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…
Personals: Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP
Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP, was recently promoted to deputy director at the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Traditi had previously served…
Personals: Karen Crowell
Karen Crowell, clinical librarian at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC), retired at the end of January 2017. Crowell came…
Personals: Jane Blumenthal, AHIP
Jane Blumenthal, AHIP, was recently welcomed as a new member of the National Library of Medicine Board of Regents. Blumenthal is the associate university librarian…
Medical Library Education: Quality Education No Matter the Modality
Recently, the president of the University of North Texas (UNT) invited a panel of three experts in the field of online education to share their…
Personals: Gale A. Dutcher, AHIP
Gale A. Dutcher, AHIP, retired from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on September 30, 2016. Most recently, she served as the NLM acting associate…
Honoring Our Past
MLA used to have a Committee on Committees. Its purpose was to review the organization and create new committees as needed and retire those no…
Personals: Emily Vardell
Emily Vardell received the Teaching Excellence Award in the adjunct category at the spring commencement ceremony for the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill on May…
Honoring Our Past
Is librarianship a profession? Professor E. Croft Long believed it was. He was a professor of physiology at Duke University Medical Center when his article…
Personals: Susan Swogger
Susan Swogger has joined the staff of the Kirksville, Missouri, Branch of the A.T. Still Memorial Library. She is the library liaison for the university’s…
Personals: Christie Call Silbajoris
Christie Call Silbajoris, AHIP, consumer health and patient education librarian at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), University of North Carolina (UNC)–Chapel Hill, retired at the…
Personals: Dixie Alford Jones
Dixie Alford Jones, AHIP, director of the Health Sciences Library at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health–Shreveport, will retire on January 31. She received her master’s…
Personals: Elizabeth Connor
Elizabeth Connor, AHIP, professor of library science and leadership studies, has been named coordinator of the new leadership scholars program at The Citadel, the Military…
CDS Newsletter Fall 2016 v. 28 #2
Developments Fall 2016 v. 28 #2 Message from the Editors In this issue of Developments we are delighted to bring updates from our Chair, Liz Lorbeer…
MLA Education: Expanded Committee Structure
The MLA Board of Directors met November 3-4, 2016 in Chicago, IL amidst the celebration of the Cubs historic World Series win. The board focussed…
Medical Library Education: Emotional Intelligence and You: A Predictor of Career Success
Submitted by Jodi L. Philbrick, AHIP, Department of Library and Information Sciences, College of Information, University of North Texas–Denton My dissertation research focused on the…
Internet Resources: Breast Cancer: Financial and Assistance Resources
Submitted by Lisa Huang, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA; edited by Talicia Tarver Breast Cancer Awareness Month may be over,…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1968, the members of the State University of New York (SUNY) Biomedical Communication Network became the first…
Internet Resources: Research Data Management, Part Two: Data Reuse
Submitted by Jane Kinkus Yatcilla, Veterinary Medical Library, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; edited by Talicia Tarver Editor’s note: Part 1 of this column on Research…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Rx for Reading Doctors should start hanging posters in clinics and offices to “Read” like the posters that hang in libraries.…