Benjamin Sandoval joins the Dana Medical Library this month as the new temporary Informatics/Digital Librarian. Ben has a Masters degree in Library and Information Science at UCLA and BA in history with a secondary education focus. His most recent library position was at the UCLA Biomedical Library. He comes to Vermont from Arizona, where he’s lived all but two years of his life.
When asked how he approaches his work and his hopes for this work experience, Ben replied,
I always ask myself ‘what if’ questions and let the brainstorming begin. I also like to take an ‘evidence-based’ approach to the solutions I formulate. [I hope] to create something out of nothing.
At Dana Ben is currently working on the Virtual Microscope Project jointly with COMET, CATSearch which is a joint project with the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and a Dana internal project on designing a system to collect statistics.
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