Himmelfarb Library Hosts Pan
American Health Organization Fellow
The Himmelfarb Health
Sciences Library recently hosted a Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO) fellow. Aditya Biswas was the recipient of the fellowship
in Health Sciences Librarianship. He lives in Calcutta, India
where he manages the All India Institute of Hygiene & Public
Health.
GW Medical Center is proud to participate in
the PAHO fellowship program, which was established in 1998 to
introduce participants to various types of health sciences libraries.
It offers an overview of the programs of the National Library
of Medicine, the American Medical Informatics Association, and
the Medical Library Association. It provides fellows with the
basic principles of managing health sciences libraries. For Mr.
Biswas, this was accomplished through presentations from the Himmelfarb
Staff. Among the topics covered were resource selection, library
space planning and design, reference and circulation services,
public relations and budgets, history of medicine, and information
literacy.
Apart from the program's educational components,
Mr. Biswas participated in a variety of library activities, working
with the Himmelfarb librarians and staff in a number of offices,
including administration and management, reference, circulation/interlibrary
loan, and computer technology.
This visit was Mr. Biswas's first to the United
States; he also visited Canada, where he attended the annual meeting
of the Medical Library Association in Vancouver.
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