Morgan, Lynn Kasner

Lynn Kasner Morgan was the Director of the Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library, Vice President for Information Technology, and Associate Professor of Medical Education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine during her years at Mount Sinai from 1983 to 2012.

Ms. Morgan was born in New York City. She earned her bachelor’s degree from State University of New York at Binghamton in 1972 and her Master of Library Science from State University of New York at Albany in 1972.

Prior to Mount Sinai Ms. Morgan was the Director of the New York State Nurse’s Association’s library in Albany and Associate Director of the New York Academy of Medicine’s library. In 1983, she began as the Associate Dean for Information Resources and Systems, Director of the Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library, and Instructor (1983-1988), later Associate Professor (1989 -1996), of Medical Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which she held until her retirement in 2012. She also served as the Vice President for Information Technology beginning in 2003 until her retirement. In these positions she secured and negotiated Mount Sinai's internet and network license and developed the first Mount Sinai websites. Ms. Morgan was co-principal investigator and co-director of the library’s first high performance computing operation, initiated the library’s conversion from print to digital, oversaw renovations of the library, led the first online education programs, established the information technology services, created the Records Management Program, and developed the Archives Program alongside Barabara Niss.

Ms. Morgan also held academic positions at other institutions. She was a Lecturer in Library Science at Columbia University’s School of Library Science from 1985 to 1992 and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1992 until at least 1996.

While at Mount Sinai, co-chair of the Information Systems Advisory Committee (which was the first institution wide committee of its kind and advised the President and CEO of Mount Sinai), elected member of the Faculty Council, member of the Medical School Merger Committee, and a member of the Women Faculty Group. Alongside numerous impressive publications she was also a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals Medical Library Association Certification which she earned in 1974 and subsequently renewed every 5 years, a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine since 1986, elected President of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors from 1994 to 1995, and was awarded the Special Recognition Service Award by Mount Sinai Alumni in 1996, elected President of the Medical Library Center of New York Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2005, and elected Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Information Resources from 2007 to 2008.

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Description by Willa Jacob, August 2022.

“Director of the Levy Library (Lynn Kasner Morgan) Records - Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives at Mount Sinai.” AtoM. Accessed 2022. https://archives.mssm.edu/aa096-s007-ss001-s002.

Kasner Morgan, Lynn. “Lynn Kasner Morgan.” Linkedin. Accessed 2022. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-kasner-morgan-55a58482.