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MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Virginia Holtz, 1932–2006

Fellowship Conferred: 1994

To top of page MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA
  • Nominating Committee, 1983
  • MLA Publications Panel, member and chair, 1979–1981
  • Ad Hoc Committee to Develop a Statement of Goals of the Medical Library Association, chair, 1976–1981
  • MLA/NLM Liaison Committee, member and chair, 1976–1979
  • Board of Directors, 1976–1979

To top of page Honors and Awards

MLA
  • Fellow, 1994
  • Janet Doe Lecturer, 1986
  • Academy of Health Information Professionals, Distinguished Level, 1994
Other
  • Biomedical Library Review Committee, National Library of Medicine, member, 1982–1985

To top of page Publications (5 representative)

  • Holtz V. Medical Informatics, Computer Applications in Health Care. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1991 Apr; 79(2): 245
  • Holtz VH. Measures of excellence: the search for the gold standard. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1986 October; 74(4): 305–314
  • Holtz VH. Helen Crawford. President, Medical Library Association, 1972-73. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1972 Jul; 60(3): 496-498
  • Holtz V. MEDLARS demand search service and the Wisconsin physician. Wis Med J. 1969 Jul;68(7):37-9.
  • Holtz V, Crawford H. Medical library services in Wisconsin. Wis Med J. 1968 Sep;67(9):439-43

To top of page Positions

  • Emerita Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1997-2006
  • Director, William S. Middleton Health Sciences Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1971-97
  • Associate Librarian, William S. Middleton Health Sciences Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1967-71
  • Librarian, Medical Library Service, William S. Middleton Health Sciences Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1956-71

To top of page MLA published statements about the fellow

  • Medical Library Association. Oral History Committee Interview with Virginia H. Holtz. Interview conducted on November 29, 2001 by Diane McKenzie and Ruth Holst. Chicago, Medical Library Association, in press.
  • Kanter DA, Fenske RE, Wu DT. Virginia H. Holtz, AHIP, FMLA, 1932–2006. J Med Libr Assoc . 2007 January; 95(1): 101–102. [cited April 12, 2007] <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1773040>
  • Presentation of awards. Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1995;83(1):125. [cited April 12, 2007] <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=226018
    &pageindex=8#page125>


Contributed by Dorothy Kanter and Alison Bunting.
Edited March 27, 2007

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