Increase Inclusiveness: Make Your Content Accessible
As librarians in public health, we all create handouts, tutorials, or outreach materials. How much do you consider accessibility features when you create that content?…
FYI: The Latest about Sci-Hub
Something probably falling under the definition of a “statement or report disseminated without a source of truth or veracity”—in other words, a rumor—appeared recently in…
Information Literacy and Consumer Health: Reading the Fine Print
I was recently asked to give an instruction session to an undergraduate class about evaluating online sources of consumer health information. When I started doing…
Mendeley Reference Manager Software
When it comes to reference manager software, I have been a long-time user and supporter of both EndNote and RefWorks – but Mendeley is currently…
Op Ed: Why Health Insurance Policy Matters to Health Sciences Librarians
The year 2017 saw multiple attempts by the US Senate and House of Representatives to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In each case, the…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
New MeSH Terms for Public Health
Hello PH/HA Members, When the end of the year approaches, the NLM announces upcoming changes to MeSH terms. Many of the changes for 2018 relate…
Consumer Health: Achieving Healthy Communities through Collaboration with Libraries
Submitted by Yingting Zhang, AHIP, Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick; Zachary Taylor, Healthier Middlesex;…
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…
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.…
PH/HA Travel Stipend Blog Post
Kathleen Amos was this year’s winner of the PH/HA Travel Stipend. Kathleen used the travel stipend to attend this year’s MLA conference. You can read all…
Chapter News: Hurricane Harvey: Voices from the Storm
Editor’s note: The following article was submitted, at our request, by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) South Central Region (SCR) office. Because…
Consumer Health: LibGuides on Disabilities That Have Accessibility in Mind
Edited by Christine Willis, AHIP There are many websites about different disabilities, but they are often not aggregated in one easy-to-find and easy-to-access place. The…
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…
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…