Roz McConnaughy, a School of Medicine Columbia Library faculty member since 2001, has been named Director of Library Services. She served as interim director for several months following the retirement of Ruth Riley, who previously held the role.
“I'm delighted to step into the Director of Library Services role and build upon the library team's reputation for providing exceptional information services and ensuring reliable access to evidence-based information, to empower the education, research, and patient care programs of the School of Medicine community,” McConnaughy says.
Prior to stepping into the director role, McConnaughy was the library’s assistant director for education and outreach, overseeing education programs, which include curriculum-integrated instruction for medical and graduate students, the library’s on-demand instructional classes, and the library’s web-based tutorials program. She also coordinated the library’s outreach to health professionals and consumers, including the Center for Disability Resources (CDR) Library and outreach grant projects.
McConnaughy is active in the SOMC’s Faculty Budget Committee and served on the LCME Self-Study Medical Education/Curriculum (Standards 6-9) Subcommittee. In recent years, she has provided substantial contributions to school committees related to medical education, including serving on the Leadership Team of the Curriculum Innovation Task Force, the LCME Standard 6.3 Self-Directed Learning Working Group, the Program Objectives Work Group, the Distributed Curriculum Subcommittee of the SOMC Curriculum Committee, and the USC Steering Committee for Interprofessional Education.
McConnaughy received her undergraduate degree in psychology, with a minor in geography, from East Carolina in 1999, before she completed her master’s degree in library and information sciences at the University of South Carolina in 2001.
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