New JMLA Assistant, Obituaries, and Social Media Editors Announced
The Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) is pleased to announce new additions to our editorial team!Thane Chambers is a new assistant editor. Thane…
JMLA’s Equity Initiative: An Update
In 2020, the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) launched an initiative aimed at providing more equitable opportunities for authors, reviewers, and editorial team…
JMLA Equity Work Group
In October 2020, the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) Equity Work Group solicited both the Latinx Caucus and the African American Medical Librarians…
RTI News: Announcing the New RTI Twitter Account: @RTIatMLA
Newsflash! The Research Training Institute (RTI) has created a new Twitter account for all things related to RTI: @RTIatMLA! Be one of the first to…
Moving Our Association Forward: Learning From Our Mistakes
Message from Lisa Traditi, MLA President, and Kevin Baliozian, MLA Executive Director We acknowledge the hurt experienced by five of our Black colleagues during the…
An Apology from JMLA
The Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) recently launched a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative aimed at publishing more articles that recognize and address…
EFTS Successes and Growing Pains
One short year ago, MLA agreed to develop a new Electronic Fund Transfer System (EFTS) platform to ensure continuity of service for the many libraries…
RTI News: RTI Fellow Sandra McCarthy, AHIP, Awarded 2020 Academic Librarian of the Year!
Sandra McCarthy, AHIP, Bailey Library, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, MI, is the recipient of the 2020 Academic Librarian of the Year from the Michigan…
RTI News: RTI Fellow Elizabeth Suelzer, AHIP, Awarded 2020 Librarian of the Year!
Elizabeth Suelzer, AHIP, MCW Libraries, Medical College of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, is the recipient of the 2020 Librarian of the Year by the Wisconsin Health Science Library…
RTI Research Spotlight: Librarian-Led Research Identifies Barriers to Library Referrals from Clinical Care Teams and Suggests Solutions
In a recent article published in Hypothesis, Liz Kellermeyer, AHIP, Tucker Medical Library, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, has explored the factors affecting clinical care…
RTI Research Spotlight: Librarian-Led Research Shows New Curriculum Model Increases Student Learning in Evidence-Based Medicine
If you work at an academic health sciences library like I do, I am sure you have sometimes wondered about the impact of your teaching.…
RTI Research Spotlight: Research Highlights the Importance of Including Users with Disabilities When Providing Web Page Accessibility Information
While teaching a library instruction session, I mentioned the library’s accessibility information web page but was stumped when a student asked some basic clarifying questions…
JMLA Call for Submissions and Commitment to Equity
In light of national conversations around Black Lives Matter, systemic racism, police violence, and health disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Journal of the Medical…
RTI Research Spotlight: Librarian-Led Research Provides Clues for How Librarians Can Improve Medical Students’ Use of Information Tools
In fall 2016, I submitted a poster abstract to MLA ’17. My goal was simple: I wanted to see what point-of-care (POC) products health sciences…
RTI Research Spotlight: RTI Contributed to Additional Study on Effects of COVID-19 on Medical Libraries
Training from the MLA Research Training Institute (RTI) has come in handy again! I am a fellow in the 2019 cohort, and my project is…
RTI News: IMLS Awards Second Grant to MLA to Deepen the Research Capacity of Health Sciences Librarians
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded MLA a $227,862 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant over a 3-year period to…
RTI Research Spotlight: Recent Review Finds Few Information Literacy Studies of Doctoral Students
Doctoral studies offer a unique phase in the development and legitimization of researchers, and it is essential to understand the distinct practices of this population…
RTI News: Research Interests of Librarians
As part of the application process for the MLA Research Training Institute (RTI), applicants submit a list of key words or phrases that describes the…
Significant Changes to EFTS and DOCLINE after June 30, 2020
The University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) is transferring the operations of the Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) to MLA in a timeline agreed to…
RTI News: Congratulations to the 2020 RTI Fellows!
MLA is pleased to announce the 2020 Research Training Institute (RTI) fellows! This year due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 RTI will be…