• In Memoriam: Catherine M. Boss, AHIP

    Catherine (Cathy) M. Boss, AHIP, passed away March 3, 2019. In November 2018, she was diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer, then had renal…

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  • In Memoriam: Susanne M. Humphrey, AHIP

    Submitted by Andrew Clifton Humphrey Jr., Detroit, MI Susanne M. Humphrey, AHIP, of Wheaton, MD, passed away on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at age seventy-four.…

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  • In Memoriam: James Patrick Craig

    James Patrick (Pat) Craig was born December 10, 1942, in Gould, AR. He passed away in Shreveport, LA, on January 15, 2019. He went to…

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  • In Memoriam: Mary Wickline

    Mary Wickline, medical librarian at the University of California–San Diego (UCSD), passed away on Saturday, December 8, 2018, after a long illness. She was at…

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  • FYI: Bibliotherapy

    Bibliotherapy. Ever heard of it? It has been “practiced” almost exactly a century, according to a posting that states simply that “the science” of bibliotherapy…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • In Memoriam: Barbara Meadows

    Barbara Meadows, Nashville, TN, died November 2, 2016. Meadows was a graduate of Belmont College in nursing and later earned her library degree. Meadows was…

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  • In Memoriam: Maxine Hanke

    Photo credit: National Library of MedicineDigital Collections Maxine Hanke passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2018. Hanke received a bachelor’s degree from the University of…

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  • In Memoriam: Robert Bartlett, AHIP

    Robert Bartlett, AHIP, died August 26, 2018. He worked as a reference librarian, an integral part of the Houston Methodist system, making sure everyone had…

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  • 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…

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  • In Memoriam: Rochelle Minchow

    Rochelle Minchow, of Irvine, CA, passed away on May 2, 2018, at age seventy. She retired as librarian in 2005 at the Biomedical and Science…

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  • We’ve Got a Plan! (for the Future of MLA Education)

    The Education Steering Committee (ESC) released its curriculum plan to the education curriculum committees last month. We are very proud of this accomplishment! We spent…

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  • FYI: The Latest about Sci-Hub

    Something probably falling under the definition of a “statement or report disseminated without a source of truth or veracity”—in other words, a rumor—appeared recently in…

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  • FYI: Eponymous Librarians

    An article in College & Research Libraries recently took issue with the upshots of “Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers” by Jeffrey Beall. The authors…

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  • In Memoriam: Vislava Tylman

    Cleveland Clinic Florida announced the untimely passing of Vislava Tylman, library services manager, Goldblatt Medical Library. Tylman was hospitalized while vacationing in Mexico and passed…

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  • In Memoriam: Martha Jane Zachert, AHIP, FMLA

    Martha Jane Zachert, AHIP, FMLA, retired professor emerita, University South Carolina–Columbia, died January 10, 2018, at Westminster Oaks Health Center. She was born February 7,…

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  • FYI: Predators in the Periodicals

    As if libraries (and patrons presumably) do not have enough to worry them—like ransomware, acts of terrorism, rascals in raincoats, news that is fake, theft,…

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