Jane Blumenthal, director of the Taubman Health Sciences Library (THL) since 2006, has been promoted to associate university librarian.
“Jane, in addition to her extraordinary leadership of the THL, is a vital participant in policy and budgeting issues that affect the library as a whole, and her new title reflects that,” says Paul N. Courant, university librarian and dean of libraries.
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Among Blumenthal’s many accomplishments, Courant cites the successful integration of the collections and services of the former public health and dentistry libraries to establish the Taubman Health Sciences Library; the establishment of a research and informatics unit; the creation of new service models to meet the evolving needs of health-sciences students and researchers; and the development of an active outreach program to improve access to high quality health information.
Before coming to U-M, Blumenthal served as assistant manager at the National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research Facility; library director at the American Medical Association, Washington Office; and assistant dean for knowledge management and director of the Dahlgren Memorial Library at Georgetown University. She currently serves as president of the Medical Library Association.
