Judy Cohn was named Associate Vice President for Scholarly Information / University Librarian in Spring 2002.   Previously, she served as Assistant University Librarian and Director, George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences on the Newark Campus.  She currently serves as a Co-Director of the IAIMS Operational Phase grant, a five-year grant awarded to the University by the National Library of Medicine in 2002.

Ms. Cohn's educational background include a BA degree from Rutgers University, where her studies focused on Communications and Media. She received an MLS degree with a specialization in Media from the Rutgers University - School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. She also
completed the AAMC Management Education Program in Information Technology. She served as a MLS Program Associate for six years, representing the educational needs of health sciences librarians to the library graduate program.

Judy Cohn holds two faculty titles at UMDNJ. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at New Jersey Medical School and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health at New Jersey Dental School. She also serves an adjunct faculty
instructor at the Rutgers University - School of Communication, Information and Library Studies program.

With primary interest in library informatics, a major priority has been the growth of electronic scholarly resources licensed for the UMDNJ community.  Over the past five years, the University Libraries have licensed over 3000 full-text electronic journals, over 170 electronic textbooks in the health sciences, 62 databases, several image banks and a robust university-wide library program.   Librarians at all of UMDNJ campuses participate in teaching informatics skills in the medical, dental, allied health, public health and graduate school programs.  A current emphasis is placed on teaching evidence-based searching skills to students in the various UMDNJ schools.

Active in library professional associations, Judy Cohn was named New Jersey Health Sciences Librarian of the Year 2004 by the Health Sciences Libraries Association of New Jersey.  She is the current Chair of the Executive Committee of the Virtual Academic Library Environment (VALE) a statewide consortium of all 52 of NJ’s academic libraries committed to inter-institutional connectivity and collaborative library application projects.  VALE’s objective is to help institutions meet the demands of students and faculty for access to scholarly materials, through cooperation and leveraged purchasing, and through the use of collaboration and cutting-edge technology,

Under her leadership, the statewide consumer health Web site, HealthyNJ was planned and implemented.  Currently consisting of five major portals, the Web site has hundreds of Diseases & Conditions, and Health & Wellness topics, with substantial content in both English and Spanish.