MLA Supports Federal Depository Library Program Modernization Act of 2018
MLA President Barbara A. Epstein, AHIP, FMLA has thanked Representatives Gregg Harper (R) MS-03 and Robert Brady (D) PA-01 for introducing H.R. 5305, the FDLP (Federal…
Technology: Nearpod for Instructional Use
What is Nearpod? Nearpod is an educational technology tool that is primarily used by many school educators in the classroom. It is a platform that…
Hospital Librarianship: Education and Travel by Hospital Librarians: Results of a Survey
MLA frequently offers webinars for a charge to members. I knew from my personal experience that my hospital library does not have an education budget,…
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…
Social Media: Get to the Point! Writing Tips for Social Media
If you have dipped into any of the major contemporary social media platforms, you are aware that there are different conventions for aspects as varied…
Honoring Our Past
“From Index Catalogue to Gopher Space: Changes in Our Profession as Reflected in the Handbook and CPHSL,” the 1993 Janet Doe Lecture by Alison Bunting,…
Personals: Cynthia Beeler, AHIP
Cynthia Beeler, AHIP, has accepted the role of academic medical librarian and will be the librarian for the Learning Resource Center in the Mitchell Student…
Personals: Joyce McFadden, AHIP
Joyce McFadden, AHIP, has accepted the position of public services supervisor for the Plummer Library at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. At the Plummer…
Technology: From Screaming to Screening: An Evaluation of Free Systematic Review Software
Submitted by Elizabeth Moreton, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and Jamie Conklin, Medical Center Library, Duke University, Durham, NC; edited by Tony…
Personals: Daniel Stuart
Daniel Stuart has joined the Preston Smith Library, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)–Lubbock, as reference librarian. In this role, Stuart will support 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…
Personals: Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, Awarded Presidential Rank
Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, was recently recognized as a Presidential Rank Awardee at the Distinguished level. Humphreys retired as deputy director of the National Library of…
Personals: Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP
After forty-two years, thirty-eight as a medical librarian, Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP, is retiring on February 9. Stemmer Frumento spent her medical librarian career as…
Hospital Librarianship: Collaboration to Achieve Innovation
Submitted by Wanda Sebrena Thomas, Skelton Medical Library, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA; edited by Angela Spencer, AHIP Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in a hospital…
The RAISE Act of 2017 to Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage US Family Caregivers Signed into Law
On January 22, 2018, President Donald J. Trump signed House Bill H.R.3759, the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage (RAISE) Family Caregivers Act of 2017…
Technology: Get to Know 4D Printing
Libraries with makerspaces are aware of 3D printers. These specialized printers can turn digital blueprints into a physical object. Complex 3D printed objects may be…
Honoring Our Past
In 1995, Nina W. Matheson, AHIP, FMLA, gave the Janet Doe Lecture,” The Idea of the Library in the Twenty-First Century.” Now as it is…
FYI: Barbara Alice Ringer
Remember the reportage here in June of 2017 that the House of Representatives in DC had approved a bill to take from the librarian of…
Personals: Christopher P. Duffy
Christopher P. Duffy has joined the Seton Hall University Libraries as associate dean and founding director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Commons. The…
TAKE ACTION TO SUPPORT THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES ACT OF 2017
Action Alert Members of the health sciences library community are encouraged to contact your Senators and urge them to support libraries by cosponsoring S. 2271, The…