New Book Boss

From the Greenfield Recorder

GREENFIELD — The library has a new director who will begin on |Feb. 6.
Library trustees made their recommendation to the mayor and he approved their choice.
Ellen R. Boyer of South Burlington, Vt., will bring more than 20 years’ experience to Greenfield.
Dennis Helmus, the town’s human resources director, said Boyer’s salary will start at approximately $60,000 a year. He said all of the terms of her employment have been negotiated.
The trustees have been searching for a new library director since Sharon Sharry decided to take a job as director of the Jones Library in Amherst. Sharry left in August and the local library has been operating without a director since.

WMHIC (Western Mass. Health Information Consortium)

To all

We have a new partner in our efforts to connect all libraries in Western Mass. WMHIC is a group of libraries that have an interest in health information - hospitals, colleges with Allied Health and Nursing programs and individuals interested in health education. If you fit one of these categories - consider joining. See text below for more information.

The Western Massachusetts Health Information Consortium (WMHIC) met last Friday, December 16^th, for their winter quarterly meeting. The meeting included updates from all the member institutions and concluded with a tour of the cutting edge and unique medical simulation lab at Springfield Technical Community College.

The next meeting will take place in March, time and place TBD (will be announced on this blog). If you are a librarian who works with health information in any capacity and might be interested in joining, please check out our website (http://wmhic.blogspot.com/) and consider joining our Google Group to receive email updates. You can also contact the president, Margot Malachowski, at margot.malachowski@baystatehealth.org.

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