Introducing the 125-Year Retrospective Task Force
The 125-Year Retrospective Task Force, established by the board of directors in 2021, supports MLA’s goal of Building a Better Future by honoring our (almost)…
Brought to you by the Hospital Library Caucus – Drag Queen Story Hour: Experiencing Diversity in Action, Experience MLA ’22
Hospital Libraries Caucus hosted the Experience MLA event, Drag Queen Story Hour: Experiencing Diversity in Action on February 10, 2022. In case you missed it,…
5(ish) Minutes With…Rosemarie Taylor
Rosemarie K. Taylor has just retired from her position as Manager of Library Services at Commonwealth Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, where she worked for 47 years, and…
Training and Educational Needs of New Hospital Librarians
New hospital librarians are often left to their own savvy and wits to find the training and information they need to perform their job responsibilities…
A Conversation about Medical Librarians and the IRB
Editor’s note: There was a recent conversation on the HLC Listserv about hospital librarians serving the IRB. Eleanor Truex wrote up this wonderful guide, which…
5 Minutes With… Ryan Norman
Ryan Norman is the Medical Librarian for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset, and has recently joined the editing team at National Network as…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope that you were able to take some time for yourself over the holidays, either to celebrate or to spend…
A Conversation about Medical Librarians and the IRB
By Eleanor Shanklin Truex, BSN, RN, MLIS, Amita Health Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL Librarians tend to be a generous people; the librarian listservs are…
Message from the Chair – December 2021
Greetings of the Season! It’s hard to believe we are in December already and the holidays and 2022 are in sight! HLC has been very…
Message from the Editors – November 2021
We haven’t even gotten our first real snow here in Minneapolis yet, so I couldn’t quite bear to call this the “winter” message from the…
It’s Never Too Early to Start the Conversation
Yes, we could talk about something more pleasant, but death and dying are an inevitable aspect of our lived human experience. End-of-life decision-making recognizes the…
National Medical Librarians Month!
October is National Medical Librarians Month, a time to celebrate and advocate for our medical libraries. Each year, MLA publishes graphics to use for promotions…
Guest Columnist: Seema Bhakta
Hospital Librarianship: What’s The New Normal? As a hospital librarian, I was optimistic that 2020 would be the end of COVID-19. 2021 has turned me…
Developing a Medical Library Instruction Program
This article was originally published in the Nursing and Allied Health Resources and Services Caucus Newsletter (Vol. 41, No. 4, October 2021). I want to…
Hospital Librarians and Environmental Justice
Editor’s Note: This week we have a wonderful post from Carrie Grinstead, of Providence St. Joseph Health, on the role that health sciences librarians can…
Little Free Library: Building Community During the Pandemic
If you’ve encountered a brightly painted book box, chances are it’s a Little Free Library book exchange. The nonprofit, global book-sharing movement has grown to…
Personals: Katherine Stapes Joins the TTUHSC Library as Special Collections and Reference Librarian
Katherine Stapes joined the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Library as Special Collections and Reference Librarian on August 2. In this role, Katherine will…
Get to know Kris Alpi and the EAHIL conference!
Editor’s note: We are so excited to feature Kris Alpi, MLA President, today on the blog! In this post, Kris tells us a bit about…
Capturing History Through the Lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Rethinking MLA’s Oral History Project
By Gregory Laynor, cochair, and Ansley Stuart, cochair, MLA Oral History Committee. Established in 1977, the MLA Oral History Project conducts and preserves interviews that…
Personals: Maria Cunningham Named Director of Special Collections at OHSU
Maria Cunningham became Director of Special Collections at Oregon Health & Science University Library in Portland, Oregon, on July 7. She also recently joined MLA! Prior to…