2018 PH/HA Research Awardee – Rosie Hanneke
The Public Health/Health Administration Section (PH/HA) presented the 2018 PH/HA Research Award to Rosie Hanneke, Assistant Professor and Information Services Librarian at UIC Library of…
FYI: Oddities
Lots of items can be found in collections that could be considered offbeat, maybe even weird. Smithsonian, among others, has written about it more than…
First RTI Workshop in Chicago a Great Success!
The inaugural Research Training Institute (RTI) was held July 9–13, 2018, at the Library of Health Sciences-Chicago, University of Illinois–Chicago. During the RTI, nationally recognized…
Target: Data
Students at my institution are required to analyze raw data as part of their capstone course. The professors define raw data as data about an individual rather…
Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Imagining the Ideal Social Networking Site for Collaboration and Sharing
Submitted by Richard Gallagher, Annual Reviews; Linné Girouard, AHIP, Library, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; Steven Heffer, Wolters Kluwer; and Rich Lampert, Doody Consulting, Philadelphia,…
Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Leveraging Specialized Discovery Tools to Maximize User Engagement
Submitted by Caitlin Cricco, Springer Nature, New York, NY; Nadine Dexter, AHIP, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida–Orlando; Donna Gibson, Medical…
Applications for InSight Initiative Summit 2 Sought
The InSight Initiative Task Force is pleased to announce that applications are now being sought for the second InSight Initiative Summit, “Meeting the Evolving Information…
PH/HA Travel Stipend Enables Thinking about Librarianship, Public Health, Social Justice and Health Equity
Public health is always on my mind, but daily activities can push big picture concerns to the backburner. I applied for the PH/HA Travel Stipend…
Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: What Can Librarians and Vendors Learn from “Pirate” Sites?
Submitted by Harold S. Bright IV, AHIP, A.T. Still Memorial Library, A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, Mesa, AZ; Vida Damijonaitis, JAMA Network, Chicago, IL;…
Digging into the News: HealthNewsReview
In the course of my recent reading on health/science literacy, I came across HealthNewsReview. The site’s tagline is “Improving Your Critical Thinking About Healthcare,” and…
Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Thinking about Security and the Future of IP Authentication
Submitted by Gerald J. Perry, AHIP, FMLA, Libraries, University of Arizona–Tucson; Andrea Lopez, Annual Reviews; Gabriel R. Rios, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University–Indianapolis; and…
Increase Inclusiveness: Make Your Content Accessible
As librarians in public health, we all create handouts, tutorials, or outreach materials. How much do you consider accessibility features when you create that content?…
Congratulations to the 2018 RTI Fellows!
MLA is pleased to announce the 2018 Research Training Institute (RTI) Fellows! The fellows will attend the first RTI in Chicago from July 9–13, 2018.…
A Special Thank You to the University of Illinois-Chicago
MLA thanks the Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois–Chicago (UIC), for hosting the 2018 Research Training Institute (RTI) at no charge. The library’s…
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…
Information Literacy and Consumer Health: Reading the Fine Print
I was recently asked to give an instruction session to an undergraduate class about evaluating online sources of consumer health information. When I started doing…
Mendeley Reference Manager Software
When it comes to reference manager software, I have been a long-time user and supporter of both EndNote and RefWorks – but Mendeley is currently…
Op Ed: Why Health Insurance Policy Matters to Health Sciences Librarians
The year 2017 saw multiple attempts by the US Senate and House of Representatives to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In each case, the…
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…