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FYI: “Let Your Fingers Do the Walking…”
A finger-tip camera to assist the visually impaired While “giving the finger” to a patron would, hopefully, prompt an image of a prosthetic—created by stereolithography—being…
Newly Appointed Diversity Task Force Announced
At MLA ’17 in Seattle, the MLA Board of Directors approved a new strategic goal to evaluate and improve MLA practices as they relate to diversity…
Eight Lessons Learned While Developing a Health Information Class for Family Caregivers
Approximately 43.5 million adults in the United States provided unpaid care to an adult or child in 2015 [1]. How can librarians reach this enormous…
I’ve earned my credential. What about you?
When the MLA board of directors hired me to serve as MLA’s executive director two years ago this month, they asked me to obtain the…
Diversity and Inclusion: Top Priorities for MLA
Diversity and inclusion are essential values for MLA, but are these values reflected in what we do and how we do it? As librarians, we…
The Value of the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP)
Earlier this year, the Credentialing Committee surveyed Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) members to learn how they perceive the value of membership in AHIP,…
Why Mosaic ’16 Is Career Gold
Advance your career with networking and education at the largest gathering of health sciences librarians in the world, Mosaic ’16. Here’s what a few past…
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…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Project ENABLE Librarians across the country can find information, ideas, and training on how to improve access to information for those…