March 10th, 2016
The Veterinary Medicine Section of the Medical Library Association will receive the MLA Section Project of the Year award at the 2016 annual meeting May 15-18 for Promoting and Advocating for the Profession: Creating a Multi-Faceted Illustrated History of the Veterinary Medical Libraries Section (VMLS) and Its Impact. Gretchen Stephens, associate professor and veterinary medicine liaison, health & life sciences, Purdue University Libraries, was the section archivist and a collaborator on the project. It is described in the following publication:
L. M. Ray, Vicki F. Croft, Susanne K. Whitaker & Gretchen Stephens. (2015). Impacting Librarianship and Veterinary Medicine: History of the Veterinary Medical Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association from 1974 to 2014. Journal of Agricultural and Food Information 16(3): 252-270. DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2015.1052907
Congratulations to Gretchen and the team on this award-winning project.