Help Wanted: Volunteer Opportunities In CDS
Wanted: Editor — Developments NewsletterThe Collection Development Section is looking for a new Editor for the section’s newsletter, Developments. Developments is published two times annually,…
CDS Logo Contest Results
We have a new logo! We have a new logo! Brooke Billman, MA, AHIP of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona…
Awards: The Daniel T. Richards
Submitted by Rebecca Raszewski, Awards Committee Chair The Collection Development Section is pleased to announce that the article, Mapping the Literature of Radiation Therapy by…
Collection Development Election Results
Submitted by Susan Kendall, Nominating Committee Chair The results of the Collection Development Section elections are: Chair-Elect: Amy Purvis apurvis@galencollege.edu Amy Purvis, MLS, AHIP, is…
Message From the Chair
Letter from the Chair, Spring 2015 Dear Section Members,Happy Spring! I hope that you are all enjoying beautiful weather wherever you are, and that it…
Spring 2015 v.27 #1
Hello From Your Editor, I hope everyone is enjoying spring – after a rather crazy winter where the East Coast got buried in tons of…
MLA’s Technology: Extreme Makeover
MLA Executive Director Kevin Baliozian signs a contract with Socious. In her last post, Kate Corcoran talked about the “Rube Goldbergesque infrastructure” of MLA information…
Less Complexity, More Value
Look familiar? This map of MLA’s Rube Goldbergesque information system infrastructure shows how our systems have been creatively jury-rigged over time, and expanded and patched…
You Can’t Be Everything to Everyone
You know those long, wide-ranging conversations where you start out talking about, say, your weekend and end up talking about North Korea or Kim Kardashian’s…
Action Is the Secret Sauce
Most strategic plans collapse in the execution phase. Effective plans have a clear process for action, which includes the following steps: Identify the critical few…
MLA’s Culture Revolution
Did I mention the heaps of diagrams and scribbled notes at the board’s February strategic planning retreat? Here’s the first one we looked at, posted…
Words I Can Do Without
Yoda said it best: “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” At the time, the evil empire had just struck back, and the future…
The Time for Change Is Now
Associations can be slow to change. In some ways, it’s the nature of the beast: when you have many stakeholders with diverse needs and interests,…
Current EMTS Officers
Hello everyone, Below is a list of the current EMTS officers. Feel free to contact any of us if you have questions, comments, or concerns.…
2014 EMTS Annual Meeting Attendance Grant Winners
Posted on April 8, 2014 by Amy Blevins After careful review of applications to the EMTS MLA Attendance Grant, the grant subcommittee (Amy Blevins, Dale…
Distance Support Survey
Posted on March 7, 2014 by Amy Blevins Margaret Hoogland and Carolyn Schubert have developed a survey that they would like you to take. http://redcap.atsu.edu/apps/redcap/surveys/?s=KWnABHgkJA…
A Letter from the Chair
Hello everyone, I’d like to introduce myself since I didn’t get to meet all y’all at MLA. As the Public Health Coordinator for the NN/LM…
Enhancement or Crutch? Alternative PubMed Interfaces
Posted on June 11, 2013 by Amy Blevins Our latest guest blog post comes from Keith Engwall (@librariandad), and he is the Web and Emerging…
Experiences with Online Education, StudiUM, and Flipped Classrooms
Posted on June 4, 2013 by Amy Blevins Natalie Clairoux is a librarian at the Bibliothèque de la santé at the Université de Montréal. Her…
#FOAMed and Medical Libraries: Where and How Should They Intersect?
At the MLA meeting in Boston, our EMTS members expressed an interest in writing for the EMTS blog. Our first guest writer is Keith Engwall…