Quillen Library Faculty Member Takes First Place for Paper

 An East Tennessee State University staff member has won a first-place research award for a paper he recently presented.

Dr. Rick Wallace, Assistant Director of ETSUs Quillen College of Medicine Library, earned the top honor from the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association (SCMLA) for his paper, An Assessment of Information Interventions with Isolated Rural Clinicians.

The objective of the paper is to analyze the information practices of rural Northeast Tennessee clinicians. The theme goes nicely, Wallace noted, with the ETSU medical librarys strong interest in helping rural clinicians access library resources.

The paper was co-authored by two additional ETSU staff members Nakia Woodward, senior clinical reference librarian at the medical school library, and Elizabeth Wallace, a library assistant at the facility.

Papers were evaluated on originality, innovation, organization and clarity of presentation as well as to the theme of the SCMLAs annual meeting, Community, Collaboration and Care.