News about the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
October is National Medical Librarians Month! Do you know all that your librarian can do for you? Our informationists at the WHSC Library can provide expert searching; training and instruction on searching, citation management, information literacy, and more; and can collaborate with researchers on evidence synthesis projects like systematic and scoping reviews. Evidence synthesis projects Read More …
Please join the WHSC Library in congratulating our colleague Erin Reardon who has been selected as a recipient of the Sewell Stipend Travel Award for librarians to participate in the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. The Sewell Stipend covers the cost of membership and early-bird conference registration for a librarian to attend Read More …
In honor of October as National Medical Librarians Month, the WHSC Library is celebrating the 13 publications authored by our Informationists over the past year (with four more in the pipeline as Epub ahead of print. Many of our librarians spend weeks and months collaborating on intensive evidence synthesis projects such as systematic reviews, providing Read More …
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library is pleased to celebrate the accomplishments of Shenita Peterson who has been selected as a recipient of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Leadership Diversity Scholarship. Shenita serves as one of the Public Health Informationists and is the Systematic Review Service coordinator. Shenita joined the Emory University Read More …
From the Desk of the Director: I am pleased to announce that Kimberly R. Powell was selected as a participant in the 2023-2024 cohort of the Medical Library Association’s Rising Star program. Kim is the Research Impact Informationist for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. The MLA Rising Star program gives members the opportunity to Read More …
On November 11, Woodruff Health Sciences Library Director Sandra Franklin was honored with the Gerald J. Oppenheimer Cornerstone Award for lifetime achievement from the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL). This award is given in recognition of important contributions to the AAHSL mission and significant impact on the profession of academic health sciences librarianship. Read More …
Every day the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library’s librarians and informationists work with students, faculty, and staff at the WHSC’s schools and divisions on locating, selecting, managing, and using information for teaching and learning, patient care, and research projects. They also engage in other work supporting the missions and goals of these units in Read More …
Kevin Bradford collaborated with clinicians at Grady Hospital to complete “Deprescribing Medications for Chronic Diseases Management in Primary Care Settings: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials” in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. PMID: 30108032. Kimberly R. Powell collaborated with Jennifer Elder, Woodruff Library, to publish “A bibliometric services workshop for subject Read More …
Amy Allison, Associate Director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, has been selected as a Fellow in the 2017-2018 NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries. The Program prepares emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries through a year-long Read More …