Meeting of the Board of Regents | June 2003

SUMMARY:

Lucretia McClure, Special Assistant to the Director of Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University Medical School, will address the full Board of Regents on June 17. Her topic will be the value of libraries to inform professional decision-making. She will focus on the fundamental importance of libraries throughout the University of the State of New York (USNY) and how the library system structure in New York State builds capacity for all of the State's libraries. Her remarks will illustrate how libraries partner with business and industry and provide vital evidence-based medical information.

Ms. McClure spent her long and distinguished career as a medical librarian and then as Director of the Library, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She was an Associate Professor of Medical Bibliography there, and also taught courses at the University of Denver and at SUNY Geneseo and Syracuse University. Her involvement with the Medical Library Association (MLA) began in the 1960s, and she has played a central role in many aspects of that national organization since then, including service on its Board of Directors and as President of the MLA. Her leadership has extended to many other professional organizations and activities, among them as President of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors and President of the Rochester 3Rs Library Council Board.

She retired from the University of Rochester in 1993 but remained active professionally and now serves as Special Assistant to the Director of the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University Medical School.