Lin Wu, MLIS, AHIP 

Assistant Professor and Reference Services Librarian

Reference & Outreach Services

University of Tennessee Health Science Center Library

Memphis, TN 38163

Email: lwu5@utmem.edu

IM screen name: uthscrefdesk (good for Yahoo, AOL, MSN, GoogleTalk, and Meebo)

Tel: (901) 448-1667; 1-877-747-0004 

Also find me in del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Flickr, Slideshare.net, Twitter, and 2collab. Sometimes I blog.

 

Education 

Master of Library and Information Studies (M.L.I.S.), McGill University, Canada, 2001

Bachelor of Arts in English (B.A.), Guangxi Normal University, P. R. China, 1983

 

Work Experience

07/06—Present     Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian

                             University of Tennessee, Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications Center, TN, 

                             USA   

08/03—07/06      Instructor and Reference Librarian

                             University of Tennessee, Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications Center, TN, USA 

06/01—08/03      Research Librarian

                             Research Unit, McGill University School of Nursing, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

06/02—08/03      Librarian

                             Nurses’ Library, McGill University Health Center, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal,

                             Quebec, Canada

 

Teaching/Instructional Activities

2003-Present       Library Overview & Database Searching for Pharmacy: a 3-hour monthly workshop for the

                            4th year pharmacy students

2006-Present      Staying Current: a workshop offered to UTHSC faculty and students

2006-present      Informatics for Healthcare: a 2-credit course, co-instructed with Dr. Cynthia Russell,

                           UTHSC College of Nursing

2005                   Databases@Ovid: a workshop offered to UTHSC faculty and students

 

Liasion Program 

Services available for the UTHSC colleges, departments, and divisions served

 

Grant Project

2007-Present 

Team member in Learning Information Seeking and Technology for Evidence-Based Nursing (LISTEN) project funded by Health Resources and Services Administrations (HRSA)

 

 

Membership in Professional Associations

Medical Library Association (MLA) 

• Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section (NAHRS)
• Pharmacy and Drug Information Section 

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association (SC/MLA)   

Memphis Area Library Council (MALC)  

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)  

• Libraries/Educational Resources Section  

 

Academic and Professional Honors and Awards

2007    Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial foundation Stipend awarded by the American Association of

            Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), Lake Buena Vista, FL   

2005    SC/MLA Research Project Grant for the project “What employers were looking for in reference

            librarians: an analysis of job announcements in MLA Nws from January 2000 to December 2005”     

2004    2004 Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians from Traditionally Underrepresented Groups.

2004    EBSCO Conference Grant awarded by Medical Library Association (MLA) 

 

Publications

Li, P. & Wu, L. (2009). Exploring the real world: Medical Librarians' involvement in supporting Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) practice. Proceedings of the 37^th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS). 

Qiu, K., Wu, L., Ponnappa, S., & Wallace, R. (2008). A clinical outreach program: implications for clinical librarians.   In Y. Hu, L. Xiong, & M. B. Huang (Eds.). The Development of Subject Librarianship and Personal Librarianship. The Proceedings of the International Conference on the Development of Subject Librarianship and Personal Librarianship (pp. 177-182). Beijing, China: Capital Normal University Press.  

Wu, L. & Li, P. (2008). What do they want? A content analysis of the Medical Library Association (MLA) reference job

announcements. Journal of Medical Library Association. 96(4), 378-381.

Li, P. & Wu, L. (2008). Are health sciences librarians taking the evidence-based medicine challenge? Proceedings of

the 36^th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS). 

Wu, L. (2006). Weight Management: Information from the Internet. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 10(3), 75-87. 

Wu, L., Blalock, L., Cunningham, K., Grayson, M., & Stephenson, P. (2006) Wiring seniors to quality health information. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 10(2),11-24. 

Green, B., Wu, L., & Nolland, R. (2006). Bibliographic instruction in a new medium. Medical References Services Quarterly. 25(1), 83-91. 

Wu, L. (2005). Tourette Syndrome: Information from the Internet. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 9(1), 45-54. 

Wu, L. (2004). Montreal hospital librarians’ websites: striving for excellence. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 4(3), 101-108.

 

Areas of Research Interest

• Information literacy
• Medical Informatics
• Nursing Informatics
• Library instruction
• Technology and reference services