Margaret Moylan Bandy, MALS, DM/AHIP, FMLA, is Medical Librarian and Manager of Library and Media Services at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO, where she has worked since 1979. She served on the MLA Board of Directors from 2005–2008 and was board liaison to the Task Force on Vital Pathways for Hospital Librarians and contributed to the final report of the committee and the 2009 Journal of the Medical Library Association’s Vital Pathways Symposium. That endeavor was only one of Bandy’s many efforts to advocate for librarians in health care settings. Most recently she collaborated in the development of the MLA Position Statement Role of Health Sciences Librarians in Patient Safety.

As part of the Vital Pathways project she worked closely with members of the Nursing and Allied Health Information Section of MLA to forge strong ties with the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program. As member of the MLA Board of Directors she encouraged the establishment of a representative to the annual Magnet Conference and with Melody Allison co-wrote the Magnet Recognition Program Collaboration Proposal, The American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the Medical Library Association White Paper. Bandy has served as an officer and committee member for many national, regional, and state associations including chair of the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MCMLA), chair of the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS) and chair of the Hospital Libraries Section Standards Committee. As chair of the HLS Standards Committee she led the revision of Standards for Hospital Libraries 2007. She was twice president of the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians (CCML) and as president of CCML in 2003 she established the CCML Advocacy Committee to respond to the crisis facing hospital libraries in Colorado. That committee developed the “Myths and Truths about Library Services” materials that are on the MLA Vital Pathways website. Considered a leader in the provision of patient and consumer health information, Bandy established the first hospital-based consumer health library in Denver, Colorado in 1985. She wrote the chapter “Health Information for Patients and Consumers” in the 1st edition of the Medical Library Association Guide to Managing Health Care Libraries and participated in the development of the MLA/CAPHIS Policy Statement The Librarian’s Role in the Provision of Consumer Health Information and Patient Education.

Bandy received an M.A.L.S. from Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois in 1972 and an M.A. in English from Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois in 1976. Since 1990 she has been a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals of the Medical Library Association and has received a number of awards including the MLA Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship in 2002, the Hospital Libraries Section Scroll of Exemplary Service multiple years, the CCML Marla M. Graber Award for Excellence and Achievement in Health Sciences Librarianship in 2005 and the MCMLA Outstanding Achievement Award in 1991.