Personals: Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP
After forty-two years, thirty-eight as a medical librarian, Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP, is retiring on February 9. Stemmer Frumento spent her medical librarian career as…
MLA ’18: Silver and Gold Networking Dinner and Talent Show
MLA is switching things up in Atlanta for the MLA ’18 Tuesday night dinner. Join your colleagues at the all-new Silver and Gold Networking Dinner…
In Memoriam: Vislava Tylman
Cleveland Clinic Florida announced the untimely passing of Vislava Tylman, library services manager, Goldblatt Medical Library. Tylman was hospitalized while vacationing in Mexico and passed…
In Memoriam: Martha Jane Zachert, AHIP, FMLA
Martha Jane Zachert, AHIP, FMLA, retired professor emerita, University South Carolina–Columbia, died January 10, 2018, at Westminster Oaks Health Center. She was born February 7,…
Dr. David Satcher: The Road from Rural Alabama to Surgeon General
Dr. David Satcher is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, and went on to study Medicine at Case Western Reserve University…
2018 John P. McGovern Award Lecturer: William Powers – Writer, Journalist and Technologist
MLA 2018’s McGovern lecturer William Powers is the author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age (Harper Collins, 2010). Widely praised for…
What Will the Weather Be Like During MLA 2018?
Atlanta is known for heat and humidity, but May is a relatively mild time of year. During the latter part of the month, the high temperatures…
How to promote your research and scholarly output
Both ORCID and ResearchGate are two sites that help make your research more discoverable to the research community. Librarians enjoy exploring new tools and when…
Community Service: The Atlanta Way
MLA’s tradition is to leave the host venue better than we found it. With this in mind, MLA’s Local Assistance Committee identified the United Way Atlanta’s…
Expert Searching: Health Care Professionals Work to a Set of Standards: Shouldn’t We?
Submitted by Brooke Ballantyne Scott, Jackie MacDonald, Susan Baer, Ashley Farrell, AHIP, Marcus Vaska, Pat Lee, and Danielle Rabb, Canadian Search Standards Working Group Health…
Honoring Our Past
In 1995, Nina W. Matheson, AHIP, FMLA, gave the Janet Doe Lecture,” The Idea of the Library in the Twenty-First Century.” Now as it is…
Personals: Christopher P. Duffy
Christopher P. Duffy has joined the Seton Hall University Libraries as associate dean and founding director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Commons. The…
Something’s Brewing in Atlanta
Thanks to a change in state legislation allowing craft beer breweries to sell beer and food directly to the consumer that went into effect September…
New MLA Finance Committee
On November 16, 2017, the MLA Board of Directors approved the creation of a new MLA Finance Committee. The charge of the committee will be…
Personals: Marian Taliaferro, AHIP
Marian Taliaferro, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, as the digital scholarship librarian.…
Plastic Bag Ordinances
The city I live in recently joined the growing list of local U.S. governments using public policies to attempt to reduce reliance on thin plastic…
Get the Hottest Ticket in Town!
The hit Broadway show is coming to Atlanta in 2018! Hamilton will be performing in Atlanta’s Fabulous Fox from late May to mid-June. Tickets are…
MLA 2018/19 MLA Election Candidates Announced
Submitted by Teresa L. Knott, AHIP, Cochair, and Michelle Kraft, AHIP, Cochair, MLA Nominating Committee MLA is pleased to announce the slate of candidates for…
Honoring Our Past
Letters to the editors are often interesting and sometimes informative. Erich Meyerhoff wrote one concerning the Union List of Medical Periodicals. He wrote a tribute…
Personals: Terri Ottosen, AHIP
Terri Ottosen, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC) as the community engagement and…