Take Action to Support Net Neutrality Protections
Action AlertBy December 13th, members of the health sciences library community are encouraged to contact your members of Congress and urge them to support the…
MLA Addresses Next Generation Data Sciences Challenges in Health and Biomedicine
The Medical Library Association (MLA) has submitted comments to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in response to its Request for Information (RFI) on Next Generation…
Hospital Librarianship: A Workplace Solution and Rewarding Collaboration
Edited by Angela Spencer The Saint Marys* staff library supports the health care information needs of staff and affiliated students at Mayo Clinic Hospital–Saint Marys…
MLA and AALL recommend Federal Depository Library Program Reforms
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) have submitted recommendations for change that will update the Federal Depository Library Program…
MLA Research Training Institute Launched, Next Step in MLA’s Goal to Advance Research
The Research Imperative Task Force is thrilled to announce the launch of the new MLA Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians (RTI). The first…
NLM FY 2018 Funding Update
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2018 bill, S. 1771, provides the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with $420,898,000. During the spring Joint MLA/AAHSL Legislative Task…
Hospital Librarianship: Introducing the Solo Librarians SIG!
Submitted by Louise McLaughlin, Health Sciences Library, Woman’s Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA, and Ellen M. Aaronson, AHIP, Medical Library, West Hills Hospital & Medical Center,…
Eight Lessons Learned While Developing a Health Information Class for Family Caregivers
Approximately 43.5 million adults in the United States provided unpaid care to an adult or child in 2015 [1]. How can librarians reach this enormous…
Hospital Librarianship: How Was I Affected by Downsizing?
Edited by Angela Spencer Good question. Worth pondering. Huge paradigm shift. I never imagined that my medical library would be downsized. At the time of…
MLA and AAHSL Recommend NLM FY 2018 Funding
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries have recommended that the National Library of Medicine receive at least $412,097,000 in FY…
Legislative Task Force Goes to the Hill
Front Row (left to right): M.J. Tooey (MD), Ruth Riley (SC), Mary Langman (IL), Susan Clark (MS), Irma Ivette Quinones (PR), Neville Prendergast (LA). Back…
Hospital Librarianship: Budgets
Edited by Angela Spencer Let’s talk budgets. I confess, I shuddered at the mere mention of the word. I groaned at the work necessary to…
Hospital Librarianship: Preparing a Library for a Hospital Merger
Submitted by Isaac Huffman, AHIP, System Library Services, Providence Health & Systems, Olympia, WA; edited by Angela Spencer The hospital buying spree has taken on…
MLA AAHSL comments NIH data strategies
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) have filed [Link removed (comments)] with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that…
MLA AAHSL comments NLM strategic plan
The Medical Library Association and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries have submitted comments in support of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Strategic Plan. The…
Fiscal Year 2017 Funding Update
Congress has passed a stopgap spending bill (also known as a continuing resolution) to keep the government running through April 28th. H.R. 2028, the Further…
OSTP Records Progress on Science, Technology, and Innovation
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released its “Exit Memo,” highlighting the impact President Obama’s policies have had on science…
Cures Act Becomes Law
In signing into law the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34) President Obama noted its important contribution to his agenda for science and technology, specifically the…
Correction
The correct reference 4 for the Hospital Librarianship column in the September 2016 MLA News is: 4. Martin HJ, Delawska-Elliott B. Combining resources, combining forces:…
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…