Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLAThomas P. Fleming, medical librarian and professor at Columbia University, outlines his thoughts on the nature and individuality of…
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…
Librarians without Borders® Regional HINARI Train the Trainer Workshop Report: November 16-20, 2015
Suva, Fiji (November 16 – 20, 2015) Submitted by: Lenny Rhine, Karin Saric 07 December 2015 Background: This five day workshop was unique as the participants…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP Australian Government Announces Data, Science, and Technology Priorities The Australian Government recently announced a $1.1 billion initiative over the next…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Do you love your photocopier? Please enjoy the “Notes of a Librarian on Contemplating Her Xerox Machine” [1].…
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…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA An editorial by Gertrud L. Annan in 1968 was entitled, “A Rose Is a Rose.” She pointed out…
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…
We Need an International Strategy
Last March, when MLA leadership canceled MLA’s longstanding institutional membership with the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), several members were disappointed. Leadership’s rationale was…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP CILIP Discusses Best Practices for Building Rapport and Conscientiousness in the Workplace In a recent blog post from the…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Why did the MLA Board of Directors change the name of the association’s journal publication? Discussion about the…
Librarians without Borders®/MLA Training Initiative Expands with Elsevier Foundation Support
By Gurpreet K. Rana, Chair, and Lenny Rhine, FMLA, E-Library Training Coordinator, Librarians without Borders® Committee Knowledge is power, as they say. And information delivery systems…
T. Mark Hodges: International Pioneer
T. (Terrence) Mark Hodges didn’t set out to be a librarian, but like many of us, he fell into the love of organized books. While…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA One of the highlights of the MLA annual meeting is the Janet Doe Lecture. The first one was…
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…
Librarians Without Borders® HINARI Training Workshop Report: September 28-29, 2015
Hanoi, Vietnam (September 28-29, 2015) On September 28-29, 2015, additional workshops were conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam. The initial workshop was a…
Librarians Without Borders® HINARI Training the Trainer Workshop Report: September 23-24, 2015
Myanmar (September 23-25, 2015) This three day workshop was conducted at the University of Medicine 1, Yangon, Myanmar. It was supported…
IFLA Report from Jaime Friel Blanck, First Recipient of the Avraham Reis IFLA Annual Meeting Grant
Report for the Avraham Reis IFLA Annual Meeting Grant 2015 Recipient: Jaime Friel Blanck, Clinical Informationist, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD …
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP ALIA Releases 2015 Trend Report on Library and Information Science The Australia Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA One of the papers presented at the MLA annual meeting in 1967 caused lots of comment and discussion.…