New Chief of Planning and Analysis at NLM
Forwarded from NLM: Barbara A. Rapp assumed the position of Chief, Planning and Analysis, Office of Health Information Programs Development (OHIPD), effective January 20, 2007. Dr. Rapp has more than twenty years experience at NLM. Most recently, she served in the Division of Library Operations as coordinator of the postgraduate Associate Fellowship Program. Prior to that, she was in the National Center for Biotechnology Information for twelve years as manager of user services. She also has prior experience in OHIPD, where she participated in an important study of the impact of MEDLINE on clinical decision making.
Prior to NLM, Dr. Rapp was on the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science at The Catholic University of America, where she taught courses in information systems and managed the program in health sciences librarianship.
Dr. Rapp earned a Ph.D. in Information Science from Drexel University in 1985, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 1978. She has numerous publications and presentations on scientific databases and information retrieval systems, and is also an active member of the Medical Library Association. /ch
