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University Librarian
AT Still Memorial Library
Mesa, Arizona
Michael Kronenfeld, MLA, MBA, AHIP, FMLA is the university librarian emeritus of the the A. T. Still Memorial Library at the A. T. Still University of the Health Sciences. He received his BA from Duke University in 1971, his MLS from the University of Rhode Island in 1975, and his MBA from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He first received his MLA certification in 1978, and in 1990, when the Academy of Health Professionals was created, he became a member at the Distinguished level. In his over forty-year membership in MLA he has chaired three sections: Public Health/Health Administration Section in 1985/1986, the Hospital Libraries Section in 2000/2001, and the Dental Section in 2007/2008. He also was the recipient in 2001 of the Ida and George Eliot Prize for a work published in the preceding calendar year that has been judged most effective in furthering medical librarianship for his article titled "Hospital Libraries and the Internet Part Two: Focus on the Future" published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association in 1999. In 2003, he was awarded the David A. Kronick Traveling Fellowship and published the results of his research in 2005 in the Journal of the Medical Library Association in an article titled “Trends in Academic Health Sciences Libraries and their emergence as the "Knowledge Nexus for their Academic Health Centers." In 2004, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He has published over twenty-five articles in peer-reviewed journals and in 2004 coauthored a book titled Health Reform in the United States: The Twentieth Century And Forward--Missed Opportunities published by ABC-CLIO. He coauthored a 2nd edition of the book in 2014. In 2016/2017 he is serving as a Mentor in the AAHSL/NLM Fellows program. His professional interests over the past twenty years have focused on the effective use of technology in health sciences libraries to facilitate patron's ability to efficiently access and use quality actionable evidence/information.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
9:15 AM – 10:30 AM CT
