Laura Bollman, MLIS

Community Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Library

Biography

Laura Bollman, MLIS, has trained as a health science librarian at multiple community colleges where she worked closely with nursing and allied health programs. She made the move to hospital librarianship before returning to the community college environment after the Covid pandemic. The interactions with Medicaid applicants, students, patients and their family members lead to an interest in how the Information Poverty Theory affects health literacy. Ms. Bollman is an officer with her local library’s board of trustees and has been appointed to multiple scholarship juries with the Medical Library Association.

Education

MLIS 2013, Library and Information Science, Wayne State University
MLIS 2013, Library and Information Science, Wayne State University
Certificate 2011, Museum Studies, Michigan State University
Certificate 2011, Museum Studies, Michigan State University
BA 1987, Political Science and History, Western Michigan University
BA 1987, Political Science and History, Western Michigan University