She received a bachelor's degree in social sciences and a master's degree in history at
California State University at Long Beach. Broering went on to receive a master's degree in Library and Information Science, and NIH/NLM Fellowship in medical librarianship and complete all courses toward a doctorate in history at the
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).[1]
Career
Broering was director of the Dahlgren Memorial Library at
Georgetown University School of Medicine from 1978 to 1996.[2] From 1996 to 1997 she served as president of the
Medical Library Association,[3][4] and is reckoned as the first MLA president of Hispanic heritage.[5] She endowed the Naomi C. Broering Hispanic Heritage Grant "on the occasion of her forty-five years as a member of MLA".[6]
She was the 21st editor of the Bulletin of the
Medical Library Association.[7] By 1993, her work had contributed to developing computer systems for libraries and to medical information technology.[8]
editor, High-Performance Medical Libraries: Advances in Information Management for the Virtual Era,
ISBN0-88736-878-6
Broering N. C. "Medical libraries: laws and legislation", (Wedgeworth R, ed. ) ALA world encyclopedia of Iibrary and information services, Chicago, IL:
American Library Association, 1980. p, 352.
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abMitchell, Nicole. "Proceedings, 115th Annual Meeting, Medical Library Association, Inc. Austin, TX." Journal of the Medical Library Association 104, no. 1 (2016): E1.
^Messerle, Judith (1994). "Reviewed work: High-Performance Medical Libraries: Advances in Information Management for the Virtual Era, Naomi C. Broering". The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy. 64 (4): 458–460.
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