MLA Honors Excellence in Health Sciences Librarianship
MLA honors its 2020 award winners and recognizes their outstanding professional contributions to the field of health sciences librarianship. Awards were presented during the opening…
Press, Play, Connect
Press, Play, Connect is the official podcast of MLA. Join Sally Gore and Emily J. Hurst as they interview librarians and discuss ideas from the medical…
2020 MLA Fellows
The 2019/2020 Board of Directors has named two association members as Fellows of MLA. Fellows are chosen for their outstanding contributions to health sciences librarianship…
Personals: Terrie R. Wheeler Featured on NEJM Library Hub
Terrie R. Wheeler, director of the Samuel J. Wood Library and C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center of Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, is featured…
MLA ’20 vConference New Member/First-Time Attendees Book Recommendations
This is a collection of favorite books and/or current reads that were mentioned in the New Members/First-Time Attendees meeting held on Monday, July 27, 2020,…
MLA ’20 vConference Lecturers
MLA honors all of its 2020 award winners and recognizes their outstanding professional contributions to the field of health sciences librarianship. This year’s lecturers were…
Fourth Annual MLA Book Recommendations: MLA ’20 vConference
This list is a compilation of books recommended throughout the MLA ’20 vConference. Any oversight of books not mentioned is unintended. Special thanks to the…
Glad to Meet You Virtually: Reflections on the MLA Conference
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MLA Honors with an International Focus
MLA seeks to have an impact throughout the world in building international partnerships and supporting the information needs of underserved individuals. The association presents many…
Personals: Sarah L. Carnes, AHIP, Featured in Publications
Sarah L. Carnes, AHIP, clinical librarian and acting emergency manager of the Bedford Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Bedford, MA, was recently featured in…
MLA ’20 vConference Featured Speakers You Don’t Want to Miss!
MLA is excited to announce Esther Choo, John Brownstein, and Chris Shaffer as keynote speakers at the MLA ’20 vConference and Exhibits, the full-featured experience…
In Memoriam: Donna P. Johnson
Donna P. Johnson died of COVID-19 on June 14. She became a nationally renowned medical library leader while overseeing Allina Health’s library during an era…
Historic MLA ’20 vConference Opening Session Held July 27
The MLA ’20 vConference and Exhibits, a full-featured experience of virtual learning and networking, kicked off on Monday, July 27, with an opening session that…
In Memoriam: Richard C. Wood
Richard C. Wood passed away July 12, 2020. He was executive director at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Libraries from 1991 to…
Personals: Susan Gerding Bader, AHIP, Retirement
On July 31, after seventeen years, Susan Gerding Bader, AHIP, is retiring as the director of the Learning Resource Center at the Baylor University Louise…
MLA ’20 Service Project: Rahab’s Sisters
What makes Rahab’s Sisters unique is the concept of radical hospitality. Rahab’s Sisters’ core mission is creating community for women and gender nonconforming folks “marginalized…
Personals: Virginia Commonwealth University Transitions
On July 1, 2020, leadership of the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries–Richmond, transitioned with the retirement of John E.…
The Board of Directors Gratefully Acknowledges Contributors
The Board of Directors gratefully acknowledges the following contributors, whose donations were received after September 30, 2019: Margaret Bandy, AHIP, FMLA Terry Ann Jankowski, AHIP,…
Consumer Health: Virtual Health Education during COVID-19
Due to COVID-19 and the stay at home order in the state of Florida beginning in March of this year, I realized there had to…
Visit the Pacific Northwest through MLA Oral Histories
Although MLA ’20 has transitioned from the in-person meeting in Portland, OR, to the virtual vConference, the Oral History Committee is putting the spotlight on interviews…