Welcome to the latest in our series of Library staff profiles. Ryan Fassett recently joined the Touro community as Library Assistant at the Health Sciences Library in Central Islip. Ryan was kind enough to answer some questions about himself below:
Welcome to the latest in our series of Library staff profiles. David Druelinger recently joined the Touro community as Scholarly Communications Librarian at our new Cross River Campus in Midtown Manhattan. David was kind enough to answer some questions about himself below:
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Welcome to the latest in our series of Library staff profiles. Helen Hill recently joined the Touro community as Library Assistant at King’s Highway. Helen was kind enough to answer some questions about herself below:
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Where were you born?
I was born in Brooklyn, New York and actually attended Touro College in the mid 1990s.
Where else have you lived?
I have lived in Rochester, New York for over 25 years and have just moved back to the Far Rockaway area.
What languages do you speak?
While I am a native English speaker, I am proficient in Hebrew and can speak, read and write in it.
What fields have you studied and/or degrees have you earned?
I have an MLS in Library Science from State University of New York at Buffalo as well as NYS Teacher Certification in Library. I have a BS in Business Management from SUNY Empire State College. I am a certified Medical Transcriptionist as well. I have taught in the classroom, to grades ranging from kindergarten to college.
What is the part of your job that you enjoy the most?
Teaching students the research and information literacy skills that will help them be successful. Nowadays, you always need to figure things out. Once a student knows how to find the relevant information, there is no limit to how far they can go!
What do you think will be the most challenging part of your job?
Marketing and outreach! Having students realize what a great help libraries and librarians can be in helping them excel in their studies. From learning to how to find relevant information to citing research correctly, librarians and library are treasured resources that need good PR.
Your ideal vacation?
Taking my family touring in Europe (England, France & Italy) for a week and then going to Israel and living like a native in Jerusalem.
Any hobbies?
I like to dabble in many things, so I am concurrently working on a diamond art painting of an elephant and a paint by number of the Western Wall. I also like to keep my freezer well stocked with desserts, so I bake weekly. My favorite thing to make is lemon biscotti and grape sorbet.
Favorite food?
Anything with chocolate 😊
Tell us one thing about yourself that most of us probably don’t know.
I can juggle! I currently juggle with balls and am working on juggling with pins.
Image credits: portrait courtesy of the author. Librarian avatar by Bitmoji.
Contributed by Elisheva Berenstein, Librarian at the School of Health Sciences
Where were you born?
I was born in Brooklyn, New York and lived in Williamsburg for the first 16 years of my life.
Where else have you lived?
Besides Brooklyn, I have lived on Long Island. I currently reside in a village home to a (moderately famous) prognosticating groundhog and one of the last cooperative farms on Nassau County.
This post is originally from 2014. It continues our tribute to Rita Hilu, who passed away last weekend. Rita was an incredibly important member of the Touro College Libraries staff, and we want to remind everyone of what made her so special to students, faculty, and staff.
The Fall 2009 issue of the Starrett City campus newsletter Touro Times featured a glowing profile on one of Touro’s most beloved information professionals, Rita Hilu.
On June 29th, 2015, the staff of Touro College Libraries met at our lovely Kings Highway campus in Brooklyn for our Summer 2015 departmental meeting. Over 40 information professionals from more than a dozen sites located in New York City, upstate and Long Island gathered to share the latest developments in our efforts to provide the best possible services to the Touro community. Continue reading
On Monday June 29th the Touro College libraries held their semi-annual staff meeting at the newly refurbished Kings Highway library. Library staff members from New York Medical College, Middletown, and New York College of Osteopathic Medicine participated in the conference. Continue reading
I am Laurel Scheinfeld, a Reference Librarian at the Bay Shore campus. I have been working for Touro Libraries for three years, since June 2011, a month after I graduated from Long Island University (LIU) with my Master’s degree in Library Science. I feel blessed to have been given this opportunity. In my last semester at LIU, I reached out to the Chief Librarian at the Bay Shore campus to request an internship, which was a requirement of the program in Library Science at LIU. I didn’t realize at the time that a Librarian position would open up while I was there – that was a wonderful surprise. Continue reading
David B Levy, librarian at Lander College for Women, loves serving LCW students, whom he believes possess great derekh eretz (manners), middot tovot (character traits), and pleasantness. David cherishes Torah lishma (learning for its own sake), as described in the TC Philosophy of Education LibGuide. Continue reading
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