Medical Library Association | Fellows and Honorary Members : MLA Awards and Honors

MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Virginia Massey Bowden

Fellowship Conferred: 2000

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

Nominating Committee, Member, 1999
Bulletin of Medical Library Association, Associate Editor, Buildings, 1996–1999
Nominee, President-elect, 1994
Nominating Committee, Member, 1990
MLA News Editorial Committee, 1978–1981; Chair, 1980–1981

Chapter

South Central Chapter/MLA (SCC)

Program Committee, Chair, 1990–1991
Nominating Committee, 1999–2000
Executive Committee, Member, 1979–1982
Nominating Committee, Chair, 1981–1982
President, 1980–1981

Other Accomplishments

National Library of Medicine, Biomedical Library Review Committee, 1986–1990
Texas Council of State University Librarians, President, 1996–1998
Council of Research and Academic Libraries of San Antonio (CORAL), President, 1986–1987
AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Board of Trustees, Member, 1986–1989
National Library of Medicine grant 1-RO1-LMO3687-01 “Evaluation of Current Monograph Holdings,” Principal Investigator, March 1982–May 1983

Honors and Awards

MLA

Fellow, 2000
Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences, 1990
Academy of Health Information Professionals, Distinguished Member

Other Awards

Bexar Library Association, Julia Grothaus Award, 2003
Council on Library Resources Fellowship, Current Monograph Acquisitions Patterns, 1978–1979

Publications (5 representative)

Articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association or Journal of the Medical Library Association are available via PubMed Central.

Bowden VM, Wood FB, Warner DG, Olney CA, Olivier ER, Siegel ER. Health information Hispanic outreach in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley. J Med Lib Assoc. 2006 Apr;94(2):180–9.
Bowden VM. NLM resource grants: application and review. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1992 Apr;80(2):157–68.
Bowden VM, Swanner S. Implementing change: the installation of an integrated library system at UTHSCSA. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1985 Jul;73(3):271–7.
Bowden VM, Miller RB. MARCIVE: a cooperative, automated library system. J Lib Automation. 1974;7:183–200.
Bowden CL, Bowden VM. A survey of information sources used by psychiatrists. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1971 Oct;59(4):603–8.

Positions

Library Director, The University of Texas Health Science Center–San Antonio (UTHSCSA), 1985–2003
Associate Library Director, UTHSCSA,1978–1985
Assistant to the Director, UTHSCSA, 1974–1978
Library Systems Analyst, UTHSCSA,1970-1974
Senior Programmer, Bambergers Department Store, Newark, NJ, 1967–1968
Senior Programmer, C.E.I.R., New York City, NY, 1965–1966
Senior Programmer, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, 1964–1965
Programmer, Texaco, Houston, TX, 1960–1964