See also Kent A. Smith's Oral History Summary
MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments
MLA
- Governmental Relations Committee (ex officio), 1980-04
- Joint MLA/AAHSL Legislative Task Force (ex officio), 1980-04
- MLA/NLM Liaison Committee, 1984-85
Honors and Awards
MLA
- Fellow, 2005
- MLA President’s Award, 1997
Other
- Who’s Who in America, 1990-2005
- Chairman, CENDI-Federal Gov. Info. Managers, 2002-2004
- President, Intl. Council On Scientific and Technical Info. 1990-1994; Distinguished Service
- Award; Honorary Member 2005
- President, Nat. Federation of Abstracting and Info. Services, 1990; Miles Conrad Honorary
- Lecture,1998; Honorary Fellow 2003
- Asst. Secretary of Health Exceptional Achievement Award, 1984
- US Vice President’s Hammer Award, 1999
- NLM Director’s Award, 1983
- DHHS Superior Service Medal, 1974
Publications (5 representative)
- Smith K. Federal information policy: Putting it all together. Information Services & Use 2004; 24(1):59-72
- Smith K, Sequeira E. Linking at the US National Library of Medicine. Learned Publishing 2001 Jan; (14):23–8
- Smith K. The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 1994 Sep; 44 3-4):201–8
- Smith K, Mehnert R. The National Library of Medicine: from MEDLARS to the sesquicentennial and beyond. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1986 Oct; 74(4):325–32
- Smith K. Information As A Commodity Or Public Good. National Forum, Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 1983 Summer; 63(3): 7–29
Positions
- Information Management Consultant, ComputerCraft Corp. McLean, Virginia, 2004-present
- Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 1979–2004
- Assistant Director for Administration, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, 1971–1979
- Executive Officer, Division of Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 1968–1971
- Administrative Officer, Div. of Research Facilities and Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 1965–68
- Management Intern/ Analyst, Office of the Secretary, Department of Health Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C., 1962–65
MLA published statements about the fellow
- Awards ceremony. Proceedings of the 105th Annual Meeting. J Med Libr Assoc 2006 Jan; 94(1):e1-e34. [cited April 20, 2006]
- Presentation of Awards, Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1998 Jan; 86 (1): 131