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Marcia I Epelbaum, M.A.

Phone:
936-1553
Email:
marcia.epelbaum@Vanderbilt.Edu
Office:
105 Eskind Biomedical Library

Job Related Information

Job Title:

Librarian

Department:

Eskind Biomedical Library

Area(s)of Responsibility:

  • Library Research
  • Library Knowledge Management
  • Library Information Services - Public Service Functions
  • Library Information Services - Patient Informatics Consult Service
  • Facility Maintenance
  • Filtering/Evidence-Based Services
  • Staff Training
  • Education Services
  • Collection Development

Learning Framework Skills:

  •  Body language
  •  Clarity of message
  •  Communication skills (oral and written)
  •  Comprehends communication from others
  •  Ensures understanding
  •  Internal relationship building
  •  Listening skills
  •  Organized communication
  •  Creates win/win solutions
  •  Needs assessment
  •  Seeks to understand customers
  •  Service development and management
  •  Ability to set goals and priorities
  •  Analytic ability and problem solving
  •  Decisive
  •  Develops and considers alternatives
  •  Evaluates multiple solutions
  •  Evaluation and synthesis of information
  •  Judgment
  •  Priority assessment
  •  Reasoned risk taking
  •  Remains open to ideas
  •  Reviews data
  •  Strategic planning
  •  Adjusts to the audience
  •  Clarifies information
  •  Credentialing
  •  Curriculum development
  •  Education methodologies
  •  Educational trends
  •  Explains and demonstrates
  •  Health sciences educational process
  •  Instructional design and teaching methodologies
  •  Maintains audience attention
  •  Multidisciplinary education and experience
  •  Professional qualifications (degrees, experience, demeanor)
  •  Staff development
  •  Targeted selection training
  •  Targets learning needs
  •  Disaster risk management
  •  Analyzes information
  •  Copyright laws
  •  Database Searching
  •  Informatics principles
  •  Information needs assessment
  •  Information retrieval techniques
  •  Internet resources
  •  Organization of health sciences literature
  •  Organizes information
  •  Print resources
  •  Seeks information
  •  Database resources
  •  Digital libraries
  •  Consultation/reference interview
  •  Information delivery methods
  •  Information needs/info-seeking behavior
  •  Aligning people with priorities and goals of organization/institution
  •  Builds collaborative relationships
  •  Challenges paradigms
  •  Change facilitator
  •  Creates a learning environment
  •  Creativity
  •  Cultivate an environment of success
  •  Empower others/enabling others to act
  •  Ensures relevance
  •  Entrepreneurial thinking
  •  Facilitating
  •  Innovativeness
  •  Inspiring
  •  Facilities planning and management
  •  Physical facilities management
  •  Understanding of institutional environment and organizational structure
  •   Capturing appropriate institutional information/knowledge
  •  Archiving
  •  Information facilitation
  •  Information use
  •  Managing organizational information
  •  Leadership
  •  Mentoring
  •  Promotes the success and integrity of others
  •  Skills matching
  •  Applies knowledge or skill
  •  Builds skills and performs complex tasks in area of expertise
  •  Intellectual curiosity/lifelong learning
  •  Knowledgeable
  •  Maximizes learning
  •  Seeks learning activities
  •  Value of education
  •  Willingness to learn
  •  Biomedical informatics theory/application
  •  Current trends in librarianship
  •  Library technology
  •  NLM programs and policies
  •  Organization of information
  •  Ability to handle stress
  •  Ability to read others
  •  Accountability
  •  Adapt to constituency (faculty, staff, students, etc.)
  •  Adaptability/Flexibility
  •  Advocacy
  •  Assertiveness
  •  Character (ethical, integrity, principled, credible)
  •  Charisma
  •  Common sense
  •  Competitive
  •  Conflict resolution
  •  Constructive criticism
  •  Courage to challenge/defend ideas/make hard decisions
  •  Culture of trust
  •  Dedication/Commitment
  •  Diplomacy
  •  Discloses own positions
  •  Emotional intelligence
  •  Empathetic
  •  Energy/Enthusiasm
  •  Fair
  •  Humility
  •  Humor
  •  Interpersonal relations
  •  Interpersonal sensitivity (tolerance, cultural awareness)
  •  Intuitiveness
  •  Motivation
  •  Negotiation
  •  Operates with integrity
  •  Optimism
  •  Participates
  •  Patience
  •  Perspective
  •  Persuasive
  •  Political savvy
  •  Proactivity
  •  Quick thinking
  •  Receptive
  •  Resilience
  •  Respect (self and others)
  •  Role-modeling
  •  Self confidence
  •  Self knowledge
  •  Social skills
  •  Takes responsibility
  •  Trust
  •  Delegation
  •  Encouragement/Recognition
  •  Encourages others to take responsibility
  •  Evaluates performance
  •  Matrix management
  •  Personnel management
  •  Sets performance goals
  •  Supervisory skills
  •  Compliance
  •  Confidentiality
  •  Diversity/Equal opportunity
  •  EMTALA
  •  Follows legal guidelines
  •  HIPAA regulations
  •  Programs and policies of institution(s)
  •  Stark law
  •  Vanderbilt's nondiscrimination policy statement
  •  Develops monitoring systems
  •  Ensures high quality
  •  Follow-through
  •  Goal orientation
  •  Identifies monitoring needs
  •  Multitasking
  •  Organized
  •  Outcomes assessment
  •  Planning
  •  Prioritizes
  •  Productivity
  •  Results oriented
  •  Schedules
  •  Stays focused
  •  Time management
  •  Networking
  •  Professional attitude
  •  Professional organization participation
  •  Determines tasks and resources
  •  Establishes approach/direction
  •  Formulates action plans
  •  Implements tracking systems
  •  Initiative
  •  Monitors partnership
  •  Project management
  •  Sets standards for excellence
  •  Interview questions
  •  Makes appropriate candidate selection decisions
  •  Knowledge/Understanding of research
  •  Ability to work in teams
  •  Availability/Accessibility
  •  Collaborative
  •  Collaboratively establishes development plans
  •  Consensus building
  •  Coordinating
  •  Supports others
  •  Understanding of team processes

Published Works:

  • Giuse NB, Kafantaris SR, Huber JT, Lynch F., Epelbaum M., Pfeiffer J. Developing a Culture of Lifelong Learning in a Library Environment. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. January 1999; 87(1)26-36
  • Dunn, K. and Epelbaum, M. Using library skill sets to design a staff development program. Technical Services Quarterly. 14(3):33-45 (1997)