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Historian Dr. James (Jim) Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division, has been named as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Association for the History of Medicine. This award was presented at the annual American Association for the History of Medicine meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, on May 20th.

Frances Johnson has retired from NLM's Extramural Programs Division after a long and distinguished career. After completing the NLM's Associates Program in 1967, Frances Johnson joined Extramural Programs as a Grants Program Officer. During those 33 years, Fran devoted her efforts to improving medical libraries. It was through her dedication and quiet persistence that many successful grant initiatives were implemented to support academic and hospital libraries. She worked to get grant support for library collections, construction and renovation projects, library automation, information systems and information access projects. And she helped begin the Internet Connections grants, which have helped many health institutions gain access to the Web.

Fran was extremely active in and supportive of the Medical Library Association. For example, she edited a "Symposium on Internet Connections" for the MLA Bulletin in 1996, advised many librarians, and has taught numerous continuing education courses on writing library grant proposals. "These are but a few of her accomplishments, for which we will always be deeply grateful," noted former MLA president and frequent NLM collaborator Naomi Broering. "Fran will be missed, but I know that living on the Chesapeake Bay in a brand new home will be a wonderful new venture for her."

Dr. Milton Corn, NLM Acting Associate Director for Extramural Programs, hailed Ms. Johnson's innovative spirit, willingness to share her vast store of knowledge with others, and consummate professionalism. "Since the initiation of NLM's programs of grant assistance to health science libraries, Frances Johnson has been program officer for a broad range of library resource grant programs. She helped create the programs, publicized them, and patiently helped hundreds of librarians across the nation navigate the NIH grant process successfully. For health science librarians across the nation, Frances Johnson has been a knowledgeable and gracious representative of NLM for over three decades."

For his extraordinary contributions and service to the health sciences information community, the Medical Library Association (MLA) has selected Harold M. Schoolman, MD, to become one of this year's honorary MLA member. Dr. Schoolman, former NLM Deputy Director for Research and Education, has been instrumental in developing programs important to medical librarians, including the Library's National Network of Libraries of Medicine and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). A former Acting Director of the Library, Dr. Schoolman is widely known as an expert on several issues facing the health sciences information profession. He had a lengthy involvement in championing the Library's interest in copyright issues, especially the doctrine of "fair use." And he represented NLM at all congressional hearings on intellectual property issues.

Ronald Stewart has been named Deputy Executive Officer at the National Library of Medicine. Ron has had a distinguished career at NLM, serving first as Chief of the Office of Administrative Management Services (1988-1990) and subsequently as Supervisory Management Analyst in the Office of Administration.

Ron graduated from Chapman College in California with a bachelor's degree in sociology/psychology. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 26 years prior to joining the NLM staff and has won numerous performance awards, including the NIH Award of Merit.

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