Highly subjective: The Librarianship of Winifred Sewell

Malissa Ruffner, Emily J. Glenn

Research output: Contribution to journalReview article

Abstract

This article traces the career of Winifred Sewell, noted medical information professional, from her early days in the pharmaceutical industry through her career at the National Library of Medicine and her later years of consultancy, research, and teaching. In addition to her known contributions to major bibliographic tools and publications, including Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), Sewell's overarching vision of effective librarianship is highlighted. Her commitment to the importance of the subjective understanding of patron information needs is illustrated by examples from her life, her papers, and the perspectives of colleagues and students.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)256-275
Number of pages20
JournalLibraries and the Cultural Record
Volume44
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Conservation
  • History
  • Library and Information Sciences

Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Highly subjective: The Librarianship of Winifred Sewell'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

  • Cite this
https://experts.nebraska.edu/en/publications/highly-subjective-the-librarianship-of-winifred-sewell
experts.nebraska.edu
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-40
45544
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:M3F6XR6AVW3FHA3RGT3JGYHCEYTKT6QG
<urn:uuid:6cdf639b-792c-4349-9633-628c08626251>
2020-09-23T19:59:37Z
3.90.122.189
text/html
sha1:LFWEWOYE5TXKLIJYWKYCNEAGFQE26L2G
<urn:uuid:413fdda2-7a17-4140-9362-c9e6aa9c1a20>
https://experts.nebraska.edu/en/publications/highly-subjective-the-librarianship-of-winifred-sewell
response
<urn:uuid:047e96fb-e708-4759-a8f3-be2f8bf651fd>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-40
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for September 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-89.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/