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MLA Fellow Brief Vitae

Janet Earnshaw Minnerath

Fellowship Conferred: 2001

To top of page MLA Elected Offices and Committee Chair Appointments

MLA
  • Awards Committee, Chair, 2000–2001
  • Chapter Council Representative, 1992–1993 and 1990–1991
  • Grants and Scholarship Committee, Chair, 1991–1992
  • Sergeant at Arms, 1991–1994
  • Program and Convention Committee, Member, 1978–1981
  • Membership Committee, Member, 1976–1978
  • Recruitment Committee, Member, 1974–1975 and 1975–1976
  • Committee on Continuing Education, Member, 1971–1973
  • Ad Hoc Advisory Council on Continuing Education, Member, 1970
Chapter
  • South Central Chapter/MLA
    • President, 1987
    • Treasurer, 1983
    • Local Arrangements Committee, Chair, 1984
  • Mid-Atlantic Regional Group, President, 1976

To top of page Honors and Awards

MLA
  • Fellow, 2000
  • Academy of Health Information Professionals, Distinguished Member
  • South Central Chapter, Distinguished Service Award, 1992
Other Awards
  • Michael D. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award, 2000
  • Deborah King Library Staff Scholarship, University of California–Los Angeles, 1960

To top of page Other Accomplishments

  • Helped establish library consortia in Tidewater, northern Virginia, and the Richmond area
  • Worked closely with members of the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations to provide health information to the underserved
  • SCAMeL, South Central Medical Libraries Consortium, Founding Member, 1982; Chair 1994–1996
  • Governor’s Conference on Libraries and Information , Oklahoma City, OK, December, 1991
  • Governor’s Conference on Libraries, Richmond, VA, March,1979
  • Virginia Library Association, President, 1977
  • Association of Western Hospitals, Hospital Librarians' Section, President, 1967–1968
  • The Ninety-Nines, International Association of Women Pilots

To top of page Publications (4 representative)

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

  • Minnerath J. Importance of mentoring. Contributed paper: South Central Chapter/MLA, Annual Meeting; Albuquerque, NM; October 1997.
  • Summers-Ables J, Minnerath J, Thompson CM. Native American Health Information Project (NAHIP) sites in Oklahoma. Contributed Paper: South Central Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting;Albuquerque, NM; October 1997.
  • Minnerath J, Parker P. What Smartcom never showed us. OCLC Sys Serv. 1985;1(4):18–20.
  • Minnerath J. Procedures manual for the hospital library. Virginia Medical Information System; 1970

To top of page Positions

  • Library Director, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center–Tulsa, 1982–2000
  • Library Director, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, LA, 1980–1982
  • Director, VAMIS (Virginia Medical Information System) Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1969–1980  
  • Medical Librarian, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, Downey, CA, 19641–1969
  • Acquisitions Librarian, California State University– Los Angeles, 1963–1964

To top of page MLA published statements about the fellow

To top of page Education

  • MLS, University of California–Los Angeles, 1963
  • BA, University of California–Los Angeles, 1959

Contributed by Janet Minnerath; 2012

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