Call for Proposals: Communities of Practice Book Chapters Needed
Submitted by: Kay StrahanGood Afternoon Colleagues!We are coeditors for an upcoming book, Cultivating Collaboration: Communities of Practice in Librarianship, from Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. We…
Unlock Your Potential: Apply for the MLA Rising Star Program December 6 Extended Deadline
Are you a young professional looking to take your career in health sciences librarianship to the next level? Every year since 2016 and every other…
Sign Up Now for the Virtual Colleague Connection!
Submitted by: Adoree Makusztak New MLA members: build up your professional network and pair up with an experienced colleague or a fellow newbie. Experienced members:…
Sign Up Today for MLA’s Virtual Colleague Connection!
Submitted by: Adoree Makusztak Presented by the MLA Membership Committee, Colleague Connection is MLA’s mentoring program pairing new members with experienced members. New members will…
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Cohort of the MLA Rising Star Program!
Submitted by: Annabelle Nuñez We are excited to announce that Sunny Chung, John Mokonyama, Angela Murrell, and Kay Strahan have been selected for the prestigious…
Mastering Databases: Essential Features and Expert Solutions
Submitted by: Hilary Kraus Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: A Database Tips Lightning Round! A User Experience (UX) Caucus Event on Thursday, October 3, 2024…
Michelle Cawley Will Be Next Health Sciences Library Leader at UNC-Chapel Hill
Author: Jacob Thompson The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s University Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of Michelle Cawley as associate University…
Improving Accessibility for Library Patrons: Virtual Learning Opportunity
Save the Date: November 14, 2023, 1:00-2:00 p.m., central time Improving Accessibility for Library Patrons Meeting ID: 851 3328 0683 Join Zoom Meeting Join MLA’s…
AI Tools for Summarizing Research Articles: Transforming Information Access
By Gary S. Atwood, gatwood@uvm.edu, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-4100, systematic review librarian & library associate professor, Dana Health Sciences Library The exponential growth of academic research articles in…
ChatGPT and Our Response as Health Educators
Aultman College’s Health Sciences Library staff recently presented on ChatGPT and how it is changing what we need to know about information reporting and knowledge…
How Can We Promote Responsible Use of Data and Fix the Replication Crisis?
Librarians, especially those who do research data management work, might be interested in an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, published June 6, 2023:…
Response to “An Interview With ChatGPT”
By Dexter Hadley, MD, PhD, the founding chief of Artificial Intelligence at University of Central Florida, College of Medicine. At the University, he is building…
An Interview With ChatGPT and BARD From a Medical Librarian Perspective
By Nadine Dexter, EDD, MLS, Director, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Science Library, University of Central Florida, and Deedra Walton, MLS, Head, Department of Electronic Resources,…
ChatGPT is Here. What are We Waiting for?
ChatGPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) is all the buzz lately, and if you do not know what it is, you should (OpenAI, 2022). ChatGPT was…
Student Engagement AND Assessment in the Virtual Library Classroom? Google Forms to the Rescue!
By Lily Martin, MLIS, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Levy Library at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Samantha Walsh, MLS, MA, Hunter College…
Free, FAIR, & Fabulous: Five Data Tools to Support Open and Reproducible Research
By Elizabeth Roth, MA, rothel@musc.edu, Medical University of South Carolina; Christine Nieman, MLIS, cnieman@hshsl.umaryland.edu, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Katie Pierce Farrier, MIS, katie.pierce-farrier@unthsc.edu, University of…
Introducing the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Toolkit
The National Institutes of Health has developed an updated Data Management and Sharing Policy to promote the sharing of scientific data [1]. This policy goes…
Leaving Twitter, migrating to Mastodon? Implications for scholarly communication
Some academics are considering leaving Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover. A recent Science article by Kai Kupferschmidt and a post on The…
Ramping up for NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Implementation
Starting January 25, 2023, NIH grant applicants will be required to explain how they plan to manage and share the scientific data generated by their…
Join us in the Public Services Caucus and Share your Expertise!
Greetings from the Public Services Caucus (PSC)! As chair this year, I’d like to officially invite any of our MLA colleagues with an interest in…