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 WorkshopInstructorsMr. Hatem Nour El-Din, Technical…
Honoring Our Past
Henry R. Viets, a Boston physician, wrote an interesting statement when he was named chairman of the newly formed Friends of the Armed Forces Medical…
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…
International News
“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…
Personals: Robert A. Cagna, AHIP
Robert A. Cagna, AHIP, director of the Charleston Division Library, West Virginia University–Charleston, will be the new dean of the Library and associate professor of…
Personals: Nancy Tannery
Nancy Tannery has been appointed assistant provost at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). In this role, she is focusing her efforts on supporting strategic initiatives…
Honoring Our Past
An interesting editorial by L. Margueriete Prime has a title that will catch the eye of readers: “Too Many ‘Librarians’?” Certainly, members of MLA would…
Personals: Ashley Ehmig, AHIP
Ashley Ehmig, AHIP, has been appointed as online instructional design librarian at the American College of Healthcare Sciences (ACHS), Portland, Oregon. Ehmig fulfills a new…
International News
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…
Personals: Deborah Sibley
Deborah Sibley has been appointed executive director of the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library, effective August 28, 2017. Sibley is currently the director of libraries…
Honoring Our Past
The recent death of Eugene Garfield led to many items in the newspapers. His is a name that resounds in libraries because his creations—Science Citation…
Honoring Our Past
Alfred N. Brandon, former MLA president and editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association from 1961–1968, wrote an editorial deploring the borrowing of…
Honoring Our Past
Dig into your issues of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA), and you will often find some unexpected treasures. Our predecessors had astonishing…
International News
IFLA engages fifty countries to promote libraries’ role in sustainable development As a part of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) International…
Personals: Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP
Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP, was recently promoted to deputy director at the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Traditi had previously served…
Personals: Karen Crowell
Karen Crowell, clinical librarian at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC), retired at the end of January 2017. Crowell came…
Personals: Jane Blumenthal, AHIP
Jane Blumenthal, AHIP, was recently welcomed as a new member of the National Library of Medicine Board of Regents. Blumenthal is the associate university librarian…
Personals: Gale A. Dutcher, AHIP
Gale A. Dutcher, AHIP, retired from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on September 30, 2016. Most recently, she served as the NLM acting associate…