Dianne Babski Appointed Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine

November 24, 2020

Countrywide Library of Medication Director, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is happy to announce the appointment of Dianne Babski as Affiliate Director for Library Functions at the Countrywide Library of Medication (NLM), a place in the Senior Govt Service.  This appointment became efficient November 22, 2020. Ms. Babski has served as Performing Affiliate Director for Library Functions considering the fact that March 1, 2020.

In her new role, Ms. Babski is responsible for overall administration of 1 of NLM’s greatest divisions with more than 450 staff who supply overall health information and facts companies to a international viewers of overall health treatment pros, researchers, administrators, learners, historians, people, and the general public.  She will oversee finances, facilities, administration, and operations, which include of a national community of more than 8,000 academic overall health science libraries, clinic and general public libraries, and group businesses to strengthen access to overall health information and facts. Ms. Babski will also provide as the Scientific Critique Administrator to the federal advisory committee recommending journals for MEDLINE (Literature Selection Technological Critique Committee) and will depict NLM to the Worldwide Committee of Health care Journal Editors and the Association of Investigate Libraries. 

Ms. Babski began her NLM services in 2005 as a Technological Info Professional. Three decades later on, she became Head of the MEDLARS Management Segment, and she innovative to the place of Deputy Affiliate Director for Library Functions in 2013. As Deputy Affiliate Director for Library Functions, she led the inaugural year for the Facts Science @NLM Training System for NLM staff, served as Performing Head of the Coordinating Office of the Countrywide Community of Libraries of Medication, and Performing Head of the Countrywide Info Heart on Wellbeing Products and services Investigate & Wellbeing Care Technology, headed planning initiatives for the Building 38 renovations, and played a important role in implementing the very first section of NLM’s reorganization. In these roles, Ms. Babski has manufactured many crucial contributions to NLM and its Strategic System.

“Ms. Babski brings together deep awareness of NLM operations with an impressive spirit that will make certain NLM continues to be a library chief as we go on to pursue our strategic instructions,” said NLM Director, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD. “I am happy that NLM will go on to advantage from Ms. Babski’s solid management and depth of expertise.”

Prior to signing up for NLM, Ms. Babski labored in the Scientific Critique System of the Countrywide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Health conditions, acquiring peer evaluate resources and databases methods. She also labored on NASA’s SPACELINE data challenge that provided space daily life sciences citations and indexing to MEDLINE.  She has a BS in Biology and Biochemistry and Grasp of Info Management degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.