your team for facilitating the scheduling so that my team and I could attend. Thanks!"
Martin Hamburg, Systems Development Manager, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Clinical Systems Development

"Thank you so much. Your response was prompt, thorough, and helpful. In fact we scheduled a meeting with Dongming [ATIS] and his advice proved extremely beneficial. This service is a great way of communicating with you and gaining access to resources."
Pauline M. Pelletier, Web Applications Development, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Office of Academic Computing

"As the name indicates, there's a lot of work in literature search. & my coworker spent hours working with Claire and had very positive comments on the experience. Her assistance was critical to get our literature review process started. I would like to express my appreciation for Claire's assistance to my work. In addition, I really appreciate all who have contributed to establishing and maintaining the Welch Library assistance system."
(Evelyn) Rong Yang, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dept. International Health

"...I am particularly pleased with the ejournals section. There is a real advantage in doing research when I can get most of the relevant materials at my desk as I work."
Edward E. Lawson, MD, Professor, SOM, Johns Hopkins Children's Center

"Weldoc...is particularly useful for groups like ours working in small Himalayan communities with limited access to journals or libraries."
Aamir Javed Khan, MD, SPH, International Health, Center for Health Interventions Research, Gilgit, Pakistan

"I am happy to join the library staff in documenting another successful year in the Welch tradition of excellence. Through its virtual collections and electronic document delivery, its significant technological advances, and its continuing devotion to excellent service, the library has enhanced its reputation as a leader in information services while at the same time making access to information ubiquitous for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. As for me personally, Welch's services have completely changed my work habits, allowing me to work any time, anywhere with an extensive and rich array of materials at my fingertips."
–David Nichols, MD, Vice Dean for Education, SOM

"For what it's worth, I think the e-reserve system is a fantastic resource. I can sleep at night knowing that my copyright issues have been addressed correctly, and the students have immediate access to the readings they need."
Richard Miech, Assistant Professor, SPH, Mental Hygiene

"I have found the My Welch home page extremely useful. All of the clinical and basic science journals pertinent to my work are readily available and organized automatically by the frequency of use. Clinical textbooks and laboratory protocol books are all immediately available. Health news from the days' newspapers is screened and available on the page as well as links to the NIH, NSF, etc. And it is customizable to add any favorite links."
Roger A. Johns, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, SOM, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

"I found most useful the impact factor data and the direct links to Instructions for Authors (much more convenient than navigating through the journal homepages)..."
Greg Huyer, PhD, Research Associate, SOM

"Despite its relatively small size and budget, Maternity Center East reports that its patients got overwhelmingly positive health education benefits from our project. In addition, a relationship was forged between the Welch Medical Library and Maternity Center East, the oldest community based clinic in Baltimore, which has continued beyond the official length of the project."
Jeri Mancini, MS, Certified Nurse, Midwife, SOM

"I have found that the information prescription project to tie in perfectly with the aims of the Family Resource Center. It gives me the necessary background information to assist in providing individualized information for the families."
Gwen Rosen, Family Resource Librarian, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Child Life Program

"...the on-line service Welch provides - one of the crown jewels of JHMI...you do have a great collection whose availability, 24h/day, is a shining example of Hopkins greatness..."
Dr. James L. Weiss, Michael J. Cudahy Professor of Cardiology, SOM, Cardiology

"Your help has truly been priceless....The physicians and nurses in Lebanon will certainly likewise be grateful."
Brett Nelson, MD/MPH Candidate, SOM, SPH

"...I wanted you to know, from a non-computer hip patron, that this web site is one of the best I have ever had to use. It was clean, informative and easy to find your way through."
Alexis Simich, Administrative Assistant, SOM, Radiology

"I thought you would like to know that the students in the HPM Research Proposal course VOLUNTEERED their appreciation of your sessions, to a greater extent than any other lectures (by far). I hope we can count on you for next year!"
Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, SPH

"I strongly believe in acknowledging literary talent when I see it. I just wanted to tell you how much I have appreciated both of your courses. You are exceptionally lucid and you showed me how to really appreciate science writing."
Patricia Kolmer, RES NURSE/PROG COORD, SOM, Uro Epidemiology

"Dear Welch Library staff, I'm writing this e-mail to thank you for the on-line services you provide. I was a medical student here from 1997 to 2001, and I don't recall having had such an efficient collection of on-line services at that time. After a year away from Hopkins, I returned for my residency, and, over the past 6-8 months, I've used the e-Journals, WelDoc service, and on-line subscription services extensively. I'm grateful to the institution for funding these services and for the library staff for overseeing them. Just thought you should know your work is appreciated."
Ori Shokek, M.D., Instructor, SOM, Rad Onc Clinical Faculty and Staff

"I enjoyed your talk on PubMed yesterday in the Weinberg Auditorium. It helped give me the "big picture" on PubMed and many pointers which I can use and need. I plan to attend most of the 9 or 10 noon lectures. Again, thank you so much for edifying us on Welch services! I look forward to learning more."
Dorothea K. Stieff, Humphrey Program Assistant Coordinator, SPH, Department of Mental Health

"Mike was exceptionally helpful when i needed advice on a Sunday --made sure that i knew exactly how to request references from the annex---you have a good group at the welch---"
Tim Baker, Professor, SPH, Health Systems

"Currently I am in Nairobi, Kenya, for several months of work. You all should know that your service is just fantastic! I see your work as truly state-of-the-art in terms of e-library service - simple, friendly, efficient. It's great to know that no matter what I'm doing (I have to travel quite a bit), the weldoc site is completely reliable. Whoever runs weldoc deserves tremendous congrats from the entire JHMI community."
Ravi Ram, SPH, International Health

"Thanks so much for your informative presentation to our department faculty this afternoon. You and your colleagues have produced a very useful resource that will definitely facilitate research by our students, postdoc fellows, and faculty members. I am very appreciative of your efforts on the behalf of the basic sciences at JHU."
Roger McMacken, Professor and Chairman, SPH, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

"I would say that I favored much from the library: I like to study in carrel, it's quiet and very convenient for a student; also, the delivery system is very fast, I always get my book the next day or third day after I request it online. The nicest thing is that the library usually provides free coffee and tea for readers--it's very very nice and considerate and we do appreciate it very much!!!"
Fang Tian, Graduate Student, SPH, Epidemiology

"Great customer service. Very fast on library requests, both inter and intra library."
Chung Dang, Student, SOM, Immunology

"As a faculty member based on the E. Baltimore medical campus, I appreciate being able to order books from the Eisenhower stacks at Homewood and simply pick them up across the street from my office. I have always found this service to operate with perfect efficiency."
Maria Merritt, Assistant Professor, SPH, Health Systems

"I am so impressed by the Welch Medical Library's services to its users. I know it is no simple feat to allow free printing services, free inter-library lendings and exemplary interpersonal service of resources and advice. The staff members are so knowledgeable and motivated. For example, I usually see Mr. Stern multitasking, juggling phone calls with checking out materials and providing reference advice to library users and students. Using Welch's services allowed me to rekindle my love of libraries and sometimes save money on expensive textbooks for courses! Keep up the fantastic work, and I hope your excellence continues."
Elizabeth Yi, Graduate Student, SPH, Epidemiology

"I would be honored to be any part of a tribute to the Welch Library. The Welch Library is a major force in advancing the patient care, research, and education mission here at JHU. Your library staff is the best that I have ever encountered at a research-intensive university. I have especially valued your liaison librarian program. Stella Seal has been a tremendous asset to us here in the School of Nursing."
Marie T. Nolan, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Director, PhD Program, SON, Johns Hopkins University

"How important is Welch Library to Johns Hopkins? Shut off your servers and don't answer your phones or email for one day. Research would come to a halt and clinical care would suffer."
Chris Lehmann, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Dermatology and Division of Health Sciences Informatics, SOM, Eudowood Neonatal Pulmonary Division; Division of Health Sciences Informatics

"It's not about whether I could do it myself...eventually. It's about time management and teamwork; I let our Welch liaison be our information expert."
Jeanne Kowalski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology and Biostatistics, SOM, Division of Oncology Biostatistics, Dept. of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel

"Welch Library is sort of like an obstetrical delivery room; ideas are born here."
Patty Abbot, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Assistant Prof., Nursing, SON, Nursing Systems and Outcomes

"The resources available from the on site information suite provided me with significant assistance on multiple research projects. Having our liaison librarian on site not only enabled us to involve her in group planning meetings, but also allowed me to drop by and clarify questions with her on the spot. Her presence improved both the quality and efficiency of our research."
Jennifer McIntosh, PharmD, MHS, Research Assistant, SPH, Population, Family and Reproductive Health

"Prior to the advent of the information suite, I had only used the library staff to help locate an article or two. I had no idea what other services they could provide, or the depth of knowledge they possessed. Only by having them on site did I actually take full advantage of their training and expertise."
Jennifer McIntosh, PharmD, MHS, Research Assistant, SPH, Population, Family and Reproductive Health

"Welch librarians are always willing to assist. We should all take more advantage of their services -- not just physicians, but all health care providers."
Joe Herman, MD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, SOM, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences

"The services provided by Welch and liaison librarian Catherine Craven have helped get my research and clinical projects moving."
Drew Fuller, MD, MPH, Assistant Residency Director, SOM, Dept. of Emergency Medicine

"With Welch...it is like having invaluable member on your team."
Drew Fuller, MD, MPH, Assistant Residency Director, SOM, Dept. of Emergency Medicine

"It is clear that the Welch librarians are committed to our success as clinicians and researchers."
Drew Fuller, MD, MPH, Assistant Residency Director, SOM, Dept. of Emergency Medicine

"The WELCH team is invaluable to keeping my research moving forward. They have trained my research team how to use RefWorks so we can all share a large reference library, helped me perform difficult searches when I am short on time, and even helped me access to full text articles needed for presentations when I am overseas! I don't know what I would do without them."
Elizabeth Hunt, MD, Simulation Center Director and Assistant Professor, SOM, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics