New faculty spotlight: Danielle Drummond

Danielle Drummond is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Danielle Drummond
• Hometown: Plattsmouth, Neb.
• Title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor, education and research services librarian

Research/professional interests:

• User experience;
• Educational technologies;
• Online learning; and
• Assessment.

How I fell in love with medical librarianship:
I started my library career in reference and user services, so I enjoy that this profession allows me to work with a variety of library patrons (students, researchers, nurses, community members, etc.) and to help them locate and access information that they need.

Degrees:

• Bachelor’s of Science, education, University of Nebraska at Omaha
• Master’s, library and information science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Memberships:

• Medical Library Association
• Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association
• Special Library Association

Three things people may not know about me:

• I’m the only redhead in my family, on both my mother’s and father’s side.
• I spent two weeks in Ireland as an undergrad with my Irish literature class.
• I’ve just started to get into podcasts — topics that I listen to range from books, libraries (New York Public Library has a good one), cross stitching, TED talks and humor.