Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLANineteen forty-three was a year of celebration. It was the quatercentenary of the publication of Vesalius’s Fabrica and the…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA MEDLARS was a magical word in the 1960s. The idea that a machine could produce a bibliography with…
MLA Historical Marker to Be Installed in Philadelphia
Submitted by June H. Fulton, FMLA, and Daniel Kipnis, Philadelphia Regional Chapter of MLA During 2015, its 117th anniversary year, MLA will celebrate a novel…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1946, Dorathea W. Friedrich wrote an article on “The Effect of the War upon Medical Libraries and…
MLA’s Oral History Project
Submitted by Annie M. Hughes Thompson, Chair, Oral History Committee In 1977, the Oral History Project of MLA was launched to capture and preserve the…
Hospital Librarianship: The Value of Mentoring: A Hospital Librarian’s Perspective
Submitted by Catherine M. Boss, AHIP, Booker Health Sciences Library, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ; edited by Nandita S. Mani, AHIP Are you…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Many important and popular “firsts” took place in 1948. MLA celebrated its 50th anniversary. The first training program…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA MLA President Mildred C. Langner, AHIP, FMLA, reported on the association’s activities in 1966. Among the topics were…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Ralph Esterquest, librarian of the Countway Library of Medicine, Boston Medical Library, and Harvard University Medical School, outlined…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch New Fellowship Opportunities at NYAM Two fellowships to pursue study and research in the history of medicine open in June at…
CDS Member Authored Articles, Books, Book Chapters, Reviews & Presentations
CDS Members in BOLD Articles Reviews Presentations / Posters / Upcoming Presentations Articles Goben, A., & Raszewski, R. (2015). The data life cycle applied…
Conference Report: The Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference 2015
Submitted by Susan Swogger, CDS Chair MLA’s annual conference is a most excellent opportunity to learn and share with colleagues, but it is certainly…
New Members
Submitted by Nadia Lalla, Membership Committee Chair A warm welcome to our newest members and returning members of the Collection Development Section as of November…
CDS Members In The News
Nancy Olmos Awarded the 2014 Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona Paraprofessional of the Year Award Janet Doe Lectureship for 2016M.J. Tooey, AHIP,…
Help Wanted: Volunteer Opportunities In CDS
Wanted: Editor — Developments Newsletter The Collection Development Section is looking for a new Editor for the section’s newsletter, Developments. Developments is published two times…
CDS Logo Contest Results
We have a new logo! We have a new logo! Brooke Billman, MA, AHIP of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona…
Awards: The Daniel T. Richards
Submitted by Rebecca Raszewski, Awards Committee Chair The Collection Development Section is pleased to announce that the article, Mapping the Literature of Radiation Therapy by…
Collection Development Election Results
Submitted by Susan Kendall, Nominating Committee Chair The results of the Collection Development Section elections are: Chair-Elect: Amy Purvis apurvis@galencollege.edu Amy Purvis, MLS, AHIP, is…
Message From the Chair
Letter from the Chair, Spring 2015 Dear Section Members,Happy Spring! I hope that you are all enjoying beautiful weather wherever you are, and that it…
Spring 2015 v.27 #1
Hello From Your Editor, I hope everyone is enjoying spring – after a rather crazy winter where the East Coast got buried in tons of…