The Engaged Health Sciences Library Liaison - Paperback

by Lindsay Alcock (Editor), Kelly Thormodson (Editor)

The Health Sciences Library Liaison Today provides fodder for discussion, ideas for programming potential, implementation and evaluation methods, planning processes, and recommendations for library liaison programs. It discusses challenge for librarians to be proactive, current collaborators in the academic and clinical environments.

Author Biography

Lindsay Alcock is the Head of Public Services at Memorial University of Newfoundland's (MUN) Health Sciences Library. She earned her MLIS from the University of British Columbia in 1998. Her collaborations have resulted in the development of the journal Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, the grass-roots MUN Libraries Strategic Plan, the MUN Libraries Leadership Development program, and, with colleagues from the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Libraries 2013, accredited workshops in leadership development. She lives near the ocean with her two boys and their dog in beautiful Newfoundland, Canada.

Kelly Thormodson is currently the Associate Dean and Director of the Harrell Health Sciences Library at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA. Kelly earned her MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA and her BA from North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND. She attended the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians in 2013 and was a NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellow in 2014-2015.