Cool Things We Are Doing in Our Library: Games at the Yale Medical Library
Submitted by Nathan Rupp and Melanie Norton, AHIP, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CTEditor’s Note: Many of us are doing…
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…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Have you ever wondered what worried librarians fifty years ago? The issues facing library professionals were described by…
Medical Library Education: Effective Mentoring in a Medical Library: A Mentee’s Perspective
Submitted by Joy Russell, Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center–Dallas; edited by Jodi L. Philbrick The word “mentor”…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1961, MLA announced the establishment of a central office with Helen Brown Schmidt as executive secretary. In…
Professional Development: Academy New Members or Members Renewing at a Higher Level
Congratulations to new members and members who have renewed at a higher level in the Academy of Health Information Professionals. This quarterly listing is based…
Medical Library Education: Knowledge Management: Passing the Torch to the Next Generation
Submitted by Jodi L. Philbrick, Department of Library and Information Sciences, College of Information, University of North Texas–Denton Knowledge management (KM) can be defined as…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Nineteen forty-three was a year of celebration. It was the quatercentenary of the publication of Vesalius’s Fabrica and…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch 10+ Places to Watch Fun Educational Videos Online The site, 10+ Places To Watch Fun Educational Videos Online, has a vine-picked…
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…
Professional Development: Academy New Members or Members Renewing at a Higher Level
Congratulations to new members and members who have renewed at a higher level in the Academy of Health Information Professionals. This quarterly listing is based…
Continuing Education: MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization Recipients
Congratulations to the following individuals who have received MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) from March 2015 through June 2015. MLA’s CHIS program is a…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA MEDLARS was a magical word in the 1960s. The idea that a machine could produce a bibliography with…
MLA Historical Marker to Be Installed in Philadelphia
Submitted by June H. Fulton, FMLA, and Daniel Kipnis, Philadelphia Regional Chapter of MLA During 2015, its 117th anniversary year, MLA will celebrate a novel…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1946, Dorathea W. Friedrich wrote an article on “The Effect of the War upon Medical Libraries and…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Medical MOOCs If getting conversant, maybe even erudite, on a topic is something desired, then going to one of a number…
MLA’s Oral History Project
Submitted by Annie M. Hughes Thompson, Chair, Oral History Committee In 1977, the Oral History Project of MLA was launched to capture and preserve the…
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…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Many important and popular “firsts” took place in 1948. MLA celebrated its 50th anniversary. The first training program…
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…