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| William F. Garrity | |
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Director Biomedical Libraries Instructor in Community and Family Medicine |
Bio: Bill has been the Director of Biomedical Libraries at Dartmouth College/Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center since August 1996. Before coming to Dartmouth, Bill was Associate Director for Information Services at the Biomedical Library of the University of Pennsylvania, and Executive Assistant to the Director of the University of Chicago Library and a Science Reference Librarian/Biomedical Specialist at Chicago's John Crerar Library. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica before beginning his graduate studies.
At Dartmouth, Bill is responsible for information resources and services that support research and scholarship, teaching, and patient-care activities of a large health and life sciences community. DMS and DHMC are very large and complex institutions: the Medical School has 2,200 faculty and researchers and an operating budget of $200 M; the Medical Center has 7,000 employees and an operating budget of $750 M (excluding the Medical School). Bill leads 32 biomedical librarians, technicians, and support staff stationed at multiple locations, and manages an annual budget of nearly $4 million. His various roles within the Dartmouth Medical School include responsibility for the DMS Web.
He is a Mentor in the 2004/2005 NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program that prepares emerging leaders for director positions in academic health center libraries.
Bill has a Master of Arts from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Sciences (Biology) from Siena College (Loudonville, New York). He has taken courses in Intellectual Property at the Franklin Pierce Law Center and courses for the Master of Business Administration from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/ The mission of the Biomedical Libraries is to provide health and life sciences information resources and services that advance research and scholarship, education, and patient-care activities of Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), the Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (IHPCP), and Dartmouth College.