Congratulations to all of the people listed as Library Journal's Movers and Shakers 2008.

I want to specifically mention those in the medical library world who made the list.

Elisabeth Jacobsen Marrapodi - Trinitas Hospital. She is creating a spiritual collection to help encourage, inspire, and comfort patients and staff. She has shadowed physicians inside Second Life has shadowed physicians and produced a short film illustrating the potential of 3-D applications for clinicians and interviewed virtual world counselors on applications of “avatar therapy” and cybertherapy services.

Allyson Mower - University of Utah's Eccles Health Science Library. She is the content management specialist for the Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL), worked on the library's wiki, teaches classes on database searching and is coordinator for the university's Institutional Repository (ir.utah.edu) creating the database, soliciting content and negotiating copyright issues.

Annabelle Nunez - University of Arizona Health Sciences Library. She works as to help medical professionals, community leaders and librarians understand the cultural and financial barriers to good health and preventive care among Hispanics. She also works directly with Hispanics at local health fairs and has shown how students at the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Science program can do the same.

David Rothman - Community General Hospital. He is the cocreator of LibWorm which searchs over 1500 library related RSS feeds and allows users set up custom RSS feeds to track topics of interest to help manage information overload. He shares his knowledge on his blog davidrothman.net which is dedicated to "web geekery of interest to medical libraryfolk."

Mark Vrabel -Oncology Nursing Society. Supports evidence based practice by keep nurses up to date on research on the best practices in clinical treatement of cancer patients. In addition to doing the research he has written article for clinical practice journals and has participated in ONS's Leadership Development Institute, Research Grant Writing Education Mentorship Program, retreats, and showing members how to find the most trustworthy research and identify the most effective clinical practices.

Congratulations to all of you! Don't forget to submit the names of your fellow medical librarians for the next Movers and Shakers.