Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLAIn 1961, MLA announced the establishment of a central office with Helen Brown Schmidt as executive secretary. In earlier…
Internet Resources: Patient Education Resources in Tagalog (Filipino)
Submitted by Sondhaya Sritongsook McGowan, Melisa Reasner McGuire Health Sciences Library, Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, CA; edited by Talicia Tarver At 2.6 million, Filipinos…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Nineteen forty-three was a year of celebration. It was the quatercentenary of the publication of Vesalius’s Fabrica and…
Expert Searching: Patient, Intervention, Control, and Outcome (PICO): An Overrated Tool
Submitted by Wichor M. Bramer, Medical Library, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; edited by I. Diane Cooper, AHIP Many searches start with…
Internet Resources: Aerospace Medicine
Submitted by D. Garon Bailey, Franzello Aeromedical Library, US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, and Maureen Humphrey-Shelton, AHIP, Robley…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA MEDLARS was a magical word in the 1960s. The idea that a machine could produce a bibliography with…
MLA Historical Marker to Be Installed in Philadelphia
Submitted by June H. Fulton, FMLA, and Daniel Kipnis, Philadelphia Regional Chapter of MLA During 2015, its 117th anniversary year, MLA will celebrate a novel…
Internet Resources: Resources for Supporting and Sustaining Community Outreach
Submitted by Jon Goodell, AHIP, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, TX; edited by…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1946, Dorathea W. Friedrich wrote an article on “The Effect of the War upon Medical Libraries and…
MLA’s Oral History Project
Submitted by Annie M. Hughes Thompson, Chair, Oral History Committee In 1977, the Oral History Project of MLA was launched to capture and preserve the…
Internet Resources: Freely Available Medical Images
Submitted by Andrea C. Kepsel, AHIP, Libraries, Michigan State University−East Lansing; edited by Talicia Tarver Finding medical images freely available online can be difficult. Often…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Many important and popular “firsts” took place in 1948. MLA celebrated its 50th anniversary. The first training program…
Expert Searching: Explosions in PubMed: What Google Doesn’t Do
Submitted by Eric Rumsey and Janna C. Lawrence, AHIP, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa–Iowa City, and Chris Shaffer, AHIP, Library, Oregon…
Internet Resources: Health Disparities
Submitted by Tiffany Moxham, Orbach Science Library, University of California–Riverside; edited by Talicia Tarver Healthy People 2020 defines a health disparity as “a particular type…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA MLA President Mildred C. Langner, AHIP, FMLA, reported on the association’s activities in 1966. Among the topics were…
Internet Resources: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Submitted by Laura T. Kane, AHIP, School of Medicine Library, University of South Carolina–Columbia; edited by Talicia A. Tarver In the year 2000, the Centers…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Ralph Esterquest, librarian of the Countway Library of Medicine, Boston Medical Library, and Harvard University Medical School, outlined…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch New Fellowship Opportunities at NYAM Two fellowships to pursue study and research in the history of medicine open in June at…
Expert Searching: Finding 19th and Early 20th Century Materials Online
Submitted by Melissa Grafe, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; edited by Melanie Norton, AHIP PubMed comprises more than 24…
Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker
The Kaiser Family Foundation, has a new interactive tool that provides up-to-date information on U.S. health spending by federal and local governments, private companies, and…