Finding World Health Organization documents with the Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS)
The World Health Organization’s bookstore recently suspended its standing order service for libraries in order to transition to a new order processing system. Its website…
Hospital Librarianship: Hospital Librarians as Archivists: Collecting Old Artifacts and New Customers
Submitted by Elizabeth A. Morgan, Library Services, UPMC Pinnacle, Harrisburg, PA; edited by Laurie Schwing From left to right: Barbara Woods (volunteer); Marge Samsel (volunteer);…
Public Health Primary Sources
Posted on behalf of the blog writer, Erin Anthony. As the Public Health and Research Support Librarian for Brown University’s Rockefeller Library, I am always…
ToxNet Alternatives: Occupational Health Resources
I suspect that many PHHA members have already heard that ToxNet is going offline as of December 2019. Some of its many databases/tools will be…
Medical Library Education: Celebrating Health Sciences Libraries!
Medical library education—and all forms of librarianship really—revolve around, as well as depend upon, the universal goodwill of core stakeholders to help foster positive patron…
Medical Library Education: Academic Orientations
Now that the academic year is fully underway, it is time to take a breath and to reflect upon what was wrought at the beginning…
All That Potential – Finding Potential Partners
All That Potential – Finding Potential Partners Public health is a group effort. A person’s health is the result of complex interactions between the environment,…
Hospital Librarianship: InSight Initiative Summit 3
Submitted by Elizabeth Laera, AHIP, McMahon-Sibley Medical Library, Brookwood Baptist Health, Birmingham, AL, and Angela Spencer, AHIP, C. Alan McAfee, MD Medical Library, St. Lukes…
Assessment Strategies for Understanding and Retention
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Whether you are in a classroom, in a health care setting, or out working with the public, clear communication…
Hospital Librarianship: A Unified Library Service: One Year Post-Merger
What happens when two health systems come together and the libraries become one unified library service? That all depends on attitude, collaboration, and preparation. In…
An Evolving Resource: CAPHIS’s Most Trusted Health Websites
If you are a member of MLA’s Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS), the phrase “top 100” probably means something very different to you…
ELEVATED and Connected – PH/HA Travel Stipend Recap
The 2019 MLA Annual Meeting centered the conversations around improving support and services and growing the profession. The theme this year was ELEVATE, and that reflected…
Open Educational Resources: What you need to know
What is OER? Open educational resources [OER] are digitized materials that are free or very low cost to students. They can be textbooks, videos, case…
FYI: Departures
Today, for April, FYI will be hewn differently than in the past—from the quarry of craft. A departure from the norm—a variance of form—but definitely…
Hospital Librarianship: Tracking the Health Care News: Give Your Expertise a Spin across the Media
Submitted by Laurie Schwing, Domingo T. Alvear Medical Library, UPMC Pinnacle, Harrisburg, PA; edited by Angela Spencer, AHIP My first attempt at creating a “media…
Vaccine hesitancy in the news
As all of us surely are aware, there is an increasing incidence of vaccine preventable infectious disease around the world – pertussis, varicella, measles,…
FYI: A Helping of Libraries Helping
Much about the success of libraries and librarians not only to disseminate health care information, but also to implement solutions has been heralded here in…
Leadership and Management: Be Bold. Think Differently. Have Fun
If you have received an email from me, you may have noticed three sentences at the bottom of my signature: Be bold. Think differently. Have…
Medical Library Education: Design Thinking
Librarians who are engaged in medical library education are often called upon to provide instruction on a host of topics in various surroundings before diverse…
International Toxicity Estimates of Risk
In addition to being the liaison to the Masters in Public Health program at MSU, I’m also the liaison to the Department of Pharmacology and…