Abstract
Gertrude H. Lamb, 1918–2015, AHIP, FMLA.
Highlights
She returned full-time to Connecticut in 1973, with an appointment as university assistant librarian and director of the clinical librarian program at the Hartford Hospital, where she directed another National Library of Medicine (NLM) grant on ‘‘Clinical Librarians in Patient Care Teaching Settings.’’ She became director of the Health Sciences Libraries at the Hartford Hospital in 1980 and served there until her retirement in1992
Librarianship was a second career for her. She had met her future husband, Dr Jack Lamb, at University of Connecticut (UConn) when they were both on the faculty, he in the Department of Speech and Drama and she in the Department of Government and International Relations
Her dissertation was titled The Coincidence of Quality and Quantity in the Literature of Mathematics. She and her husband commuted between Ohio—and later Missouri—and Connecticut, while he continued to teach in the drama and speech faculty at UConn, and she built her new career in librarianship
Summary
She returned full-time to Connecticut in 1973, with an appointment as university assistant librarian and director of the clinical librarian program at the Hartford Hospital, where she directed another NLM grant on ‘‘Clinical Librarians in Patient Care Teaching Settings.’’ She became director of the Health Sciences Libraries at the Hartford Hospital in 1980 and served there until her retirement in1992. After completing her doctoral degree, Trudy began her work in medical libraries by taking a position as medical librarian and associate professor of medicine at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, from 1971 to 1973.
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