Nancy Harger

Office: S1-606
Phone: 508-856-3334
Email: Nancy.Harger@umassmed.edu

Title

Librarian

Department

Community, Technology & Global Relations

Brief Biography

Nancy Harger is an Education and Clinical Services Librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Prior to her position here she worked as a hospital librarian at Marlborough Hospital, and prior to that she worked for 12 years as a nurse practitioner and staff nurse in pediatrics. She received a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Michigan and a nurse practitioner certificate from Massachusetts General Hospital. Later she received an MLS degree from Simmons College.

Partnerships and Affiliations

• Clinical medical librarian for the UMMHC emergency medical residents and for the family medicine residents at the Family Health Center, Queen St.
• Research librarian for the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (IRB)
• Project coordinator for the Pediatric Family Resource Library
• Liaison to the Departments of Surgery and Neurology
• Librarian to Marlborough Hospital
• Librarian for the Pediatric Clerkship

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Clinical medical librarianship; drug information resources; Institutional Review Board; grant writing

Teaching and/or Research

• Instructor for MicroMedex
• PubMed advanced searching

Publications

• Book Review: Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries: Issues and Solutions. Edited by Elizabeth Connor and M. Sandra Wood. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2007. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2008 April; 96(2): 171-2.
• Harger NE, Martin ER. The CATCH Project: Central Mass Access to Child Health Information. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2007 Jul; 95(3): 337-339.
• Fama J, Berryman D, Harger N, et. al. Inside outreach: a challenge for health sciences librarians. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2005 Jul; 93(3): 327-37.
• Web site review: Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Library, http://www.mchlibrary.org Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2004 Jan; 92(1): 109-10.

Honors and Awards

• Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP)

Grants

Coordinator for the following grants:

• "Pediatric Family Resource Library in the UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center," Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, LSTA grant, 2001, $28,000. Elaine R. Martin, principal investigator. To provide library resources to families in Central Massachusetts.
• "Parents Learn to Find Quality Health Information," The National Networks of Libraries of Medicine. 2002 subcontract award. $18,000. Elaine R. Martin, principal investigator. Training for parents to find quality child health information.
• "The CATCH Project," National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 10/1/02-3/1/04, $38,992. Elaine R. Martin, principal investigator. To provide public health professionals access and training to online resources.
• "Early Childhood Resource Center," Massachusetts Department of Education, 2003-2007, $40,000. Elaine R. Martin, principal investigator. To provide early childhood and intervention resources to educators and practitioners in Central Massachusetts.
• "e-Mental Health in Central Massachusetts," National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 9/1/04-12/31/05, $39,095, Elaine R. Martin, principal investigator. To provide mental health electronic resources to health professionals and consumers.