Hospital Librarianship: A Workplace Solution and Rewarding Collaboration
Edited by Angela SpencerThe Saint Marys* staff library supports the health care information needs of staff and affiliated students at Mayo Clinic Hospital–Saint Marys Campus,…
Technology: Gamification in Medical and Dental Student Orientation
Submitted by Gregg A. Stevens, AHIP, and Jamie Saragossi, Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Editor’s note:…
Social Media: Archiving Twitter Hashtag Content: Symplur and Beyond
Edited by Lara Killian About Twitter Once upon a time, I was at a coffee with one of our library directors, who said, “I just…
International News
Schizophrenia library launches in Australia Patients and families affected by schizophrenia now have access to a virtual collection of reliable information comprising 2,000 fact sheets,…
Librarians without Borders® HINARI Train the Trainers Report Ghana: March 13-15, 2017
Accra, Ghana (March 13-15, 2017) This three day workshop was conducted at the University of Ghana, College of Health Sciences, Korle-Bu Computer Centre. The…
Librarians without Borders® HINARI and Internet Resources Workshop Report New Guinea: May 22-25, 2017
Papua New Guinea (May 22-25, 2017) This four day workshop was conducted at the Lutheran School of Nursing (LSON), Madang. It was supported by…
Technology: A Meeting of the Minds: How Hosting MakerHealth Faire Helped Promote 3D Printing
Edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Photo credit: Timothy Yates Advertising and promoting a new library service is difficult, and advertising a new service that involves…
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,…
Librarians without Borders® Research4Life Workshop Lao People’s Republic Workshop Report: December 13-16, 2016
Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (December 13-16, 2016) This ‘hybrid’ HINARI and AGORA workshop was conducted at the Datacom Training Centre. It was…
Librarians without Borders® Train the Trainers Report Jordan: December 5-8, 2016
Amman, Jordan (December 5-8, 2016) Technical Report: Capacity Building on Hinari Access for Health Programmes “Training of Trainers”: Sub-Regional Training Workshop Instructors Mr.…
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…
International News
“World No Tobacco Day” inspires smoking cessation efforts World No Tobacco Day seeks to spread awareness of tobacco-related health risks and influence public policy to…
Social Media: Facebook’s Community Is 2 Billion Strong
Facebook announced at the end of June that their monthly user base reached 2 billion. Just let that sink in for a moment. Two. Billion.…
Technology: R for Librarians: Resources for Learning
Edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP If you have spent any time around research communities, you have probably heard discussion of “R” and its capabilities for…
A recap on the International Visiting Information Professionals (IVIP) Program Pilot
The IVIP Program Pilot was a partnership between MLA/ICS IVIP Program Task Force and the Taiwan Medical Library Association. The goal was for the Program…
Attending ICML+EAHIL in Dublin, Ireland with the MLA ICS Reis Grant
The International Congress of Medical Librarianship and the European Association of Health Information and Libraries held their joint conference in Dublin June 12th – 16th. Like…
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…
Technology: Call for Submissions
A great many of you attended MLA ’17 in Seattle last month! I hope you were inspired by many of the great plenaries, paper, and…
Social Media: A Librarian by Any Other Name
Edited by Lara Killian, AHIP Way back in September of 2012, I started writing a blog, “A Librarian by Any Other Name.” I chose this…
Technology: Jeopardy-Style Review in the Classroom
Submitted by Molly Knapp, AHIP, National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) National Training Office, University of Utah–Salt Lake City, and Tony Nguyen, AHIP, NNLM…