People News - The University of Western Ontario Libraries
Nazi Torabi was recently appointed Research and Instructional Librarian (Health Sciences / Nursing). Prior to joining Western, she was a Graduate Academic Assistant at the Woodward Biomedical Library at the University of British Columbia and the David Lam Business Library, at the Sauder School of Business, UBC. Nazi holds a Masters in Experimental Medicine from McGill and a MLIS from UBC.
After 35 years as a reference librarian in The D.B Weldon Library, Walter Zimmerman is retiring at the end of 2009. Generations of Western students have benefited from Walter’s first-class reference skills and passion for helping people. Walter’s enthusiasm for Google and intimate knowledge of how to construct the best search strategy in Google Scholar have earned him the moniker “Mr Google.” Walter received Western’s Staff Award of Excellence in 2008, a fitting end to an illustrious career.