Who are we? We are a group of people who live, work, or volunteer in Holyoke and care about the availability of reliable, up-to-date health information. Some of us are librarians; some of us work in local health agencies. Holyoke Consumer Health Library, Inc., is a non-profit organization without official members, other than elected officers. There are no paid staff.
HCHL volunteers have included Sandy Ward (Holyoke resident and retired Science Librarian at Mount Holyoke College), Maria Pagan (Director of Holyoke Public Library), Kathleen McDonough (librarian, Holyoke Community College), Jim Craig (Life Science Librarian, UMass-Amherst), Chris Craig (Holyoke Health Center), Judy Atkin (Providence Prenatal), Doug Fleury (publicity and grant-writing), Anita Smith (web design), Kathleen Packard (website research), among others.
Grant-funded positions have included Consumer Health Information Coordinator for Holyoke (Jennifer Hartley, October 2004-August 2005, and Kathleen Packard, September 2005-April 2006) and pay for librarians on duty at the Holyoke Farmers' Market (Jennifer, Kathleen, and Sandy) during summer 2006.