Faythe Thurman, MLIS, MA

Faythe Thurman is the Interim Associate Director of Informationist Services and Bayview Informationist. As the Interim Associate Director of Informationist Services, she has a lead role in conceiving, planning, directing, and evaluating information services to faculty, staff, clinicians, fellows, residents, and students.

Previously, Faythe was the Health Sciences Scholarly Engagement Librarian and Assistant University Librarian at West Virginia University, working with the School of Nursing and various departments in the School of Medicine. Prior to that position, Faythe served in progressively responsible roles at Lincoln Memorial University in the Carnegie-Vincent Library while working with the newly established College of Veterinary Medicine and the Veterinary Health Science & Technology (VHST) department. Faythe has broad experience working with faculty, students, residents, and clinicians across the health sciences providing a variety of information and data services, including collaborating on systematic and scoping reviews, as well as developing and assessing programs within the library. She has published research on hiring and onboarding practices in academic libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At Johns Hopkins, Faythe has served as the first Welch Medical Library informationist dedicated to serving the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She has been instrumental in establishing the Welch @ Bayview clinical research library on the Bayview campus including developing, promoting, and assessing resources and services in the space. She has since also become the liaison to other Johns Hopkins Health System facilities, including Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, Sibley Memorial Hospital and Suburban Hospital as well as the School of Medicine’s Allergy and Clinical Immunology division, Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology division, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences department supporting faculty, clinicians, fellows, residents and nurses. Faythe supports evidence-based practice education and projects as well as assisting researchers with complex research questions and performing literature searches, including expert-level evidence synthesis reviews such as systematic reviews.