Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative
To support the ongoing public health emergency response efforts, national science and technology advisors from a dozen countries formed a Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative,…
Join the Covid-19 Conversation: How to Be with Others When You Are Alone
MLA is launching a series of free, live, online conversations, Coping and Caring in the Time of COVID. These weekly conversations for MLA members and…
2020 Awards, Grants, and Scholarships Recipients
MLA congratulates the 2020 recipients of MLA awards, grants, and scholarships. All recipients will be honored during MLA ’20. AWARDS AND HONORS Virginia L. and…
2020 President’s Awards
The President’s Award is given to MLA members who have been selected by the association’s officers and Board of Directors for notable or important contributions…
A Librarian Can…Integrate Work and Life
Editor’s Note: Republished with permission from Martha E. Meacham’s blog A Librarian Can…, March 20, 2020, post. These are strange times. My entire staff and…
Statement of Support to Libraries and Library Workers
The MLA Board of Directors supports the safety and well-being of library workers and the health sciences communities we serve. We join the Canadian Health…
MLA Member Curated List of COVID-19 Resources
MLA members have started a curated list of COVID-19 resources for medical librarians and other health information professionals. The site will be updated as frequently…
Editor’s Note
Like many of you, I am working from home for the foreseeable future. It is a different set up. One main difference for me is…
Individual and Organizational Health Literacy: A Key to the Future of Health
This content is only available to members.
MLA Team Serving You Remotely During COVID-19
COVID-19 and the related social distancing recommendations are affecting all of us at home and at work. During this temporary emergency, all MLA team members…
MLA Board Reschedules MLA ’20 to August 15–19, 2020, in Portland
Updated to include finalized dates We have heard from many of you about the potential effect of COVID-19 on your attendance at MLA ’20, including…
2020 MLA Election Results
MLA is pleased to announce the results of the 2020 election. Candidates listed below will assume office at the conclusion of MLA ’20 in Portland,…
Statement from Travel Portland
The Oregon Health Authority, the City of Portland, and Travel Portland are all closely monitoring the situation in the community. Portland is currently open for…
Consumer Health: Emotional Health in the Library: Part II: Emotional Labor
Miriam Matteson, associate professor at Kent State University,presented on emotional labor at theOhio Health Sciences Library Association Fall 2019 Meeting. In “Emotional Health in the…
EFTS Update: February 27, 2020
Your MLA Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) team has been hard at work to implement the new EFTS. Latest news 610 libraries have completed their EFTS…
London’s Cholera Epidemic and 21st Century America – Strikingly Similar
Recently, I’ve been working on a research project about access to health information during the 19th century London cholera epidemics. My interest in the subject…
Caucus Annual Business Meetings and Gatherings
Caucus leaders and members, MLA encourages you to hold your official business meetings virtually before MLA ’20 instead of onsite in Portland so that all…
MLA Diversity and Inclusion Task Force 2019 Survey Report Preprint Available
In fall 2019, the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force administered an online survey to the MLA membership not only to ascertain the demographic makeup of…
Chapter News: SC/MLA Chapter Meeting
The Southern Chapter of MLA (SC/MLA) held its 69th Annual Meeting October 10–12, 2019. Members and guests made their way to the Hyatt Regency Savannah…
In Memoriam: William G. Cooper, 1926–2019
Photo courtesy of theIsland Funeral Home & Crematory site. William G. Cooper, MLA Honorary Member and husband of MLA Past President Linda A. Watson, FMLA,…