Alison Bunting

Position:

Biomedical Librarian

Director, Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library

Associate University Librarian for Sciences

Deputy University Librarian

Division: Administration

Areas of Responsibility:

Director of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Principal investigator and Director of the PSRML, which provides health information services to libraries and health professionals in Region 7 (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and the Pacific Basin) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. As Associate University Librarian for Sciences has line administrative responsibility for libraries serving the health, life, and physical sciences and engineering, and functional responsibility for developing and managing fee-based services and services to external clientele for the UCLA Library system.

Professional Background and Activities:

MLS, University of California Los Angeles; BA, French, University of California, Irvine. Has served as President of the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona (MLGSCA), on the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association (MLA), and as President of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors (AAHLSD). Recent professional activities include reviewing medical informatics and library grant applications as a member of the National Library of Medicine’s Biomedical Library Review Committee, and serving as a Consultant on the National Library of Medicine’s, Long-Range Planning Panel on the Education and Training of Health Sciences Librarians. Editor-in-chief of an eight volume series entitled Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship, published by the Medical Library Association and Scarecrow Press.

Phone: (310) 825-5781

E-mail: abunting@library.ucla.edu

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