Collection Development Election Results
Submitted by Susan Kendall, Nominating Committee ChairThe results of the Collection Development Section elections are:Chair-Elect: Amy Purvisapurvis@galencollege.eduAmy Purvis, MLS, AHIP, is a Campus Librarian at…
Message From the Chair
Letter from the Chair, Spring 2015 Dear Section Members,Happy Spring! I hope that you are all enjoying beautiful weather wherever you are, and that it…
Spring 2015 v.27 #1
Hello From Your Editor, I hope everyone is enjoying spring – after a rather crazy winter where the East Coast got buried in tons of…
Librarians Without Borders® Johns Hopkins University Workshop Report: March 24, 2015
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (March 24, 2015) In March, a one day HINARI workshop was conducted at Johns Hopkins University, a U.S. based University,…
Librarians Without Borders® Tulane University HINARI Workshop Report: February 6, 2015
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (February 6, 2015) In February a one day HINARI workshops was conducted at Tulane University, a U.S. based University that…
Librarians Without Borders® Workshop Reports and Photos: 2014
Yemen (March 2-5, 2014) A four day National HINARI Training Course was conducted at the Al-Bustan Hotel in Sana’a, Yemen. The workshop…
ICS REFLECTIONS, 2014-2015
Dear friends and fellow ICS members, It has been an eventful few months since MLA Annual Meeting in May 2014 – both in our own…
A VISIT TO SWAZILAND TO ASSIST A NEW NURSING SCHOOL
Last November 2013, I was invited to a newly opened nursing school in Swaziland to introduce online health information resources to the faculty and students,…
Current EMTS Officers
Hello everyone, Below is a list of the current EMTS officers. Feel free to contact any of us if you have questions, comments, or concerns.…
RECAP: ICS 25TH BIRTHDAY & MLA’14
Dear all ICS members, I just wanted to thank everyone for a special MLA’14 to celebrate ICS’s 25th anniversary in Chicago!! Please check out a…
HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY ICS!
From MLA ’14 Blog post by Martha Knuth. The International Cooperation Section celebrated their 25th birthday with a lovely party hosted by Kathy Kwan. Attended…
MESSAGE FROM ICS CHAIR: LOOKING BACK ON 2013-2014
Dear all, As I prepared the ICS Annual Report to submit to the MLA Board, I fully appreciated that the ICS truly had a productive year! …
BANGLADESH SISTER LIBRARY CEREMONY & NEWS
Hello ICS members, I’m thrilled to share information and photos of a Sister Library ceremony which took place on April 13th in Bangladesh. The sister…
STANDARDHEALTH APP
Northwestern freshman creates health care app focused on developing countries The Daily Northwester | April 8, 2014 | Olivia Exstrum A Northwestern University freshman and a…
2014 EMTS Annual Meeting Attendance Grant Winners
Posted on April 8, 2014 by Amy Blevins After careful review of applications to the EMTS MLA Attendance Grant, the grant subcommittee (Amy Blevins, Dale…
Distance Support Survey
Posted on March 7, 2014 by Amy Blevins Margaret Hoogland and Carolyn Schubert have developed a survey that they would like you to take. http://redcap.atsu.edu/apps/redcap/surveys/?s=KWnABHgkJA…
Librarians Without Borders® Workshop Reports and Photos: 2013
Ethiopia (February 12-14, 2013) A three day National HINARI “Train the Trainers” Course for Information Professionals was…
A Letter from the Chair
Hello everyone, I’d like to introduce myself since I didn’t get to meet all y’all at MLA. As the Public Health Coordinator for the NN/LM…
Enhancement or Crutch? Alternative PubMed Interfaces
Posted on June 11, 2013 by Amy Blevins Our latest guest blog post comes from Keith Engwall (@librariandad), and he is the Web and Emerging…
Experiences with Online Education, StudiUM, and Flipped Classrooms
Posted on June 4, 2013 by Amy Blevins Natalie Clairoux is a librarian at the Bibliothèque de la santé at the Université de Montréal. Her…