Social Networking Symposium - April 10, 2008 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM

M.J. Tooey is the Executive Director of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and has worked here since 1986. She is also the Director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's Southeastern/Atlantic Regional Medical Library. She received her MLS from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982 and her Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Clarion State University (formerly Clarion State College).

Tooey served as president of the Medical Library Association from 2005-2006. She has also served on MLA's Board of Directors and as the Chair of the 2004 National Program Committee for the MLA Annual Meeting held in May 2004 in Washington, DC. In 1997 she received the MLA Estelle Brodman Award as Academic Medical Librarian of the Year.

Additionally, she was a delegate to the 1991 White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Palinet and is on the library advisory committees for FASEB and the New England Journal of Medicine. She is active in the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions library system where she currently serves on its Executive Committee as vice chair.

Tooey is the author or co-author of over 70 chapters, articles, or presentations.