{"id":15881,"date":"2017-10-12T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=15881"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:24:41","slug":"why-i-love-being-a-hospital-librarian","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/why-i-love-being-a-hospital-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love Being a Hospital Librarian!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To celebrate <strong>Medical Librarian&#8217;s Month<\/strong> we have invited medical librarians in our region to submit some information about who they are and the work that they do as medical librarians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today we hear from a hospital librarian in Idaho!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15886\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15886\" class=\"wp-image-15886 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Karly_Vesely-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Karly_Vesely-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Karly_Vesely-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/09\/Karly_Vesely-1024x845.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karly peeking out her library window<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Who am I?<\/strong> Karly Vesely, MLIS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do I work?<\/strong> Health Sciences Librarian at Kootenai Health in Coeur d\u2019Alene, Idaho<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do I love my job?<\/strong> I was talking about the Kootenai Health Medical Library to a group of new employees, and one of them remarked that I clearly love my job.\u00a0 I really do, and here are a few reasons why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fun!<\/strong> Fun is my number one motivator at work, and in life in general, so I love that my job allows me to come in and have fun each day.\u00a0 As a hospital librarian, I have a fair amount of autonomy, and that allows to me to incorporate my sense of humor and enthusiasm in to most of what I do!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rewarding!<\/strong> Employees here at Kootenai love their library and its services, and it shows!\u00a0 I\u2019m so grateful for the amazing feedback I get: <em>\u201cThank you to the moon and back for all the articles you dug up for me!!!\u201d<\/em>; <em>\u201cCan I just say\u2026You\u2019re the best!!! Thanks a million\u201d<\/em>; <em>\u201cThese articles look awesome so far! Thanks for your help!\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 Who wouldn\u2019t like their job with that kind of encouragement?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Investigative!<\/strong> Being a hospital librarian allows me to exercise my natural curiosity and thirst for knowledge with every literature search and clinical question I receive!\u00a0 I can\u2019t rest until I\u2019ve hunted down the answer to the best of my ability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Varied!<\/strong> As a solo librarian, I get to do a little bit of everything \u2013 literature searching, collection development, electronic resource management, circulation, document delivery, interlibrary loan, etc. AND I get to work with so many different groups across the hospital \u2013 physicians, nurses, therapists, administration, etc.\u00a0 I love the variety!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dynamic!<\/strong> With technology constantly changing, I\u2019m never bored.\u00a0 I love exploring emerging technologies and I\u2019m not afraid to tackle something new.\u00a0 Having a software engineer for a husband helps with that too;).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Final note?<\/strong> I think one of the biggest misconceptions about being a medical librarian is that we spend most of our time checking out books.\u00a0 I think a lot of people outside the library world would be surprised that in the last week alone I\u2019ve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Completed 9 literature search requests<\/li>\n<li>Set up and presented trials of several online nursing resources to our Nurse Educator group<\/li>\n<li>Met one on one with a couple of physicians for new Medical Staff Orientation<\/li>\n<li>Had a booth at the new employee General Orientation Resource Fair<\/li>\n<li>Helped facilitate a physician focus group<\/li>\n<li>Met one on one with nurse to teach her more about literature searching for her BSN program<\/li>\n<li>Worked with our Communications and Marketing department on the library\u2019s new website and on updating some unrelated physician handouts<\/li>\n<li>Held a meeting with our Nursing Research department to discuss a potential Writing and Publishing class to help our nurses with the publication process<\/li>\n<li>And so much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate Medical Librarian&#8217;s Month we have invited medical librarians in our region to submit some information about who they are and the work that they do as medical librarians. Today we hear from a hospital librarian in Idaho! Who am I? Karly Vesely, MLIS Where do I work? Health Sciences Librarian at Kootenai Health&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/why-i-love-being-a-hospital-librarian\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-15881","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-network-members","tag-medical-librarians-month"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15904,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions\/15904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}