Jean Shipman, MSLS, FMLA

Jean P. Shipman, MSLS, AHIP, FMLA, is retired except for her adjunct faculty position with the Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Utah. She was last employed as the VP, Global Library Relations for Elsevier. Prior to that she was the Executive Director, Knowledge Management and Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library; Director of the MidContinental Region and National Training Office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine; Director for Information Transfer, Center of Medical Innovation; and Adjunct Faculty of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine; all at the University of Utah. She has also been employed by the Johns Hopkins University, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, University of Maryland, University of Washington, and Virginia Commonwealth University. She served as president of the Medical Library Association for 2006-2007 and on the Board of Directors for the Society for Scholarly Publishing from 2013-2016. She was a member and co-chair of the Chicago Collaborative, a group of publishers, librarians, and editors, who met to discuss issues regarding scholarly communications. She is the co-editor of two books: Information and Innovation: A Natural Combination for Health Sciences Libraries, and Strategic Collaborations in Health Sciences Libraries. She has also authored many journal articles, book chapters and given numerous professional presentations.