Gloria Werner, 1940–2021

Authors

  • Alison Bunting
  • J. Michael Homan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2021.1276

Keywords:

obituary, Gloria Werner

Abstract

Gloria Werner, successor to Louise M. Darling at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, university librarian emerita, and eighteenth editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, died on March 5, 2021, in Los Angeles. Before assuming responsibility in 1990 for one of the largest academic research libraries in the US, she began her library career as a health sciences librarian and spent twenty years at the UCLA Biomedical Library, first as an intern in the NIH/NLM-funded Graduate Training Program in Medical Librarianship in 1962–1963, followed by successive posts in public services and administration, eventually succeeding Darling as biomedical librarian and associate university librarian from 1979 to 1983. Werner’s forty-year career at UCLA, honored with the UCLA University Service Award in 2013, also included appointments as associate university librarian for Technical Services. She was president of the Association of Research Libraries in 1997, served on the boards of many organizations including the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors, and consulted extensively. She retired as university librarian in 2002.

Author Biographies

Alison Bunting

Biomedical Librarian Emerita, UCLA Louise Darling Biomedical Library

J. Michael Homan

Director of Libraries Emeritus, Emeritus Consultant Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

References

Gloria Werner: an oral history. Interviewed by Diana Meyers Bahr. Los Angeles: Center for Oral History Research, University of California, Los Angeles; 2004.

Gloria Werner. December 12, 1940 – March 5, 2021. Obituary. Los Angeles Times. March 16, 2021. Available from https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/gloria-werner-obituary?id=6824472.

Beatty WK. The bright thread: the Bulletin’s 75th anniversary. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1998 Apr;86(2):237–48.

Crawford S. Gloria Werner, Editor of the Bulletin, July 1979-October, 1982. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1983 Jan;71(1):39.

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Published

2021-11-22

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Section

In Memoriam