Honoring Our Past
Reading about the passing of Donald A. B. Lindberg, former director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a reminder of the commitment to…
In Memoriam: Donald A.B. Lindberg
Dear Colleagues, Sadly, MLA shares the news that Donald A.B. Lindberg passed away Friday evening after a short illness. We are grateful for his leadership…
Personals: New Position for Sarah Towner Wright at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Sarah Towner Wright is School of Medicine librarian and clinical team lead at the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina (UNC)–Chapel Hill.…
Congratulations to Rachel Fenske – Recipient of the 2019 Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award!
Congratulations to Rachel Fenske, Information Services and Outreach Librarian, Assistant Librarian, Biomedical Library, University of South Alabama. She is the recipient of the 2019 Michael…
All That Potential – Finding Potential Partners
All That Potential – Finding Potential Partners Public health is a group effort. A person’s health is the result of complex interactions between the environment,…
Consumer Health: Plain Language Is Not for Dummies!
Editor’s Note: “Plain Language Is Not for Dummies!” by Ruti Volk, AHIP, was originally published in Consumer Connections, the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section…
Section News: 2019 Research Section Research Awards
Congratulations to the winning research papers and posters from MLA ’19! The MLA Research Section is pleased to announce the winners for best research papers…
Assessment Strategies for Understanding and Retention
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Whether you are in a classroom, in a health care setting, or out working with the public, clear communication…
Consumer Health: Consumer Health Information Specialization, Part II
Monique Mason, AHIP, Science & Technology Division, Akron-Summit County Public Library, at a recent Ohio Health Sciences Library Association meeting. Photo by Donald Pearson, AHIP…
An Evolving Resource: CAPHIS’s Most Trusted Health Websites
If you are a member of MLA’s Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS), the phrase “top 100” probably means something very different to you…
ELEVATED and Connected – PH/HA Travel Stipend Recap
The 2019 MLA Annual Meeting centered the conversations around improving support and services and growing the profession. The theme this year was ELEVATE, and that reflected…
A Career Spanning Five Decades and Half a Continent: J. Michael Homan, AHIP, FMLA
J. Michael Homan, AHIP, FMLA, may be best known for his twenty years at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where he served as director of…
In Memoriam: Tanji Gibson
Submitted by Amy Allison, AHIP, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, and Tara Douglas-Williams, M. Delmar Edwards, M.D., Library, Morehouse School of…
Open Educational Resources: What you need to know
What is OER? Open educational resources [OER] are digitized materials that are free or very low cost to students. They can be textbooks, videos, case…
History: Gwendolyn S. Cruzat, AHIP, FMLA
Gwendolyn S. Cruzat, AHIP, FMLA, chose librarianship over mathematics, which led to a long and distinguished career, ultimately in medical librarianship. Cruzat had earned her…
Announcing the NNLM Spring 2019 Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon!
When was the last time you used Wikipedia? With more than 7 billion views a year on over 155,000 health topic pages, Wikipedia may be…
In Memoriam: Lila Pedersen
Librarians at the University of North Dakota (UND) were saddened to hear of the death of Lila (Gandolf) Pedersen who passed away on March 19,…
Personals: Janice E. Kelly, FMLA
After a long and distinguished career in health sciences librarianship, Janice E. Kelly, FMLA, announced she will retire at the end of June 2019. Kelly…
Vaccine hesitancy in the news
As all of us surely are aware, there is an increasing incidence of vaccine preventable infectious disease around the world – pertussis, varicella, measles,…
Congratulations to the 2019 RTI Fellows!
MLA is pleased to announce the 2019 Research Training Institute (RTI) Fellows! The fellows will attend the RTI in Chicago from July 15–19, 2019. Our…