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

July/August 1999

Michael A. Flannery joins Lister Hill Library

 The Lister Hill Library is very pleased to announce the appointment of Michael A. Flannery to the position of Assistant Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections of the Lister Hill Library.  Mr. Flannery will be responsible for managing the Reynolds Historical Library, the UAB Archives and the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences.  He will join the library on September 7th.

Michael A. Flannery was born and reared in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his B.A. degree from Northern Kentucky University, his M.L.S. from the University of Kentucky, and his M.A. in history from California State University at Dominguez Hills.

Mr. Flannery started his professional career as a technical services librarian at Northern Kentucky University's Steely Library, where he specialized in cataloging materials for the Kentucky Rare Book Room. Since 1994 he has served as Library Director for the Lloyd Library and Museum, a 200,000-volume library of historical and current materials in pharmacy, botany, and botanical medicine. In addition to his directorship, Mr. Flannery has served on the adjunct faculties of Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati's College of Pharmacy, where he taught American history and the history of pharmacy respectively.

He has written numerous articles and two books:

1. John Uri Lloyd. The Great American Eclectic (Southern Illinois University Press, 1998) and
2. VOX Populi: The American Botanico-Medical Movements, Pharmaceutical Heritage Series, (Haworth Press, Forthcoming).

Mr. Flannery is also a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Filson Club History Quarterly, and a member of the American Library Association; American Association for the History of Medicine; American Institute of the History of Pharmacy; Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences.