(via Frances Drone-Silvers, HSLI Secretary) Please join us virtually on Thursday, November 21, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM CDT, for a chance to share updates, challenges, wins, and insights. Attendees will also have the chance to meet one of the HSLI Helen Knoll Jira Scholarship winners, UIUC iSchool PhD student Devyn Wilder.
Category: Member News
Janet Harper is HSLI Member of the Quarter
Janet Harper is the HSLI Member of the Quarter! Janet is the Librarian at the Pacific College of Health and Science’s Chicago campus. When did you first learn about the Health Science Librarians of Illinois, and why did you decide to join? After getting my current job, I looked for a health science library association…
UIC’s Emily Gilbert is 2024 Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year
(via the Illinois Library Association) Emily Gilbert (she/her), Assistant Professor and Information Services & Liaison Librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago Library of the Health Sciences and a past member of HSLI, is the 2024 recipient of the Illinois Library Association (ILA) Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year Award. The award, presented by the…
Frances Drone-Silvers is HSLI Member of the Quarter
Frances Drone-Silvers is the HSLI Member of the Quarter! Frances is currently Biomedical Information Specialist at Carle Library in Urbana. She is also the Secretary of HSLI. How have you applied your undergraduate degree in mathematics to your career in librarianship? Indirectly! Having a math and science background landed me a couple of jobs early…
Betsy Sterner is HSLI Member of the Quarter
Elizabeth (Betsy) Sterner is the HSLI Member of the Quarter! Betsy is currently Health Sciences & Science Librarian and Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library. She is also the President-Elect of HSLI. How did your 16 years as a high school teacher prepare you for working with college students in a library…
Cara Forster is HSLI Member of the Quarter
Cara Forster (they/them) is the new HSLI Member of the Quarter! Forster is currently the Research & Learning Librarian and a liaison for Nursing, Public Health and Applied Health Sciences, and Biology at Loyola University Chicago. They studied neuroscience as an undergraduate and spent the subsequent four years as a Clinical Genetic Counseling Assistant. Their…
In Members’ Words: Diane Fagen
Diane Fagen is Library Assistant at UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences – Rockford. How did you first learn about HSLI and become a member? What were your expectations when you joined? When I became a nursing school librarian in 1978, the hospital librarian affiliated with the nursing school told me about HSLI. Her…
In Members’ Words: Evelyn Cunico
Evelyn Cunico, MA, MS/LIS is a Health Science Writer, a Medical Editor, and a Data Analyst. Her experience includes working as a Managing Editor for the American Hospital Association, a Staff Writer for the American College of Surgeons, and a Contributing Writer for the Radiological Society of North America. She is seeking an on-site Professional Administrative position to provide Research Support and Information Services to…
In Members’ Words: Peggy Carey
Peggy Carey works in Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery/Circulation Assistance at National University of Health Sciences. She earned an LTA certification from College of DuPage in 1995 and an MLIS degree from Wayne State University in 2017. How did you first learn about HSLI and become a member? What were your expectations when you joined? As an…
Deborah Lauseng is HSLI Member of the Quarter
Congratulations to Deborah Lauseng, who is the initial HSLI Member of the Quarter! Her involvement in HSLI includes serving on the Conference Planning Committee. Please see below for her responses to some questions, ranging from her academic background and her time working at the University of Michigan’s Taubman Health Sciences Library, to who her favorite…