News Release

Institute Creates New Information Service and Hires Librarian

February 01, 2000

The Institute is pleased to announce the appointment, beginning February 1, 2000, of Ms. Danielle Borasky as the librarian for its new information and library service.

The Institute's new information service has been created to broker information services for individuals within the Institute's constituency and to establish the Institute's clearinghouse of information. This service is also intended to provide basic library support, reference aid, and guidance, either through direct searching or bibliographic instruction for faculty, staff and student's utilization of on-line data sources, and to organize information retrieval activities and datasets for use by all of its constituents. This new function also will provide current awareness services, referral services and links to other web sites or other sources of information related to aging, and to field questions from scholars, students, reporters and others with aging and aging services, education and research questions.

Ms. Borasky holds a master's degree in information and library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is experienced in systems to support research and grant-funding, online information retrieval, web and information services and developing specialized resource collections and information networks. She can be reached at the Institute on Aging via email: danielle_borasky@unc.edu or by phone: 919-966-9444.