Jennifer R. Martin is an Associate Librarian in the ARIZONA HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY and a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science in the College of Pharmacy. She joined the library faculty in 2007 and gained her dual appointment in the College of Pharmacy in 2011. As an embedded librarian in the College of Pharmacy, her primary role is to support the research and scholarship of faculty, students and staff through consultation, collaboration, and library instruction. She works with faculty to provide integrated library instruction in both the PharmD and graduate curricula and provides expert biomedical literature, patent and intellectual property searching services. Jennifer also provides research support for faculty and collaborates on the scholarship of teaching and learning. In addition, she has contributed to multiple systematic reviews and works with individuals who are considering conducting a systematic review or meta-analysis.

Jennifer’s research interests include the study of information literacy skills, for which she was a recipient of the New Investigator Award from AACP (2010). Her research interests also include the scholarship of teaching and learning, information-seeking behavior, embedded librarianship, and assessing the impact of library and drug information instruction for pharmacy students.

Education & Post Graduate Training: 

BA, Chemistry, University of Arizona, 2002
MA, Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, 2007

Degrees

• M.A. Information Resources & Library Science
  • The University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, United States
• B.A. Chemistry
  • The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States

Awards

• Fellow, Leadership and Career Development Program
  • Association of Research Libraries, Summer 2019
• Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Foundation Travel Award
  • Library and Information Sciences Section, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Summer 2019
• Leadership and Career Development Program Fellow
  • Association of Research Libraries, Summer 2018
• Special Libraries Association Academic Division Springshare Innovation in Academic Libraries Award
  • Special Libraries Association Academic Division, Summer 2015
• Tech Launch Arizona I2 Innovation & Impact Award for Campus Collaboration
  • Tech Launch Arizona, Spring 2015