Library Resources for Dentistry and Dental Hygiene: Updated Recommendations from the Dental Caucus
By Lorraine Porcello, MSLIS, MSIM; Natalie Clairoux, MSc, MSI; Nicole Theis-Mahon, MLIS, AHIP; Sean M. Stone, MLS; Bradrick McClam, MEd, AHIPRaskin and Hathorn published the first…
Developments Spring 2022 v. 33 #1
Developments Spring 2022 v. 33 #1 Message from the Co-Editors Message from the Chair New Member Highlight: Sonia Pescua Update on Collection Development 2.0 Caucus…
The UX Caucus Database Tips Blog
By Kate Saylor and Andy Hickner The User Experience (UX) Caucus recently launched a new Database Tips blog. The project began in February 2021 when…
Brought to you by the Hospital Library Caucus – Drag Queen Story Hour: Experiencing Diversity in Action, Experience MLA ’22
Hospital Libraries Caucus hosted the Experience MLA event, Drag Queen Story Hour: Experiencing Diversity in Action on February 10, 2022. In case you missed it,…
JMLA Author Interview: Lucy Kiester and Clara Turp
Lucy Kiester and Clara Turp cowrote the article “Artificial intelligence behind the scenes: PubMed’s Best Match algorithm,” which just published in the most recent issue…
Audience Analysis: Meet Your Learners Where They Are
By Anna Ferri and Megan De Armond The first phase of designing a new learning intervention involves identifying a problem or goal the instruction is…
5(ish) Minutes With…Rosemarie Taylor
Rosemarie K. Taylor has just retired from her position as Manager of Library Services at Commonwealth Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, where she worked for 47 years, and…
Zines in the Health Sciences Library
Zines have long been an integral part of library collections, but can they be useful in a health sciences library? The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is home to…
Training and Educational Needs of New Hospital Librarians
New hospital librarians are often left to their own savvy and wits to find the training and information they need to perform their job responsibilities…
A Conversation about Medical Librarians and the IRB
Editor’s note: There was a recent conversation on the HLC Listserv about hospital librarians serving the IRB. Eleanor Truex wrote up this wonderful guide, which…
From the Back Burner to Done: Time Management Tips
First published in Southern Expressions, Vol. 38, No. 1. By Terri Gotschall, Rachel Walden, Nakia Woodward, and Emily Weyant. Don’t want to write an article,…
5 Minutes With… Ryan Norman
Ryan Norman is the Medical Librarian for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset, and has recently joined the editing team at National Network as…
New Ed-Tech Apps to Try This Year
It is a new year and a great time to try out new technology! One of the few good things to come out of the…
Busting Myths about Preprints
Preprints are increasingly in the public eye, in part due to their contribution to the research corpus during the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. But what exactly…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope that you were able to take some time for yourself over the holidays, either to celebrate or to spend…
Collection Development Matters
Although traditional library infostructures emerged out of a collection of materials housed in an edifice of some type or another, the library of today often…
VA Chaplains Virtually Connect Veterans in the ICU with Their Families
This is an edited version of an article that was originally published here: https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/83907/va-chaplains-virtually-connect-veterans-icu/. A few weeks ago, a veteran in an intensive care unit…
A Conversation about Medical Librarians and the IRB
By Eleanor Shanklin Truex, BSN, RN, MLIS, Amita Health Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL Librarians tend to be a generous people; the librarian listservs are…
Message from the Chair – December 2021
Greetings of the Season! It’s hard to believe we are in December already and the holidays and 2022 are in sight! HLC has been very…
Message from the Editors – November 2021
We haven’t even gotten our first real snow here in Minneapolis yet, so I couldn’t quite bear to call this the “winter” message from the…