American Legacy Foundation honors Prof. Stan Glantz

The American Legacy Foundation has announced a gift to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to honor Dr. Stanton Glantz with a new Distinguished Professorship in Tobacco Control. Glantz, the first recipient of this distinguished chair for the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF, is a widely respected scientist and advocate for tobacco control. Among his many personal and professional achievements, Professor Glantz is the head of the national advocacy program, Smoke Free Movies, a member of a number of scientific peer review bodies, and co-author of The Cigarette Papers as well as over 20 other books and more than 200 scholarly articles.

LTDL wins the Rogers Award

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library was awarded the Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award by the Medical Libraries Association (MLA) at its 2007 annual meeting. The Rogers Award, sponsored by Thomson Scientific, is presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions for the application of technology to the delivery of health science information, to the science of information, or to the facilitation of the delivery of health science information. Rogers was the director of the National Library of Medicine from 1949 to 1963.