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Barbara Shearer M.S.L.S.
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Director of the Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library
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barbara.shearer@med.fsu.edu
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850-644-8970
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Medical Librarian, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Job Description
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As director of the medical library, Shearer is responsible for leading the new medical library, including developing a primarily electronic collection of knowledge-based resources and delivering quality public services to the College of Medicine and FSU communities.
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Biosketch
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Barbara Shearer has 28 years of professional experience, with academic library and administrative experience at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of South Alabama. She is recognized by the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals at the distinguished level. |
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B.S., Communication, University of Illinois, 1974
M.S.L.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, 1978 |
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Service
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Chair, Library and Learning Resources Committee, College of Medicine
Member of Curriculum subcommittees
Member of Florida State University Libraries Council
Member of Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries, Chair, 2007-8
Chair, Florida Consumer Health Information Network, 2007-
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Memberships
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Member of Florida Health Sciences Library Association
Member of Medical Library Association, including Southern Chapter of MLA
Member of Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries
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Publications
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Nadine Dexter, Barbara Shearer, and Suzanne Nagy. “Partnering with PDAs: The Florida State University College of Medicine Medical Library Experience. J Elect Resources in Med Libraries 3: 9-16, 2006.
Barbara Shearer and Suzanne Nagy. “Developing an academic medical library core journal collection in the (almost) post-print era: the Florida State University College of Medicine Medical Library experience.” J Med Libr Assoc 91:13-23, July 2003.
Shearer B.S., Seymour A., & Capitani C. (Eds.) (2002). Symposium: Patient-centered librarianship: the informationist and beyond. Lead article: Bringing the best of medical librarianship to the patient team. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 90, 22-31.
Shearer B.F. & Shearer B.S. (Eds.) (1996). Notable Women in the Life Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Shearer B., McCann L., & Crump W.J. (1990). Grateful Med: Getting started. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, 3, 35-38.
Shearer B., McCann L., & Crump W.J. (1989). A primer for users of medical bibliographic databases. Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, 2, 191-195.
Shearer B.S. & Bush, G. (1985). Finding the Source of Medical Information: A Thesaurus-Index to the Reference Collection. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
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