Personals: Rachel Lane Walden
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries announced that Rachel Lane Walden, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, received the 2020 Vanderbilt School of Nursing…
Education: Supervising and Managing
Education can take many forms and modes of instruction, including continuing education or professional development. Some types of education are arrived at empirically in the…
Clinical Support: Medical Librarians as Public Information Leaders in a Pandemic: Part 2 of 3
Submitted by Louise McLaughlin, Woman’s Health Sciences Library, Baton Rouge, LA; interviewed by Laurie Schwing, Hub Editor: Clinical Support, MLAConnect Recently, the hospital libraries email…
Innovation & Research Practice: Crisis and Creativity: Stories of Ingenuity from the Emory Libraries
About a month ago, a colleague at Emory University sent an email to a local health sciences library email discussion list inviting participants to attend…
Sewell Stipend Deadline is almost here!
The Sewell Stipend is a professional development resource for librarians who work with public health information and public health workers. The Sewell Stipend supports librarians…
Personals: Terrie R. Wheeler Featured on NEJM Library Hub
Terrie R. Wheeler, director of the Samuel J. Wood Library and C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center of Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, is featured…
Personals: Sarah L. Carnes, AHIP, Featured in Publications
Sarah L. Carnes, AHIP, clinical librarian and acting emergency manager of the Bedford Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Bedford, MA, was recently featured in…
Personals: Susan Gerding Bader, AHIP, Retirement
On July 31, after seventeen years, Susan Gerding Bader, AHIP, is retiring as the director of the Learning Resource Center at the Baylor University Louise…
Personals: Virginia Commonwealth University Transitions
On July 1, 2020, leadership of the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries–Richmond, transitioned with the retirement of John E.…
Visit the Pacific Northwest through MLA Oral Histories
Although MLA ’20 has transitioned from the in-person meeting in Portland, OR, to the virtual vConference, the Oral History Committee is putting the spotlight on interviews…
JJ Pionke Named Library Journal 2020 Mover & Shaker
MLAConnect: Congratulations on being named one of the 2020 Library Journal Movers & Shakers! This is well-deserved recognition for all of the work you do…
PH/HA Statement: Racism Is a Public Health Crisis
PH/HA Statement: Racism is a Public Health Crisis June 4, 2020 Racism and law enforcement violence present destructive impacts on individuals, communities, and public health.…
Personals: Retirement of Alan Carr
Alan F. Carr, AHIP, has announced his upcoming retirement on July 1, after eighteen years of service to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine…
Personals: Retirement of Kelli Ham
Kelli Ham, National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) Pacific Southwest Region (PSR), University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA), has announced her retirement on July 1.…
Personals: Nisha Mody Appointed Interim Associate Director
Nisha Mody, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA), became interim associate director on June 1. Mody is a health sciences information…
Personals: Janis F. Brown, AHIP, Retires
Janis F. Brown, AHIP, retired after thirty-nine years of service to the University of Southern California (USC)–Los Angeles. Brown has served in many roles since…
Education: Make That Transition from Face-to-Face to Virtual Instruction
Many health sciences librarians employed in academic institutions can come to feel pressured to enhance medical library education by offering online courses versus traditional face-to-face…
Personals: Erin E. Reardon, AHIP, Joins the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library
Erin E. Reardon, AHIP, recently joined the Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota–Minneapolis, as one of four librarians working with the Medical School. As a liaison…