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…
EFTS User Agreements Now Available
On Friday January 17, 812 libraries received the MLA Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) user agreement for their review. Here are some fun facts: 300…
750+ Libraries Support the New EFTS
Great news, and thank you! 750+ libraries have expressed their interest to join the new EFTS by requesting a user agreement from MLA. MLA will…
EFTS Is Here to Stay
Poem posted to MEDLIB-L on November 22, 2019, by Fred King, AHIP Subject: Re: We need 75% of current EFTS users to keep the system…
Interim Chairs of MLA Domain Hubs Appointed
MLA President Julia Esparza, AHIP, recently appointed seven leaders to serve as interim domain hub chairs until June 1, 2020. These interim chairs will be…
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…
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…
Join an MLA Caucus at No Additional Cost!
The transition of MLA sections and special interest groups (SIGs) to caucuses is complete, and you can now see all of our caucuses on MLANET.…
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,…
Policies and Procedures Governing MLA Caucuses and Community Council
MLA’s governing bylaws are established by MLA’s Board of Directors to provide guidance on how to carry out association business. That guidance can be further…
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…
Section News: 2019 Research Section Research Awards
Congratulations to the winning research papers and posters from MLA ’19! The MLA Research Section is pleased to announce the winners for best research papers…
An Evolving Resource: CAPHIS’s Most Trusted Health Websites
If you are a member of MLA’s Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS), the phrase “top 100” probably means something very different to you…
MLA Community Transition Team Interviews
Community Transition Team Cochairs Keith W. Cogdill, AHIP, and Stephanie Fulton, AHIP, are pleased share the following interviews with the membership. Listen as MLA Board…
MLA Community Transition Team Interviews
Community Transition Team Cochairs Keith W. Cogdill, AHIP, and Stephanie Fulton, AHIP, are pleased share the following interviews with the membership. Listen to how MLA…
Update on MLA Communities
In the past two weeks, MLA sections and special interest groups (SIGs) have actively reached out to their members to identify the domain hubs in…
Communities Transition Update: Questions and Answers
In my role as point-person for questions related to MLA’s communities transition, Here are answers to questions about some of the key aspects of the…
Section News: 2018 ANCC Magnet Conference
The Providence St. Vincent Medical Center Magnet Team celebrates just before the awards celebration parade.The author is second from the right. The 2018 American Nurses…
The Communities Transition Team Is Up and Running
Message from Stephanie Fulton, AHIP, and Keith W. Cogdill, AHIP, cochairs, Communities Transition Team The Communities Transition Team is just getting started. Our team is…
MLA Communities Transition Team Appointed
In November 2018, the Communities Strategic Goal Task Force, chaired by Rikke Sarah Ogawa, presented a proposal to the MLA Board of Directors for a…