• FYI: Eponymous Librarians

    An article in College & Research Libraries recently took issue with the upshots of “Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers” by Jeffrey Beall. The authors…

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  • 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…

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  • 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,…

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  • FYI: Predators in the Periodicals

    As if libraries (and patrons presumably) do not have enough to worry them—like ransomware, acts of terrorism, rascals in raincoats, news that is fake, theft,…

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  • FYI: Whither Books and Learning?

    Demise of books? If the findings of a survey outlined in an article published by Inside Higher Education are indicative of trends to come, then…

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  • In Memoriam: Patricia M. Perrizo Redman

    Patricia M. Perrizo Redman, of Pinckney, Michigan, passed away on September 3, 2017. She was born on January 2, 1942, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.…

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  • In Memoriam: Lillian Bryant

    Lillian Bryant, head of veterinary libraries at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) from 1981–2001, passed away August 8, 2017, at her home in Philadelphia. She…

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  • In Memoriam: Marsha Kmec

    Marsha Kmec passed away suddenly on August 9, 2017, after a brief illness. Kmec was the health sciences librarian at Olive View/University of California–Los Angeles…

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  • In Memoriam: Grace Anderson

    Grace Anderson, eighty-one, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, died May 26, 2017. She was born October 21, 1935, in Monroe, Iowa, and was raised by her…

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  • In Memoriam: Malinda Fetkovich

    Malinda Fetkovich, passed away at the age of eighty-six on July 9, 2017, in Trafford, Pennsylvania. She was born on June 30, 1931, in Latrobe,…

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  • In Memoriam: Eugene Garfield, AHIP, FMLA

    Eugene Garfield, AHIP, FMLA, passed away on February 26, 2017, at the age of ninety-one. Garfield is known as the founder of the internationally known…

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  • In Memoriam: Francis (Fran) Brahmi, AHIP

    Francis (Fran) Brahmi, AHIP, passed away on December 25, 2016. Her career at the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Ruth Lilly Medical Library spanned over…

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  • In Memoriam: Ruth C. Morris

    Ruth C. Morris passed away on November 28, 2016, in Charlottesville, Virginia, at age seventy-two, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She was born in New…

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  • In Memoriam: Joanne Callard

    Submitted by Joy Summers-Ables, AHIP, Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center–Oklahoma City Joanne Callard passed away January 21, 2017,…

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  • I’ve earned my credential. What about you?

    When the MLA board of directors hired me to serve as MLA’s executive director two years ago this month, they asked me to obtain the…

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  • In Memoriam: Billy Triplett

    Billy Triplett, AHIP, passed away on November 1, 2016, in Bossier City, Louisiana. Triplett earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Louisiana Tech University and…

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  • In Memoriam: Wendy Lehar

    Wendy Lehar, AHIP, passed away on December 26, 2016, from a malignant brain tumor at the young age of thirty-three. She was a research and…

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  • In Memoriam: Velora Avis Jernigan-Pedrick

    Velora Avis Jernigan-Pedrick of Alexandria, Virginia, passed away on November 8, 2016, after a two-year struggle with cancer. Jernigan-Pedrick was born on March 27, 1956,…

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  • CDS Newsletter Fall 2016 v. 28 #2

    Developments Fall 2016 v. 28 #2 Message from the Editors In this issue of Developments we are delighted to bring updates from our Chair, Liz Lorbeer…

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  • CDS Newsletter Summer 2016 v. 28 #1

    CDS Newsletter Summer 2016 v. 28 #1       Message from the Editors Welcome back to the CDS Newsletter.   In this issue, you’ll…

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