Social Media: Making the Most of Your Library’s Social Media Accounts
Submitted by Katherine Ghezzi-Kopel, Fayetteville, NY; edited by Lara Killian, AHIPBuilding a presence on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram (or elsewhere) provides the opportunity for libraries…
Librarians without Borders® Regional HINARI Train the Trainer Workshop Report: November 16-20, 2015
Suva, Fiji (November 16 – 20, 2015) Submitted by: Lenny Rhine, Karin Saric 07 December 2015 Background: This five day workshop was unique as the participants…
Technology: Citation Management on Mobile Devices
Submitted by David Petersen, AHIP, Dr. Lon & Elizabeth Parr Reed Health Sciences Library, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN; edited by Jean M. Gudenas The…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP Australian Government Announces Data, Science, and Technology Priorities The Australian Government recently announced a $1.1 billion initiative over the next…
Social Media: More than GoodReads: Which Online Reading Network Is Right for You?
Submitted by Lara Killian, AHIP, Nova Scotia Hospital Library, Nova Scotia Health Authority–Halifax, Canada I started 2016 feeling like I wanted to make more time…
Social Media: Periscoping a “Slice of Life,” Inside and Outside of the Library
Submitted by Mark Vrabel, AHIP, Library Oncology Nursing Society, Pittsburgh, PA; edited by Lara Killian, AHIP MLA members are by now likely familiar with Periscope,…
Technology: Browsing the Stacks in a Discovery Tool
Submitted by Harold S. Bright IV, A.T. Still Memorial Library, A.T. Still University of the Health Sciences, Mesa, AZ; edited by Jean M. Gudenas How…
We Need an International Strategy
Last March, when MLA leadership canceled MLA’s longstanding institutional membership with the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), several members were disappointed. Leadership’s rationale was…
Technology: Managing E-Resources
Submitted by Erin Wentz, Henrietta DeBenedictis Library, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) University–Boston; edited by Jean M. Gudenas Electronic resource management systems…
Social Media: Managing Multiple Twitter Accounts
Submitted by Caitlyn Ford, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON, Canada; edited by Lara Killian, AHIP Top tips when working with…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP CILIP Discusses Best Practices for Building Rapport and Conscientiousness in the Workplace In a recent blog post from the…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch Did You See That?! Samuel F. Morrison may be retired as the director of the Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL,…
Librarians without Borders®/MLA Training Initiative Expands with Elsevier Foundation Support
By Gurpreet K. Rana, Chair, and Lenny Rhine, FMLA, E-Library Training Coordinator, Librarians without Borders® Committee Knowledge is power, as they say. And information delivery systems…
Social Media: How to Hashtag Chat: Twitter Tips from #medlibs
Submitted by Nicole (Nikki) Dettmar, AHIP, Health Sciences Library, University of Washington–Seattle; edited by Lara Killian, AHIP You’ve seen the weekly #medlibs hashtag Twitter chat (linked…
Technology: Translator Apps
Submitted by Shelie Vacek, AHIP, University Libraries, University of South Dakota–Vermillion; edited by Jean M. Gudenas A 2014 article from the British Medical Journal published…
Librarians Without Borders® HINARI Training Workshop Report: September 28-29, 2015
Hanoi, Vietnam (September 28-29, 2015) On September 28-29, 2015, additional workshops were conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam. The initial workshop was a…
What Did You Do for National Medical Librarians Month?
“When you need to be right, ask your medical librarian.” That was the theme of this year’s National Medical Librarians Month, a month designed for…
Librarians Without Borders® HINARI Training the Trainer Workshop Report: September 23-24, 2015
Myanmar (September 23-25, 2015) This three day workshop was conducted at the University of Medicine 1, Yangon, Myanmar. It was supported…
IFLA Report from Jaime Friel Blanck, First Recipient of the Avraham Reis IFLA Annual Meeting Grant
Report for the Avraham Reis IFLA Annual Meeting Grant 2015 Recipient: Jaime Friel Blanck, Clinical Informationist, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD …
Technology: The colwiz Research Collaboration Tool
Submitted by Lynne M. Fox, AHIP, Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado–Denver Anschutz Medical Campus [retired]; edited by Jean M. Gudenas A free tool for…