MLA Mentoring Database
Submitted by Amy Blevins, Chair, Professional Recruitment and Retention CommitteeWas one of your New Year’s resolutions to reach out to new members or librarians? Do…
Internet Resources: Resources for Supporting and Sustaining Community Outreach
Submitted by Jon Goodell, AHIP, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, TX; edited by…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP Cochrane EMBASE Screeners Reach 100,000 Records As of December 2014, a little over 100,000 records have been screened by…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1946, Dorathea W. Friedrich wrote an article on “The Effect of the War upon Medical Libraries and…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Medical MOOCs If getting conversant, maybe even erudite, on a topic is something desired, then going to one of a number…
Editor’s Note
Laurie L. Thompson, AHIP, FMLA, Editor, MLA News I’m excited to announce a new column this month: “Social Media,” edited by Lara Killian, AHIP. In…
Consumer Health: Helping the Military Community: The Brickell Library Outreach Initiative at Eastern
Submitted by Ruth M. Smith and Judith Mercer, Brickell Medical Sciences Library, Eastern Virginia Medical School–Norfolk; edited by Jana C. Liebermann The Eastern Virginia Medical…
Chapter News: New York-New Jersey Chapter Meeting
Submitted by Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick, Chair, New York-New Jersey Chapter; edited by Jennifer K. Lloyd, AHIP “Creating Collaborations: How Did They Do That?” was the…
Technology: Uses of Research Networking Systems
Submitted by Diana Nelson Louden, Health Sciences Library, University of Washington–Seattle; edited by Jean M. Gudenas Numerous research networking systems (RNSs) have been developed [1],…
Filling the Half-Empty Glass: Boosting MLA Education
MLA’s strategic goal #3 is all about education, and how to seriously raise the bar on how we support you in your professional development. Just…
The Human Library Comes to the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University
Submitted by Patricia Wynne, Scott Memorial Library, Center for Teaching & Learning, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA Last October, the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas…
Technology: There’s an App for That in Our Catalog: Circulating iOS Apps in the Library
Submitted by Dana Thimons, AHIP, Sewell Learning Fellow, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Alexandria, VA; edited by Jean Gudenas When students at Nova Southeastern…
Now Playing: Sweet Tunes and Much to Do as Medical Librarians Storm Austin
Submitted by Michele Whitehead, Publicity Chair, and Catherine Pepper, Chair, MLA ’15 Local Assistance Committee Austin’s got it goin’ on. Austin is a unique juxtaposition…
MLA’s Oral History Project
Submitted by Annie M. Hughes Thompson, Chair, Oral History Committee In 1977, the Oral History Project of MLA was launched to capture and preserve the…
MLA Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship Awarded to Joseph Olorunsaye
Submitted by Gurpreet Kaur Rana, Chair, International Cooperation Section The 2015 Cunningham fellow is Joseph Olorunsaye from Ibadan, Nigeria. Since 2013, he has worked for…
MLA Board Highlights: February 2015
Submitted by Kevin Baliozian, Executive Director, Medical Library Association The MLA Board of Directors met in Chicago, IL, on February 9, 2015, from 9:00 a.m.…
Member Spotlight: Mary Nelson Peters, AHIP
Fast Facts: MLA Member Since: 1976First Professional Position: Serials librarian, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine–Fort Worth (now University of North Texas Health Science Center)Current Position:…
Internet Resources: Freely Available Medical Images
Submitted by Andrea C. Kepsel, AHIP, Libraries, Michigan State University−East Lansing; edited by Talicia Tarver Finding medical images freely available online can be difficult. Often…
Hospital Librarianship: The Value of Mentoring: A Hospital Librarian’s Perspective
Submitted by Catherine M. Boss, AHIP, Booker Health Sciences Library, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ; edited by Nandita S. Mani, AHIP Are you…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Many important and popular “firsts” took place in 1948. MLA celebrated its 50th anniversary. The first training program…