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Chief Library Service
VA Providence Healthcare System
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Current Role:
Chief of Library Service, at the VA Providence Healthcare System in Rhode Island, where I ensure that all staff and student’s information needs are being meet, while also working within the VALNET and VISN 1 Library Consortia.
Memberships:
Association of Health Sciences Librarians, RI - Member from 1988 to current date (Vice President 2019-2020).
Special Libraries Association, RI Chapter - Member 1993 - current date (President, 2001-2002).
Rhode Island State Library Advocacy Task Force - Member 1999-2002.
URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Advisory Committee - Member 2002-2005 (Chair of this Committee 2004-2005).
URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Faculty Search Committee - 2004.
VISN 1 Library Collection Development Committee - 2012 to current date.
Rhode Island Karla Harry Commission on Libraries – Member 2015.
VISN 1 Docline Committee - 2017 to current date.
VALNET Librarian Competencies Committee – 2018
VALNET Library Technician Competencies Committee – 2018.
Awards:
Winner of the Gold Standard Search, by the National Library of Medicine, for July-August 1998.
Received in part with Library Staff at the Providence VA Medical Center Library: U.S. NCLIS Consumer Health Information Award for RI, 2004.
Awarded from Special Libraries Association, Division of Biological and Medical Sciences Division, Distinguished Member of the Year, June 2014.
Received from University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Distinguished Alumnus Award Representing Graduate Class of 1993, November 2013.
VISN 1 Engaged Work Team Recognition Award Gold Level – 2014.
Group Award, FEDLINK, Small Federal Library/Information Center of the Year – 2015.
Publishing:
Feature article published in Library Journal, May 1, 2000, “Triage at the VA Library.”
Lead article published in Library Journal, November 15, 2005, “RX for Medical Libraries.”
Coauthored in Journal of Hospital Librarianship, April 2013, “Personal Health Records: a Look at My HealtheVet.
Education:
AS, Computer Science, Community College of Rhode Island – 1984
BS, Business Administration, University of RI – 1986
MLIS, University of Rhode Island – 1993
Also:
Biography accepted into “Who’s Who In America” – 2001- current date.
National Weather Service Certified SKYWARN Spotter - 2002 to current date.
Veterans Administration Contracting Officer Representative - 2012 to current date.
