Meet the New NLM Associate Fellows and their Presidential
Management Intern Colleague
New trainees at NLM include seven new NLM Associate Fellows and
one Presidential Management Intern.
Associate Fellows:
Nancy Allmang
Nancy has an A.B. degree in zoology with a concentration in
physiology from Rutgers University and twenty years experience as a
mother. She has gained library experience in public, university and
hospital libraries and earned her M.L.S. from Syracuse University's
School of Information Studies through their distance education
program.
Chandra Doby
Chandra graduated from St. Leo College with a B.A. in psychology
and from the University of South Florida with an M.A.L.S. Her
experience includes 7 years as a Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Coast
Guard. While in library school, she interned at the Shimberg Health
Sciences Library at USF, gaining experience in reference and
searching.
Carmen Dee Harris
Carmen Dee was employed at NLM as a Technical Information
Specialist in the Division of Specialized Information Services for
the past year. Prior, she earned an M.S. from the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. There she served as Research Assistant to the
University Librarian. In addition, she possesses an M.A. in black
studies and a B.S. in family relations and human development from
the Ohio State University, and a certificate in medical assisting.
Taneya Koonce
Taneya comes to the Associate Program from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received an M.S.L.S. and
interned at the UNC Health Sciences and US Environmental Protection
Agency libraries. She has a B.S. with majors in biology and teligion
from Emory University.
Kathy Kwan
Kathy has 12 years of experience in library systems work,
including several projects involving migration to a new library
automation system. Her degrees include Bachelor of Social Sciences
from the University of Hong Kong, Master of Library Science from the
State University of New York at Buffalo, and an M.A. in Computer
Science from Queens College, the City University of New York. In
1996, she was given an Outstanding Contribution Award by the New
York-New Jersey Chapter of the Medical Library Association.
Aaron Redalen
Aaron is also a graduate of the University of North Carolina
School of Information and Library Science. While in school he worked
at the library of the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, and he has been working the last several months here at
NLM. Aaron has a B.A. in psychology from Hobart College and has
experience as a bookstore manager.
Heather Wilder
Heather comes to us from the University of Washington, where she
received an M.L.I.S. and worked as a reference assistant in the
Engineering Library. She received her B.A. in English from
Willamette University, where her studies included a semester in
Ecuador. Heather is from Alaska, and has recently worked with the
National Network s of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest
Division, on developing web-based health and illness resources for
Native American and Native Alaskan communities.
Presidential Management Intern:
Susan Anderson
Susan has a Bachelor's of Business Administration with a major in
marketing from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S.L.S form
Catholic University of America. She has worked as a law librarian
and as an intern at the D.C. Community archives, and has a
particular interest in the preservation of nonprint materials. Susan
began the Presidential Management program, a two-year internship, in
August. 
Photo: Back row: Kathy Kwan, Heather Wilder, Aaron Redalen,
Nancy Allmang, Carmen Dee Harris. Front row: Taneya Koonce and
Chandra Doby. | 
