FYI
Submitted by Donald WelchDid You Read an E-Book on September 18?Not purposefully, just coincidentally, Michael Kozlowski wrote in the wake of International Read an E-Book Day…
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…
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…
MLA’s Librarians without Borders® E-Library Training Initiative Activities, 2014
Submitted by Lenny Rhine, FMLA, Coordinator, Librarians without Borders® E-library Training Initiative With a two-year renewal from the Elsevier Foundation’s Innovative Libraries Grants in Developing…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP Cochrane EMBASE Screeners Reach 100,000 Records As of December 2014, a little over 100,000 records have been screened by…
Internet Resources: Freely Available Medical Images
Submitted by Andrea C. Kepsel, AHIP, Libraries, Michigan State University−East Lansing; edited by Talicia Tarver Finding medical images freely available online can be difficult. Often…
Expert Searching: Explosions in PubMed: What Google Doesn’t Do
Submitted by Eric Rumsey and Janna C. Lawrence, AHIP, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa–Iowa City, and Chris Shaffer, AHIP, Library, Oregon…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP ALIA Launches FAIR Initiative for Open Information The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) recently launched Freedom of Access…
Expert Searching: Finding 19th and Early 20th Century Materials Online
Submitted by Melissa Grafe, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP PubMed comprises more than 24…
CDS Member Authored Articles, Books, Book Chapters, Reviews & Presentations
CDS Members in BOLD Articles Reviews Presentations / Posters / Upcoming Presentations Articles Goben, A., & Raszewski, R. (2015). The data life cycle applied…
Conference Report: The Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference 2015
Submitted by Susan Swogger, CDS Chair MLA’s annual conference is a most excellent opportunity to learn and share with colleagues, but it is certainly…
New Members
Submitted by Nadia Lalla, Membership Committee Chair A warm welcome to our newest members and returning members of the Collection Development Section as of November…
CDS Members In The News
Nancy Olmos Awarded the 2014 Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona Paraprofessional of the Year Award Janet Doe Lectureship for 2016M.J. Tooey, AHIP,…