Message from Holly Buchanan, HSLIC Director

New Mexico is a frontier state: Western, rural, sparsely populated, expansive, high tech, research-focused, and open to new ideas like a Spaceport. These attributes not only draw on our heritage but also point toward the frontiers of knowledge and technology.

The frontier: Our heritage meets our future

Similarly, the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC) is a frontier organization, offering services ranging from preserving historical documents to piloting new technologies for managing digitized information. We also train faculty, researchers, and students to be skilled users of new technology and effective evaluators of relevant research evidence. That's a huge scope for a small library, but it's our mission to help improve human health through innovation in organizing, delivering, and using quality information. Over the next few years, HSLIC faculty and staff will focus on the theme of "gathering our past and investing it in our future," being mindful of our heritage as we manage change and prepare for new frontiers.

Supporting the health professionals who care for you and your family

Our users include the students, faculty, researchers, and health care providers of the UNM Health Sciences Center, in fields including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, biomedical research, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and dental hygiene. These are the professionals who keep up to date on the latest medical treatments and research discoveries—so they can conduct research to make new discoveries to cure more diseases—so they can best prepare the next generation of health care providers for New Mexicans—so they can offer the best health care to you and your families.

Investing in the future

HSLIC supports the knowledge needs of the professionals who know the best treatments for you and your family when you get sick. This is a time when you want the best educated, most informed health care provider possible. Please consider making a donation today to ensure that HSLIC can continue providing the highest quality services to the students, researchers, and health care professionals of New Mexico. In doing so, you will help all of us continue moving from our heritage to the frontier, from the knowledge we have today to the exploration of new vistas of knowledge for the future.

Sincerely,

Holly Shipp Buchanan, MLn, MBA, EdD
Associate Vice President for Knowledge Management and Information Technology, HSC;
Director, Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center;
Professor, School of Medicine;
CIO, UNM Health Sciences Center