Medical Library Education: Design Thinking
Librarians who are engaged in medical library education are often called upon to provide instruction on a host of topics in various surroundings before diverse…
Consumer Health: Mutualistic Collaboration
Elizabeth Kiscaden, AHIP, and Jacqueline Leskovec at the Midwest Chapter of MLA 2018 conference in Cleveland, OH. Kiscaden and Leskovec work for the National Network…
Medical Library Education: Critical Appraisal: An Evolving Topic in Health Sciences
Saturating a broad swath of current literature surrounding medical library education today—at least at the academic level—are the similar principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and…
NMLM Feature: Paws to Read @ the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital – Family Resource Center Library
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Consumer Health: Institute for Healthcare Advancement Annual Health Literacy Conference
Submitted by Ophelia Morey, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; edited by Christine Willis, AHIP May 2018 marked the 17th year that the…
FYI: Laughter
Laughter is medicine, right? A source for vibrancy, pep, and well-being, agreed? Sources across the gamut of communication tend to think so… and say so.…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 3
This is the third article in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 2
This is the second article in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
How the National Library of Medicine Can Add Evidence to Your mHealth App, Part 1
This article is the first in a three-part series about how the free, evidence-based, online resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) can be…
FYI: Stress
Do you go home unable to forget or leave at work: the confrontations, contagions, constraints the consternations, contentions, condemnations the conundrums, consternations, convictions any or…
Consumer Health: Achieving Healthy Communities through Collaboration with Libraries
Submitted by Yingting Zhang, AHIP, Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick; Zachary Taylor, Healthier Middlesex;…
Consumer Health: LibGuides on Disabilities That Have Accessibility in Mind
Edited by Christine Willis, AHIP There are many websites about different disabilities, but they are often not aggregated in one easy-to-find and easy-to-access place. The…
Consumer Health: Comics in the Medical Library
Edited by Christine Willis “Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.” Art Spiegelman There is perhaps no better quote to illustrate the value of comics…
Best Practices: Retractions: An Annual Update on Ethical Misconduct in Research and Publishing
Submitted by Kelly Evans, Library, and Frank Houghton, Department of Public Health and Health Administration, Eastern Washington University–Spokane “To make a deliberate falsification for personal…
Consumer Health: Reaching out to the “T”: A Medical Library’s Experience Providing Outreach and Consumer Health Resources to the Transgender Community
Submitted by Francisco J. Fajardo and Jorge E. Perez, Herbert Wertheim Medical Library, Florida International University–Miami; and Hector Perez-Gilbe, AHIP, Ayala Science Library, University of…
Consumer Health: “I Saw It on the Internet”: A Trustworthy Resources Class for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
Editor’s Note: With this column, the MLA News welcomes the new Consumer Health column editor, Christine Willis, Shepherd Center, Noble Learning Resource Center, Atlanta, GA.…
Consumer Health: Public and Academic Libraries Partnering for Community Events about Mobile Health Resources
Submitted by Carolyn Schubert and Mark Lane, East Campus Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, and Susan Versen, Massanutten Regional Library, Harrisonburg, VA; edited by…
Consumer Health: Health Information Center Serving the Community
Submitted by Sandra Oelschlegel, AHIP, Preston Medical Library, University of Tennessee–Knoxville; edited by Jana C. Liebermann The Preston Medical Library at the University of Tennessee…
Consumer Health: Popular Health Reading Collection in a Hospital Library
Submitted by Fred King, William B Glew, MD, Health Sciences Library, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; edited by Jana Liebermann The William B Glew,…
Consumer Health: Health Authority and Public Library Partner in Nova Scotia to Increase Access
Submitted by Lara Killian, AHIP, Nova Scotia Hospital Library, Capital Health, Halifax, NS, Canada; edited by Jana C. Liebermann Halifax Public Libraries (HPL) partnered with…