Contact Wallace McLendon the new Director of the HSC Libraries

January 31, 2008


MEMORANDUM

TO: All HSC Faculty and Staff

FROM: Douglas J. Barrett, M.D.
           Senior Vice President, Health Affairs

I am pleased to announce the appointment of W. Wallace McLendon, MSLS, as director of the Health Science Center Libraries, effective March 3, 2008. Mr. McLendon comes to us from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has served as deputy director of the UNC Health Sciences Library since 2004, and associate director, library services, from 2001-2004.

Mr. McLendon's extremely broad background in library leadership and information technology will serve him well here. He has held library management positions at two large academic medical centers, UNC and the University of Pennsylvania; at an Area Health Education Center in North Carolina; at a three-hospital corporation in Washington state; and with state and local government agencies. His expertise in emerging
information technologies, the electronic medical record and the changing landscape in scholarly communication is particularly relevant. He will also play an important role in planning and eliciting philanthropic support for a new HSC educational facility.

Mr. McLendon holds a bachelor of arts degree in English and a master of science degree in library science from UNC-Chapel Hill and has completed work toward a doctorate at Drexel University. In addition, he has to his credit an extensive list of professional service and committee contributions, as well as professional presentations, publications, grants and consultations.

I wish to extend my congratulations and thanks to the search committee and its chair, Associate Vice President for Health Affairs Russell Armistead, for the successful completion of this search.

Please join me in welcoming Wallace McLendon to the University of Florida.