Honoring Our Past
“From Index Catalogue to Gopher Space: Changes in Our Profession as Reflected in the Handbook and CPHSL,” the 1993 Janet Doe Lecture by Alison Bunting,…
Personals: Cynthia Beeler, AHIP
Cynthia Beeler, AHIP, has accepted the role of academic medical librarian and will be the librarian for the Learning Resource Center in the Mitchell Student…
Personals: Joyce McFadden, AHIP
Joyce McFadden, AHIP, has accepted the position of public services supervisor for the Plummer Library at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. At the Plummer…
Personals: Daniel Stuart
Daniel Stuart has joined the Preston Smith Library, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)–Lubbock, as reference librarian. In this role, Stuart will support the…
Personals: Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, Awarded Presidential Rank
Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, was recently recognized as a Presidential Rank Awardee at the Distinguished level. Humphreys retired as deputy director of the National Library of…
Personals: Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP
After forty-two years, thirty-eight as a medical librarian, Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP, is retiring on February 9. Stemmer Frumento spent her medical librarian career as…
RTI Seeks Scholarship Aid from Sections and Chapters
Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA, project director, Research Training Institute, sent a letter on January 23 to the chairs of MLA sections and chapters encouraging them…
Honoring Our Past
In 1995, Nina W. Matheson, AHIP, FMLA, gave the Janet Doe Lecture,” The Idea of the Library in the Twenty-First Century.” Now as it is…
Personals: Christopher P. Duffy
Christopher P. Duffy has joined the Seton Hall University Libraries as associate dean and founding director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Commons. The…
A Special Thank You to the Research Institute for Public Libraries (RIPL)
MLA thanks the Research Institute for Public Libraries (RIPL) for its support of MLA’s Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians (RTI). RIPL and MLA…
Thanks to All Who Applied!
MLA is very pleased to report that we received many applications for the 2018 Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians (RTI) and are so…
Personals: Marian Taliaferro, AHIP
Marian Taliaferro, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, as the digital scholarship librarian.…
A Special Thank You to SAGE Publishing
MLA thanks SAGE Publishing for its generous contribution of fifty free e-book versions of the fifth edition of Research Design, the textbook that will be…
Welcome to the New RTI News Blog!
Submitted by Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA, Project Director, MLA Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians This column will focus on news and information…
New RTI Web Page
Do you need tips for convincing your boss of the merits of the upcoming 2018 Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians (RTI)? We now…
A Special Thank You to the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL)
MLA expresses grateful appreciation to the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) for its enthusiastic support of MLA’s Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians.…
Honoring Our Past
Letters to the editors are often interesting and sometimes informative. Erich Meyerhoff wrote one concerning the Union List of Medical Periodicals. He wrote a tribute…
Personals: Terri Ottosen, AHIP
Terri Ottosen, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC) as the community engagement and…
Personals: Rachael Posey
Rachael Posey has joined the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries as the health and life sciences research librarian and associate director, William Rand Kenan,…
Personals: Emily Vardell
This May, Emily Vardell successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions,” and graduated with her…