News flash! This posting is a new addition to this issue of MIDLINE – Ed.
Submitted by Mary Taylor
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Norene Allen is a Regional Account Manager for Swets. She works with libraries in Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. Norene has an undergraduate degree in education from Kansas State University. She is originally from the metropolitan Kansas City area. Her personal hobbies include traveling, card making, and genealogy.
Roberta Craig is Coordinator of the Munson Community Health Library at Munson Health Care in Traverse City, Michigan. Her management responsibilities include collection development, medical research for customers, community outreach activities, and planning the community health lecture series. Her professional interests include consumer health and health and information literacy. Roberta received a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois in 2004. Her personal interests include reading, walking, and theatre.
Roberta has two grown children who live in Rockford, IL, which is her home town. She states, “My background includes working in public and school libraries as well as medical library experience. I was managing a hospital library while I earned my master’s degree– that was a crazy busy time! I spent 2006-2008 working as a school librarian at an international school in China. It was a very rewarding cross-cultural experience. I am so happy to be working back in the medical field since I returned from China and especially enjoy being in the consumer health field as I have always been interested in this area of medical librarianship.”
Heidi Nickisch Duggan is the Associate Director at the Galter Health Sciences Library of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Regarding her job, she states, “I hold the best job in libraries: I have the privilege to work at a well respected and supported library for a visionary director and with a talented, innovative, and committed staff. I am responsible for the library’s service areas and units and I lead staff in the development of new services, manage staff relations, and engage in future-planning and budgeting.” Her professional interests include library leadership, organizational change and communication, emotional intelligence, appreciative inquiry, emerging technologies, scholarly communication, and strengths development.
Prior to taking the position at the Galter Library in 2008 Heidi was Head of Access Services & Systems for the Lommen Health Sciences Library at the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine. Heidi received an M.A. from the School of Library and Informational Science, University of Missouri-Columbia in 1991. She received an undergraduate degree in English with minors in German, music, and psychology from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She anticipates receiving an M.S. in communication from Northwestern University this summer. A self-described “military brat,” she lived in seven states and countries and had made 10 moves before she went to college. She enjoys swimming, reads “voraciously (fiction fare: mysteries, funky young adult literature; non-fiction: anything leadership or organizational behavior and communication),” and enjoys taking in the Chicago area’s museums, restaurants, etc. with her husband, Tim Duggan, and their two children.
Mel Finkbeiner is a Library Technician at the Medical Library and College of Nursing Library of OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Illinois. Her responsibilities include interlibrary loan, cataloging, shelf maintenance, research assistance, periodicals, and statistics. Mel received a B.A. in English and education from Midland Lutheran College. Her home town is Omaha, Nebraska. Her hobbies and interests include traveling, gardening, and wildlife.
Mary Pat Harnegie is the Medical Librarian at the Alumni Library of the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Her responsibilities include acquisitions, collection development, and reference. Mary Pat received her MLIS from Kent State University in 2002. She has a B.S. in biology and political Science from Baldwin-Wallace College. Mary Pat is originally from Olmsted Falls, Ohio. Her interests include “knitting, reading, walking, and volunteering in local prisons and the city mission.” She states, “I am a dual career person: by morning licensed insurance professional (33 years with a well-known Ohio company), by afternoon: medical librarian, on weekends: public librarian with Cleveland Public Library system.”
Karen Nissen is the Knowledge Management Specialist and CME Coordinator at Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Indiana. She manages and provides all library services for clinical and medical staff, manages and coordinates all components of the continuing medical education program, participates on interdisciplinary teams, and supports medical staff and nursing research activities. Her professional interests include “integrating institutional (internal) and external information resources; health care innovation; [and] interdisciplinary research and learning teams.”
Karen is a 1987 graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington’s library school. She received her undergraduate degree from Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa, where she double-majored in psychology and philosophy/religion. Her home town is Hardwick, Minnesota. She calls herself a “generalist” in regard to her hobbies and personal interests, which include “time with family, time with friends, community volunteer work, computer games, and trying new activities (gardening, baking, etc.)” She adds, “I am coming into the medical library world after 20 years in the post-secondary academic librarianship arena. Any advice in the way of key web sites, books, thought leaders, journals, newsletters, etc., that I can use to get connected with medical and health librarianship would be wonderful! I would love to communicate with other librarians working in the (more rural than urban) community hospital setting.”
Sheryl Williams is senior audiologist at the Ohio State University Medical Center. She manages the newborn hearing screening program. She has an undergraduate degree in speech from Northwestern University and a graduate degree in audiology from Washington University. Sheryl received her MLIS from Kent State University in 2009. Her professional interests include consumer health. She enjoys working with technical services. She states, “I am looking forward to working in my new chosen field…I am currently still working as an audiologist, but I am interested in working part time in a small library or resource center. For the time being I am completing a project begun during my practicum, [cataloging] a collection of 1000 books at the African American Community Extension Center of the Ohio State University. This allows me to continue to use my cataloging skills.”
Her interests and hobbies include reading, needlework, knitting, crocheting, sewing, music, and theatre. This Gahanna, Ohio, native has been married for 25 years, and has four children aged 17-22 years, two dogs, two rabbits and bird.
