List of Library Liaisons
Click on the liaison’s name to see his/her biographical sketch.
Librarian |
Departments/Programs* = Graduate programs |
| Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) * Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Cell Biology and Physiology |
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| Orthopedic Surgery Surgery Siteman Cancer Center ** Neurological Surgery |
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| Physical Therapy (PT) Radiation Oncology Radiology Pathology and Immunology Occupational Therapy * Center for Human Nutrition** |
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| Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology Biomedical Engineering |
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| Neurology Psychiatric Epidemiology |
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| Otolaryngology Audiology and Communication Sciences* Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Scholarly Communications Specialist |
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| Developmental Biology Genetic Epidemiology (GEMS) * Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) ** Genetics Molecular Microbiology |
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| Pediatrics St. Louis Children’s Hospital |
Liaison Biographical Sketches
Kristi Holmes
Kristi Holmes received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Iowa State University, where she studied conformational changes in 16S ribosomal RNA during 30S subunit assembly. Also while a student at Iowa State University, she was awarded the Iowa State University Teaching Excellence Award from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Advanced Studies. Upon receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Holmes remained in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology as a lecturer and taught a number of courses including Structure and Reactions in Biochemical Processes, Survey of Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics.
Dr. Holmes joined the Washington University’s Becker Medical Library in June, 2006, where she is involved in the development and implementation of the Library’s Bioinformatics@Becker program, including the development and presentation of bioinformatics resource workshops for the university community, integration of molecular biology information resources into curricula, and application of bioinformatics resources to research problems through individualized consultations. Dr. Holmes was awarded the Medical Informatics fellowship by the National Library of Medicine to study at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in September 2007. Dr. Holmes currently teaches a number of bioinformatics courses for Becker Medical Library such as Sequence Similarity Searching, Introduction to NCBI Resources, Structure, and Introduction to RNA Resources. She also serves as a course developer and instructor for the NCBI Advanced Workshop for Bioinformatics Information Specialists offered by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Publications:
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, a Central Institute for the Deaf alumna, received her Master’s of Library of Science degree from the University of Missouri (Columbia) and is a certified Archivist. Before joining Becker Medical Library in 2003, Cathy was the librarian for the Professional Education program at Central Institute for the Deaf (now the Program of Audiology and Communication Sciences at WUSM). Her current role as the Scholarly Communications Specialist at Becker Library involves projects to increase awareness among faculty of the various issues that have an impact on scholarly endeavors, developing resources and services in support of authors, and exploring stable means of preserving our intellectual assets. Cathy is also responsible for Becker Library’s historic hearing device collection – the Central Institute for the Deaf-Max A. Goldstein Historic Devices for Hearing Collection at Washington University Bernard Becker Medical Library – and was one of the founding members of the International Society for Historic Hearing Devices.
Cathy is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists, the Association of Vision Sciences Librarians, the International Society for Historic Hearing Devices, the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association, and the Saint Louis Medical Librarians Association.
Cathy is the liaison for the Department of Otolaryngology, the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS). Cathy welcomes faculty, researchers and students to contact her to schedule a personal visit to your office or classroom for any questions you may have about the Becker Library or other information needs. Cathy can be reached at 314-362-7865 or sarlic@wustl.edu or stop by her office at Becker on the main level at any time.
Publications:
Sarli, Cathy, et al. “19th Century Camouflaged Mechanical Hearing Devices.” Otology and Neurotology. 2003 July; 24(4):691-8.
Digital Projects:
Deafness in Disguise: Concealed Hearing Devices of the 19th and 20th Centuries
(http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/intro.htm)
Exploring Object Virtual Reality: A Manual for Libraries and Museums
(http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/3D/index.html)
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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