Beth Treaster, B.A., M.S.L.I.S.

Beth Treaster received her BA from Anderson University in Indiana in 1980. She then finished a Master’s of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois in 1981.

Treaster is currently the medical librarian of Saint Francis Health System in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a three-hospital system where she’s very involved in a consortium of Oklahoma medical libraries. She coordinates the STAT!Ref subscription for the consortium and purchases all books and journals for the hospital, so she’s become quite knowledgeable about the world of electronic tools and medical publishing.

Treaster is currently working to establish the Saint Francis Archives to preserve the history of the health system, which is approaching its 50th anniversary. She’s also helping in the hospital's effort to get Magnet accreditation and participates on the Nursing Education and Nursing Research committees.

Her main professional interest is making knowledge sources more accessible, more intuitive and more integrated. She’s active in sharing her ideas on these topics with fellow medical librarians via listserves, and also published a paper on promotion of these resources in 2000 called, If We Build It, They Will Come - It's Not Quite That Simple! Promoting a Consumer Education Center.

In her free time, she enjoys cooking, decorating, gardening and anything to make her home happy and healthy. She enjoys spending time with her daughter, Anna, when she’s home from college at Purdue University where she’s in her third year. She’s also very involved in her church and reads insatiably, mostly history and old fiction.