In This Issue:
MEDLINEplus
is Better Than Ever
New
Docline
OLDMEDLINE
Update
E-CIP
Permanent
Access to NLM Files
NIH
Director's Awards
NLM
New Associate Fellows
Virtual
Tour
MLA/PLA
Conference
Szczur
Joins SIS
Publicity
Review and Update
Portrait
Goes to Blair House
In Every Issue:
Names
in the News
NLM
In Print
|
New Class of NLM Associate Fellows Comes Aboard
Group of Seven Represents Diverse Interests and
Backgrounds
How do you know it's fall at the NLM? Well, it's not so much the
turning of the leaves, or the discussions of Redskins football that
ring throughout the halls. It's seeing the small pack of
distinguished young librarians, the NLM Associate Fellows, as they
briskly make their way from meeting to meeting. These seven
outstanding library school graduates will spend one year in a
postgraduate training program here, gaining exposure to the
concepts, skills and technologies that are shaping the future of the
library and information fields. Some will elect an optional second
year, at a library or information center in an academic health
sciences center, hospital, or other health-related organization.
Biographical sketches of the 2000-2001 NLM Associate Fellows
follow.
Lou Duggan comes to NLM from Dalhousie University in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he received his MLIS. He was a staff
member at Dalhousie's Kellogg Health Sciences Library for eight
years, where he worked in the public services section and helped
develop and maintain the library's web pages. Lou's master's thesis
is entitled, "An Examination of the Information Resources Preferred
by Physicians." He has an interest in the history of the
dissemination of scientific information, and has also co-published
an analysis of the information needs and uses literature found in
library and information science journals.
Jennifer Heiland recently earned her MLS from the
University of Maryland. She spent a year in the Information
Technology Division of the University of Maryland Libraries and
participated in a field study in the NLM Reference Section during
the fall of 1999. She is especially interested in ways information
technology can be used to expand and improve reference and user
education. Jennifer has a BA in chemistry with a minor in English
from the University of Houston. Her hobbies include hiking, reading
and traveling.
Janice McPeak received her MLIS from the University of
Rhode Island, where she worked as a graduate assistant for the GSLIS
program. She interned at Brown University Sciences Library in
Providence. Prior to that she worked for 15 years as a registered
nurse in various capacities. Janice was also a Lieutenant in the
Navy Nurse Corps during Operation Desert Storm, serving with Fleet
Hospital 15 in support of the First Marine Expeditionary Forces
northwest of Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia. Her professional interests
include consumer health information, informatics, outreach and
instruction, and database usability.
Tomeka Oubichon received her BS in biology, with a minor
in chemistry, from Xavier University of Louisiana in 1995. She
received the Medical Library Association Scholarship for Minority
Students and in 1999 she received her master's in library and
information science from Louisiana State University. Tomeka was a
reference librarian and cataloger at Tulane University Medical
Library in New Orleans. She also taught public health and medical
students how to use various software packages to search medical
databases and retrieve full-text resources. Tomeka is interested in
medical outreach programs, medical record security, disease specific
databases, and the Visible Human Project.
Amy Seif was a Senior Project Associate at the National
Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, Georgetown
University, prior to joining the Associate Fellowship Program. With
over ten years of experience in information services and libraries,
Amy has worked for the Science and Engineering Library, University
of California, Los Angeles and the Pacific Science Center in
Seattle, Washington. Ms. Seif received her BA in American history
from Connecticut College and a MSLS from The Catholic University of
America.
You Tao received her master's degree from the Postgraduate
School of Wuhan University in the field of Scientific and Technical
Information. Her bachelor's degree is from Beijing Normal University
in Information. Ms. You has been working as the head of the computer
department of the Medical Library of the Chinese Academy of Medical
Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. There she is in charge of
information management and library automation. She hopes to join the
program in October 2000.
Marlo Maldonado Young obtained her Master of Library
Science degree from the University of Arizona, where she pursued an
interdisciplinary research interest in consumer health informatics
and Latino health issues. Marlo has acquired various library
experiences in medical, government, academic, and museum libraries.
Most recently, Marlo worked for the Arizona Health Sciences Library,
in conjunction with the NIH-funded Arizona Hispanic Center of
Excellence, where she executed a formal evaluation of the
collections ethnic-specific resources. Prior to arriving at the
National Library of Medicine, Marlo taught English in Hidalgo,
Mexico. |