Scholarly Communication Librarian
Lee Graff Medical & Scientific Library, City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Andrea Lynch, MLIS, is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the Lee Graff Medical & Scientific Library. In this position, Andrea partners with the City of Hope research, clinical and educational community by providing: assistance with the NIH Public Access Policy; tools to help authors decide where to publish their research; strategies for copyright management; information about open access journals and other open access options; and educational and technical support of EndNote and other citation management tools.
She received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from UC Berkeley. After working as a library assistant for four years at UC Berkeley and UCLA, she decided to pursue a library degree and later graduated from the masters program at the UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Studies in June 2004. In her previous position as Health & Life Sciences Librarian and Outreach & Communication Coordinator at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, she was responsible for research assistance, information literacy, and collection management in the areas of nursing and public health as well as coordinating outreach events and other activities to increase health information access. She is a member of the Medical Library Association and Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona (MLGSCA), and currently serves as MLGSCA’s Chapter Council representative and Assistant Webmaster.
Advocating for the value of health sciences librarians
Friday, May 19, 2023
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EDT