ECU librarian receives national award for professional excellence

A librarian at the ECU Laupus Health Sciences Library has received the 2019 Award for Professional Excellence by a New Health Sciences Librarian from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association.

Amanda Haberstroh, librarian liaison to the College of Nursing, was recognized for her “exemplary contributions to health sciences librarianship” during the chapter’s annual meeting in Durham on October 7.

“Amanda is highly deserving of this recognition because she exemplifies the spirit of the award,” said Beth Ketterman, director of Laupus Library. “From day one at Laupus, she has been a motivated and engaged new librarian. She dove into the culture of our College of Nursing headfirst and has developed herself professionally to meet the high standards of the faculty and students in that program.”

Haberstroh earned her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona in 2017 and earned a Master of Arts in English in 2006 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2012 from Auburn University. She has served Laupus Library as a liaison librarian to the College of Nursing at ECU since January 2018.

“I am deeply honored and moved by being nominated alone,” Haberstroh said. “I feel truly humbled by this recognition of my peers because of the immense respect I have for their work and contributions to the field.”

Haberstroh said she believes all librarianship is important, valuable and necessary; but, for her, working with people in the health sciences is personally satisfying.

“I hope to ensure that future generations of providers will enter their respective fields not only with the technical skills to locate high-quality evidence for their practice, but also with a deep appreciation for the value of critical thinking and analysis to assess the evidence they do find,” she added.

By: Kelly Rogers Dilda
University Communications