Hospital Librarianship: New Hospital Librarianship Column Editor
This month, the MLA News welcomes Angela Spencer as the new column editor for the Hospital Librarianship column. Please get to know a bit about…
Research in Action: Proving the Impact of Hospital Libraries
by Susan Lessick, chair, Research Imperative Task Force, Margaret Bandy, and Michelle Kraft Hospital libraries and librarians continue to face difficult challenges. There are too…
Consumer Health: Health Information Center Serving the Community
Submitted by Sandra Oelschlegel, AHIP, Preston Medical Library, University of Tennessee–Knoxville; edited by Jana C. Liebermann The Preston Medical Library at the University of Tennessee…
Core Clinical Journals for the Twenty-First Century
The “Core clinical journals” (CCJ) subset is a special journal category filter in PubMed that limits one’s search to 119 English-language journals considered to be…
Hospital Librarianship: Life as a Job Share
Submitted by Angela Spencer, Medical Library, St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO; edited by Nandita S. Mani, AHIP I am a hospital librarian who works…
Consumer Health: Popular Health Reading Collection in a Hospital Library
Submitted by Fred King, William B Glew, MD, Health Sciences Library, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; edited by Jana Liebermann The William B Glew,…
Hospital Librarianship: One Book:One Hospital—Raising Cultural Awareness through a Multifaceted Book
Submitted by Cara Marcus, AHIP, Ingersoll Bowdoin Medical Library, and Rosemarie Shortt, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA; edited by Nandita S. Mani, AHIP…
Consumer Health: Health Authority and Public Library Partner in Nova Scotia to Increase Access
Submitted by Lara Killian, AHIP, Nova Scotia Hospital Library, Capital Health, Halifax, NS, Canada; edited by Jana C. Liebermann Halifax Public Libraries (HPL) partnered with…
Hospital Librarianship: Providing Online Tutorials
Submitted by Amy Donahue, AHIP, Libraries, Medical College of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; edited by Nandita S. Mani, AHIP A search of YouTube channels for “medical library” yields…
Consumer Health: Developing Collection Management Guidelines for an Embedded Consumer Health Library
Submitted by Mira Geffner, Bay Area Cancer Connections, Palo Alto, CA; edited by Jana Liebermann This summer, it has been my task to develop a…
MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization Recipients
Congratulations to the following individuals who have received MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) from October 2014 through December 2014. MLA’s CHIS program is a…
Consumer Health: Helping the Military Community: The Brickell Library Outreach Initiative at Eastern
Submitted by Ruth M. Smith and Judith Mercer, Brickell Medical Sciences Library, Eastern Virginia Medical School–Norfolk; edited by Jana C. Liebermann The Eastern Virginia Medical…
Hospital Librarianship: Librarians, Informationists, and Swiss Army Knives
Submitted by David E. Coleman, Arnold Library, Hawai’i Pacific Health–Honolulu; edited by Nandita S. Mani, AHIP It is generally accepted that implementation of web-based resources…