Each year, the Medical Library Association (MLA) bestows the honor of Fellow status on several of its most accomplished members. Fellows of the association are chosen based on their commitment to furthering MLA's goals and their contributions to the health sciences information profession. Loyola Associate Dean for Library Services, Logan Ludwig, PhD, AHIP, FMLA, was inducted as an MLA Fellow at the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on May 18, 2009, during the annual meeting in Honolulu, HI.
Logan has been an active member of the association for more than 20 years, serving as chair of the Grants and Scholarships and the Doctoral Fellowship Juries (1980-82), Annual Meeting Local Assistance Committee Chair in 1999, Governmental Relations Committee Chair (2001-2004) and has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) for 12 years.
A Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), Logan was the first recipient of MLA's Virginia L. & William K. Beatty MLA Volunteer Service Award. He has also served as an MLA's representative to Section 8 US Copyright Office Working Group and to the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Principles for Libraries in a Networked World Task Force and provided MLA testimony on several occasions before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies.
Logan can also include among his numerous achievements the honor of being elected president of several library health communications associations including the Midcontinental (1985) and the Midwest MLA chapters (1995), Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) (2006) and the Health and Sciences Communications Association (HeSCA) (1986).
He was awarded the Midwest Chapter Librarian of the Year Award in 2008 and has received both the Distinguished Service Award and the Golden Raster Award from HeSCA. Logan is also active as the AAHSL representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Academic Societies and as a frequent grant reviewer for NIH's Center for Scientific Review.
Committed to sharing the vast knowledge he has gained throughout his career, he has written more than sixty articles in many peer reviewed journals, several book chapters, presented numerous workshops and platform presentations and is a well-known library building consultant, having helped design or renovate more than twenty four libraries worldwide.
MLA Fellows are elected by the Board of Directors for sustained and outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship and to the advancement of the purposes of MLA. Fellows may use the initialism "FMLA" following their names. Please join us in congratulating Logan on this fine achievement!