Women Who Inspire Us
“Celebrating Women Who Tell Stories” is the 2023 theme for National Women’s History Month.Women have played a prominent role throughout MLA’s history, furthering our vision…
NAHSL 2022: Turning the Tide
After two consecutive years of virtual meetings, North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries (NAHSL) was thrilled to welcome our members back to an in-person conference in…
UNYOC 2022 Annual Meeting Recap
By Darcey Rodriguez, 2022 UNYOC Conference Planning Chair Since 2019, the Upstate New York and Ontario Chapter (UNYOC) planning committee learned the necessity of being…
Pacific Northwest Chapter History
Edited by: Suzanne Fricke The Pacific Northwest Chapter (PNC) of MLA first formed in 1953 as the Pacific Northwest Regional Group, made up initially of…
Caucus/Chapter Histories: Public Services Caucus
Edited by Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS, MLA History Committee, and 125-Year Retrospective Task Force Today’s Public Services Caucus began around 1978 as the Bibliographic…
Reflections on the 2022 SC/MLA Annual Meeting
The 72nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association (SC/MLA) was held in Montgomery, AL from October 19-22, 2022. The 2020…
PNCMLA 2022 Virtual Conference Recap
As with many conferences, the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association (PNCMLA) decided to continue with the virtual format for its 2022 conference.…
Advocating for Authorship: Librarians and Information Professionals as Authors on Evidence Synthesis Publications
This blog post was coauthored by Emily A. Brennan. Despite making significant intellectual contributions to systematic reviews and evidence synthesis publications, and meeting authorship criteria…
JMLA Goes All Digital in 2023
The Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) will only be available in digital formats starting with the 2023 editions. The decision was made collaboratively,…
MLA Welcomes New JMLA Co-Editors-in-Chief
The JMLA Editor-in-Chief Search Committee and MLA Board of Directors are pleased to announce the appointment of Jill T. Boruff, AHIP, Liaison Librarian, Schulich Library…
JMLA Author Interview: Stephanie M. Swanberg
Stephanie M. Swanberg is the lead author on the article “A health education outreach partnership between an academic medical library and public library: lessons learned…
JMLA Author Interview: Lucy Kiester and Clara Turp
Lucy Kiester and Clara Turp cowrote the article “Artificial intelligence behind the scenes: PubMed’s Best Match algorithm,” which just published in the most recent issue…
The 2021 MLGSCA Virtual Spring Symposium: Uplifting Community Voices
The 2021 MLGSCA Virtual Spring Symposium: Uplifting Community Voices was a free, one-day educational event sponsored by NNLM PSR and the Medical Library Group of Southern…
2021 NAHSL Virtual Meeting: Starting from Scratch, Taking Charge of Change
North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries (NAHSL) leadership made the decision to stay virtual in 2021, based on a successful virtual 2020 meeting and the continued…
SC/MLA 71st Annual Meeting Recap
The Southern Chapter of MLA (SC/MLA) held its seventy-first annual meeting October 4–7, 2021. For a variety of reasons, we held our annual meeting in…
SC/MLA Members Share Inspiring Ideas for Promoting Libraries: Part 3 of 3
This article originally ran in the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association’s newsletter Southern Expressions, 2021;37(4):4–8. October is National Medical Librarians Month, a time to…
SC/MLA Members Share Inspiring Ideas for Promoting Libraries: Part 2 of 3
This article originally ran in the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association’s newsletter Southern Expressions, 2021;37(4):4–8. October is National Medical Librarians Month, a time…
SC/MLA Members Share Inspiring Ideas for Promoting Libraries: Part 1 of 3
These articles originally ran in the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association’s newsletter Southern Expressions, 2021;37(4):4–8. October is National Medical Librarians Month, a time…
JMLA Editor-in-Chief Transitions to New Role
Please thank Katherine Akers for her service to MLA as she steps down from the role of JMLA editor-in-chief and transitions to a new career outside medical…
Capturing History Through the Lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Rethinking MLA’s Oral History Project
By Gregory Laynor, cochair, and Ansley Stuart, cochair, MLA Oral History Committee. Established in 1977, the MLA Oral History Project conducts and preserves interviews that…