Information Services: Overview of the MLA Scholarly Communications Caucus First Annual Meeting
Submitted by Karen Gutzman, Chair, Scholarly Communications Caucus; edited by Shannon Compton, AHIP, Hub Editor: Information Services, MLAConnectThe newly formed Scholarly Communications Caucus hosted their…
Personals: MLA Member Elaine Ricketts Hicks One of Library Journal’s Librarians of the Year
Congratulations to MLA member Elaine R. Hicks, Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, who with Stacy Brody, George Washington…
Developments Fall 2020 v. 32 #1
Developments Fall 2020 v. 32 #1 From the Editor Message from the Chair Get to Know Collection Development Members Wish lists as a Collection Development…
Product Spotlight: Help Shape the Future of Elsevier’s Digital Clinical Solutions (Sponsored)
We invite you to join the Elsevier Clinical Solutions User Feedback Program. Designed to bring our customers closer to the product development process, this program…
EFTS Successes and Growing Pains
One short year ago, MLA agreed to develop a new Electronic Fund Transfer System (EFTS) platform to ensure continuity of service for the many libraries…
Personals: Rachel Lane Walden
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries announced that Rachel Lane Walden, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, received the 2020 Vanderbilt School of Nursing…
Product Spotlight: When It Comes to E-Books, the R2 Digital Library Stands Alone (Sponsored)
The R2 Digital Library is a health sciences electronic book database that features a comprehensive collection of medical, nursing, and allied health titles presented in…
Information Services: Trusted Resources for Biomedical Images
Submitted by Kelsey Cowles, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; edited by Shannon Compton, AHIP, Hub Editor: Information Services, MLAConnect The importance…
Education: Library Disaster Plans
Although a wealth of information on the construction of disaster plans tailored to various library types is readily available on the Internet and is even…
Information Services: Where to Find Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines Post-National Guidelines Clearinghouse
Figure 1: ECRI Guidelines Trust sample search. In July of 2018, the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) (Guidelines.gov), the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–sponsored…
Personals: Terrie R. Wheeler Featured on NEJM Library Hub
Terrie R. Wheeler, director of the Samuel J. Wood Library and C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center of Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, is featured…
Personals: Sarah L. Carnes, AHIP, Featured in Publications
Sarah L. Carnes, AHIP, clinical librarian and acting emergency manager of the Bedford Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Bedford, MA, was recently featured in…
Professionalism & Leadership: Thinking about Thinking
Have you ever thought about how much thinking we do each day, or how we go about making a decision? Have you thought about how…
Personals: Susan Gerding Bader, AHIP, Retirement
On July 31, after seventeen years, Susan Gerding Bader, AHIP, is retiring as the director of the Learning Resource Center at the Baylor University Louise…
Education: Orientations
Social distancing guidelines coupled with mandatory library closures at many campuses across the nation has forced librarians to find new methods of packaging library services…
Personals: Virginia Commonwealth University Transitions
On July 1, 2020, leadership of the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries–Richmond, transitioned with the retirement of John E.…
Information Services: Meet the New Editor
I am excited to join the MLAConnect team as the Information Services Hub editor. I currently work at Bay Path University, Longmeadow, MA, as the…
Visit the Pacific Northwest through MLA Oral Histories
Although MLA ’20 has transitioned from the in-person meeting in Portland, OR, to the virtual vConference, the Oral History Committee is putting the spotlight on interviews…
JJ Pionke Named Library Journal 2020 Mover & Shaker
MLAConnect: Congratulations on being named one of the 2020 Library Journal Movers & Shakers! This is well-deserved recognition for all of the work you do…
Information Services: Survey of Workplace Changes for Academic Medical Library Staff
Submitted by Jennifer C. Westrick, AHIP, and Ashley Heard, and Scott Thomson, AHIP, Library, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Introduction Academic medical libraries are…