MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

David Bishop, 1928-1989

Handbook of Medical Library Practice, 4th ed., associate editor, 1976-88.
“Guidelines for Academic Health Sciences Libraries”, expert reviewer, 1984-87.
National Program Committee, Annual Meeting, Montreal, co-chair, 1981.
MLA Bulletin, editorial consultant, 1976-78.
MLA/NLM Task Force on the Impact of MEDLARS II on Cataloging and Classification, chair, 1974-75.
Board of Directors, member, 1971-74.

National Library of Medicine, Regional Medical Library Program, Certificate of “recognition and appreciation”, 1982
Association of American Medical Colleges, Group on Public Relations, Distinguished Service Award, 1976
Arizona State Library Association, Librarian of the Year 1970, 1971

Bishop D. Information overload, and how to lighten it. Mobius 1986 Jul; 6(3): 47-53.
Bishop D, Roberts J, Zinn NW. Bibliographic control of medical illustrations – a case study in the development of a library subsystem: I. Project planning, Bull Med Lib Assoc 1983 Jul; 71(3):263-68,. II. Project implementation. Bull Med Lib Assoc 1983 Jul; 71(3):269-73.
Bishop D. On the uses of diversity: the Janet Doe Lecture for 1976. Bull Med Lib Assoc 1976 Oct; 64(4):349-55.
Bishop D. Planning the new medical school library in relation to local and regional information resources. Bull Med Lib Assoc 1971 Apr; 59(2):292-95.
Higdon TD, Bishop D. Advances in medical bibliographic control, 1954-1958 Part I. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1959 Jul; 47(3): 274-287.; Part II, Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1959 Oct; 47(4): 393-415.

University Librarian & Associate Adjunct Professor, History of the Health Sciences, University of California-San Francisco, CA, 1977-1989.
Director, Library of Medicine; Director, Midcontinental Regional Medical Program; & Associate Director, Clinical Neurology Information Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha NE, 1973-77.
Medical Librarian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1971-73.
Librarian, Arizona Medical Center Library, Tucson AZ, 1965-1971.
Serials Librarian, UCLA Biomedical Library, Los Angeles CA, 1963-65.
Dental Librarian, UCLA Biomedical Library, Los Angeles CA, 1961-63 .
Reference/Cataloging Librarian and then Head of Reference, Los Angeles County Medical Association Library, Los Angeles CA, 1958-61.

Awards luncheon and ceremony. Proceedings, 90 th Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, Inc. Detroit, Michigan May 18-24, 1990. Bull Med Libr Assoc . 1991 January; 79(1): 134.[cited April 3, 2007] <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=225509>
Colaianni, LA. David Edward Bishop, 1928-1989. [obituary] Bull Med Lib Assoc 1990 Apr; 78(2) 213-4. [cited April 3, 2007] <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=225391&pageindex=1>

Contributed by Lois Ann Colaianni, AHIP, FMLA, and Lisa Mix
Edited March 26 & April 12, 2007