Laurie L. Thompson, MLS, AHIP, has over 30 years experience in health sciences libraries, including 6 years at the National Library of Medicine; 11 years in administrative positions at the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University (including a year as interim director); and 5 years as Director of Libraries at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. She was appointed Director of Libraries at UT Southwestern in April 2003 and was named Assistant Vice President for Library Services soon thereafter. Ms. Thompson is active in the Medical Library Association and served on its Board of Directors 2006-2010. She is also active in the South Central Chapter of the MLA and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, and serves on several boards of directors. She is Chair of the University of Texas System Advisory Committee on Library Affairs and was appointed to the advisory board of the state resource sharing consortium, TexShare. She is an evaluator for the Commission on Higher Education’s Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Ms. Thompson’s publications include “Journal Collection Development: Challenges, Issues and Strategies,” co-authored with Mori Lou Higa (Wood, Introduction to Health Sciences Librarianship, 2008), which won the 2008 Dan Richards Prize for outstanding writing in collection development, and Bibliographic Management of Resources in Health Sciences Libraries (Current Practices in Health Sciences Librarianship, v.6, 2001). She has written several articles on the licensing of electronic resources and has developed and teaches a day-long seminar in negotiating licenses for electronic resources. She received her MLS from the University of Hawaii.
Learn more in this interview with Ms. Thompson.



