Beth Whipple is the Associate Director of Informationist Services. She is responsible for overseeing the informationist team, as well as conceiving, planning, directing, and evaluating information services to faculty, staff, clinicians, fellows, residents, and students.
Ms. Whipple came to Johns Hopkins in 2024 after 17 years at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, IN, where she was the Assistant Director of Research & Translational Sciences and a tenured full librarian. In this role she led the Ruth Lilly Medical Library’s Research Team and oversaw research initiatives from the Library, including implementation of an electronic laboratory notebook for the School of Medicine, achieving 100% compliance with the Schools’s required data management plan, and supporting research impact and open access/scholarly communication initiatives.
Ms. Whipple received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and her Masters of Library Science from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.