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History: T. Mark Hodges
T. Mark Hodges did not set out to be a librarian, but like many of us, he fell into the love of organized books. While…
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…
The MLA Oral History Project Has the Scoop on the Names of MLA Awards
Do you ever wonder about the people behind the names of MLA awards given at the annual meeting? Their interviews for the MLA Oral History…
Honoring Our Past
“The Clouded Crystal Ball and the Library Profession,” by Nina W. Matheson, AHIP, FMLA, provides a glimpse of the future at the time of the…
Personals: Naomi C. Broering, AHIP, FMLA, Retires
After a long and distinguished career in health sciences librarianship, Naomi C. Broering, AHIP, FMLA, announced her retirement in March 2018, after having served in…
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,…
Honoring Our Past
“From Index Catalogue to Gopher Space: Changes in Our Profession as Reflected in the Handbook and CPHSL,” the 1993 Janet Doe Lecture by Alison Bunting,…
Personals: Cynthia Beeler, AHIP
Cynthia Beeler, AHIP, has accepted the role of academic medical librarian and will be the librarian for the Learning Resource Center in the Mitchell Student…
Personals: Joyce McFadden, AHIP
Joyce McFadden, AHIP, has accepted the position of public services supervisor for the Plummer Library at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. At the Plummer…
Personals: Daniel Stuart
Daniel Stuart has joined the Preston Smith Library, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)–Lubbock, as reference librarian. In this role, Stuart will support the…
Personals: Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, Awarded Presidential Rank
Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, was recently recognized as a Presidential Rank Awardee at the Distinguished level. Humphreys retired as deputy director of the National Library of…
Personals: Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP
After forty-two years, thirty-eight as a medical librarian, Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP, is retiring on February 9. Stemmer Frumento spent her medical librarian career as…
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…
Honoring Our Past
In 1995, Nina W. Matheson, AHIP, FMLA, gave the Janet Doe Lecture,” The Idea of the Library in the Twenty-First Century.” Now as it is…
Personals: Christopher P. Duffy
Christopher P. Duffy has joined the Seton Hall University Libraries as associate dean and founding director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Commons. The…
Personals: Marian Taliaferro, AHIP
Marian Taliaferro, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, as the digital scholarship librarian.…
Honoring Our Past
Letters to the editors are often interesting and sometimes informative. Erich Meyerhoff wrote one concerning the Union List of Medical Periodicals. He wrote a tribute…
Personals: Terri Ottosen, AHIP
Terri Ottosen, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC) as the community engagement and…
Personals: Rachael Posey
Rachael Posey has joined the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries as the health and life sciences research librarian and associate director, William Rand Kenan,…