Laura Townsend KaneLaura Townsend Kane, M.L.I.S., is the Assistant Director for Information Services at the School of Medicine Library, University of South Carolina. She is the author of Straight From the Stacks: A Firsthand Guide to Careers in Library and Information Science (ALA Editions, 2003) and “Access Versus Ownership” in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (Dekker, 2003). She is a Distinguished member of the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals. She lives in Columbia, S.C. with her husband and two children.



