Tenant to serve on the planning panel for “NLM Support for Genomic Science of the 21st Century,”
Michele Tenant, Ph.D., M.L.I.S, the HSC Libraries’ Bioinformatics Librarian for the UF Genetics Institute and the HSC Libraries, has been asked by the director of the National Library of Medicine to serve on the planning panel for “NLM Support for Genomic Science of the 21st Century,” which will help create the NLM’s 2006-2016 long range plan.
Tennant has also been named to the editorial board of the Journal of the Medical Library Association and she will specialize in papers related to bioinformatics, genomics, genetics and molecular sciences. Additionally, at the recent Special Libraries Association’s annual conference, Tennant was presented with the Distinguished Member Award, which is the highest award bestowed by the SLA’s Biomedical and Life Sciences Division.