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Bradley Long Medicinalpurpose College of Medicine doctors already are working on advanced research projects. Librarian advances College of Medicine learning, resources Bradley Long doesn't have a medical degree, but he still is a pivotal player in the team developing CMU's College of Medicine curriculum. Long is the first medical librarian hired to serve students and faculty in the College of Medicine, which will have its first class of 60 students begin in August 2013. His involvement supports curriculum decisions as well as developing the library's medical school collection. "I'm an active participant and am at the meetings not only to listen to the faculty's needs but to help them to understand my needs as a librarian so we can work together on behalf of the quality education of the students, " says Long, who began working in June. "And as much as the medical librarians are here for the students, we're also here to help the faculty. " The medical library in the College of Medicine Building is referred to as the Learning Commons. 4 This type of active engagement will continue when the second medical librarian is hired later this academic year and classes start next summer. "We're going to be embedded with the students during group learning sessions, " Long says. "This will help to show them the library is more than the books and journals and that the most important thing is that the librarians are there to meet their information needs. "I've become a jack of all trades in the health sciences, " he says. "You don't have to know everything about everything, you just need to know where to find it." Long has concentrated his career on serving as a medical librarian after earning his undergraduate degree in health sciences at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and his Master of Science in Library Science degree at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.