• Personals: Deborah Sibley

    Deborah Sibley has been appointed executive director of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library, effective August 28, 2017.Sibley is currently the director of libraries at…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    The recent death of Eugene Garfield led to many items in the newspapers. His is a name that resounds in libraries because his creations—Science Citation…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Alfred N. Brandon, former MLA president and editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association from 1961–1968, wrote an editorial deploring the borrowing of…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Dig into your issues of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA), and you will often find some unexpected treasures. Our predecessors had astonishing…

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  • Personals: Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP

    Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP, was recently promoted to deputy director at the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Traditi had previously served…

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  • Personals: Karen Crowell

    Karen Crowell, clinical librarian at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC), retired at the end of January 2017. Crowell came…

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  • Personals: Jane Blumenthal, AHIP

    Jane Blumenthal, AHIP, was recently welcomed as a new member of the National Library of Medicine Board of Regents. Blumenthal is the associate university librarian…

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  • Personals: Gale A. Dutcher, AHIP

    Gale A. Dutcher, AHIP, retired from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on September 30, 2016. Most recently, she served as the NLM acting associate…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    MLA used to have a Committee on Committees. Its purpose was to review the organization and create new committees as needed and retire those no…

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  • Personals: Emily Vardell

    Emily Vardell received the Teaching Excellence Award in the adjunct category at the spring commencement ceremony for the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill on May…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Is librarianship a profession? Professor E. Croft Long believed it was. He was a professor of physiology at Duke University Medical Center when his article…

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  • Personals: Susan Swogger

    Susan Swogger has joined the staff of the Kirksville, Missouri, Branch of the A.T. Still Memorial Library. She is the library liaison for the university’s…

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  • Personals: Christie Call Silbajoris

    Christie Call Silbajoris, AHIP, consumer health and patient education librarian at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), University of North Carolina (UNC)–Chapel Hill, retired at the…

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  • Personals: Dixie Alford Jones

    Dixie Alford Jones, AHIP, director of the Health Sciences Library at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health–Shreveport, will retire on January 31. She received her master’s…

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  • Personals: Elizabeth Connor

    Elizabeth Connor, AHIP, professor of library science and leadership studies, has been named coordinator of the new leadership scholars program at The Citadel, the Military…

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  • 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…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1968, the members of the State University of New York (SUNY) Biomedical Communication Network became the first…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA One of the most recognized names in MLA is Janet Doe. Each year, a member is chosen to…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Before the advent of online databases, literature searching was a major function of the reference staff in medical…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Editor’s note: As the National Library of Medicine (NLM) prepares to welcome its newly appointed director, Patricia Flatley…

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