[Besides being a fellow Chapter member, Lydia Witman is also our Chapter’s new Membership Chair. Please congratulate her the next time you see her, and read below what Sheryl Panka-Bryman was able to learn about our colleague.—RR]
Please talk about your current professional position. Describe what you do and for which organization.
I’m the Clinical Librarian at Pennsylvania Hospital, in the University of Pennsylvania Health System. I help hospital staff develop search strategies and complete searches for literature and evidence, I provide training on best practices when searching for and using information, and I help users locate, access and navigate library resources. I also support other hospital information-related projects such as updating nursing policies with new references and improving patient education materials. I enjoy other occasional projects like a recent collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries on their annual Penn Reading Project, for which I provided references on Medical Practice and Medical Education in their bibliography related to Thomas Eakins’ painting The Gross Clinic. Read more» » »
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