Our very own Marilyn Rosen is one of this year's Creative Excellence Award recipients. Her winning entry is entitled, “Ask Us." It's a personal essay describing life as a reference librarian in a health sciences library. The essay provides “a glimpse into the kind of human interactions that we have.”
Creative Excellence Awards are sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Cluster on Health and Human Values to recognize a University of Rochester student (graduate or undergraduate), staff member, and a faculty member who submit the best creative work in any medium (poetry, fiction, fine arts, photography or personal essay) dealing with issues of human values in health care. Three winners usually are chosen - one faculty member, one staff person, and one student - although in 2007 there was a tie in the faculty category. Each winner receives $200 and an award plaque.
Marilyn received a B.A. in English and Master's of Library Science from SUNY Buffalo. She has worked as a reference librarian at Miner for the past seven years, and before that, as library director at Monroe Community Hospital.
Marilyn has been a storyteller for over ten years to children in schools and at parks, adults in senior centers, synagogues, and churches, and most recently, to our medical students. She continues to write and feels privileged to have had the opportunity to participate in this contest.
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