Personals: Christopher P. Duffy
Christopher P. Duffy has joined the Seton Hall University Libraries as associate dean and founding director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Commons. The…
Something’s Brewing in Atlanta
Thanks to a change in state legislation allowing craft beer breweries to sell beer and food directly to the consumer that went into effect September…
New MLA Finance Committee
On November 16, 2017, the MLA Board of Directors approved the creation of a new MLA Finance Committee. The charge of the committee will be…
FYI: Predators in the Periodicals
As if libraries (and patrons presumably) do not have enough to worry them—like ransomware, acts of terrorism, rascals in raincoats, news that is fake, theft,…
Personals: Marian Taliaferro, AHIP
Marian Taliaferro, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, as the digital scholarship librarian.…
Get the Hottest Ticket in Town!
The hit Broadway show is coming to Atlanta in 2018! Hamilton will be performing in Atlanta’s Fabulous Fox from late May to mid-June. Tickets are…
MLA 2018/19 MLA Election Candidates Announced
Submitted by Teresa L. Knott, AHIP, Cochair, and Michelle Kraft, AHIP, Cochair, MLA Nominating Committee MLA is pleased to announce the slate of candidates for…
Honoring Our Past
Letters to the editors are often interesting and sometimes informative. Erich Meyerhoff wrote one concerning the Union List of Medical Periodicals. He wrote a tribute…
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…
Hello from our Secretary-Treasurer
Hello, MIS! My name is Rex Robison and I’m the secretary/treasurer for MIS (until May). Several years ago, I earned a PhD doing neuroscience research…
MIS/MLA Career Development Grant, Bioinformatics, & Me: a journey
In November 2015 one of my colleagues, Rolando Garcia-Milian of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, told me about a great training program he…
Hi from the Past Chair!
Hello MIS members! My name is Lisa Federer and I’m the past chair of MIS and the current chair of the nominating committee – so you may…
FYI: Whither Books and Learning?
Demise of books? If the findings of a survey outlined in an article published by Inside Higher Education are indicative of trends to come, then…
Hi from the Membership Committee
I have been serving in my current role as Biomedical Informatics and Emerging Technologies Librarian at Penn State College of Medicine for the last 5…
Greetings from the Chair-elect
Greetings MIS members! My name is Andrea Kepsel and I am the current chair-elect of MIS. I have been a health sciences educational technology librarian…
Volunteer for an MLA Committee! We Need You! We Really Do!
As we transition from one season to another, I am energized and excited about my transition, and I want you to be a part of…
Editor’s Note: Closing Thoughts
Thank you for the opportunity to serve as editor of the MLA News for the past two and a half years. Special thanks to the…
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…