NLM FY 2018 Funding Update
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2018 bill, S. 1771, provides the National Library of Medicine (NLM) with $420,898,000.During the spring Joint MLA/AAHSL Legislative Task Force…
Technology: Gamification in Medical and Dental Student Orientation
Submitted by Gregg A. Stevens, AHIP, and Jamie Saragossi, Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Editor’s note:…
Social Media: Archiving Twitter Hashtag Content: Symplur and Beyond
Edited by Lara Killian About Twitter Once upon a time, I was at a coffee with one of our library directors, who said, “I just…
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…
Technology: A Meeting of the Minds: How Hosting MakerHealth Faire Helped Promote 3D Printing
Edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP Photo credit: Timothy Yates Advertising and promoting a new library service is difficult, and advertising a new service that involves…
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,…
Eight Lessons Learned While Developing a Health Information Class for Family Caregivers
Approximately 43.5 million adults in the United States provided unpaid care to an adult or child in 2015 [1]. How can librarians reach this enormous…
Social Media: Facebook’s Community Is 2 Billion Strong
Facebook announced at the end of June that their monthly user base reached 2 billion. Just let that sink in for a moment. Two. Billion.…
Technology: R for Librarians: Resources for Learning
Edited by Tony Nguyen, AHIP If you have spent any time around research communities, you have probably heard discussion of “R” and its capabilities for…
Technology: Call for Submissions
A great many of you attended MLA ’17 in Seattle last month! I hope you were inspired by many of the great plenaries, paper, and…
MLA and AAHSL Recommend NLM FY 2018 Funding
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries have recommended that the National Library of Medicine receive at least $412,097,000 in FY…
Social Media: A Librarian by Any Other Name
Edited by Lara Killian, AHIP Way back in September of 2012, I started writing a blog, “A Librarian by Any Other Name.” I chose this…
Technology: Jeopardy-Style Review in the Classroom
Submitted by Molly Knapp, AHIP, National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) National Training Office, University of Utah–Salt Lake City, and Tony Nguyen, AHIP, NNLM…
Legislative Task Force Goes to the Hill
Front Row (left to right): M.J. Tooey (MD), Ruth Riley (SC), Mary Langman (IL), Susan Clark (MS), Irma Ivette Quinones (PR), Neville Prendergast (LA). Back…
Technology: Editor’s Note
This month, the MLA News welcomes a new technology column editor: Tony Nguyen, AHIP. Tony currently holds the position of technology and communications coordinator at…
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…
Social Media: Harmonizing Many Voices on Social Media
By Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, and Robin Taylor, Disaster Information Management Research Center, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; edited by Lara Killian, AHIP In her January…
Call for MLA News Technology Editor
The MLA News is currently seeking a column editor for the technology column. Individuals are selected based on a desire to serve MLA and the…