Frances H Lynch, M.L.S.

Phone:
936-1417
Cellphone:
615-945-2075
Fax:
936-1384
Email:
frances.lynch@Vanderbilt.Edu
Office:
104 Eskind Biomedical Library

Job Related Information

Job Title:

Librarian

Department:

Eskind Biomedical Library

Area(s)of Responsibility:

  • Collection Development
  • Administrative Services

Learning Framework Skills:

  •  Budget support tools
  •  Coeus
  •  Contracts
  •  Estimation/Approximation
  •  Excel
  •  Initiating budgeting process
  •  Initiating financial forecasting
  •  Numeracy
  •  Reconciliation
  •  Communication skills (oral and written)
  •  Internal relationship building
Collaborative software  
  •  Understanding of email applications and function
Productivity tools  
  •  Database software
  •  Spreadsheet software
  •  Word processing software
  •  Creates win/win solutions
  •  Seeks to understand customers
  •  Analytic ability and problem solving
  •  Remains open to ideas
  •  Grant applications
  •  Grant systems
  •  Organization of health sciences literature
  •  Understanding of institutional environment and organizational structure
  •  Adaptability/Flexibility
  •  Attention to detail
  •  Character (ethical, integrity, principled, credible)
  •  Common sense
  •  Dedication/Commitment
  •  Discloses own positions
  •  Empathetic
  •  Fair
  •  Interpersonal sensitivity (tolerance, cultural awareness)
  •  Operates with integrity
  •  Optimism
  •  Patience
  •  Receptive
  •  Respect (self and others)
  •  Takes responsibility
  •  Accepting resumes from recruiters
  •  Communicate with recruiter (manager responsibility)
  •  Contacting recruiters
  •  Gathers candidate data
  •  Interview questions
  •  Manages the selection process
  •  Posting a new position (never been filled before) that has an existing VU classification (title)
  •  Posting a new position that doesn't have an existing VU classification
  •  Posting a position left vacant by a departing employee
  •  Record keeping for hiring processes
  •  Resume screening

CV or Resumé

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Certifications:

  • Academy of Health Information Professionals - AHIP

Published Works:

  • Giuse, Nunzia.Bettinsoli, Suzanne R. Kafantaris, Jeffrey T. Huber, Frances Lynch, Marcia Epelbaum, John Pfeiffer. Developing a Culture of Lifelong Learning in a Library Environment. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1999 Jan, 87 (1):26-36.
  • Lynch, Frances and Mary Charles Lasater. Government documents and the online catalog. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1990 Jan; 78(1):23-28. (Eliot Prize).