Section & SIG News
Edited by Saori Wendy Herman, AHIPConsumer and Patient Health Information Section Award RecipientsSubmitted by Kay Hogan Smith, AHIP, Chair, Consumer and Patient Health Information SectionThe…
The Section/SIG Dance-athon
A huge thank you to everyone who attended the section/SIG open forum at MLA ’15. We know there were two other open forums running simultaneously,…
EMTS Treasurer’s and CE Committee Reports 2015
Posted by Amy Blevins Treasurer’s Report Current balance in the treasury is $14037.76 MLA 2014 balance was $13716.38 Review upcoming/expected expenditures for the meeting 2…
EMTS Membership Report 2015
Posted by Amy Blevins As of Dec. 31, 2014 EMTS had 194 members. Renewal numbers for this year so far are at 148 but many…
Won’t You Join the (Section) Dance?
Kicking off a new vision for sections and SIGs Change—there are so many quotes about it. One that I recently came across may be…
ICS REFLECTIONS, 2014-2015
Dear friends and fellow ICS members, It has been an eventful few months since MLA Annual Meeting in May 2014 – both in our own…
A VISIT TO SWAZILAND TO ASSIST A NEW NURSING SCHOOL
Last November 2013, I was invited to a newly opened nursing school in Swaziland to introduce online health information resources to the faculty and students,…
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.…
RECAP: ICS 25TH BIRTHDAY & MLA’14
Dear all ICS members, I just wanted to thank everyone for a special MLA’14 to celebrate ICS’s 25th anniversary in Chicago!! Please check out a…
HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY ICS!
From MLA ’14 Blog post by Martha Knuth. The International Cooperation Section celebrated their 25th birthday with a lovely party hosted by Kathy Kwan. Attended…
MESSAGE FROM ICS CHAIR: LOOKING BACK ON 2013-2014
Dear all, As I prepared the ICS Annual Report to submit to the MLA Board, I fully appreciated that the ICS truly had a productive year! …
BANGLADESH SISTER LIBRARY CEREMONY & NEWS
Hello ICS members, I’m thrilled to share information and photos of a Sister Library ceremony which took place on April 13th in Bangladesh. The sister…
STANDARDHEALTH APP
Northwestern freshman creates health care app focused on developing countries The Daily Northwester | April 8, 2014 | Olivia Exstrum A Northwestern University freshman and a…
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…
2012-13 Annual Report
The 2012-13 EMTS Annual Report was filed on April 15. Elements of this report will be discussed during the EMTS Business Meeting in Boston (Tuesday,…