Social Media: Social Media for Research Dissemination
Edited by Lara Killian, AHIPSocial media has been around for quite a while but has an iffy reputation, especially in the academic community. Social media…
Technology: Get to Know HyperDocs!
What are HyperDocs? HyperDocs are digital lessons that you can use to create engaging inquiry-based learning. They are used to replace the worksheet method of…
Technology: Gamification in Medical and Dental Student Orientation
Submitted by Gregg A. Stevens, AHIP, and Jamie Saragossi, Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Editor’s note:…
Social Media: Archiving Twitter Hashtag Content: Symplur and Beyond
Edited by Lara Killian About Twitter Once upon a time, I was at a coffee with one of our library directors, who said, “I just…
Expert Searching: Why Don’t Simple Searches [Always] Work?
Edited by Melanie Norton Many researchers and doctors search a database as if it were a medical Google. Using a simple search that relies on…
Steering MLA Members to Professional Success! The Education Strategic Goal Status Update
As Kevin Baliozian promised in a July MLA News article, here is an update on the Education Strategic Goal. Since the MLA Board created a…
Technology: A Meeting of the Minds: How Hosting MakerHealth Faire Helped Promote 3D Printing
Edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Photo credit: Timothy Yates Advertising and promoting a new library service is difficult, and advertising a new service that involves…
Expert Searching: How “Healthy” Is Your Search For Health Promotion Evidence?
Edited by Melanie Norton Healthy People 2020 If you are searching for health promotion evidence, Healthy People 2020, a national health promotion program to improve…
Expert Searching: Fear and Loathing in Grey Literature Searching: A (Not So) Savage Journey to the Heart of a Health Librarian’s Dream*
* With apologies to Hunter S. Thompson Edited by Melanie Norton We were somewhere in the middle of a ClinicalTrials.gov search when the tea began…
Social Media: Facebook’s Community Is 2 Billion Strong
Facebook announced at the end of June that their monthly user base reached 2 billion. Just let that sink in for a moment. Two. Billion.…
Technology: R for Librarians: Resources for Learning
Edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP If you have spent any time around research communities, you have probably heard discussion of “R” and its capabilities for…
Medical Library Education: Data Science: Degree or No Degree?
Universities are quickly working to capitalize on the need for data scientists by either improving their existing programs or creating new programs. Data scientists can…
What Do Health Information Professionals Do? The Answer Is the Newly Revised MLA Competencies for Lifelong Learning and Professional Success
What do health information professionals do? The list of activities is long and varied and depends on specific job responsibilities. But what fundamental skill set…
Expert Searching: Can Learning PubMed Be…Fun?
Submitted by Robin O’Hanlon and Rebecca Snyder, Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; edited by Melanie Norton Are you…
Technology: Call for Submissions
A great many of you attended MLA ’17 in Seattle last month! I hope you were inspired by many of the great plenaries, paper, and…
Expert Searching: Animal Experimentation, Compliance, and Literature Searching
Submitted by Melissa Funaro and Kate Nyhan, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP According to the Animal Welfare…
Social Media: A Librarian by Any Other Name
Edited by Lara Killian, AHIP Way back in September of 2012, I started writing a blog, “A Librarian by Any Other Name.” I chose this…
Technology: Jeopardy-Style Review in the Classroom
Submitted by Molly Knapp, AHIP, National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) National Training Office, University of Utah–Salt Lake City, and Tony Nguyen, AHIP, NNLM…
Technology: Editor’s Note
This month, the MLA News welcomes a new technology column editor: Tony Nguyen, AHIP. Tony currently holds the position of technology and communications coordinator at…
Expert Searching: Strategies for Locating Resident Education Information in PubMed
Submitted by Anna Krampl and Carolann Lee Curry, Skelton Medical Library, Mercer University, Macon, GA; edited by Melanie Norton Locating comprehensive references related to residency…