Personals: Terri Ottosen, AHIP
Terri Ottosen, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC) as the community engagement and…
Personals: Rachael Posey
Rachael Posey has joined the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries as the health and life sciences research librarian and associate director, William Rand Kenan,…
Personals: Emily Vardell
This May, Emily Vardell successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions,” and graduated with her…
Take Action to Support Net Neutrality Protections
Action Alert By December 13th, members of the health sciences library community are encouraged to contact your members of Congress and urge them to support…
Technology: What Is IFTTT?
Edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Image Credit: Blog: The new IFTTT is here IFTTT stands for IF THIS THEN THAT. According to the website, it…
Social Media: Social Media for Research Dissemination
Edited by Lara Killian, AHIP Social media has been around for quite a while but has an iffy reputation, especially in the academic community. Social…
International News
WHO launches free courses in health emergencies To aid both health care personnel and the general public in obtaining education on epidemics, pandemics, and other…
MLA Addresses Next Generation Data Sciences Challenges in Health and Biomedicine
The Medical Library Association (MLA) has submitted comments to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in response to its Request for Information (RFI) on Next Generation…
Honoring Our Past
When you graduate from a school of librarianship, you feel ready to jump into a job. When you actually begin the job, you sometimes feel…
Technology: Get to Know HyperDocs!
What are HyperDocs? HyperDocs are digital lessons that you can use to create engaging inquiry-based learning. They are used to replace the worksheet method of…
MLA and AALL recommend Federal Depository Library Program Reforms
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) have submitted recommendations for change that will update the Federal Depository Library Program…
Honoring Our Past
Do you remember Women’s Lib in the 1970s? One of the great ladies of librarianship is Gertrude L. Annan.* She gave her opinion of this…
NLM FY 2018 Funding Update
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2018 bill, S. 1771, provides the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with $420,898,000. During the spring Joint MLA/AAHSL Legislative Task…
Technology: Gamification in Medical and Dental Student Orientation
Submitted by Gregg A. Stevens, AHIP, and Jamie Saragossi, Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Editor’s note:…
Social Media: Archiving Twitter Hashtag Content: Symplur and Beyond
Edited by Lara Killian About Twitter Once upon a time, I was at a coffee with one of our library directors, who said, “I just…
International News
Schizophrenia library launches in Australia Patients and families affected by schizophrenia now have access to a virtual collection of reliable information comprising 2,000 fact sheets,…
Honoring Our Past
An article, “The Rorschach Test,” was published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA) in 1953 [1]. This personality test was created and…
Librarians without Borders® HINARI Train the Trainers Report Ghana: March 13-15, 2017
Accra, Ghana (March 13-15, 2017) This three day workshop was conducted at the University of Ghana, College of Health Sciences, Korle-Bu Computer Centre. The…
Librarians without Borders® HINARI and Internet Resources Workshop Report New Guinea: May 22-25, 2017
Papua New Guinea (May 22-25, 2017) This four day workshop was conducted at the Lutheran School of Nursing (LSON), Madang. It was supported by…
Technology: A Meeting of the Minds: How Hosting MakerHealth Faire Helped Promote 3D Printing
Edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Photo credit: Timothy Yates Advertising and promoting a new library service is difficult, and advertising a new service that involves…