Consumer Connections: Special Edition on Graphic Medicine
The special edition issue of the CAPHIS Caucus’s newsletter Consumer Connections is dedicated to graphic medicine and is now available! It can be found [Link…
Getting Started with Publishing in Academia
Writing an original research manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal may feel like jumping off the high dive into the deep end before you’ve…
Why Do Full-Text Links Break?
During MLA’s virtual 2021 conference, I spoke on the panel “The Great Disconnect: Challenges Getting Users to Full Text.” We had a lengthy, in-depth conversation…
Introducing Life-Long Learning Skills in Patient Presentation in a Problem-Based Curriculum: The Case for Library Integration
Submitted by: Christopher P. Duffy, MLIS, AHIP, Margaret Dreker, MPA, MLS, Ofelia Martinez, MD, MPH, Tovah Tripp, MD, Joshua Josephs, MD, PhD, Miriam Hoffman, MD;…
What’s the Scoop on Scoping Reviews?
Introduction Have you come across scoping reviews in your work? Are you being asked to contribute to scoping reviews? If not, you might want to…
Understanding the Currency of Trust in Health Literacy
Image source: Dr. Lisa On the Street…
Culinary Literacy Programs: Recipes for Success
Setting up and preparing for a virtual culinary literacy program making salsa and guacamole. Reading a recipe, knowing and understanding basic kitchen terms and…
Call for Participation in New Search Hedges Project
Call for Participation in New Search Hedges Project Submitted by Tamara M. Nelson, AHIP, Chair, Information Services Domain Hub From its inception, the vision of…
Using Social Media to Correct Health Misinformation
Mass media and social networks have long played a role in the distribution of health information as people try to make sense of evolving research,…
Information Services: Core Cancer Library 2021 Fifth Edition
Submitted by Kendra Godwin, 2020-2021 Chair, Cancer Librarians Caucus; edited by Shannon Compton, AHIP, Hub Editor: Information Services, MLAConnect The Core Cancer Library is one…
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, MLAConnect The newly formed Scholarly Communications Caucus hosted…
Consumer Health: Improving Wikipedia through #CiteNLM Edit-a-Thons
Submitted by Elizabeth Waltman, Network of the National Library of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland–Baltimore; edited by Heidi…
Education: Supervising and Managing
Education can take many forms and modes of instruction, including continuing education or professional development. Some types of education are arrived at empirically in the…
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…
Consumer Health: Making It Local: Virtual Conversations Extend Community Outreach
Missy Creed, consumer health librarian at the Ohio State University Library for Health Information (LHI), has responded to the current challenge of being “out in…
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…
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…
Consumer Health: Virtual Health Education during COVID-19
Due to COVID-19 and the stay at home order in the state of Florida beginning in March of this year, I realized there had to…
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…
Information Services: A User Alert Statement for Predatory and Dubious Journals
Submitted by Louisa Verma, AHIP, Center for Health Evidence, Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, CA, and Lindsay Barnett, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT The…