Submitted by Barb Ruggeri, MLIS, AHIP
We are pleased to announce that Karen Hanus, MLIS, AHIP has accepted the position of Associate Vice President, Enterprise Librarian for the Advocate Health Library System. She will lead our integrated enterprise library which includes the Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s Carpenter Library as well as Advocate Health’s academic and hospital libraries, while continuing to reside in Wisconsin. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Advocate Health enterprise has a combined footprint across seven states – Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Karen brings a wealth of experience as a seasoned library leader, with expertise in both hospital and academic medical library settings. Karen has over two decades of experience working at Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries, where she previously held the position as Assistant Director. Her accomplishments include
numerous publications that contributed to the field of library science and scholarly communications, presentations at local and national conferences, and being recognized as distinguished Librarian of the Year for the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association in 2023 and Librarian of the Year for the Wisconsin Health Science Library Association in 2025.
She joined Advocate Aurora Health (later combined with Atrium Health to form Advocate Health) in 2020 and completed the combination of two separate hospital library systems into one. With the new Advocate Health Library System, Karen’s vision and leadership will be instrumental in advancing the integration of our library services to support our learning and clinical communities across Advocate Health.
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