Maryland’s iSchool is pleased to announce MaShana Davis and Yani Yancey were awarded fellowships by the National Library of Medicine to join the 2009-2010 Associate Fellows class.

The National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship Program is a one-year postgraduate training fellowship at the NLM in Bethesda, Maryland, with an optional second year program component. The program is designed to provide a broad foundation in health sciences information services, and to prepare librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and in health services research. The Associate Fellows are introduced to a wide range of technologies and skills used in managing information at a national library.

MaShana Davis is a 2007 graduate of the Master of Information Management program. Ms. Davis is currently working as a Technical Communications Liaison for the Statistics and Measurement Program at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in Washington, DC. She facilitates communications for and provides training to participants and other interested parties, and performs Web development and planning activities for ARL New Measures Initiatives: LibQUAL+®, ClimateQUAL, and MINES for Libraries.

Yani Yancey, will graduate with the Master of Library Science degree is August 2009. Currently she is working as a Graduate Assistant with the University of Maryland Libraries, working in the Information Technology Division to configure and maintain Metalib and SFX for the University and affiliated institutions. She is a 2008-2009 ALA Spectrum Scholar and also a 2009 fellow in the Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Program.

More information about the program can be found here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/proginfo.html