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 WorkshopInstructorsMr. Hatem Nour El-Din, Technical…
Honoring Our Past
Henry R. Viets, a Boston physician, wrote an interesting statement when he was named chairman of the newly formed Friends of the Armed Forces Medical…
Consumer Health: Comics in the Medical Library
Edited by Christine Willis “Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.” Art Spiegelman There is perhaps no better quote to illustrate the value of comics…
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…
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…
Personals: Robert A. Cagna, AHIP
Robert A. Cagna, AHIP, director of the Charleston Division Library, West Virginia University–Charleston, will be the new dean of the Library and associate professor of…
Personals: Nancy Tannery
Nancy Tannery has been appointed assistant provost at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). In this role, she is focusing her efforts on supporting strategic initiatives…
Honoring Our Past
An interesting editorial by L. Margueriete Prime has a title that will catch the eye of readers: “Too Many ‘Librarians’?” Certainly, members of MLA would…
Medical Library Education: Data Science: Degree or No Degree?
Universities are quickly working to capitalize on the need for data scientists by either improving their existing programs or creating new programs. Data scientists can…
Personals: Ashley Ehmig, AHIP
Ashley Ehmig, AHIP, has been appointed as online instructional design librarian at the American College of Healthcare Sciences (ACHS), Portland, Oregon. Ehmig fulfills a new…
International News
Innovative health partnership prevents library closures Funding cuts are a common and challenging reality for many libraries. To overcome the budgetary challenge, public libraries in…
Personals: Deborah Sibley
Deborah Sibley has been appointed executive director of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library, effective August 28, 2017. Sibley is currently the director of libraries…
Honoring Our Past
The recent death of Eugene Garfield led to many items in the newspapers. His is a name that resounds in libraries because his creations—Science Citation…
FYI: Text Classification Systems: Whimsy and Structure from G org s P r c (aka Georges Perec)
Submitted by Kelly Evans, Library, and Frank Houghton, Department of Public Health and Health Administration, Eastern Washington University–Spokane Editor’s note: The FYI column, normally compiled…
Honoring Our Past
Alfred N. Brandon, former MLA president and editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association from 1961–1968, wrote an editorial deploring the borrowing of…
Blessings of digital communication in medicine
I have the perspective of a doctor beginning practice at a time when typewriters were used for correspondence to consultant physicians and in letters to…
“Born Digital” Series Concludes
Since January 2016, the MLA News has run a series of articles on “Born Digital” medical libraries. These articles were written by members of the…
The Start-Up Culture at the “Born Digital” Library
Submitted by Nadine Dexter, AHIP, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida–Orlando, and Bradley A. Long, AHIP, Park Library, Central Michigan University–Mount…
Honoring Our Past
Dig into your issues of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA), and you will often find some unexpected treasures. Our predecessors had astonishing…