Chris Gaspard Is Recipient of Emerging Leaders Award

Chris Gaspard, Head of User Services, has been awarded a National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region (NN/LM SCR) Emerging Leaders Award. The NN/LM SCR partners with the South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium (SCAMeL) to offer this award to motivate and prepare a junior librarian for a position of leadership in an academic health sciences library. The award pairs the recipient with an academic health sciences library director from outside the recipient’s institution who will serve as his or her mentor. The award includes visits to the mentor’s library, attendance at two SCAMeL library directors meeting, and a visit to the NN/LM SCR office at the Texas Medical Center Library in Houston. Chris’s mentor will be Pat Ciejka, Associate Vice President of Library Services and Academic Resources at the Moody Medical Library at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Part of Chris’s mentorship will include a week-long visit to the Moody Medical Library where she will work closely with Pat and other librarians and staff of the library to learn about administration, facilities and local policies and procedures.

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