Springing forward with MIS – intro
Good afternoon everyone,The MIS leaders invite all members to participate in a new challenge: Springing forward with MIS. This challenge is very similar to the…
Expert Searching: What Do Swiflet Bird Nests and Prolonged Bleeding Have in Common?
A searching experience submitted by Elizabeth Stellrecht, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; edited by Christy Tyson The Background Recently, a patient at…
FYI: Post-Nominals
When next contemplating the stars in the heavens or the leaves in a cup of tea, think a moment about this, too, if you can…
Expert Searching: Living Evidence and Living Systematic Reviews: What You Need to Know
Submitted by Robin Featherstone, Cochrane Editorial and Methods Department, and Steve McDonald, Cochrane Australia; edited by Christy Tyson Introduction You may have been asked recently…
The National Guidelines Clearinghouse Returns—as the ECRI Guidelines Trust
Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted in the Public Health/Health Administration (PH/HA) Section’s PH/HA Libraries blog. The MLA News is releasing an updated version…
Expert Searching: Reaching for That Brass Ring
As a mid-career librarian, I recently made the move from general education to higher education, leveraging my first degree and career in clinical and instructional…
“Information and informatics literacies of first-year medical students” a review blog
Hello MIS! This time I’ve read “Information and informatics literacies of first-year medical students” which describes a case study that took place at the Wood…
“Developing a Bioinformatics Program and Supporting Infrastructure in a Biomedical Library” Blog
This month I’ve read “Developing a Bioinformatics Program and Supporting Infrastructure in a Biomedical Library” by Nathan Hosburgh, MLIS, MSCIS, and Library Systems Administrator at…
Expert Searching: My Experience at NLM Working on the Genetics Home Reference
In March 2017, I had the honor of working at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). I was given a tour of the clinical hospital…
“perceptions of the role and duties of health information-providing librarians” a review blog
Hello MIS! This round I’ve read “A study comparing public and medical librarians’ perceptions of the role and duties of health information-providing librarians”, authored by…
“Metropolis revisited: the evolving role of librarians…” review blog
Hello again MIS, Here goes the first review blog! This month I’ve read “Metropolis revisited: the evolving role of librarians in informatics education for…
Expert Searching: Health Care Professionals Work to a Set of Standards: Shouldn’t We?
Submitted by Brooke Ballantyne Scott, Jackie MacDonald, Susan Baer, Ashley Farrell, AHIP, Marcus Vaska, Pat Lee, and Danielle Rabb, Canadian Search Standards Working Group Health…
Hello from our Secretary-Treasurer
Hello, MIS! My name is Rex Robison and I’m the secretary/treasurer for MIS (until May). Several years ago, I earned a PhD doing neuroscience research…
MIS/MLA Career Development Grant, Bioinformatics, & Me: a journey
In November 2015 one of my colleagues, Rolando Garcia-Milian of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, told me about a great training program he…
Hi from the Past Chair!
Hello MIS members! My name is Lisa Federer and I’m the past chair of MIS and the current chair of the nominating committee – so you may…
Hi from the Membership Committee
I have been serving in my current role as Biomedical Informatics and Emerging Technologies Librarian at Penn State College of Medicine for the last 5…
Greetings from the Chair-elect
Greetings MIS members! My name is Andrea Kepsel and I am the current chair-elect of MIS. I have been a health sciences educational technology librarian…
Medical Library Education: Data Mining: Unlocking Patterns to Improve Health Care
Submitted by LeAnn K. Boyce and Jodi L. Philbrick, AHIP, Department of Information Science, College of Information, University of North Texas–Denton Big data, data science,…
Hello from the Chair!
Hello MIS members! A few weeks ago you heard from Jennifer Dinalo, our new community manager, about her informatics background and some upcoming program ideas.…