RTI Fellow Shares Experience in Blog
Elizabeth Suelzer, 2018 Research Training Institute (RTI) fellow, recently participated in the RTI program in Chicago and shared her experience for the Wisconsin Health Sciences…
Hospital Librarianship: Current Awareness, Professional Reading
Submitted by Brian L. Baker, Medical Library, Valley Children’s Hospital, Madera, CA; edited by Angela Spencer, AHIP In May of 2018, one of the pediatric…
Consumer Health: Institute for Healthcare Advancement Annual Health Literacy Conference
Submitted by Ophelia Morey, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; edited by Christine Willis, AHIP May 2018 marked the 17th year that the…
Visualizing the Research Topics of 2018 Research Training Institute Applicants
As part of the 2018 application process for the Research Training Institute (RTI), applicants submitted a list of keywords or phrases that describe the topics…
First RTI Workshop in Chicago a Great Success!
The inaugural Research Training Institute (RTI) was held July 9–13, 2018, at the Library of Health Sciences-Chicago, University of Illinois–Chicago. During the RTI, nationally recognized…
FYI: Laughter
Laughter is medicine, right? A source for vibrancy, pep, and well-being, agreed? Sources across the gamut of communication tend to think so… and say so.…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 3
This is the third article in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
Hospital Librarianship: Health Sciences Library Closings
Many libraries across the United States have closed, and other libraries are facing closure. A study of health sciences library closings found that from 1989–2006…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 2
This is the second article in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 1
This article is the first in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
FYI: Stress
Do you go home unable to forget or leave at work: the confrontations, contagions, constraints the consternations, contentions, condemnations the conundrums, consternations, convictions any or…
Congratulations to the 2018 RTI Fellows!
MLA is pleased to announce the 2018 Research Training Institute (RTI) Fellows! The fellows will attend the first RTI in Chicago from July 9–13, 2018.…
A Special Thank You to the University of Illinois-Chicago
MLA thanks the Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois–Chicago (UIC), for hosting the 2018 Research Training Institute (RTI) at no charge. The library’s…
Hospital Librarianship: Education and Travel by Hospital Librarians: Results of a Survey
MLA frequently offers webinars for a charge to members. I knew from my personal experience that my hospital library does not have an education budget,…
Hospital Librarianship: Collaboration to Achieve Innovation
Submitted by Wanda Sebrena Thomas, Skelton Medical Library, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA; edited by Angela Spencer, AHIP Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in a hospital…
RTI Seeks Scholarship Aid from Sections and Chapters
Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA, project director, Research Training Institute, sent a letter on January 23 to the chairs of MLA sections and chapters encouraging them…
A Special Thank You to the Research Institute for Public Libraries (RIPL)
MLA thanks the Research Institute for Public Libraries (RIPL) for its support of MLA’s Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians (RTI). RIPL and MLA…
Thanks to All Who Applied!
MLA is very pleased to report that we received many applications for the 2018 Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians (RTI) and are so…
A Special Thank You to SAGE Publishing
MLA thanks SAGE Publishing for its generous contribution of fifty free e-book versions of the fifth edition of Research Design, the textbook that will be…
Welcome to the New RTI News Blog!
Submitted by Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA, Project Director, MLA Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians This column will focus on news and information…