National Medical Librarian Month Impact Story: Bette Bissonnette
Submitted by: Bette BissonnetteWorking behind the scenes, it’s easy to be overlooked, but health information professionals play a pivotal role in healthcare, research, and education.…
National Medical Librarian Month Impact Story: Molly Knapp
Submitted by: Molly Knapp Working behind the scenes, it’s easy to be overlooked, but health information professionals play a pivotal role in healthcare, research, and…
National Medical Librarian Month Impact Story: Stephen Clancy
Submitted by: Stephen Clancy Working behind the scenes, it’s easy to be overlooked, but health information professionals play a pivotal role in healthcare, research, and…
National Medical Librarians Month Impact Story: Kristin Chapman
Submitted by: Kristin Chapman Working behind the scenes, it’s easy to be overlooked, but health information professionals play a pivotal role in healthcare, research, and…
National Medical Librarians Month Impact Story: Heidi Sue Adams
Submitted by: Heidi Sue Adams Working behind the scenes, it’s easy to be overlooked, but health information professionals play a pivotal role in healthcare, research,…
New Hypothesis Issue Published
Fall is here and Hypothesis has published its second issue of the year. This is our second year publishing two issues and we couldn’t be…
Evolve and Adapt: The 2024 MLA Style Guide
The updated Medical Library Association (MLA) Publication Style Guide is now live after years of work and revisions! The MLA Publication Style Guide is considered…
Unlock Advanced Data Services Skills with Free Webinar Recording
Submitted by: Barry Grant If you missed the excellent webinar by Lisa Federer, PhD, which introduced the DSS Level II and Level II Pathway, view…
Michelle Cawley Will Be Next Health Sciences Library Leader at UNC-Chapel Hill
Author: Jacob Thompson The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s University Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of Michelle Cawley as associate University…
Marie Elias Named Interim Library Director
Marie I. Elias, MLS, AHIP, Associate Librarian of the Health Sciences Library at Montefiore Medical Center since 2007, has been named Interim Library Director, effective…
Ruth Riley Retirement
Ruth Riley, Assistant Dean for Executive Affairs and Director of Library Services, has announced her retirement effective June 3, 2024. Ruth has served as the…
Legacy, Knowledge, Advocacy, and Grace: Mary M. Langman Retires as Director of Information Issues and Policy
Submitted by Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA, Founding Director, MLA Research Training Institute, Distinguished Librarian Emerita, University of California, Irvine. Mary M. Langman will retire as…
AI Tools for Summarizing Research Articles: Transforming Information Access
By Gary S. Atwood, gatwood@uvm.edu, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-4100, systematic review librarian & library associate professor, Dana Health Sciences Library The exponential growth of academic research articles in…
ChatGPT and Our Response as Health Educators
Aultman College’s Health Sciences Library staff recently presented on ChatGPT and how it is changing what we need to know about information reporting and knowledge…
Librarians + Wikipedia = Trusted Health Information
Authors: Margie Sheppard, BSN, MLS, Community Engagement Coordinator, Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 3, A. R. Dykes Library of Health Science. University…
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…
Best Practices for Finding Research Data
In the spring of 2021, librarians from the University of California, San Francisco Library and the University of Nebraska Medical Center McGoogan Health Sciences Library…
Education: Statistics to the Rescue!
Like many MLA members, my colleagues and I use PubMed heavily in our teaching. Its breadth makes it relevant to almost every health discipline, and…
Personals
Beginning this quarter, MLAConnect will publish a list of retirement and memorial announcements about MLA members. There are times that MLA staff or former colleagues…
Expert Searching: Health Research Reporting Guidelines: Part 1 Introduction to Health Research Reporting Guidelines
Submitted by Helena VonVille, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; edited by Christy Tyson During a recent webinar on health research reporting…