FYI: Look, Grow, Provide
Sound—or Look—Familiar?Just picture it, or maybe you can remember it because it happened to you: A patron standing in front of you at the reference…
Food Options in Seattle (or, How to Eat Your Way Around the Emerald City)
The central location of the Seattle Convention Center means that there is no shortage of amazing food options for you at MLA’17. The Local Arrangements…
Built Seattle: standout buildings and city views
The city of Seattle is rich with architectural masterpieces in both the downtown core and residential areas. Take some time during MLA’17 to see some…
Play Ball!
Seattle has a variety of sports teams and events for you to enjoy during your visit in May. The Seattle Mariners baseball team will be…
Best Practices: Retractions: An Annual Update on Ethical Misconduct in Research and Publishing
Submitted by Kelly Evans, Library, and Frank Houghton, Department of Public Health and Health Administration, Eastern Washington University–Spokane “To make a deliberate falsification for personal…
The Start-Up Culture at the “Born Digital” Library
Submitted by Nadine Dexter, AHIP, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida–Orlando, and Bradley A. Long, AHIP, Park Library, Central Michigan University–Mount…
Honoring Our Past
Dig into your issues of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA), and you will often find some unexpected treasures. Our predecessors had astonishing…
Internet Resources: Finding Funding Opportunities
Edited by Talicia A. Tarver One emerging, and potentially novel, source of consultations for academic health sciences librarians involves helping clients find funding opportunities. While…
Washington Wines
Did you know that Washington state is the second-largest wine producer in the country? With more than 900 winemakers in Washington, there is a glass…
Beer & Cider in Seattle
Seattle is a beer city. You will have no trouble finding bars that serve local brew on tap within a mile of the convention center,…
New Plenary Open Forum Session Added
Join Us For Activism in a Time of Turbulence Sunday, May 28, 2017 4:30 p.m.–5:25 p.m. Librarians have a long history of advocating for openness,…
Info sharing: Blog & Twitter
Do you have your schedule planned for MLA’17? Are you wondering what others are interested in, where to be and what fun things to do…
2017/18 MLA Board of Directors Election Results
MLA is pleased to announce the results of the 2017/18 Board of Directors election. Candidates listed below will assume office at the conclusion of MLA…
In Memoriam: Eugene Garfield, AHIP, FMLA
Eugene Garfield, AHIP, FMLA, passed away on February 26, 2017, at the age of ninety-one. Garfield is known as the founder of the internationally known…
Expert Searching: Cancer Stage Searching
Edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) defines NEOPLASM STAGING as “methods which attempt to express in replicable terms the extent of the…
Consumer Health: Reaching out to the “T”: A Medical Library’s Experience Providing Outreach and Consumer Health Resources to the Transgender Community
Submitted by Francisco J. Fajardo and Jorge E. Perez, Herbert Wertheim Medical Library, Florida International University–Miami; and Hector Perez-Gilbe, AHIP, Ayala Science Library, University of…
FYI: What’s in the Library?
To carry, or not to carry Never can tell who or what is going to come through the front doors. Guns are a possibility that…
Social Media: Harmonizing Many Voices on Social Media
By Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, and Robin Taylor, Disaster Information Management Research Center, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; edited by Lara Killian, AHIP In her January…
Call for MLA News Technology Editor
The MLA News is currently seeking a column editor for the technology column. Individuals are selected based on a desire to serve MLA and the…
International News
IFLA engages fifty countries to promote libraries’ role in sustainable development As a part of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) International…