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Shannon Jones (she/her/hers) is the Director of Libraries for the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Prior to her arrival at MUSC, Shannon worked as the Associate Director for Research and Education for Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Shannon focuses her research on staff recruitment and retention, diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries, and leadership in academic health sciences libraries. Shannon is the co-editor of Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success. She holds an MLS from North Carolina Central University and an M.Ed. in Adult Learning from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently pursuing an Ed.D in Educational Leadership at Charleston Southern University.
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Brenda Linares, MLIS, MBA, AHIP, currently works at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), A.R. Dykes Library as the School of Nursing Librarian and is an Adjunct Instructor at SLIM, Emporia State University.
She has been a medical librarian for more than 13 years. In her current job as a Health Sciences Librarian to the School of Nursing, she helps co-teach a Health Literacy class (NURS 327) with three other Nursing Faculty where they focus on the importance of evidence-based information, research, communication, and cultural humility. At KUMC, she is also involved with the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Cabinet, as the co-chair of one of the diversity committees. Brenda has also received grants to collaborate and work on outreach projects to promote patient and consumer health education resources. She has collaborated with researchers and faculty in Scoping Reviews and Systematic Reviews. She has worked with diverse populations promoting health literacy and consumer health education. Her interests include outreach, consumer and patient education, instruction and technology, health literacy, evidence-based research, and diversity and inclusion. Brenda has been an adjunct instructor for SLIM for the last 2.5 year, teaching the Information Seeking Behavior/Reference Services. She holds a BS in Finance from California State University Northridge (CSUN), a Master’s in Library Science from University of California (UCLA), and a Master of Business Administration from North Carolina State University (NCSU). |
Lisa Liang Philpotts, BSN, MSLS is the Associate Director for Public Services at Massachusetts General Hospital's Treadwell Library. She has over a decade of experience in hospital and academic health libraries, and her areas of expertise include evidence based practice, comprehensive literature reviews, and supporting the information needs of nurses. Lisa is particularly passionate about reducing healthcare disparities and mentoring new and aspiring library workers.
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