People News - McMaster University
Laura Banfield started a contract position as Education Liaison Librarian at McMaster’s Health Sciences Library, primarily working with the School of Nursing. Laura has a BSc in Kinesiology from Waterloo and a Masters of Library and Information Science from Western. She has just finished a one year contract at Brock University library, working with Applied Health Sciences and most recently with Physical and Earth Sciences. As part of her masters degree, she spent a co-op term at Health Sciences Library at the University of Saskatchewan in addition to working as a research assistant to Dr. Roma Harris for a couple of Rural Health Information projects. Laura is a member of the Library and Information Services task force for MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org), which is developing a review and categorization schema for online learning resources, and is the resource centre coordinator for Librarians Without Borders (http://www.lwb-online.org).