Medical Library Association | Fellows and Honorary Members : MLA Awards and Honors

MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Myrl Lua-Frances Ebert, 1913–2001

Fellowship Conferred: 1978

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Consulting Editor
US Book Exchange, Board of Directors, MLA Consultant, 1974–1976
Committee on Curriculum, Member, 1974–1975
Committee on Surveys and Statistics, Member, 1970–1975
Ad Hoc Committee on Standards for Medical Library Technicians, Member, 1967
Nominating Committee, Member, 1965–1967; Chair 1966–1967
Finance Committee, Member, 1963–1965
Committee on Committees, Member, 1963–1965
Medical Library Association, Secretary, 1962–1965
Bibliography Committee, Member, 1960–1961
Subcommittee on Union List of Serials, Member, 1960–1961
Subcommittee on Recruitment, Member, 1953–1957

Chapter

Southern Regional Group, MLA
- Chair, 1953–1954

Other Accomplishments and Activities

Active in library organizations in North Carolina and the Southeast
International Institute for Population Libraries, Bangkok, Thailand, Instructor, 1973
Ad Hoc Panel on Selection of Journals for Index Medicus, Member, 1964
Rockefeller Fellows in Medical Librarianship, Advisor (including first fellow, Ligia DeMingo Velez, in 1961)
Medical Librarianship Seminar, School of Library Science, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, MLA Instructor
Consultant to numerous hospital and other health sciences libraries in the Southeast
Special Libraries Association, Member
American Association of the History of Medicine, Member

Honors and Awards

MLA

Fellow 1978

Other Awards

American Medical Association Service Award for efforts from 1966–1974 to develop library resources at the University of Saigon Medical School

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.

Glasgow V, Ebert M, Brodman E. Transcript of oral interview with Gertrude Annan: 7 Aug 1978. (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/annan_g.html. [cited 4 May 2012].)
Ebert M. An introduction to the literature of the medical sciences. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina; 1963. [2nd ed, 1967; 3rd ed, 1970].
Ebert M. Subject control of medical literature: a symposium quandaries and queries in subject control. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1961 Jan;49(1 pt 1):42–50. [cited 4 May 2012].
Bry I, Bayne H, Ebert M. Bibliography of early psychoanalytic monographic series. 1. under the editorship of Freud. 2. Secondary publisher-sponsored series. J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 1953 Jul&Oct;1:519–25 and 706–18.
Ebert M. The rise and development of the American medical periodical, 1797–1850. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1952 Jul;40:243–76. [cited 4 May 2012].
Ebert M. Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard: a nineteenth century neurologist and endocrinologist [book review]. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1947 Oct;35(4):386. [cited 4 May 2012].

Positions

Director, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1952–1975
Associate Professor of Medical Bibliography, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1952–1975
Library Associate, Bellevue Center Library, New York University, 1951–1952
Assistant Reference Librarian and Periodicals Librarian, New York Academy of Medicine, 1946–1951

MLA published statements about the fellow

Jenkins CG, Horres MM. Myrl Lua-Frances Ebert, October 20, 1913–May 5, 2001 [obituary]. J Med Lib Assoc. 2002 Jan;90(1):123–4. [cited May 4, 2012].
Honors and awards. Proceedings, 78th Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, Inc. Chicago, IL, June 10–15, 1978. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1979 Jan;67(1):89. [cited 5 May 2012] .
Martin J. An introduction to the literature of the medical sciences. 2nd ed. by Ebert M [book review]. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1967 Jul;55(3):372–3.[cited 5 May 2012].
Vaillancourt PM. An introduction to the literature of the medical sciences. 3rd ed. by Ebert M [book review]. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1971 Jan;59(1):127–8. [cited 5 May 2012].

Education

MS, Columbia University, 1951
BA and BS, Library Science, George Peabody College, 1943

Contributed by Carol Jenkins and Diane McKenzie, 2012

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