Hospital Librarianship: “Budget” Shouldn’t Be a “Bad Word”
Submitted by Angela Spencer, C. Alan McAfee, MD Medical Library, St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO“Budget” shouldn’t be a bad word—but often in hospital libraries…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…