Joanne Romano

Head of Resource Management and Discovery Services, Texas Medical Center Library
Joanne Romano is the Head of Resource Management and Discovery Services at the Texas Medical Center Library in Houston, starting as a serials librarian in 2007.  She manages a two-person team to handle license negotiation, acquisitions, access, discovery, publishing support, cataloging and user education for a community of six schools and over 15,000 registered users. Joanne served in leadership roles to help the TMC Library migrate from Intota/Summon to Alma/Primo, and from EZProxy to OpenAthens.  She published her library’s OpenAthens experience in an October 2021 issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association.