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Chief, Library Service
Library Service 142D
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Priscilla Stephenson, MSLS, MSEd, AHIP, FMLA, is Chief, Library Service, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital and Clinics, Tampa, Florida. She is a former Chair of both the Federal Libraries Section and the Hospital Libraries Section. Stephenson is a past recipient of the Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship.
Stephenson has been a VA hospital library director since 2006. Prior to this she managed reference services at the University of Tennessee’s Health Sciences Library and served as a hospital library director in Illinois, Tennessee, and Nevada. She has been active in MLA's Southern Chapter and the Philadelphia Regional Chapter. On the national level, Stephenson has been Chair of the Continuing Education Committee, Section Council liaison to the Credentialing Committee, a member of the JMLA Editorial Board, Chair of the Colaianni Award Jury, and a member of the MLA Ethics Task Force and the Vital Pathways Task Force. She has been a co-editor of the “Hospital Information Services” column in Medical Reference Services Quarterly since 2012. She co-edited the “WebHealth Topics” column in JCHI, the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, from 2003-2021.
