Farewell to Margaret Johnson

Margaret Johnson will retire on December 31, 2004, after more than 33 years of dedicated service to the UAMS Library. She began her career at the UAMS Library in August of 1971 in the interlibrary loan department. Several years later, she became the Head of Document Access Services, which included interlibrary loan and circulation.

In 2001, Margaret was named as the Head of the UAMS Library’s Historical Research Center, which includes responsibilities for the history of medicine and archives collections, and the liaison to the History of Medicine Associates. She also serves on the Library’s management team.

Margaret has been an asset to the Library and an excellent colleague. She will be sorely missed.

Amanda Saar New Head of HRC

Upon the retirement of Margaret Johnson as the Head of the Library’s Historical Research Center, a search committee was appointed to find a replacement. Amanda Saar, currently the special projects librarian at the Library, was selected and will assume the duties of Head of the HRC effective January 1, 2005. Amanda has worked in the Library for 30 years in various positions. We are pleased to have a candidate with Amanda’s years of experience at UAMS to fill this position.