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MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Erika Love

Fellowship Conferred: 1997

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

Library Research Section, Chair, 1987–1988
AAHSLD/MLA Joint Task Force to Develop Guidelines for Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Chair, 1983–1987
Nominating Committee, Elected Member, 1985–1986
Research Committee, Chair, 1980–1982
MLA President, 1978–1979
Board of Directors, Member, 1974–1977
Joint Committee on Hospital Libraries, Council of National Library Associations, Representative, 1959–1962

Chapter

Chapter Council, Member, 1981–1983
Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Chair, 1970–1971
Midwest Regional Group, Executive Board, Member, 1959–1962; Secretary, 1961–1962

Honors and Awards

MLA

Most Notable, 1998
Fellow, 1997
Marcia C. Noyes Award, 1994
Janet Doe Lecturer, 1987
President’s Award, 1987
Academy of Health Information Professionals

Other Accomplishments and Activities

South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium, Chair, 1986–1988
TALON, Executive Committee, Chair
Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors, Board of Directors, Member, 1984–1987
Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee, Member, 1979–1987

Publications (5 representative)

Articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association or Journal of the Medical Library Association are available via PubMed Central.

Love E. The science of medical librarianship: investing in the future. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1987 Oct;75(4):302–9.
Love E, ed. Challenge to action: planning and evaluation guidelines for academic health sciences libraries. Chicago, IL: Joint Task Force of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors and the Medical Library Association; 1987.
Love E. Research: the third dimension of librarianship. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1980 Jan;68(1):1–5.
Love E, Butzin D, Robinson III RE, Lee S. Reclassification and documentation in a medium-sized medical center library: the MTST system in the simultaneous production of catalog cards and a computer stored record. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1971 Jan;59(1):41–9.
Love E. Postage – boon or bane. an evaluation of one library’s MLA Exchange transactions. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1969 Jan;57(1):64–5.

Positions

Director, University of New Mexico Medical Center–Albuquerque, 1977–1996
Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Medical Library, 1971–1977
Deputy Associate Director, Library Operations, National Library of Medicine, 1971–1977
Director, Medical Libraries, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, 1967–1971
Librarian, Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, 1953–1967
Assistant Law Librarian, School of Law, Indiana University–Indianapolis, 1950–1953
Junior Librarian, Indianapolis Public Library, Indianapolis, IN,1948–1950
Library Assistant, Amerika Haus, Darmstadt, Germany, 1947–1948

MLA published statements about the fellow

Presentation of Awards. Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1998 Jan;86(1):130–1.
Braude RM The research section of the MLA: the first fifteen years 1982–1997. Hypothesis. 1998;12(2):9–16.
Poland UH. Erika Love, President, Medical Library Association 1978/1979. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1978 Jul;66(3):357–9.
Porter S. Transcript of oral interview with Erika Love: 1986 and 1987. (Print copies of the oral history can be found through the Regional Medical Libraries. An oral history summary and photo are available at http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/love_e.html. [cited 23 Jan 2012].)

Education

MA, Library School, Indiana University, 1953
BA, Indiana University, 1950
Universitat Heidelberg

Compiled by Diane McKenzie, 2011

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