MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Gary D. Byrd

Fellowship Conferred: 2009

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

Nominating Committee, Elected Member, 2003, 1995
Joint MLA/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Legislative Task Force, Chair, 1998–2000
Ida and George Eliot Prize Jury, Chair, 1987–1988
Finance Committee, Chair, 1985–1986
Board of Directors, Member, 1984–1987

Section

Research Section, Chair, 1999–2000
Medical Informatics Section, Chair, 1989–1990

Chapter

Upstate New York and Ontario Chapter, MLA Nominating Committee Nominee, 2003

Honors and Awards

MLA

Fellow, 2009
Research Award, Research Section, 2003
Doctoral Fellowship, 1992

Other

Medical Informatics Course Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 2003
RS Blackwell North American Scholarship Award, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, 1991

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 http://pubmedcentral.gov/

Wagner KC, Byrd GD. Evaluating the effectiveness of clinical medical librarian programs: a systematic review of the literature. J Med Libr Assoc. 2004 Jan;92(1):14–33.
Byrd GD, Shedlock J. The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Statistics: an exploratory twenty-five year trend analysis. J Med Libr Assoc. 2003 Apr;91(2):186–202.
Byrd GD. Medical faculty use of the journal literature, publishing productivity and the size of health sciences library journal collections. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1999 Jul;87(3):312–21.
Byrd GD. An economic “commons” tragedy for research libraries: scholarly journal publishing and pricing trends. Coll Res Libr. May;51(3):184–95.
Byrd GD, Thomas DA, Hughes KE. Collection development using interlibrary loan borrowing and acquisitions statistics. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1982 Jan;70(1):1–9.

Positions

Director, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY, 1995–present
Project Coordinator, Cooperative Information Resources Development, Triangle Research Libraries Network, Chapel Hill, NC, 1991–1994
Assistant Director for Finance, Planning and Research, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1989–1994
Associate Director, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1983–1989
Acting Director, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1986
Chief Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of Missouri–Kansas City, 1976–1983
Assistant Director, Lommen Health Sciences Library, University of South Dakota–Vermillion, 1974–1976
Technical Information Specialist, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 1973–1974
Library Associate, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 1972–1973