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MLA RENAMES AWARD IN HONOR OF LOIS ANN COLAIANNI
In recognition of her years of leadership and distinguished service as a health sciences information professional, the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association (MLA) has renamed the MLA Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship in honor of Lois Ann Colaianni, former Associate Director for Library Operations at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
The Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship will be awarded to MLA members who have made significant contributions to the profession in overall distinction or to leadership in hospital libraries or services; produced a definitive publication related to hospital librarianship, teaching, research, or advocacy; or developed or applied innovative technology to hospital librarianship. The newly named award will be presented for the first time at MLA ’99 to Jacqueline Bastille, Director, Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
During her illustrious career, Colaianni has received numerous MLA honors including induction as an MLA Fellow, the Janet Doe Lectureship, the MLA President’s Award, and MLA’s highest professional distinction, the Marcia C. Noyes Award, which recognizes an individual whose career has resulted in lasting, prominent contributions to health sciences librarianship.
Her dedication to the profession is exemplified by her service as a past president of MLA and as a key figure in the evolution of MLA’s Hospital Libraries Section. A former chair of MLA’s Hospital Libraries Interest Group (HLIG), Colaianni was instrumental in the transformation of the HLIG into the Hospital Libraries Section.
Colaianni, who retired from her position at NLM last December, made a lasting impression on the institution. In her eighteen years there, she strengthened basic services and improved the flow of medical information to the user community, led programs to expand the library’s preservation program, and, most recently, initiated the development of MEDLINEplus, NLM’s consumer health information Web pages.
MLA is proud to honor Colaianni in this way and applauds her contributions and achievements as a health sciences information professional.
April 1999
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MLA TO HONOR EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARIANSHIP AT ANNUAL MEETING IN MAY
Jacqueline D. Bastille, Director, Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is the recipient of this year’s Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship for her efforts in transforming a small, collection-based library into a high tech, state-of-the-art information center. A past president of MLA, Bastille is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). The Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship is given to an MLA member who has made significant contributions to the profession in overall distinction or leadership in hospital library administration or service; produced a definitive publication related to hospital librarianship, teaching, research, or advocacy; or developed or applied innovative technology to hospital librarianship.
Godfrey Belleh, Head of Technical Services, Health Sciences Library, SUNY Health Sciences Center, Syracuse, NY and Eric v.d. Luft, Curator of Historical Collections, Health Sciences Library, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY, are recipients of the Murray Gottlieb Prize. Belleh and Luft received this honor for their paper, “Financing North American Libraries in the Nineteenth Century.” The Gottlieb Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on the history of medicine and allied sciences. Belleh was the 1976/76 MLA Cunningham Fellow.
This year’s ISI/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award recognizes the Web site Biosites (http://www.library.ucsf.edu/biosites) for its identification of high quality biomedical Internet resources. The ISI/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award honors outstanding contributions in the application of technology to the delivery of health sciences information, to the science of information, or to the facilitation of the delivery of health sciences information.
Judy Burnham, Barbara Schloman, Linda Slater, and Eileen Wakiji, are this year’s winners of the Ida and George Eliot Prize for their article, “Mapping the Literature of Allied Health,” published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. The Ida and George Eliot Prize is awarded for work published in the preceding calendar year that has been judged most effective in furthering health sciences librarianship. Burnham, Assistant Director, Administrative and Regional Services, University of South Alabama Biomedical Library, Mobile, is the current chair of MLA’s Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section and is an active member of MLA’s Southern Chapter. Schloman, Director, Library Information Services and Associate Professor, Libraries and Media Services, Kent State University, is chair of the Task Force on Mapping the Literature of Allied Health. In her role as a health sciences information professional, Slater, Reference/Collections Librarian, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta, has specialized in providing information services in the areas of rehabilitation medicine and, more recently, nursing. A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, Wakiji is a Nursing and Allied Health Librarian at California State University, Long Beach, and is treasurer of MLA’s Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section.
Daniel Burrus, founder and president of Burrus Research Associates, Inc., is this year’s John P. McGovern lecturer. One of the world’s leading technology forecasters, Burrus has helped hundreds of clients develop successful competitive strategies based on the creative application of leading-edge technologies. Burrus has appeared on programs such as Larry King Live, on PBS and on CNN Special Reports and is the author of several technology articles and books.
Dr. Daniel Callahan, Ph.D., Director of International Programs, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, is this year’s Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA lecturer. The lecture honors individuals for their ability to open an intellectual dialogue on subjects related to biomedical communications in order to stimulate a liaison between MLA and NLM. Co-founder of The Hastings Center¾which examines ethical issues of medicine, biology, and the environment¾Callahan has written or edited more than thirty-five books and 400 articles.
Jonathan Eldredge, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Chief, Collection and Information Resources Development at Health Sciences Center Library, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, was chosen to receive this year’s Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences. The medal is presented annually in recognition of distinguished achievement in collection development in the health sciences. Author of numerous articles, book chapters, and book reviews, Eldredge is an internationally known leader in collection development.
This year’s Janet Doe lecturer will be Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D., Director, Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center, University of Washington, Seattle. MLA chooses its Janet Doe lecturer for his or her unique perspective on the history of philosophy of medical librarianship. Dr. Fuller has served on MLA’s Board of Directors as well as on the Board of Directors for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Currently a member of the NLM Board of Regents, Dr. Fuller has served as the principal investigator on multi-million dollar IAIMS and telemedicine grants. She will present her lecture at MLA ’99.
T. Mark Hodges, Professor of Medical Administration Emeritus, and Former Director, The Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, is this year’s recipient of the Marcia C. Noyes Award, the highest professional distinction offered by MLA. The award recognizes a career that has resulted in lasting contributions to medical librarianship. Hodges can include among his many accomplishments, the creation of the nation’s first regional medical library program, the New England Regional Library Program. He has also chaired numerous MLA committees including the Awards, Bylaws, and Program and Convention Committees. A Fellow of MLA, Hodges is among the members on MLA’s 100 Most Notable list of health sciences information professionals.
E. Diane Johnson, Head of Information Services, Otto Lottes Health Science Library, University of Missouri-Columbia, is the winner of this year’s Estelle Brodman Award for Academic Medical Librarian of the Year. A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Johnson has served on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and as chair of the Mid-Continental Chapter of the Medical Library Association.
Lucretia McClure, Librarian Emerita, Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, was selected as the first recipient of an award established in her name. The Lucretia McClure MLA Excellence in Education Award honors an outstanding educator in the field of health sciences librarianship and informatics who demonstrates skills in teaching, curriculum development, mentoring, research, or leadership in education at local, regional, or national levels. McClure, who has made extraordinary contributions to the education of medical librarians, is a past president of MLA and has chaired several MLA committees, chapters, and sections. She is also the recipient of several other MLA-sponsored awards, including the Marcia Noyes award, the President’s Award, and the 1985 Janet Doe Lectureship.
For the group’s research project, “Needs Assessment of Physicians in Ambulatory Centers,” the Metropolitan Detroit Medical Library Group-Research Committee has received the Hospital Libraries Section/MLA Professional Development Award. The grant, sponsored by MLA’s Hospital Libraries Section, provides librarians working in hospital and similar clinical settings with the support needed for educational or research activities.
For the chapter’s work, “North Atlantic Health Sciences Librarians Benchmarking Project,” the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries Chapter (NAHSL) is this year’s recipient of the Majors/MLA Chapter Project of the Year Award. The purpose of the project was to gather significant hospital library data that could be assessed by NAHSL members for benchmarking. Matching library partners for sharing of general information, strategic planning, staffing, budget comparisons, and education on statistical data were among the uses envisioned for the project.
April 1999
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MLA SELECTS DOTTIE EAKEN AS MLA FELLOW
Dottie Eakin, AHIP, Director, Medical Sciences Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, is one of the five members chosen this year to become a Fellow of the Medical Library Association (MLA). Eakin will officially become a Fellow in May at the Awards Luncheon and Ceremony at MLA ’99, the Association’s annual meeting, in Chicago, IL.
A recognized leader in the field of collection development, Eakin has performed years of extensive research and written several journal articles on the subject. She is the recipient of MLA’s 1991 Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences and is co-author of the popular book, Collection Development and Assessment in Health Science Libraries, (MLA/Scarecrow Press, 1997). A Distinguished Member of MLA’s Academy of Health Information Professionals, Eakin has served as both consulting and associate editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and on MLA’s Board of Directors as Treasurer.
Fellows of the Association are chosen based on their commitment to furthering MLA’s goals and for their contributions to the health sciences information profession. MLA is proud to induct Eakin as a Fellow and looks forward to continuing to work with her as it embarks on its second century.
April 1999
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MLA TO INDUCT RICK B. FORSMAN AS MLA FELLOW
Each year the Medical Library Association (MLA) honors five MLA members by inducting them as Fellows of the Association. MLA is proud to announce that Rick B. Forsman, AHIP, Director and Associate Professor, Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, is one of this year’s inductees. The association chooses its Fellows based on their commitment to furthering the MLA’s goals and for their contributions to the health sciences information profession.
An active and contributing member of MLA, Forsman has received the 1988 MLA Continuing Education Award and has been a major force in the development of MLA’s certification and credentialing programs. Forsman has served on MLA’s Certification Examination Review Committee, Credentialing Committee, and Editorial Panel for Certification and Registration. A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, he has also chaired the Task Force to Review the Academy, as well as the Medical School Libraries and Technical Services Sections.
Forsman will officially become a Fellow of MLA in May at the Awards Luncheon and Ceremony at MLA ’99, the Association’s annual meeting, in Chicago, IL. MLA applauds Forsman’s many accomplishments and is pleased to bestow this honor on him.
April 1999
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JUNE E. GLASER CHOSEN AS ONE OF THIS YEAR’S MLA FELLOWS
Because of her dedication to the Association’s goals and for her contributions to the health sciences information profession, the Medical Library Association (MLA) has chosen June Glaser, AHIP, to receive the honor of becoming an MLA Fellow. Glaser will officially become a Fellow in May at the Awards Luncheon and Ceremony at MLA ’99, the Association’s annual meeting, in Chicago, IL.
An MLA member for more than twenty years, Glaser, Library Director and Associate Professor of Information Sciences, Eastman Dental Center, Basil G. Bibby Library, Rochester, NY, has made strong contributions to MLA, particularly in the areas of advocacy and dental libraries. She is known for her ability to identify and monitor potentially important legislation, analyze its impact on health sciences libraries, advocate a position beneficial to medical libraries, and mobilize her colleagues to take action. A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information, Glaser has served on several MLA committees and as chair of the MLA Government Relations Committee and the Joint MLA/AAHSL Legislative Task Force.
MLA recognizes Glaser’s efforts in promoting health sciences libraries, particularly dental libraries, and is proud to honor her with Fellow status.