Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLABefore the advent of online databases, literature searching was a major function of the reference staff in medical libraries.…
September 2016 News to Know…bytes and bits from around the social web
Analytics and Data From the Tableau blog, a guest post by Tableau Zen Master Jeffrey Shaffer (@HighVizAbility). In this post, Jeffrey shares to awesome Tableau…
eHealth Ontario on YouTube
eHealth Ontario is the Government of Ontario’s eHealth division. Ontario is the largest province in Canada by population. I would like to draw your attention…
Internet Resources: Bibliotherapy and Poetry Therapy
Submitted by Judy Griggs, Family Resource Center, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH; edited by Talicia Tarver In 1966, the Association of Hospital and Institution Libraries…
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…
MLA and AAHSL Take Our Message to the Hill
The Joint MLA/AAHSL Legislative Task Force met in Washington, DC June 28-29. Here is a recap of the very productive meeting. Mary Langman, Director, Information…
Congress Proposes Increased National Library of Medicine Funding
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have proposed increasing National Library of Medicine’s funding for 2017: The House bill provides $403,086,000 (7.5 million above FY 2016),…
rapid and relevent information in the clinic setting
As a librarian-physician I am still trying to figure out my place in informatics. I have been interested for 15 years, beginning with some years…
Carla Hayden Named Librarian of Congress
On July 13th, the Senate approved the nomination of Carla Hayden for Librarian of Congress. When nominating Ms. Hayden, President Obama pointed out that “Her…
July 2016 News to Know…bytes and bits from around the social web
This is the July installment of News to Know…bits and bytes from around the social web. The CMS Open Payments Data Explorer tool allows you…
The Data Discovery Bootcamp Challenge!
Truthfully, I was tired and not sure if I felt up to attending The Data Discovery Bootcamp Challenge! on the last morning of MLA 2016,…
eHealth 2016
Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the annual eHealth conference organized by COACH: Canada’s health informatics organization. This year, the eHealth conference…
Internet Resources: Skin Cancer Awareness and Prevention
Submitted by Talicia Tarver, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond Editor’s Note: Submissions to this column are always welcome for consideration! Please…
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…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA A symposium of 4 papers on medical literature and the library was published in the October 1963 issue…
MLA 2016 Tech Trends Roundup
If you missed the MLA Tech Trends in Toronto, here is a roundup to catch you up! Tiffany Grant – An Informatics Lab: A Collaborative…
MLA Endorses Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Librarians Special Interest Group Statement
The MLA Board of Directors has endorsed the following statement prepared by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Librarians Special Interest Group. The Medical Library…
Congratulations to Melissa Rethlefsen for winning the section research award
Congratulations to Melissa Rethlefsen for winning the section research award for herself and her two section coauthors of the paper “Librarian co-authors correlated with higher…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA The Second International Congress on Medical Librarianship was held on June 16–22, 1963, in conjunction with the 62nd…
Introducing the Director of the National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. has announced that Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D. will become Director of the National Library of…