Abby Holt, MLIS Associate Professor Education & Liaison Librarian Phone:501-686-6748 Email: holtabby@uams.edu

Abby received a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1998, and a Bachelor of Art in Psychology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1996. She is currently finishing an MPH in Epidemiology at UAMS with an expected graduation date of Spring 2008. She provides education and assistance to students and research groups in managing information for the purposes of storing and formatting educational and scholarly papers. Abby has worked at the UAMS Library since 2002.

Liaison To:

• College of Public Health
• College of Nursing
• Department of Psychiatry: Psychiatry Portfolio Team
• Jones Eye Institute
• Department of Pediatrics with Lily Liu, ACH

Areas of Interest:

• Web page development
• Literature searching
• Bibliographic management and proper citing
• Collaborative projects with faculty and researchers
• Mobile device support (PDAs)
• Managing public health resources for AR health professionals

Instructor For:

• Introduction to PubMed MEDLINE Searching (1 hour)
• Introduction to CINAHL Searching (1 hour)
• Introduction to RefWorks (1 hour)
• Student Orientations and Tours (1 hour)
• More

Selected Publications & Posters:

Poster: Susan C. Steelman, Outreach Coordinator, Mary L. Ryan, AHIP, Library Director, Abby E. Holt, Campus Outreach Librarian, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library. Changing the Search Behavior of a Public Health Workforce. Descriptive Quantitative Analysis of an Arkansas Public Health Virtual Library Project. Medical Library Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May, 2007.

Book Review:Reference Assessment and Evaluation (2006). Eds. Tom Diamond & Mark Sanders. Haworth Press: Binghamton, NY.

Book Review: Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries, (2004). Eds. Paul Kelsey & Sigrid Kelsey. Haworth Press: Binghamton, NY.

One Visionary’s Dream a Success: APHA 2003 and Sewell Librarians Intersect. (Spring 2004). Public Health / Health Adminstration News. Barabara Carlson, Laura Larsson, Molly Youngkin, Abby Holt, Clair Twose, et al.

Holt, A. (2002) Learning to Teach: Institute for Information Literacy, Immersion 2002.  Arkansas Libraries, 59 (6), 10 – 12.