Expert Searching: Health Care Professionals Work to a Set of Standards: Shouldn’t We?
Submitted by Brooke Ballantyne Scott, Jackie MacDonald, Susan Baer, Ashley Farrell, AHIP, Marcus Vaska, Pat Lee, and Danielle Rabb, Canadian Search Standards Working GroupHealth care…
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WHO’s mobile program to manage diabetes For sufferers of diabetes, managing their condition is an ongoing and complicated task. Fast, reliable, and clear information is…
Librarians without Borders® HINARI Internet Resources for Researchers Guyana: October 10-13, 2017
This four day workshop was conducted at the Marriott Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana. The instructor was Lenny Rhine, Librarians Without Borders/Medical Library Association…
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WHO launches free courses in health emergencies To aid both health care personnel and the general public in obtaining education on epidemics, pandemics, and other…
Expert Searching: Why Don’t Simple Searches [Always] Work?
Edited by Melanie Norton Many researchers and doctors search a database as if it were a medical Google. Using a simple search that relies on…
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Schizophrenia library launches in Australia Patients and families affected by schizophrenia now have access to a virtual collection of reliable information comprising 2,000 fact sheets,…
Librarians without Borders® HINARI Train the Trainers Report Ghana: March 13-15, 2017
Accra, Ghana (March 13-15, 2017) This three day workshop was conducted at the University of Ghana, College of Health Sciences, Korle-Bu Computer Centre. The…
Librarians without Borders® HINARI and Internet Resources Workshop Report New Guinea: May 22-25, 2017
Papua New Guinea (May 22-25, 2017) This four day workshop was conducted at the Lutheran School of Nursing (LSON), Madang. It was supported by…
Expert Searching: How “Healthy” Is Your Search For Health Promotion Evidence?
Edited by Melanie Norton Healthy People 2020 If you are searching for health promotion evidence, Healthy People 2020, a national health promotion program to improve…
Librarians without Borders® Research4Life Workshop Lao People’s Republic Workshop Report: December 13-16, 2016
Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (December 13-16, 2016) This ‘hybrid’ HINARI and AGORA workshop was conducted at the Datacom Training Centre. It was…
Librarians without Borders® Train the Trainers Report Jordan: December 5-8, 2016
Amman, Jordan (December 5-8, 2016) Technical Report: Capacity Building on Hinari Access for Health Programmes “Training of Trainers”: Sub-Regional Training Workshop Instructors Mr.…
Expert Searching: Fear and Loathing in Grey Literature Searching: A (Not So) Savage Journey to the Heart of a Health Librarian’s Dream*
* With apologies to Hunter S. Thompson Edited by Melanie Norton We were somewhere in the middle of a ClinicalTrials.gov search when the tea began…
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“World No Tobacco Day” inspires smoking cessation efforts World No Tobacco Day seeks to spread awareness of tobacco-related health risks and influence public policy to…
A recap on the International Visiting Information Professionals (IVIP) Program Pilot
The IVIP Program Pilot was a partnership between MLA/ICS IVIP Program Task Force and the Taiwan Medical Library Association. The goal was for the Program…
Attending ICML+EAHIL in Dublin, Ireland with the MLA ICS Reis Grant
The International Congress of Medical Librarianship and the European Association of Health Information and Libraries held their joint conference in Dublin June 12th – 16th. Like…
Expert Searching: Can Learning PubMed Be…Fun?
Submitted by Robin O’Hanlon and Rebecca Snyder, Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; edited by Melanie Norton Are you…
Expert Searching: Animal Experimentation, Compliance, and Literature Searching
Submitted by Melissa Funaro and Kate Nyhan, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP According to the Animal Welfare…
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Innovative health partnership prevents library closures Funding cuts are a common and challenging reality for many libraries. To overcome the budgetary challenge, public libraries in…
Expert Searching: Strategies for Locating Resident Education Information in PubMed
Submitted by Anna Krampl and Carolann Lee Curry, Skelton Medical Library, Mercer University, Macon, GA; edited by Melanie Norton Locating comprehensive references related to residency…
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…