The National Guidelines Clearinghouse Returns – as the ECRI Guidelines Trust
This month’s blog will discuss the revival of the National Guidelines Clearinghouse and its redevelopment into the ECRI Guidelines Trust at https://guidelines.ecri.org/.As most of you know, the…
Developments Fall 2018 v. 30 #1
Table of Contents Hello from Your Editors Message From the ChairGet to know CDS membersRecent Publications of InterestKeeping CurrentCDS Related ConferencesBlast from the PastFun Facts…
Developments Newsletter Spring 2018 v. 29 # 2
(Newsletter Editors Christine Willis and Mary Shultz originally shared this issue of Developments via the section’s forum in 2018. It is now being translated into…
Developments Spring 2017 v. 28 #3
(Newsletter Editors Christine Willis and Mary Shultz originally shared this issue of Developments via the section’s forum in 2017. It is now being translated into…
CDS Newsletter Fall 2017 vol. 29 #1
Developments Fall 2017 v. 29 #1 Hello from Your Editors This Summer and Fall have been busy for both of us and we imagine other CDS…
FYI: Communication Complexities
Fiducie, where has it gone? That’s trust, for those of you not conversant with French. So many of us are doused by things false, fake,…
NMLM Feature: Paws to Read @ the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital – Family Resource Center Library
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FYI: Donuts and Deserts
Desserts are not deserts. Desserts are tasty; deserts are dry. Donuts are not doughnuts, at least not in longhand. Both, however, are tasty. Unless the…
Hospital Librarianship: Current Awareness, Professional Reading
Submitted by Brian L. Baker, Medical Library, Valley Children’s Hospital, Madera, CA; edited by Angela Spencer, AHIP In May of 2018, one of the pediatric…
Case Law for Public Health
A person’s environment and the actions that person takes both affect their overall health. Public health legislation shapes the public health environment. Laws regulate what…
Quantification and Peer Review: Possible Impacts of New Peer Review Tracker
I recently went to a meeting with a vendor representative from Clarivate Analytics (the company that owns Web of Science, among other widely used resources).…
Consumer Health: Institute for Healthcare Advancement Annual Health Literacy Conference
Submitted by Ophelia Morey, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; edited by Christine Willis, AHIP May 2018 marked the 17th year that the…
FYI: Fees
Is it proper to proctor and prosper? Or tutor and tally treasure? Recommend a reference and reap riches? Charging for services can be a predicament…
2018 PH/HA Research Awardee – Rosie Hanneke
The Public Health/Health Administration Section (PH/HA) presented the 2018 PH/HA Research Award to Rosie Hanneke, Assistant Professor and Information Services Librarian at UIC Library…
FYI: Oddities
Lots of items can be found in collections that could be considered offbeat, maybe even weird. Smithsonian, among others, has written about it more than…
Target: Data
Students at my institution are required to analyze raw data as part of their capstone course. The professors define raw data as data about an individual rather…
FYI: Laughter
Laughter is medicine, right? A source for vibrancy, pep, and well-being, agreed? Sources across the gamut of communication tend to think so… and say so.…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 3
This is the third article in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
Hospital Librarianship: Health Sciences Library Closings
Many libraries across the United States have closed, and other libraries are facing closure. A study of health sciences library closings found that from 1989–2006…