MLA, AAHSL, and others urge Congress to support healthy funding levels in Fiscal Year 2017
MLA, AAHSL, and more than 660 organizations have written to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging them to allocate as high a…
MLA, AAHSL and others thank Congress for supporting FY 2016 NIH Funding
MLA and AAHSL have joined over 300 organizations and institutions in sending a thank you letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees,…
MLA Welcomes 2016-2017 Rising Stars to a Sparkling New Program
The Rising Stars program is MLA’s member leadership development program. After running the Stars program three times in alternate years since 2010, the Rising Stars…
NLM Director Search Update
The following email from Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, provides an update on the search process for NLM’s next director.…
Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Game During Mosaic’16
Note: Tickets are now sold out Baseball fans will already have noted that the Toronto Blue Jays play a home game on Monday, May 16,…
Newly Elected EMTS Officers
Congratulations to our newly elected officers. They will assume office after MLA 2016 in Toronto. Hal Bright, Incoming Chair Tara Brigham, Secretary/Treasurer Fatima Barnes, EMTS…
Technology: Citation Management on Mobile Devices
Submitted by David Petersen, AHIP, Dr. Lon & Elizabeth Parr Reed Health Sciences Library, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN; edited by Jean M. Gudenas The…
A Space of One’s Own: Library Space Planning in “Born Digital” Libraries
Submitted by Joanne Muellenbach, Library and Learning Resources Center, California Health Sciences University–Clovis, and Matthew Wilcox, New Haven, CT; edited by Nadine Dexter, AHIP What…
Meeting Preview: Special Content Sessions: What Are They?
Submitted by Rikke Sarah Ogawa, AHIP, 2016 Joint Planning Committee Mosaic ’16 has a new type of session program this year, special content sessions. The…
Medical Library Education: Energized from Within: Introverted Librarians
Submitted by Jodi L. Philbrick, AHIP, Department of Library and Information Sciences, College of Information, University of North Texas–Denton During a discussion in one of…
Consumer Health: Health Information Center Serving the Community
Submitted by Sandra Oelschlegel, AHIP, Preston Medical Library, University of Tennessee–Knoxville; edited by Jana C. Liebermann The Preston Medical Library at the University of Tennessee…
Correction
The correct reference 1 for Expert Searching: “The Outer Bull” in the September 2015 MLA News is: Duncan V, Holtslander L. Utilizing grounded theory to…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP Australian Government Announces Data, Science, and Technology Priorities The Australian Government recently announced a $1.1 billion initiative over the next…
Social Media: More than GoodReads: Which Online Reading Network Is Right for You?
Submitted by Lara Killian, AHIP, Nova Scotia Hospital Library, Nova Scotia Health Authority–Halifax, Canada I started 2016 feeling like I wanted to make more time…
Internet Resources: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Submitted by Talicia Tarver, Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an enigmatic condition defined by a prolonged period of fatigue (lasting…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Bill Gates Reviews Books Would you like to enlarge your circle of reviewers in 2016? Someone even-minded, with lots of cents?…
Continuing Education: MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization Recipients
Congratulations to the following individuals who have received MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) from October 2015 through January 2016. MLA’s CHIS program is a continuing…
Section & SIG News
Edited by Saori Wendy Herman, AHIP Announcing the Latest Issue of Hypothesis: The Journal of the Research Section Submitted by Emily S. Mazure, AHIP, Hypothesis…
Chapter News
Edited by Jennifer K. Lloyd, AHIP Chapter Recap Submitted by Skye Bickett, AHIP, and Elena Azadbakht, Cochairs, Southern Chapter Public Relations Committee At the most…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Do you love your photocopier? Please enjoy the “Notes of a Librarian on Contemplating Her Xerox Machine” [1].…