NORWAY – Deborah Clark, librarian for Western Maine Health, received the 2007 Eleanor C. Cairns Award for distinguished librarianship in the Health Science Libraries and Information Consortium of Maine.

HSLIC, which is the professional organization for all health sciences libraries in the state, includes hospitals, research facilities and academic institutions. Clark has been an active member of the HSLIC board and recently spear-headed a federal grant project to outfit most hospital and academic libraries in Maine with the Ariel electronic document delivery system, which enables libraries to quickly provide high quality journal article reprints to health care professionals, researchers, academic instructors and students.

Clark has been employed by WMH since 1999, and oversees the medical and consumer health libraries at Stephens Memorial Hospital. She will be honored at the annual Maine Hospital Association’s Allied Professionals Luncheon on June 21.

The Health Information Library is open to the public from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday, staffed by a professional librarian. Contact Clark at 743-1562 x323 or clarkd@wmhcc.org for more details.