Ethel Ullo Madden

Ethel Madden (Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship)
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This year's honor is bestowed on Ethel Madden, Medical Library and Archives, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA.A leader in the profession known for her dedication, courage, and creativity, Madden helped transform her library from one of modest resources to a library that serves as an integral part of the Ochsner healthcare system.Madden opened the doors of the Ochsner Medical Library to all healthcare professionals, librarians, students, patients, and community members in the greater New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina struck.She was also instrumental in forming the Medical Library Recovery Project, which supplied twenty-six sites around south Louisiana with computers and printers to help facilitate patient and professional access to health information.Madden has authored several publications and has served as president of the MLA's Hospital Libraries Section of South Central Chapter.

Then there were JDFS board chairman Glenn Hayes with Cathy, board treasurer Eric Bosch with spouse Catalina Farrer, Ochsner's Ethel Madden and husband/past JDFS board chairman Tim, and JDFS executive director Lisa Conescu with Bob.

Ethel Madden, AHIP, 6/05-5/08Library and Archives DirectorOchsner Clinic Foundation1516 Jefferson HighwayNew Orleans, LA 70121Voice: 504.842.3271Fax: 504.842.5339

Ethel Madden, AHIP

This year's featured speakers are registered nurse Mary Kaye Sawyer-Morse; Linda A. Watson, AHIP, director and associate dean, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia Health SystemCharlottesville; Rajia C. Tobia, AHIP, associate library director for collection development, Briscoe Library, University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio; and Ethel Ullo Madden, AHIP, director, Ochsner Library and Archives, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA.

"Working as a medical librarian for over a decade, I knew that displaced health care professionals and their patients would have a critical need for medical information wherever the hurricane had deposited them," said Ethel Madden, director of the Ochsner Library.

Madden worked with the Chabert Medical Center and the Southeast Louisiana Area Health Education Consortium to develop a plan to provide computers, training and access to the medical literature housed in their facilities.Nital Sheridan, an Ochsner outreach librarian, and Madden contacted the National Network of the Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region, who worked fast to meet their needs.

Ethel Ullo Madden, MLIS, AHIPDirector, Ochsner Medical Library

Ethel Madden

Ethel Ullo Madden, MLIS, AHIPDirector, Knowledge Managementemadden@ochsner.org