• History: T. Mark Hodges

    T. Mark Hodges did not set out to be a librarian, but like many of us, he fell into the love of organized books. While…

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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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  • The MLA Oral History Project Has the Scoop on the Names of MLA Awards

    Do you ever wonder about the people behind the names of MLA awards given at the annual meeting? Their interviews for the MLA Oral History…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    “The Clouded Crystal Ball and the Library Profession,” by Nina W. Matheson, AHIP, FMLA, provides a glimpse of the future at the time of the…

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  • Personals: Naomi C. Broering, AHIP, FMLA, Retires

    After a long and distinguished career in health sciences librarianship, Naomi C. Broering, AHIP, FMLA, announced her retirement in March 2018, after having served in…

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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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  • Honoring Our Past

    “From Index Catalogue to Gopher Space: Changes in Our Profession as Reflected in the Handbook and CPHSL,” the 1993 Janet Doe Lecture by Alison Bunting,…

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  • Personals: Cynthia Beeler, AHIP

    Cynthia Beeler, AHIP, has accepted the role of academic medical librarian and will be the librarian for the Learning Resource Center in the Mitchell Student…

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  • Personals: Joyce McFadden, AHIP

    Joyce McFadden, AHIP, has accepted the position of public services supervisor for the Plummer Library at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. At the Plummer…

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  • Personals: Daniel Stuart

    Daniel Stuart has joined the Preston Smith Library, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)–Lubbock, as reference librarian. In this role, Stuart will support the…

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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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  • Personals: Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, Awarded Presidential Rank

    Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, was recently recognized as a Presidential Rank Awardee at the Distinguished level. Humphreys retired as deputy director of the National Library of…

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  • Personals: Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP

    After forty-two years, thirty-eight as a medical librarian, Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP, is retiring on February 9. Stemmer Frumento spent her medical librarian career as…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    In 1995, Nina W. Matheson, AHIP, FMLA, gave the Janet Doe Lecture,” The Idea of the Library in the Twenty-First Century.” Now as it is…

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  • Personals: Christopher P. Duffy

    Christopher P. Duffy has joined the Seton Hall University Libraries as associate dean and founding director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Commons. The…

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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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  • Personals: Marian Taliaferro, AHIP

    Marian Taliaferro, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, as the digital scholarship librarian.…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Letters to the editors are often interesting and sometimes informative. Erich Meyerhoff wrote one concerning the Union List of Medical Periodicals. He wrote a tribute…

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  • Personals: Terri Ottosen, AHIP

    Terri Ottosen, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC) as the community engagement and…

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  • Personals: Rachael Posey

    Rachael Posey has joined the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries as the health and life sciences research librarian and associate director, William Rand Kenan,…

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