Product Spotlight: Access APA PsycTherapy Through EBSCO (Sponsored)
Leverage unscripted streaming demonstration videos for teaching and learning psychotherapy techniques. Published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and available on EBSCOhost® and EBSCO Discovery…
Information Services: Core Cancer Library 2021 Fifth Edition
Submitted by Kendra Godwin, 2020-2021 Chair, Cancer Librarians Caucus; edited by Shannon Compton, AHIP, Hub Editor: Information Services, MLAConnect The Core Cancer Library is one…
Information Services: Overview of the MLA Scholarly Communications Caucus First Annual Meeting
Submitted by Karen Gutzman, Chair, Scholarly Communications Caucus; edited by Shannon Compton, AHIP, Hub Editor: Information Services, MLAConnect The newly formed Scholarly Communications Caucus hosted…
Product Spotlight: Help Shape the Future of Elsevier’s Digital Clinical Solutions (Sponsored)
We invite you to join the Elsevier Clinical Solutions User Feedback Program. Designed to bring our customers closer to the product development process, this program…
Consumer Health: Improving Wikipedia through #CiteNLM Edit-a-Thons
Submitted by Elizabeth Waltman, Network of the National Library of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region, Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland–Baltimore; edited by Heidi…
Product Spotlight: When It Comes to E-Books, the R2 Digital Library Stands Alone (Sponsored)
The R2 Digital Library is a health sciences electronic book database that features a comprehensive collection of medical, nursing, and allied health titles presented in…
Information Services: Trusted Resources for Biomedical Images
Submitted by Kelsey Cowles, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; edited by Shannon Compton, AHIP, Hub Editor: Information Services, MLAConnect The importance…
Innovation & Research Practice: Insomnia Coach App Review
The Insomnia Coach app is available for veterans, service members, anyone who has insomnia, or anyone who would like to improve their sleep. The app…
Information Services: Where to Find Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines Post-National Guidelines Clearinghouse
Figure 1: ECRI Guidelines Trust sample search. In July of 2018, the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) (Guidelines.gov), the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality–sponsored…
Information Services: Meet the New Editor
I am excited to join the MLAConnect team as the Information Services Hub editor. I currently work at Bay Path University, Longmeadow, MA, as the…
Information Services: Survey of Workplace Changes for Academic Medical Library Staff
Submitted by Jennifer C. Westrick, AHIP, and Ashley Heard, and Scott Thomson, AHIP, Library, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Introduction Academic medical libraries are…
Information Services: A User Alert Statement for Predatory and Dubious Journals
Submitted by Louisa Verma, AHIP, Center for Health Evidence, Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, CA, and Lindsay Barnett, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT The…
Anti-racist resources and follow up questions: a recent aggregation
Good morning Medical Informatics Caucus members, Below I have aggregated some of the anti-racist resources and questions shared with me in the past two weeks.…
Information Management: Preprints in the Age of COVID-19
Submitted by Rachel Pinotti, AHIP, Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; edited by Marie T. Ascher The COVID-19 pandemic…
Information Services: Data-Driven LibGuide Development during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Submitted by Cecelia Vetter, Samantha Kennefick, and Lilian Hoffecker, AHIP, Strauss Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus–Aurora; edited by Christy Tyson As…
Information Services: Is a Single Platform for Tracking Interface Issues Feasible? The UX Caucus Thinks So!
Submitted by Louisa Verma, AHIP, Library, Center for Health Evidence, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, CA, and Andy Hickner, Samuel J. Wood Library & C.V. Starr…
I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means: How COVID-19 Systematic Reviews Don’t Fit the Mold
Submitted by Aidy Weeks, AHIP, UNLV Health Sciences Library, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, and Kathryn Vela, AHIP, Portland VA Healthcare System, Portland, OR A global…
Transition: Retiring the Social Media Column
The MLAConnect Editorial Board made the decision to retire the Social Media column at our last meeting. While I do not have the exact date…
Ending on a High Note: Top 10 Technology Articles
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Earlier last month, it was announced that a few of the MLAConnect columns will be retired to better align…
Technology: Teaching with JupyterHub
Submitted by Shirley Zhao and Jessi Van Der Volgen, AHIP, Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah–Salt Lake City; edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Jupyter…