List of Library Liaisons
Click on the liaison’s name to see his/her biographical sketch.
Librarian |
Departments/Programs* = Graduate programs |
| Anesthesiology Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine (see specific divisions) Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Otolaryngology Washington University Pain Center** |
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| Family Resource Center, St. Louis Children’s Hospital | |
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Cell Biology and Physiology Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) * Institute for Clinical & Translational Science (ICTS)** Office of Faculty Affairs Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research |
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| Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Neurological Surgery Siteman Cancer Center ** Barnes Jewish Hospital |
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| Pathology and Immunology Radiation Oncology Radiology Occupational Therapy* Physical Therapy* Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center** |
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| Biomedical Engineering Internal Medicine (see specific divisions) Obstetrics and Gynecology Center for Human Nutrition** [Geriatrics & Nutritional Science] Diabetes Research and Training Center** Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE)** |
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| Neurology Psychiatry Psychiatric Epidemiology* Public Health* (MPH program) Hope Center for Neurological Disorders** Sleep Center** |
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| Audiology and Communication Sciences* Institute for Clinical & Translational Sciences (ICTS)** Office of Faculty Affairs Office of Neuroscience Research Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research |
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| Biostatistics Developmental Biology Genetic Epidemiology (GEMS) * Genetics Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) ** Molecular Microbiology |
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| Pediatrics/Pediatric subspecialties St. Louis Children’s Hospital |
Liaison Biographical Sketches
Kristi Holmes
Kristi Holmes received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and joined the Washington University’s Becker Medical Library, where she is involved in the development and implementation of the Library’s Bioinformatics@Becker program. This program includes the development and presentation of bioinformatics resource workshops for the university community, integration of molecular biology information resources into medical school and graduate-level curricula, and application of bioinformatics resources to research problems through individualized consultations and collaborative relationships. She has also served as a course developer and instructor for the NCBI Advanced Workshop for Bioinformatics Information Specialists offered by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Dr. Holmes works in close partnership with various groups on campus to develop and support cross-disciplinary initiatives which aim to facilitate campus-wide educational and professional development goals. Dr. Holmes’s professional interests center upon promotion and support of collaborative tools and initiatives at the institutional level and beyond and she actively seeks innovative approaches to promote collaboration in the translational research setting.
Publications:
Sarli, C, Dubinsky, EK, Holmes, KL. Beyond Citation Analysis: A Model for Assessment of Research Impact. J Med Libr Assoc 2010 Jan;98(1): 17-23.
Holmes, KL and Dubinsky, EK. Integration of Web 2.0 Technologies in the Translational Research Environment. Med Ref Serv Q. 2009 Winter; 28:4,309-335.
Holmes, KL and Culver, GM. Analysis of conformational changes in 16S rRNA during the course of 30S subunit assembly. J. Mol. Biol. 2005 Nov 25; 354(2):340-57.
Holmes, KL and Culver, GM. Mapping structural differences between 30S ribosomal subunit assembly intermediates. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2004 Feb; 11(2):179-86.
Mosher, MD, Holmes, KL, and Frost, KS. Structure-Activity Relationships for the 9-(Pyridin-2’-yl)-aminoacridines. Molecules (Special Issue: Biologically Relevant Heterocyclic Compounds) 2004, 2, 102-108.
Reka Kozak
Reka Kozak earned the degree of Bachelor of Art in Public Education, Masters of Art in History, and Masters of Art in Literature at Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen, Hungary. She completed her Masters of Library Sciences degree at University of Missouri-Columbia.
Kozak started her librarian career at Olin Library, Washington University, continued in the Biology Library and became Assistant Director of the Learning Resource Center of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. She joined the professional staff as a reference librarian at the Bernard Becker Medical Library of Washington University School of Medicine in 1985. Presently as a member of the Health Information Resources Department, she is the Librarian at the Rothschild Medical Library of Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Kozak participates in local and regional professional library groups, and has presented papers to the First and Second Conferences of Librarians of Hungarian Origin in Budapest, as well as published articles in Hungarian professional journals about Washington University Libraries’ collections.
Presentations:
First International Conference for Librarians of Hungarian Origin, Budapest, Hungary, 1980. “Methodological Problems in Preparing a Bibliography Relating to Hungary in Washington University Libraries, St. Louis.”
Second Conference of Librarians of Hungarian Origin, Budapest, Hungary, 1985. “BACS: Integrated Library System in Washington University’s Medical School Library”
“The William Jay Smith Collection in Washington University Libraries.”
Kim Lipsey
Kim Lipsey is a member of the Health Information Resources division at Washington University’s Bernard Becker Medical Library and has worked here since 1993. In addition to her reference duties, she has developed a number of classes for the Library’s Education Series covering major Internet protocols. She now teaches a popular course on the use of EndNote, a file management program. In 2004, Kim was awarded the Bernard Becker Medical Library Bright Idea Award and she coordinated the Becker Library’s 2005 Open House/Symposium on Managing Knowledge in the Digital Domain.
In addition, Kim was a speaker at the Academic Publishing Services Workshop in May 2005, Strategies for Manuscript Publishing 3: Creating Figures, Tables and References, and Considering Copyright and Ethics, EndNote vs Reference Manager.
In 2002, Kim conducted a training session, Using EndNote for Managing a Bibliography at the Health Service Research Methods Seminars which are held in conjunction with the AcademyHealth Annual Meeting. More recently, she presented a session on the Basic Function of Endnote at the workshop: “FROM RESEARCH TO PRESENTATION” sponsored by the Becker Library.
In 1997, Kim co-authored a paper presented at the Internet Librarians Conference in California on Program Design for Internet Training. She also presented a paper at the 2002 Diversity Building a Strategic Future Conference at University of Iowa; Another Dimension of Diversity: Interactions Among Minority Librarians. Previously, she worked as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she taught an information technology class in the Communications Department.
Carol Murray
Carol Murray is the Assistant Director for Information Services and Training at the Bernard Becker Medical Library. She is responsible for developing and implementing training in the use of Library information systems and electronic databases, including internet use, file management, molecular biology resources and biomedical resources. She also serves on the Library’s Collection Management Committee and the Electronic Repository Committee.
Carol teaches the Ovid Medline and PubMed classes offered through the Library Education Series, and has provided Medline instruction for more medical students, residents and faculty than any other Library staff member. She works closely with the office of Graduate Medical Education to provide training for new interns. Carol also participates, along with other reference staff, in the Practice of Medicine, a problem based class for first and second year medical students.
Carol has been a member of the St. Louis Medical Librarians for over twenty years. In 2005, she received the Leadership Award, the organization’s highest honor.
Carol is the liaison for the departments of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Biomedical Engineering.
Will Olmstadt
Will Olmstadt is the liaison to Neurology and Psychiatric Epidemiology. He has worked in libraries since 1995. Prior to joining Becker Medical Library, Will was on the library staff at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Texas A&M University, and was also the library director for DeVry University in Irving, Texas.
Will earned an MLS from the University of Kentucky and an MPH from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He has done research grading the quality of clinical trials for brief interventions for alcohol-related injuries. In 2005 he completed a significant project using GIS to map Medically Underserved Areas (MUA) in Dallas and Tarrant County, Texas, for the DFW Area Health Education Center.
Will has published and presented on diverse aspects of library instruction, including teaching public health informatics courses and providing training for patients in support groups. He is a senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals of the Medical Library Association.
Will can be reached at 314-362-4734, olmstadtw@wustl.edu, or in his office on the first floor of the Becker Medical Library.
Cathy Sarli
Cathy Sarli’s role as the Scholarly Communications Specialist at Becker Medical Library involves efforts to increase awareness among faculty of issues related to scholarly publishing practices including copyright, providing guidance on compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy and other public access mandates, and assessment of research impact. Cathy provides a variety of services and resources in support of authors, including presentations upon request, and also specializes in the Scopus and ISI Web of Knowledge databases.
Cathy serves as the liaison for the Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS), Office of Faculty Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of Neuroscience Research, and the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS).
Lili Wang
Lili Wang began her career as a M.D. in China. After moving to the United States, she did graduate-level work in genetics and biostatistics at the University of Alabama. Lili has Doctorate of Medicine from Beijing Medical University and a MS in Biostatistics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Lili Wang is the library’s Bioinformatics Specialist and teaches three courses regarding molecular database and genome science: Sequence Similarity Search, Genetic Variation and Human Genome Resource. She also teaches Spotfire, a gene expression data analysis software.
Lili attended the NCBI’s courses “Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources” in 2003. The courses include: BLAST, Structure, Genomes and Maps. Lili has been awarded the Medical Informatics fellowship by the National Library of Medicine to do a one week course at the Marine Biology Laboratory in June 2005. Lili is also a regular member of American Medical Informatics Association.
Lili will provide one-on-one training and consult regarding the biomolecular resources for the medical community. Right now, she is working on Function Expression, a microarray software developed by Dr. Rakesh Nagarajan at Bioinformatics Core of Siteman Cancer Site of Washington University School of Medicine.
Publications:
Osterbur DL, Alpi K, Canevari C, Corley PM, Devare M, Gaedeke N, Jacobs DK, Kirlew P, Ohles JA, Vaughan KT, Wang L, Wu Y, Geer RC. Vignettes: Diverse library staff offering diverse bioinformatics services. J Med Libr Assoc. 2006 Jul; 94(3):306, E188-91.
Lauren Yaeger
Lauren Yaeger has a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois and a Masters of Arts in English Literature from Saint Louis University where she taught argumentative writing. Lauren is the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Librarian and came to Washington University from St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield. Lauren teaches Searching for Health Information classes and sits on multiple committees at SLCH.
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