FYI: “ACK!” Have We Been Hacked?
Remember when “being hacked” only meant being angry or offended at someone. Now, “being hacked” means being assaulted or mugged electronically…which oddly enough leads to…
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…
Technology: Free Data Visualization Resources
Edited by Jean M. Gudenas With the strong emphasis on data, research, and statistics in academic environments, librarians are frequently requested to assist patrons or…
Social Media: Making Time to Stay Social
Getting started with—or staying committed to—participating in the social media landscape can be daunting. You may have seen a poster or conference presentation showing how…
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…
FYI: Spinning Your Wheels
Is there huffing and puffing in YOUR library? Did a craze to huff and puff and sweat in the library begin in 2016? Here in…
Leadership and Management: Champion “Team You”
As we embark upon a new year, many of us have a routine of setting goals for the year in our personal and professional lives.…
Technology: Altmetrics: New Approach for Evaluating Research Impact
Submitted by Barnaby Nicolas, Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; edited by Jean M. Gudenas Altmetrics, altmetrics, altmetrics. What…
Social Media: The Noun Project and Nounji for iMessage
Submitted by Lara Killian, AHIP, Nova Scotia Hospital Library, Nova Scotia Health Authority–Halifax, Canada Check out Lara Killian’s quick video explanation of Nounji on Instagram.…
Liaison Committee on Medical Education Requirements and the “Born Digital” Library
Submitted by Elizabeth R. Lorbeer, AHIP, Library, Western Michigan University School of Medicine–Kalamazoo, and Nadine Dexter, AHIP, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of…
An Anthem for Librarians?
Submitted by Frank Houghton and Kelly Evans, Eastern Washington University–Spokane Dear Editor, If you have studied history at college, as both authors have, it is…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch “Smile!” Remember when asking someone to “smile” only meant they were going to be in front of a camera, as in,…
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…
Leadership and Management: Let’s Continue to Make a Difference
Submitted by Tara Douglas-Williams, Chair, Leadership and Management Section Editor’s note: Tara Douglas-Williams is the current chair of the Leadership and Management Section. Learn more…
November 2016 News to Know…bytes and bits from around the social web
PolicyViz Podcast I am huge fan of the Graphic Continuum that was developed by Severino @SR_Visual_Info and Johnathan @jschwabish. So, I was super excited to…
Am I Leaking Data Everywhere?
Like many others, I have jumped on the fitness tracking bandwagon with my FitBit firmly strapped to my wrist. I love charts and graphs, so…