NCBiotech Research Assistant named NLM Associate Fellow

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the largest biomedical library, has accepted four early career applicants. Allison Cruise of NCBiotech has accepted the prestigious position as Associate Fellow after receiving her master's degree in library and information science at University of North Carolina Greensboro in December.

While completing her degree, she began as an intern at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, engaging in data entry tasks, providing document delivery services and assisting research analysts and library visitors. She then became a full-time research associate, maintaining a client database, assisting with an embedded librarianship contract and providing literature searches and other research projects.

The NLM postgraduate training program takes place in Bethesda, Maryland. The program is designed to provide a broad foundation in health sciences information services, and to prepare librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and in health services research.

Allison Cruise’s contributions to NCBiotech’s Life Science Intelligence department proves her dedication to finding clients the correct data and information. Allison wields a variety of resources spanning the life science and business fields to provide accurate, relevant and timely research to all manner of clients, helping inform decisions for companies both big and small. Cruise also helps maintain NCBiotech’s comprehensive company directory through ongoing research and data management projects, and assists users with searching the directory, creating a new listing or promoting a company across the directory.

Allison’s presence at Life Science Intelligence will be missed by everyone at North Carolina Biotechnology Center. We are proud that she is continuing on to this distinguished opportunity and look forward to her contributions to the National Library of Medicine and the life science community as a whole.