Lisa Smith Named Director of UAMS Library
| Lisa Smith has been named director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Library.
She replaces Jan Hart who retired as library director in late 2019.
Before coming to UAMS in early January, she served in Fort Worth, Texas, for three years as executive director of National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region.
Lisa Smith
While there she served as the project lead and co-author for the $6.5 million NIH UG4 funding mechanism from the NIH which allows the University of North Texas Health Science Center to serve as the South Central Regional Medical Library for the National Library of Medicine. This program allows the Regional Medical Library to extend the reach of the National Library of Medicine throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico.
Before that, Smith was the associate director of the Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library, University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth from 2009 to 2016.
She has a master’s degree in library science from the School of Library and Information Science, University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, and a bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute and Institute for Digital Health & Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise including its hospital, regional clinics and clinics it operates or staffs in cooperation with other providers. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. U.S. News & World Report named UAMS Medical Center the state’s Best Hospital; ranked its ear, nose and throat program among the top 50 nationwide; and named six areas as high performing — cancer, colon cancer surgery, heart failure, hip replacement, knee replacement and lung cancer surgery. UAMS has 2,727 students, 870 medical residents and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or www.uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram.