Sherwill-Navarro wins Eliot Prize from library group

Pamela Sherwill-Navarro, HSC liaison librarian to the College of Nursing, recently won the 2005 Ida and George Eliot Prize from the national Medical Library Association. The Eliot Prize is presented annually for work published in the preceding calendar year that has been judged most effective in furthering medical librarianship.

Sherwill-Navarro and her co-author were honored for their 2004 article, “Research on the value of medical library services: does it make an impact in the health care literature?” Their article examined four research articles on the relationship between the use of clinical library services and the quality of health care and demonstrated the importance of library research in clinical care and decision-making.