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

MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

M. Irene Jones, 1902–1990

Fellowship Conferred: 1971

MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA

Program Committee, Member, 1970
Board of Directors, Member, 1960–1963
Finance Committee, Member, 1962
Committee on Committees, Member, 1962
Ad Hoc Committee on the Medical Library Association Finances, Member, 1961–1962
Internship Sub-Committee, Chair, 1955–1956.
Awards Committee, Chair, 1955–1957
Standards for Medical Librarianship Committee, Member, 1955–1957; Assistant Chair, 1956–1957
Public Relations Officer, 1948–1949
Special Committee on a Medical Library Handbook, Member, 1939–1941; 1948–1956

Other Accomplishments and Activities

Postgraduate Training for Librarians, University of Tennessee Medical Units, Lecturer, 1966–1970
Memphis Librarians Committee, Chair, 1966–1968
Brooks Art Gallery, Docent

Honors and Awards

MLA

Fellow, 1977

Other Awards

Dictionary of International Biography
Who’s Who of American Women

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.

Jones MI. Classification. In: Medical Library Association. Handbook of medical library practice. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: American Library Association; 1956.
Jones MI. The Army Medical Library classification. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1948 Jul;36(3):190–2. [cited 22 Mar 2012].

Positions

Librarian, Mooney Memorial Library, University of Tennessee Medical Units–Memphis, 1959–1970
Associate Librarian, Mooney Memorial Library, University of Tennessee Medical Units–Memphis, 1949–1959
Assistant Chief and Head of Catalog Section, Army Medical Library, Washington, DC, 1945–1949
Cataloger, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI, 1941–1945
Cataloger, Medical Science Department, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI, 1928–1941
Cataloger, University of Indiana, 1927–1928
Junior Cataloger, Utica Public Library, Utica, NY, 1925–1927

MLA published statements about the fellow

Martin JA. M. Irene Jones, 1902–1990 [obituary]. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1991 Apr;79(2):257–8. [cited 22 Mar 2012].
Brodman E. Transcript of oral interview with M. Irene Jones: 9 Oct 1978. (Print copies of the oral history can be found through the Regional Medical Libraries. An oral history summary is available at http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/jones_i.html. [cited 22 Mar 2012].)
Award presentations. Proceedings, Seventieth annual meeting, Medical Library Association, Inc., New York, New York, May 30–June 3, 1971. Bull Med Lib Assoc. 1972 Jan;60(1):174–270.