Say Hello to Sandhya!
Campus location: DC
Title: Access Services Supervisor
Years in the Field: 3 years; at this library - 1 month
Hello, I am the new Library Access Services Supervisor at the DC campus. I have a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Construction Management, and I am currently pursuing my master's degree in Library and Information Science. When I'm not working or studying, I love baking, hiking, reading fantasy novels, and watching way too much TV.
Q. What’s your favorite part of working at our library?
A. I haven't been here long, but I like that I get to work with people while also having time to work on things in my own space.
Q. What book made you fall in love with reading?
A. The Percy Jackson series!
Q. What’s one library resource you think students would be surprised to know we have?
A. Access to Libby, even one of the student workers was surprised about it.
Q. What’s the most unusual job you’ve ever had?
A. I worked at a haunted house in college; over the years, I was a haunted doll, a shadow spirit, and a zombie bride.
Q. What’s something you wish you had known in college that you know now?
A. Make sure you make time for a social life, and sticky notes are your best friend.
Q. What’s the funniest or most unusual thing you’ve ever been asked in the library?
A. I once had a child ask me for a book on how to get your parents divorced so she could get twice the amount of presents for Christmas.
Q. Are you a “pile it on the desk” or “everything in its place” kind of person?
A. Definitely pile it on the desk, unfortunately.
Q. What’s your “happy place”?
A. There's this park next to a small lake in my hometown in Michigan, I always feel so peaceful whenever I'm there.
Q. What’s something you could give a 30-minute presentation on with no prep?
A. The Lord of the Rings and its associated works.
Q. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A. An actress, and then a teacher when I got a little older.
Please join us in welcoming Sandhya to the University Library team!
Stay tuned for more Staff Spotlight posts throughout the academic year.
Check out the library's newest resources:
Access Medicine
A collection of medical learning resources featuring hundreds of books, review questions, cases, videos, podcasts, infographics, interactive 3D modules and more across the basic sciences and clinical specialties.
The following sites are also available:
ClinicalKey
Provides streamlined access to evidence-based information for clinicians, delivering quick answers at the point of care. ClinicalKey features over 1,000 medical books published by Elsevier, including essential texts such as Gray's Anatomy, Rang & Dale's Pharmacology, and Goldman’s Cecil Medicine. It also offers access to more than 650 journals, 3,000 drug monographs, and 4,500 practice guidelines. Users can efficiently search and filter resources by source type, study type, specialty, and publication date.
JAMA Network
Enhanced access to the research, reviews, and perspectives shaping the future of medicine in the Journal of the American Medical Associtation (JAMA) and its 9 associated journals: JAMA Cardiology, Dermatology, Health Forum, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Surgery.
JAMA Evidence
JAMAevidence is an online portal to valuable JAMA EBM resources, such as the Users' Guide to the Medical Literature and the Rational Clinical Examination. In addition, it contains calculators, a guide to statistics and methods, and a glossary.
UptoDate
Is a physician-authored clinical decision support resource used to make point-of-care decisions. More than 5,100 physician authors, editors and peer reviewers have synthesized the most recent medical information into evidence-based recommendations to improve patient care and quality.
All of the databases are accessible using the Databases A-Z link on the library homepage.