Library Staff—Laurie Thompson
Title: Assistant Vice President for Library Services
Email: laurie.thompson@utsouthwestern.edu
Phone: 214-648-2626
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Library Responsibilities:
- Lead 43 professional and classified staff in delivering information resources and services to the UT Southwestern community, emphasizing the importance of excellent customer service and communications as organizational goals and strengths.
- Nurture a flexible, collaborative, and performance-oriented staff team.
- Represent the Library to campus committees, state governmental bodies, accrediting agencies, and academic, regional, and national organizations and consortia.
- Monitor and evaluate the strategic plan and supporting Library activities. Coach staff in developing and implementing strategies to support the Library's strategic initiatives.
- Monitor fiscal and technology planning with a budget of approximately $5 million.
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Areas of Interest:
- Library budget
- Library personnel
- Copyright issues
- Licensing issues
- Licensing of electronic resources
- Organizational efficiency
- Planning and assessment
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Education:
- MLS, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 1978
- Beta Phi Mu Honor Society
- BA, English Education, Northeast Louisiana University (now University of Louisiana at Monroe), Monroe, LA, 1974
- Full academic scholarship, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
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Professional Information:
- American Library Association (ALA), Member 1983-
- ALCTS Committee on Cataloging Description and Access, 1988-91 MLA representative
- American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Member 1998-
- Association of Academic Health Science Libraries (AAHSL), Member 1998
- Chair, Navigating Knowledge Editorial Team, 2011-
- Charting the Future Committee, 2007-11
- Assessment and Statistics Committee, 2005-07
- Assessments and Statistics Working Group, 2004-05
- Annual Statistics Editorial Board, 2004-05
- Nominating Committee, 2004
- Outcomes Assessment Committee, 2003-05
- 25th Anniversary Task Force, 2000-03
- Task Force on Quality Assessment, 2001-03
- Association of American Medical Colleges, Group on Information Resources
- Institutional representative, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 2003-
- Institutional representative, SUNY Upstate Medical University 1998-2003
- Association of College and Research Libraries, Member 2003-
- Beta Phi Mu, Pi Lambda Sigma Chapter, Member 1998-
- Executive Board, 1998-2003
- Central New York Library Resources Council
- Board of Trustees, 1998-2003
- President, 2000-02
- Executive Board, 1999-2002
- Planning and Review Committee, Chair, 1998-2000
Health Sciences OCLC Users Group, Member 1986-94
- Parliamentarian, 1993
- Nominating Committee, Chair, 1991-92
- 1991 Annual Meeting Local Arrangements Committee, Chair, 1989-91
HealthLine (Dallas-Fort Worth), Member 2003-
Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries Editorial Board, 2003-
Medical Library Association (MLA), Member 1980-
- Distinguished Member, Academy of Health Information Professionals, 1991-
- Editor, MLA News, 2012-14
- Board of Directors, 2007-10
- Bylaws Committee, Board Liaison, 2007-10
- Task Force on the Health Sciences Librarian in Medical Education, 2006-08
- Books Panel, 2002-05; Board Liaison 2007-10
- George and Ida Eliot Prize Jury, Chair 2000-01
- CONFU Committee on Educational Fair Use of Digital Images, 1996 -
- MLA Representative to ALA Committee on Cataloging Description and Access, 1988-91
- Continuing Education Committee
- Instructional Development Subcommittee, 1990-95, Chair, 1994-95
- Continuing Education Committee, Chapter and Section Support Subcommittee, 1988-90, Chair-designate, 1990 (committee dissolved)
- 2007 National Program Committee, 2005-07
- 1996 Chapter Sharing Roundtable on Leadership, Resource Facilitator
- 1995 Local Assistance Committee, Social Events Subcommittee, Co-chair, 1993-95
- 1992 National Program Committee, Local Assistance Committee, Chair, 1990-92
- 1991 Fast Break Sharing Sessions Facilitator
- Continuing Education Instructor, Licensing Electronic Resources, 1997-
- Continuing Education Instructor, Descriptive Cataloging, 1984-92
- Continuing Education Instructor, MeSH and NLM Classification 1984-92
- MLA Leadership and Management Section Member, 1998-
- Task Force on Chapter-Level Programming, 2003-
- Discussion list manager, 2003-
- Program Committee, 2003 Annual Meeting
- Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee, 2002
- MLA Medical Informatics Section Member, 1998-
- MLA Technical Services Section Member, 1984-
- Nominating Committee, Chair, 1997-98, 2000-01
- Nominee to MLA Nominating Committee, 1996, 1999
- By-Laws Committee, Chair, 1994-95
- Section Chair-Elect, 1992-93; Section Chair/Program Chair, 1993-94
- NLM Liaison, 1988-90
- Committee on Continuing Education, Chair, 1989-90
- Committee on Certification and Standards, 1986-88
- South Central Chapter of MLA (SCC), Member 2003-
- Credentialing Committee, 2010-
- Local Arrangements Committee, 2007-08
- Provisional Local Arrangements Committee Chair, 2005-06
- Membership Committee, 2003-05
- South Central Association of Medical Libraries (SCAMeL)
- Licensing Liaison, 2011-
- President, 2008-10
- President-elect, 2006-08
- SUNY Council of Library Directors, Member 1998-2003
- Secretary, 2000-02
- Doctoral Campus representative to SUNYConnect Advisory Council, 2002-04
- Texas Council of Academic Librarians, Member 2003
- Texas Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Member 2003-
- President, 2005-07
- Secretary-Treasurer, 2004-05
- University of North Texas SLIS Board of Advisors, Member 2004-
- University of Texas System Advisory Committee on Library Affairs, Member 2003-
- Chair, 2010-12
- Chair-elect, 2008-10
- Upstate New York/Ontario Chapter of MLA (UNYOC), Member 1998-2003
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Teaching and Presentation Materials:
- Creating a Centralized Data Repository, Step Two (poster). South Central Chapter, Medical Library Association, Annual Meeting, 2008
- Proving Value and Preserving Staff Sanity: A Centralized Data Repository (poster). Library Assessment Conference, Seattle, WA, 2008
- Attracting and Keeping Clients: Staying Client-centered in a 2.0 World (invited plenary speaker). Upstate New York and Ontario Chapter/Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, 2007
- Be It Resolved: As Libraries Evolve to Electronic Access Their Need for Physical Space Decreases (debate organizer and moderator). Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, 2007
- Designing a Library for the Future (contributed paper). 9th International Congress on Medical Librarianship, Salvador, Brazil, 2005
- Celebrate Me Home: Leadership Training Opportunities (invited panelist). Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, 2005
- Designing a Powerful Library: A Case Study in Reorganization (contributed paper). Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, 2004
- Designing an Effective Organization (poster). EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference, 2004
- Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL): academic health sciences libraries enhancing excellence in medical education since 1977 (electronic poster). Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, 2003
- The Extreme Librarian (moderator and selection chair). Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, 2003
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Selected Publications:
- Thompson, Laurie L, Mori L. Higa, Esther Carrigan, and Rajia Tobia. The Medical Library Association's Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2011.
- Thompson LL, Higa ML. Journal Collection Development: Challenges, Issues and Strategies. In Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship, S Wood, ed. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2008.
- Higa ML, Bunnett B, Maina B, Perkins J, Ramos T, Thompson LL, Wayne R. Redesigning a Library’s Organizational Structure. College & Research Libraries, 2005 Jan; 66(1):41-58.
- Thompson LL. Analyzing Electronic License Agreements: Strategies for Success. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2004; 1(1): 91-102.
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Awards and Grants:
- Tall Texans Leadership Mentor, 2008. Sponsor: Texas Library Association
- Dan Richards Prize for Collection Development, 2008. Sponsor: Medical Library Association Collection Development Section
- AAHSL Leadership Fellowship Mentor, 2006-07. Sponsor: National Library of Medicine, Association of Research Libraries, Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries
- ARL Service Quality Assessment Institute, San Antonio, TX. May 2003. Funded by: Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Frye Leadership Institute, Atlanta, GA. June 2002 Sponsor: Council on Library Resources
- Medical Informatics Fellowship, Marine Biological Institute, Woods Hole, MA, 1999. Sponsor: National Library of Medicine
- $12,000 (annual) Outreach Subcontract, NN/LM Regional Medical Library, 2007
- $11,000 (annual) Outreach Subcontract, NN/LM Regional Medical Library, 2004-06
- $10,500 (annual, approximately) Circuit Medical Librarian, Auburn Memorial Hospital, 2003
- $5,500 Delivering Educational Programs to Health Providers in the CNY AHEC Region, Central New York Area Health Education Center, 2002
- $8,750 Evaluating Electronic Document Delivery Options, NN/LM Regional Medical Library, 2002
- $8,000 Information Needs of Health Professionals in the Central New York AHEC, Central New York Area Health Education Center, 2001
- $40,000 OASIS Health Information Project, National Library of Medicine, 2000-01
- $18,000 Central New York Health Information Web Site, Central New York Library Resources Council, 1999
- $45,000 (annual, approximately) Circuit Medical Librarian, Central New York Library Resources Council, 1998-2003
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