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Congratulations to newly elected OHSLA
officers:
President Elect:
Jackie Harris

Jackie Harris is
the Medical Librarian at Robinson
Memorial Hospital in Ravenna, Ohio.
Formerly, she had worked as a reference
librarian in public libraries: the
Medina County (OH) District Library, the
Cobb County (GA) Library System, and the
Atlanta-Fulton (GA) Library System. She
also interned at two special libraries:
the American Bankers’ Association
Library in Washington, D.C., and the
research library at Advanced Elastomer
Systems in Akron, Ohio. Jackie obtained
her undergraduate degree in marketing
from the University of Florida, and her
M.L.S. from the University of Maryland.
She is a member of MLA, OHSLA and the
Northeastern Ohio Universities College
of Medicine Council of Associated
Hospitals. Her interests include
consumer health and hospital
management. Medical librarianship is a
mid-life career change for her and she
loves the challenge and diversity.
Jackie lives on a small farm with her
retired librarian husband, four
children, and a menagerie of critters.
Secretary: Fern
Cheek
Fern has worked in
Health Sciences Libraries for over 30
years.
She was in hospital libraries for 27
years, first at Henry Ford Hospital in
Detroit, MI and at all 3 of the Mount
Carmel Health Libraries here in
Columbus. Currently, she is assistant
professor and research librarian at the
Prior Health Sciences Library at The
Ohio State University. As the research
librarian, she works with researchers
offering her expert searching skills and
sits on one of the Institutional Review
Boards. She also participates in
teaching and research.
Fern has been
active in COHSLA, serving as President
in 2000, OHSLA, as one of the charter
members, Midwest Chapter of MLA, serving
as the Exhibits chair when the
conference was hosted in Columbus in
1996. Fern also served a term as
secretary in the O.H.I.O, one of the two
regional organizations that merged to
form OHSLA. She has also been a member
of MLA since 1975.
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