• Kickstart the New EFTS Platform: Update

    As you may have learned (and apologies if you have already received a similar message), MLA has developed the specifications of a new Electronic Funds…

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  • Kickstart the New EFTS Platform

    MLA has developed the specifications of a new Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) platform. MLA will proceed with actual development and implementation if a minimum…

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  • In Memoriam: Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA

    Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA, passed away October 17, 2019. Throughout her long and distinguished career, McClure served the association and the library profession as MLA’s…

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  • Medical Library Education: Celebrating Health Sciences Libraries!

    Medical library education—and all forms of librarianship really—revolve around, as well as depend upon, the universal goodwill of core stakeholders to help foster positive patron…

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  • Update on EFTS Continuation

    Submitted by Kevin Baliozian, MLA Executive Director, and Janice Swiatek, Director, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, University of Connecticut (UConn) Health Center–Farmington On July 18, 2019,…

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  • In Memoriam: Laura Brown

    Submitted by Alan F. Carr, AHIP, Louise Darling Biomedical Library, University of California–Los Angeles, on behalf of Carolyn Fischel Laura Brown passed away on August…

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  • In Memoriam: Mary M. Asbell, AHIP

    Mary M. Asbell, AHIP, passed away August 28, 2019. Before her retirement from the Preston Smith Library, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)–Lubbock, in…

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  • In Memoriam: Donald A.B. Lindberg

    Dear Colleagues, Sadly, MLA shares the news that Donald A.B. Lindberg passed away Friday evening after a short illness. We are grateful for his leadership…

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  • Update on EFTS Continuation

    On May 22, 2019, Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) users received a communication from Janice Swiatek, director of the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library at the…

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  • Developments Spring 2019 v. 30 #2

    Table of Contents Hello from Your Editors Message From the Chair Get to know CDS members CDS Members Presenting at MLA Recent Publications of Interest…

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  • In Memoriam: Tanji Gibson

    Submitted by Amy Allison, AHIP, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, and Tara Douglas-Williams, M. Delmar Edwards, M.D., Library, Morehouse School of…

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  • In Memoriam: Lila Pedersen

    Librarians at the University of North Dakota (UND) were saddened to hear of the death of Lila (Gandolf) Pedersen who passed away on March 19,…

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  • Springing forward with MIS – intro

    Good afternoon everyone, The MIS leaders invite all members to participate in a new challenge: Springing forward with MIS. This challenge is very similar to…

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  • In Memoriam: Catherine M. Boss, AHIP

    Catherine (Cathy) M. Boss, AHIP, passed away March 3, 2019. In November 2018, she was diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer, then had renal…

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  • Medical Library Education: Design Thinking

    Librarians who are engaged in medical library education are often called upon to provide instruction on a host of topics in various surroundings before diverse…

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  • In Memoriam: Susanne M. Humphrey, AHIP

    Submitted by Andrew Clifton Humphrey Jr., Detroit, MI Susanne M. Humphrey, AHIP, of Wheaton, MD, passed away on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at age seventy-four.…

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  • Period Power!

    Leiter Lecturer Nadya Okamoto will discuss health information in underserved communities, health disparities, gender identity, and how she founded PERIOD. the Menstrual Movement. Nadya Okamoto…

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  • In Memoriam: James Patrick Craig

    James Patrick (Pat) Craig was born December 10, 1942, in Gould, AR. He passed away in Shreveport, LA, on January 15, 2019. He went to…

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  • In Memoriam: Mary Wickline

    Mary Wickline, medical librarian at the University of California–San Diego (UCSD), passed away on Saturday, December 8, 2018, after a long illness. She was at…

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  • FYI: Bibliotherapy

    Bibliotherapy. Ever heard of it? It has been “practiced” almost exactly a century, according to a posting that states simply that “the science” of bibliotherapy…

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