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MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Naomi C. Broering

Fellowship Conferred: 1994

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

Nominating Committee, chair, 1998-99
Past President, 1997-98
President, 1996-97
MLA Executive Committee, chair, 1996-97
Board of Directors, chair, 1996-97, member 1995-98
President Elect 1995-96
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA), editor, 1992-96
BMLA Editorial Board, chair, 1992-96
Board of Directors, member, 1979-1982
Legislation Committee, chair, 1977-79
MLA News, "Capital Notes," column, editor, 1977-79

Chapter

South Central Regional Group
- Membership Committee, liaison-SSC NN/LM, 1997
Mid Atlantic Regional Group
- Chair, 1979-80
- By Laws Committee, chair, 1976-77
Medical Library Group of Southern California
- Archivist, 1971
- Recruitment Committee, chair, 1970-71

Honors and Awards

MLA

Marcia Noyes Award, 2003
Fellow, 1989
Academy of Health Information Professionals, Distinguished Member
Frank B. Rogers Information Advancement Award, 1986
Medical Librarian II, Certified, MLA, 1974, 1982, 1988

Other

Special Libraries Association (SLA), Winifred Sewell Award, 1999
Georgetown University, Vicennial Award for Distinguished Service, 1995
American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), Fellow, 1989- present
Special Libraries Association (SLA), Professional Award, 1987
Veterans Administration, Performance Award, 1973
USC School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Commendation, 1968
NIH- UCLA Fellowship, NLM postgraduate training award, UCLA Biomedical Library, 1966-67
Pi Gamma Mu -- Social Science Honorary Society, 1961
Gamma Theta Upsilon, National Geography Honorary Fraternity, 1961
Cum Laude, BA California State University, Long Beach, CA, 1960

Publications (5 representative)

Broering NC, ed. High performance medical libraries: advances in information management for the virtual era. Westport, CT: Meckler Publications, 1993:229.
Broering NC. Strategic planning: IAIMS at Georgetown University Medical Center. Washington, DC: Georgetown University, 1986.
Broering NC. Servicios de información de salud para el publico (HIP): el programa del NN/LM y recursos en español basado en el Internet (Health information services for the public: the NN/LM program and Internet-based Spanish resources). London, UK, July 2000. <www.icml.org>.
Broering NC, Cannard B. Building bridges LIS-IAIMS-BioSYNTHESIS. Spec Libr 1988 Fall; 79(4): 302-13.
Broering NC. The miniMEDLINE SYSTEM: A library based end-user search system. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1985 Apr; 73(2):138-45.

Positions

Library Director, Herrick Community Health Care Library, Grossmont Healthcare District La Mesa, CA, 2002-present
Sr. Substitute Librarian, San Diego County Public Libraries, San Diego, CA, 2001-present
Editor, Friends of the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research Online Newsletter, Washington, DC, 2001-2003
Editor, Friends of the National Library of Medicine Update, E- Publication, Washington, DC, 1999-2003
Chief Executive Officer, B/C Consultants, (Library and Financial Management Services) La Jolla, CA, 1999-present
Executive Director and Director, NN/LM SCR-RML, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, TX, 1996-99
Director, Biomedical Information Resources Center and Medical Center Librarian, Georgetown University Medical Center, Dahlgren Memorial Library, Washington, DC, 1978-96
Associate Medical Center Librarian, Georgetown University Medical Center, Dahlgren Memorial Library, Washington, DC, 1975-78
Staff Assistant, Manpower Grants, Chief, Readers Service, Medical Library, Veterans Administration, Washington, DC, 1972-75
Assistant Librarian, Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, DC, 1972
Chief Librarian, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 1968-71
Acquisitions and Reference Librarian, Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 1967-68
NIH Postgraduate Fellowship in Medical Librarianship, Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 1966-67

MLA published statements about the fellow

Crawford S. Naomi C. Broering, Medical Library Association President, 1996-1997. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1996 Jul; 84(3):441-3.
Presentation of awards. Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting. Bull Med Libr Assoc 1995 Jan; 83(1):125.
Crawford S. Naomi C. Broering, twenty first editor of the Bulletin [editorial]. Bull Med Libr Assoc Jul 1992; 80(3):197.

Edited September 2, 2003