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Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIPCHLA/ABSC Elects New Executive Roles and Board MembersThe 2016 Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada…
Expert Searching: It’s complicated…
Submitted by Jeannine Gluck, AHIP, Library, Eastern Connecticut Health Network–Manchester; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP In the ideal world, operative procedures are successful, patients have…
Librarians without Borders® Regional HINARI Train the Trainer Workshop Report: November 16-20, 2015
Suva, Fiji (November 16 – 20, 2015) Submitted by: Lenny Rhine, Karin Saric 07 December 2015 Background: This five day workshop was unique as the participants…
Correction
The correct reference 1 for Expert Searching: “The Outer Bull” in the September 2015 MLA News is: Duncan V, Holtslander L. Utilizing grounded theory to…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP Australian Government Announces Data, Science, and Technology Priorities The Australian Government recently announced a $1.1 billion initiative over the next…
Expert Searching: Biomart: A “One-Stop Shop” Data-Mining Tool
Figure 1 Submitted by Rolando Garcia-Milian, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP Biomedical researchers answer…
We Need an International Strategy
Last March, when MLA leadership canceled MLA’s longstanding institutional membership with the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), several members were disappointed. Leadership’s rationale was…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP CILIP Discusses Best Practices for Building Rapport and Conscientiousness in the Workplace In a recent blog post from the…
Librarians without Borders®/MLA Training Initiative Expands with Elsevier Foundation Support
By Gurpreet K. Rana, Chair, and Lenny Rhine, FMLA, E-Library Training Coordinator, Librarians without Borders® Committee Knowledge is power, as they say. And information delivery systems…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Did You Read an E-Book on September 18? Not purposefully, just coincidentally, Michael Kozlowski wrote in the wake of International Read an…
Librarians Without Borders® HINARI Training Workshop Report: September 28-29, 2015
Hanoi, Vietnam (September 28-29, 2015) On September 28-29, 2015, additional workshops were conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam. The initial workshop was a…
What Did You Do for National Medical Librarians Month?
“When you need to be right, ask your medical librarian.” That was the theme of this year’s National Medical Librarians Month, a month designed for…
Librarians Without Borders® HINARI Training the Trainer Workshop Report: September 23-24, 2015
Myanmar (September 23-25, 2015) This three day workshop was conducted at the University of Medicine 1, Yangon, Myanmar. It was supported…
IFLA Report from Jaime Friel Blanck, First Recipient of the Avraham Reis IFLA Annual Meeting Grant
Report for the Avraham Reis IFLA Annual Meeting Grant 2015 Recipient: Jaime Friel Blanck, Clinical Informationist, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD …
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP ALIA Releases 2015 Trend Report on Library and Information Science The Australia Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released…
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The Collection Development Section is updating the part of its website that provides resources for the entire MLA user community. Please help us figure out…
Expert Searching: The Outer Bull
Submitted by Daniel Wilson, Associate Director, Collections & Library Services, and Library Liaison for the School of Nursing, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP Graphic Medicine Highlights Comic Art Across Health Care and throughout the World Launched in 2007 by physician/artist Ian Williams,…
Expert Searching: Patient, Intervention, Control, and Outcome (PICO): An Overrated Tool
Submitted by Wichor M. Bramer, Medical Library, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; edited by I. Diane Cooper, AHIP Many searches start with…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP CADTH and Partners Hold Rapid Review Summit The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), British Columbia…