Welcome to the 2024 Cunningham Memorial International Fellow
The Medical Library Association (MLA), The International Cooperation Caucus (ICC), and the ICC Cunningham Fellowship Itinerary Subcommittee are so excited to welcome our 2024 Cunningham…
MLA ’24 Designer Wins Silver MUSE Award
While the National Program Committee (NPC) for each MLA conference selects speakers, contributed content, and theme, it’s the design experts in MCI that contribute their…
Improving Accessibility for Library Patrons: Virtual Learning Opportunity
Save the Date: November 14, 2023, 1:00-2:00 p.m., central time Improving Accessibility for Library Patrons Meeting ID: 851 3328 0683 Join Zoom Meeting Join MLA’s…
Thank You for Hosting the 2020-2023 Fellows of the Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship at Your Institutions!
The International Cooperation Caucus expresses our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to all the libraries who hosted the 2020-2023 Fellows for the Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship prior to their attendance…
AI Tools for Summarizing Research Articles: Transforming Information Access
By Gary S. Atwood, gatwood@uvm.edu, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-4100, systematic review librarian & library associate professor, Dana Health Sciences Library The exponential growth of academic research articles in…
ChatGPT and Our Response as Health Educators
Aultman College’s Health Sciences Library staff recently presented on ChatGPT and how it is changing what we need to know about information reporting and knowledge…
How Can We Promote Responsible Use of Data and Fix the Replication Crisis?
Librarians, especially those who do research data management work, might be interested in an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, published June 6, 2023:…
Response to “An Interview With ChatGPT”
By Dexter Hadley, MD, PhD, the founding chief of Artificial Intelligence at University of Central Florida, College of Medicine. At the University, he is building…
Welcome 2020-2023 Cunningham Memorial International Fellows
The Medical Library Association (MLA), The International Cooperation Caucus (ICC), and the ICC Cunningham Fellowship Itinerary Committee are thrilled to welcome our 2020-2023 Cunningham Memorial…
An Interview With ChatGPT and BARD From a Medical Librarian Perspective
By Nadine Dexter, EDD, MLS, Director, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Science Library, University of Central Florida, and Deedra Walton, MLS, Head, Department of Electronic Resources,…
ChatGPT is Here. What are We Waiting for?
ChatGPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) is all the buzz lately, and if you do not know what it is, you should (OpenAI, 2022). ChatGPT was…
Free, FAIR, & Fabulous: Five Data Tools to Support Open and Reproducible Research
By Elizabeth Roth, MA, rothel@musc.edu, Medical University of South Carolina; Christine Nieman, MLIS, cnieman@hshsl.umaryland.edu, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Katie Pierce Farrier, MIS, katie.pierce-farrier@unthsc.edu, University of…
Introducing the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Toolkit
The National Institutes of Health has developed an updated Data Management and Sharing Policy to promote the sharing of scientific data [1]. This policy goes…
Leaving Twitter, migrating to Mastodon? Implications for scholarly communication
Some academics are considering leaving Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover. A recent Science article by Kai Kupferschmidt and a post on The…
Ramping up for NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Implementation
Starting January 25, 2023, NIH grant applicants will be required to explain how they plan to manage and share the scientific data generated by their…
New Coeditor of the Information Management Hub Column for MLAConnect
Hello, all. My name is Anne Morgan, and I’m the new coeditor of the Information Management Hub column for MLAConnect. I have a Bachelor of…
Join us in the Public Services Caucus and Share your Expertise!
Greetings from the Public Services Caucus (PSC)! As chair this year, I’d like to officially invite any of our MLA colleagues with an interest in…
Update from the NAHRS Nursing Essential Resources List (NNERL) Working Group
The Interagency Council on Information Resources in Nursing (ICIRN) [1] Essential Nursing Resources list has been a standard resource for nurses and librarians since its…
A View of EAHIL Conference in Rotterdam Netherlands 2022
We are pleased to share the experience of one of our MLA-ICC caucus members from her attendance at the EAHIL conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands that…
Introducing the NNLM National Center for Data Services (NCDS)
As many of you know, The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) has engaged in outreach efforts for the National Library of Medicine,…