Medical Library Association Honor

Associate Dean, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, Inducted as Fellow of the Medical Library Association

Each year, the Medical Library Association (MLA) bestows the honor of Fellow status on several of its most accomplished members. Fellows of the association are chosen based on their commitment to furthering MLA’s goals and their contributions to the health sciences information profession.  Loyola Associate Dean for Library Services, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, was inducted as an MLA Fellow at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Monday, May 18, 2009, during the annual meeting of MLA in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Logan has been an active member of the association for over twenty years, serving as chair of the Grants and Scholarships and the Doctoral Fellowship Juries (1980-82), Annual Meeting Local Assistance Committee Chair in 1999, Governmental Relations Committee Chair (2001-2004) and has served as Associate Editor, for the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) for 12 years.  A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Logan was the first recipient of MLA’s Virginia L. & William K. Beatty MLA Volunteer Service Award.  He has also served as an MLA’s representative to Section 8 US Copyright Office Working Group and to the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Principles for Libraries in a Networked World Task Force, and provided MLA testimony on several occasions before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies.

Logan can also include among his numerous achievements the honor of being elected president to several library health communications associations including both the Midcontinental (1985) and the Midwest MLA chapters (1995), Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (2006), and the Health and Sciences Communications Association [HeSCA] (1986).   He was awarded the Midwest Chapter Librarian of the Year Award in 2008 and has received both the Distinguished Service Award and the Golden Raster Award from HeSCA.  Logan is also active as the AAHSL representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Academic Societies and as a frequent grant reviewer for NIH’s Center for Scientific Review.
Committed to sharing the vast knowledge he has gained throughout his career, he has authored over sixty articles in many peer reviewed journals, several book chapters, presented numerous workshops and platform presentations, and is a well-know library building consultant having helped design or renovate over two dozen libraries world-wide.
MLA Fellows are elected by the Board of Directors, for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. Fellows may use the initialism “FMLA” following their names. Please join us in congratulating Logan on this fine achievement!

Staff News

Congratulations to Adrienne Stras, Technical Services Assistant,  on her retirement.  Ade began working at the Library in September 1979.  She has been a valued member of the Library staff ever since.  Her cheery smile and infectious laugh will be greatly missed by all of us here at the Library.  Ade has two special loves,  animals and her grandchildren, and will be spending a good deal of time playing with the grandkids and volunteering at the Field of Dreams horse rescue in Geneva.  We wish her all the best in her new pursuits.  She will be missed.

Library Staff contributes to Thanksgiving Dinner Baskets

Each fall, medical students from Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine, organize, with the support of University Ministry, Thanksgiving Baskets to provide a meal for local needy families. Each year, over 300 baskets are donated from deserving  individuals.  Baskets consist of canned goods, vegetables, desserts, and a gift certificate to buy a turkey, and often include “extras” such as tablecloths, toys for kids, candles with candleholders, and other extra “goodies.” Students deliver these baskets before Thanksgiving to needy families in Maywood, and in Chicago’s West and South sides.  Each Library staff member is contributing something to a basket and wishes a Happy Thanksgiving to all the deserving families.

Distinguished Librarian Award

Logan Ludwig, Associate Dean, Loyola University Health Sciences Library is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Librarian of the Year award of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association.  This award was given to Dr. Ludwig at the annual meeting of the Association held in Troy, Michigan in October.  Also attending the meeting were two of our reference librarians, Jeanne Sadlik and Jean Gudenas.  Jean Gudenas presented her poster session entitited. Surveying and Understanding the E-book Needs of the Loyola University Medical Community.

Staff News

New Staff Member

The Library welcomes a new full-time Reference Assistant, Emily Douville.  Emily is also a student in the Graduate School of Library and Informtion Science at Dominican Univerity.  Emily will be at the Reference Desk from 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. begining in December.  Stop by and say “HI!”

Staff Anniversaries

What makes the Library Great  The wonderful staff we have!

Happy Anniversary to the following Library staff members:

Linda Gilley…..Starting date Sept. 1973

Adrianne Stras…..Starting date Sept. 1979

Mary Klatt…..Starting date Oct. 1979

Dianne Olson…..Starting date Oct. 1981

Cathy Melone…..Starting date Sept. 1990

Regina Zarilla…..Starting date Sept. 1990

Donald Nagolski…..Starting date Nov. 2001

Staff News – July 2008

The Library is please to welcome 3 new staff members this month. Stop by the Library and say hello and welcome to:

Helen Williams. Helen is the new Telehealth Assistant. You may already know her. Helen has worked in other departments here at Loyola including the MRI Department and the Wheaton outpatient oncology center. Helen remarked that she is very happy to be here and finds telehealth very interesting.

Diane Bartkowiak. Diane is a recent graduate of DePaul University where she studied English and Psychology. She has been working at DePaul’s Library for three years and intends on pursuing a Master’s in Library Sciences. Diane is the new Technical Services Assistant and helps process the new items that come into the library.

Joanna Bertucci. Joanna has recently joined our staff as a Reference Assistant. Joanna is currently attending Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She is in her second year of library school and is looking forward to gaining experience and knowledge here at the Library.

Staff News: June 2008

With sadness, the Library says goodbye to several staff members this summer. All have contributed greatly to the Library’s success and service to our users. We wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors.

Anthony Molaro, the Library’s Reference & e-Learning Assistant, receives his Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University this summer. He will start his professional library career as Assistant Professor, Liaison to Area Studies, at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. Tony’s last day is Friday, June 6th.

Samantha Meyer has been the Library’s Cataloging Assistant for past 3.5 years. She has also been instrumental in the success of the Library’s Health-E Illinois project and blog. Sam is off to Nebraska with her husband and son. Sam’s husband, who has just finished his pathology residency here at Loyola, will start a pathology fellowship at the University of Nebraska at Omaha this July.

Anyone who has used a LCD projector or checked out a DVD at the Library’s Learning Resources center, knows Jake Giovingo. Jake has been accepted into the JET Programme (The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme ). Jake will teach English Language skills to Japanese students. Jake’s last day will will be July 22nd.

Staff News

Emma Muzzall, Intralibrary Loan Assistant, was one of the featured singers at the new Hospital Tower’s Mass of Blessing. Emma sang Bless this House during the Presentation of Gifts and Amazing Grace during the Communion. Emma has been singing with Loyola’s Gospel Choir and Loyola Voices for many years.