Medical Library Education: Design Thinking
Librarians who are engaged in medical library education are often called upon to provide instruction on a host of topics in various surroundings before diverse…
In Memoriam: Susanne M. Humphrey, AHIP
Submitted by Andrew Clifton Humphrey Jr., Detroit, MI Susanne M. Humphrey, AHIP, of Wheaton, MD, passed away on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at age seventy-four.…
In Memoriam: James Patrick Craig
James Patrick (Pat) Craig was born December 10, 1942, in Gould, AR. He passed away in Shreveport, LA, on January 15, 2019. He went to…
In Memoriam: Mary Wickline
Mary Wickline, medical librarian at the University of California–San Diego (UCSD), passed away on Saturday, December 8, 2018, after a long illness. She was at…
Medical Library Education: Critical Appraisal: An Evolving Topic in Health Sciences
Saturating a broad swath of current literature surrounding medical library education today—at least at the academic level—are the similar principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and…
In Memoriam: Barbara Meadows
Barbara Meadows, Nashville, TN, died November 2, 2016. Meadows was a graduate of Belmont College in nursing and later earned her library degree. Meadows was…
In Memoriam: Maxine Hanke
Photo credit: National Library of MedicineDigital Collections Maxine Hanke passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2018. Hanke received a bachelor’s degree from the University of…
In Memoriam: Robert Bartlett, AHIP
Robert Bartlett, AHIP, died August 26, 2018. He worked as a reference librarian, an integral part of the Houston Methodist system, making sure everyone had…
In Memoriam: Rochelle Minchow
Rochelle Minchow, of Irvine, CA, passed away on May 2, 2018, at age seventy. She retired as librarian in 2005 at the Biomedical and Science…
FYI: Laughter
Laughter is medicine, right? A source for vibrancy, pep, and well-being, agreed? Sources across the gamut of communication tend to think so… and say so.…
FYI: Stress
Do you go home unable to forget or leave at work: the confrontations, contagions, constraints the consternations, contentions, condemnations the conundrums, consternations, convictions any or…
In Memoriam: Vislava Tylman
Cleveland Clinic Florida announced the untimely passing of Vislava Tylman, library services manager, Goldblatt Medical Library. Tylman was hospitalized while vacationing in Mexico and passed…
In Memoriam: Martha Jane Zachert, AHIP, FMLA
Martha Jane Zachert, AHIP, FMLA, retired professor emerita, University South Carolina–Columbia, died January 10, 2018, at Westminster Oaks Health Center. She was born February 7,…
In Memoriam: Patricia M. Perrizo Redman
Patricia M. Perrizo Redman, of Pinckney, Michigan, passed away on September 3, 2017. She was born on January 2, 1942, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.…
In Memoriam: Lillian Bryant
Lillian Bryant, head of veterinary libraries at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) from 1981–2001, passed away August 8, 2017, at her home in Philadelphia. She…
In Memoriam: Marsha Kmec
Marsha Kmec passed away suddenly on August 9, 2017, after a brief illness. Kmec was the health sciences librarian at Olive View/University of California–Los Angeles…
In Memoriam: Grace Anderson
Grace Anderson, eighty-one, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, died May 26, 2017. She was born October 21, 1935, in Monroe, Iowa, and was raised by her…
In Memoriam: Malinda Fetkovich
Malinda Fetkovich, passed away at the age of eighty-six on July 9, 2017, in Trafford, Pennsylvania. She was born on June 30, 1931, in Latrobe,…
Best Practices: Retractions: An Annual Update on Ethical Misconduct in Research and Publishing
Submitted by Kelly Evans, Library, and Frank Houghton, Department of Public Health and Health Administration, Eastern Washington University–Spokane “To make a deliberate falsification for personal…
In Memoriam: Eugene Garfield, AHIP, FMLA
Eugene Garfield, AHIP, FMLA, passed away on February 26, 2017, at the age of ninety-one. Garfield is known as the founder of the internationally known…