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Lister Hill Letter
Newsletter of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at UAB

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March/April 1997

RACHAEL K. ANDERSON 
LISTER HILL LIBRARY
DEDICATION SPEAKER

Rachael K. Anderson, Director of the Arizona Health Sciences Library, will be the dedication speaker on May 2 at the Lister Hill Library dedication ceremony. She has been Director of the Arizona Health Sciences Library since January 1991. Ms. Anderson earned a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College and an M.S. from Columbia University's School of Library Service. She has directed the libraries of three medical schools. Prior to moving to Arizona, she was at Columbia University where she was Director of the Health Sciences Library from 1979 to 1991 and served as Acting Vice President and University Librarian in 1982/83. From 1973 to 1979 Ms. Anderson was director of the library at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Medical Center in New York City. At the University of Arizona she is also an Associate Director of the Telemedicine Program.

Ms. Anderson is currently President-elect of the Medical Library Association. She is a past President of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors and of the Arizona Health Information Network. Her honors include election as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and of the Medical Library Association, and she is the only medical librarian who has ever chaired the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. Grants and contracts she has been awarded include: three from the National Library of Medicine for developing Integrated Academic Information Management Systems (IAIMS) at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; NLM/NSF funding for Arizona Statewide Network Development; and support from The Flinn Foundation for developing the Arizona Health Information Network. Ms. Anderson has authored or edited approximately 30 publications.

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