NCBI and the NCBI News Extend
a Fond Farewell to Dr. Barbara Rapp
After a decade of newsletters, NCBI News
Editor,
Dr. Barbara Rapp will leaveNCBI to accept the position of Associate Fellows
Coordinator at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
For the past 12 years, Barbara has directed the NCBI User Services group,
which provides phone and e-mail support for NCBI’s databases and
database-related tools. The NCBI User Services group also implements outreach
and training programs for the scientific community and the general public,
including workshops, presentations at scientific conferences, and the
publication of the NCBI News. Barbara has been an indispensable
asset to the overall growth in public awareness and understanding of NCBI’s
databases and programs, as well as a leader in various initiatives for
enhancing education in bioinformatics and information science.
Prior to joining NCBI, Barbara received a doctorate in 1985 for research
on document clustering based on co-occurrence of index terms versus cited
references in scientific databases. She then served on the faculty of
the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University
of America, where she managed the program in health sciences librarianship.
In 1988, she returned to NLM to perform evaluation research in the Office
of Planning and Evaluation before joining NCBI in 1990.
We wish Barbara the fondest farewell and best wishes in her new endeavors!
