In 1977 Nancy Fazzone became the first professional librarian at the Salem Hospital. Now known as the North Shore Medical Center, Nancy developed that medical library from a small, nearly empty, conference room into a state of the art facility. A believer in good, traditional library practices as a foundation to service, Nancy soon demonstrated vision. She has an uncanny ability for predicting new trends and developments in libraries and technology. A founding member of the Northeast Consortium for Health Information (NECHI), when others did not know a bit from a byte, Nancy's library was the first to become computer literate and to sponsor beginning computing course for librarians, showing the way to technology and the future for many a colleague.

Ms. Fazzone has been professionally active within the library community at the local, state and national levels. She has served as the Chairperson of NECHI, as a member of the National Library of Medicine's Biomedical Library Review committee, and numerous library and professional committees at the national level, During her tenure as President of MAHSLIN, Nancy provided the leadership necessary for the executive board to mature into a structured, cohesive and professional working group to administer the organization. Nancy has been recognized by the Medical Library Association's Academy of Health Information Professionals at its highest level, as a 'Distinguished' member.

In addition to her many professional activities, Ms. Fazzone is currently active in several community-based projects that foster literacy and self-sufficiency. Her most important quality, as described by all who know her well, is that Nancy takes the time to support and mentor others and provides a hard-working, professional role model.

Nancy B. Fazzone is a resident of Marblehead, Massachusetts.