January/February 2000
MLA APPOINTS LHL DIRECTOR AS NEW BMLA EDITOR
The Medical Library Association (MLA) is pleased
to announce that T. Scott Plutchak, AHIP, has been selected as the new
editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA), the association's
scholarly journal, published quarterly. Plutchak will assume full editorial
responsibility with the July 2000 issue of the Bulletin. His predecessor,
J. Michael Homan, resigned from the position after being elected to serve
as MLA president for the 2000/01 year.
Plutchak, Director of Lister Hill Library
of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, is well prepared
for the role of editor. A former editor of the Midcontinental Chapter newsletter,
MCMLA Express, he has served as assistant editor and editor of the National
Library of Medicine's (NLM) NLM Technical Bulletin.
About his plans for the Bulletin as its new
editor, Plutchak states, "As librarians, we have a unique vantage point
-- the revolution in communications technologies underlies much of our
subject matter at the same time that we'll be using those technologies
to better serve our readers. This is a very exciting time for scholarly
publishing and I intend to put the Bulletin very much in the thick of it."
A widely published author, Plutchak has written
for various publications including the Bulletin and the newsletter, Technical
Trends. This year, his book chapter with Kay E. Wellik, "Types of Libraries
and Institutions," was published in Health Sciences Environment and Librarianship
in Health Sciences Libraries, Volume 7 of the Current Practice in Health
Sciences Librarianship series, co-published by MLA and Forbes Custom Publishing.
Nineteen ninety-nine has been a very exciting
year for Plutchak, who is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health
Information Professionals. In addition to being selected as editor of the
Bulletin, Plutchak was also named the 1999 Academic Librarian of the Year
by the Southern Chapter of MLA.
MLA congratulates Plutchak on his new appointment
and looks forward to working with him to continue the success and high
professional standards of the Bulletin.
MLA is an educational organization of more
than 1,100 institutions and 3,800 individual members in the health sciences
information field. MLA members serve society by developing new health information
delivery systems, fostering educational and research programs for health
sciences information professionals, and encouraging an enhanced public
awareness of health care issues.
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