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Health Sciences Libraries Join in Training NLM Associate Fellows
First Group Elects Second Fellowship Year
Four of this year's Associate Fellows will be extending their
training activities with a year-long assignment at an academic
health science library. This new program provides Fellows with an
opportunity to observe and practice the organizational and
interpersonal skills that they will need in the future to
successfully integrate library and information services into the
research, education and health care functions of their parent
institutions.
Participating sites and the fellows that will be working with
them include:
- Medical University of South Carolina - Paula Kitendaugh
- University of North Carolina - Susan Rondon, MaryBeth Schell
- University of Louisville - Elizabeth Smigielski
The sites that will be involved submitted proposals early this
year describing their institution and their plans for the Associate
experience. After a technical review, interested Associates were
matched with sites. We plan to continue with the second year
experience and will be soliciting proposals from potential sites,
including academic medical centers and other institutions with
health science libraries, early in 2000.
This expansion of the Associate Fellows Program is one outgrowth
of a long-range planning report commissioned by the NLM's Board of
Regents on the education and training of health sciences librarians.
Other NLM actions that grew out of the planning report
recommendations include the addition of positions for librarians to
Medical Informatics Research Training programs and the expansion of
the Woods Hole course in Medical Informatics. More information on
NLM training programs can be found at /about/training/training.html.
Thanks to Nancy Roderer, MLS, Director of the NLM Associate
Fellows Program, for contributing this article.
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