T. Mark Hodges: International Pioneer
T. (Terrence) Mark Hodges didn’t set out to be a librarian, but like many of us, he fell into the love of organized books. While…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA One of the highlights of the MLA annual meeting is the Janet Doe Lecture. The first one was…
What Did You Do for National Medical Librarians Month?
“When you need to be right, ask your medical librarian.” That was the theme of this year’s National Medical Librarians Month, a month designed for…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA One of the papers presented at the MLA annual meeting in 1967 caused lots of comment and discussion.…
Expert Searching: The Outer Bull
Submitted by Daniel Wilson, Associate Director, Collections & Library Services, and Library Liaison for the School of Nursing, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Have you ever wondered what worried librarians fifty years ago? The issues facing library professionals were described by…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1961, MLA announced the establishment of a central office with Helen Brown Schmidt as executive secretary. In…
Consumer Health: Health Authority and Public Library Partner in Nova Scotia to Increase Access
Submitted by Lara Killian, AHIP, Nova Scotia Hospital Library, Capital Health, Halifax, NS, Canada; edited by Jana C. Liebermann Halifax Public Libraries (HPL) partnered with…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Nineteen forty-three was a year of celebration. It was the quatercentenary of the publication of Vesalius’s Fabrica and…
Expert Searching: Patient, Intervention, Control, and Outcome (PICO): An Overrated Tool
Submitted by Wichor M. Bramer, Medical Library, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; edited by I. Diane Cooper, AHIP Many searches start with…
Consumer Health: Developing Collection Management Guidelines for an Embedded Consumer Health Library
Submitted by Mira Geffner, Bay Area Cancer Connections, Palo Alto, CA; edited by Jana Liebermann This summer, it has been my task to develop a…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA MEDLARS was a magical word in the 1960s. The idea that a machine could produce a bibliography with…
MLA Historical Marker to Be Installed in Philadelphia
Submitted by June H. Fulton, FMLA, and Daniel Kipnis, Philadelphia Regional Chapter of MLA During 2015, its 117th anniversary year, MLA will celebrate a novel…
MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization Recipients
Congratulations to the following individuals who have received MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) from October 2014 through December 2014. MLA’s CHIS program is a…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1946, Dorathea W. Friedrich wrote an article on “The Effect of the War upon Medical Libraries and…
Consumer Health: Helping the Military Community: The Brickell Library Outreach Initiative at Eastern
Submitted by Ruth M. Smith and Judith Mercer, Brickell Medical Sciences Library, Eastern Virginia Medical School–Norfolk; edited by Jana C. Liebermann The Eastern Virginia Medical…
The Human Library Comes to the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University
Submitted by Patricia Wynne, Scott Memorial Library, Center for Teaching & Learning, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA Last October, the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas…
MLA’s Oral History Project
Submitted by Annie M. Hughes Thompson, Chair, Oral History Committee In 1977, the Oral History Project of MLA was launched to capture and preserve the…
Member Spotlight: Mary Nelson Peters, AHIP
Fast Facts: MLA Member Since: 1976First Professional Position: Serials librarian, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine–Fort Worth (now University of North Texas Health Science Center)Current Position:…
Internet Resources: Freely Available Medical Images
Submitted by Andrea C. Kepsel, AHIP, Libraries, Michigan State University−East Lansing; edited by Talicia Tarver Finding medical images freely available online can be difficult. Often…