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

MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Charles William Sargent

Fellowship Conferred: 1990

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

President-Elect, President, Past President, 1980–1983
Committee on Committees, Chair, 1980–1981
Nominating Committee, Chair, 1980
Continuing Education Committee, Member, 1975–1979
Finance Committee, Member, 1972–1975
Central Office Committee, Member, 1972–1974
Board of Directors, Member, 1972–1975
Parliamentarian (Bylaws Committee), 1971–1974

Chapter

South Central Chapter (Charter Member): President, 1977–1978; Board of Directors, Member; Annual Meeting, Chair, Lubbock, Texas, 1977

Honors and Awards

MLA

Fellow, 1990
MLA Most Notables
Certification of Medical Librarianship #3, March 8, 1968

Other Awards

Charles W. Sargent Graduate Nursing Award, School of Nursing, Texas Tech University, Health Sciences Center–Lubbock, 1990
South Central Chapter Distinguished Service Award, 1988
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, and Beta Phi Mu

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.

Sargent CW. South Central Chapter Medical Library Association: a history. 1998.
Sargent CW. Presidential address: survival. Proceedings, Eighty-second Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, Inc. Anaheim, California June 11–17, 1982. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1983 Jan;71(1):101–3. [cited 8 Jun 2012].
Sargent CW, Cyelio K. Development and organization of a health science library. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press; 1980. (Foundations in Library and Information Science. volume 9.).
Sargent CW. Zero-base budgeting and the library. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1978 Jan;66(1):31–5. [cited 8 Jun 2012].
Sargent CW, Lindberg DA. Computer-based union catalog project for the University of Missouri. Special Lib. 1972 Mar;63(3):121–9.

Positions

Consultant: Puerto Rico, Illinois, Texas A&M, Kansas City, Missouri, and so on
Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center–Lubbock, 1990–
Director of Libraries and Chair, Health Communications Department, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center–Lubbock, 1972–1990
Assistant Director, Medical Computer Center; Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Medical Practice; Chair and Professor, Information Science Department, University of Missouri–Columbia, 1968–1972
Deputy Director, Medical Library, and Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico–Albuquerque, 1966–1968
Information Scientist, Senior Staff, Department of Aerospace and Bioastronautics, Lovelace Clinic, Albuquerque, NM, 1962–1966
Chief, Cataloging Department, Sandia Corporation Library, Albuquerque, NM, 1954–1961
Curator of the Kansas Historical Collections and University Archivist, University of Kansas–Lawrence, 1953–1954
Assistant Manuscript Cataloger, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, 1952–1953
Assistant Circulation Librarian, Michigan State University–Ann Arbor, 1949–1951

MLA published statements about the fellow

Awards ceremony. Proceedings, Ninetieth Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, Inc. Detroit, Michigan May 18–24, 1990. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1991 Jan 79(1):112–44. [cited 12 Jun 2012].
Gilmer A. Transcript of oral interview with Charles W Sargent: 28 Feb 1985.(Print copies of the oral history can be found through the Regional Medical Libraries. An oral history summary and photo are available at http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/sargent_c.html. [cited 8 Jun 2012].)
Key JD. Charles W. Sargent, President, Medical Library Association, 1981/82. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1981 Jul;69(3):336–7. [cited 8 Jun 2012].

Education

PhD, Economic History, University of New Mexico, 1964
MALS, School of Library Science, University of Michigan, 1953
MA, History, Michigan State University, 1951
BA, History, Michigan State University, 1951

Contributed by Charles Sargent, 2012

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