Consumer Health: Reaching out to the “T”: A Medical Library’s Experience Providing Outreach and Consumer Health Resources to the Transgender Community
Submitted by Francisco J. Fajardo and Jorge E. Perez, Herbert Wertheim Medical Library, Florida International University–Miami; and Hector Perez-Gilbe, AHIP, Ayala Science Library, University of…
Personals: Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP
Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP, was recently promoted to deputy director at the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Traditi had previously served…
Personals: Karen Crowell
Karen Crowell, clinical librarian at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC), retired at the end of January 2017. Crowell came…
Personals: Jane Blumenthal, AHIP
Jane Blumenthal, AHIP, was recently welcomed as a new member of the National Library of Medicine Board of Regents. Blumenthal is the associate university librarian…
Personals: Gale A. Dutcher, AHIP
Gale A. Dutcher, AHIP, retired from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on September 30, 2016. Most recently, she served as the NLM acting associate…
Honoring Our Past
MLA used to have a Committee on Committees. Its purpose was to review the organization and create new committees as needed and retire those no…
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…
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…
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,…
Personals: Emily Vardell
Emily Vardell received the Teaching Excellence Award in the adjunct category at the spring commencement ceremony for the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill on May…
Honoring Our Past
Is librarianship a profession? Professor E. Croft Long believed it was. He was a professor of physiology at Duke University Medical Center when his article…
Personals: Susan Swogger
Susan Swogger has joined the staff of the Kirksville, Missouri, Branch of the A.T. Still Memorial Library. She is the library liaison for the university’s…
Personals: Christie Call Silbajoris
Christie Call Silbajoris, AHIP, consumer health and patient education librarian at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), University of North Carolina (UNC)–Chapel Hill, retired at the…
Personals: Dixie Alford Jones
Dixie Alford Jones, AHIP, director of the Health Sciences Library at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health–Shreveport, will retire on January 31. She received her master’s…
Personals: Elizabeth Connor
Elizabeth Connor, AHIP, professor of library science and leadership studies, has been named coordinator of the new leadership scholars program at The Citadel, the Military…
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…
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…
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,…
Consumer Health: “I Saw It on the Internet”: A Trustworthy Resources Class for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
Editor’s Note: With this column, the MLA News welcomes the new Consumer Health column editor, Christine Willis, Shepherd Center, Noble Learning Resource Center, Atlanta, GA.…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1968, the members of the State University of New York (SUNY) Biomedical Communication Network became the first…