A Conversation about Medical Librarians and the IRB
Editor’s note: There was a recent conversation on the HLC Listserv about hospital librarians serving the IRB. Eleanor Truex wrote up this wonderful guide, which…
5 Minutes With… Ryan Norman
Ryan Norman is the Medical Librarian for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset, and has recently joined the editing team at National Network as…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope that you were able to take some time for yourself over the holidays, either to celebrate or to spend…
A Conversation about Medical Librarians and the IRB
By Eleanor Shanklin Truex, BSN, RN, MLIS, Amita Health Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL Librarians tend to be a generous people; the librarian listservs are…
Message from the Chair – December 2021
Greetings of the Season! It’s hard to believe we are in December already and the holidays and 2022 are in sight! HLC has been very…
Message from the Editors – November 2021
We haven’t even gotten our first real snow here in Minneapolis yet, so I couldn’t quite bear to call this the “winter” message from the…
Peer-to-Peer Instruction
At a time when library budgets are not as healthy as in years past, increased efficiency can be vital to continued library growth and success.…
It’s Never Too Early to Start the Conversation
Yes, we could talk about something more pleasant, but death and dying are an inevitable aspect of our lived human experience. End-of-life decision-making recognizes the…
National Medical Librarians Month!
October is National Medical Librarians Month, a time to celebrate and advocate for our medical libraries. Each year, MLA publishes graphics to use for promotions…
SC/MLA Members Share Inspiring Ideas for Promoting Libraries: Part 3 of 3
This article originally ran in the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association’s newsletter Southern Expressions, 2021;37(4):4–8. October is National Medical Librarians Month, a time to…
Guest Columnist: Seema Bhakta
Hospital Librarianship: What’s The New Normal? As a hospital librarian, I was optimistic that 2020 would be the end of COVID-19. 2021 has turned me…
Developing a Medical Library Instruction Program
This article was originally published in the Nursing and Allied Health Resources and Services Caucus Newsletter (Vol. 41, No. 4, October 2021). I want to…
Hospital Librarians and Environmental Justice
Editor’s Note: This week we have a wonderful post from Carrie Grinstead, of Providence St. Joseph Health, on the role that health sciences librarians can…
Get to know Kris Alpi and the EAHIL conference!
Editor’s note: We are so excited to feature Kris Alpi, MLA President, today on the blog! In this post, Kris tells us a bit about…
Message from the Editors – Fall 2021
Well, it isn’t quite fall yet, but for those of us who work with learners, it is about that time for fall semester to start.…
A Medical Librarian’s Experience During COVID-19
Working in health care can be challenging under ordinary conditions. The year 2020 proved to be anything but ordinary, as COVID-19 ravaged cities around the…
It’s summer! What are you up to?
Hello everyone! It’s summer, and while that doesn’t always make a huge difference in workload for many of us, it’s a rather special summer in…
Guest Columnist: Seema Bhakta
As librarians, many of us have heard about Little Free Library (LFL). In 2009, Todd Bol built a model of a one room schoolhouse, put…
Participate in APHA; Sewell Stipends due July 16!
Hello librarian friends, The Sewell Stipend pays for librarians to participate virtually in the annual meeting of APHA, the American Public Health Association. You can…
Introducing Life-Long Learning Skills in Patient Presentation in a Problem-Based Curriculum: The Case for Library Integration
Submitted by: Christopher P. Duffy, MLIS, AHIP, Margaret Dreker, MPA, MLS, Ofelia Martinez, MD, MPH, Tovah Tripp, MD, Joshua Josephs, MD, PhD, Miriam Hoffman, MD;…