• Personals: Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, Awarded Presidential Rank

    Betsy Humphreys, FMLA, was recently recognized as a Presidential Rank Awardee at the Distinguished level. Humphreys retired as deputy director of the National Library of…

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  • Personals: Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP

    After forty-two years, thirty-eight as a medical librarian, Katherine Stemmer Frumento, AHIP, is retiring on February 9. Stemmer Frumento spent her medical librarian career as…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    In 1995, Nina W. Matheson, AHIP, FMLA, gave the Janet Doe Lecture,” The Idea of the Library in the Twenty-First Century.” Now as it is…

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  • Personals: Christopher P. Duffy

    Christopher P. Duffy has joined the Seton Hall University Libraries as associate dean and founding director of the Health Sciences Library and Information Commons. The…

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  • Personals: Marian Taliaferro, AHIP

    Marian Taliaferro, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, as the digital scholarship librarian.…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Letters to the editors are often interesting and sometimes informative. Erich Meyerhoff wrote one concerning the Union List of Medical Periodicals. He wrote a tribute…

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  • Personals: Terri Ottosen, AHIP

    Terri Ottosen, AHIP, has joined the staff of the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC) as the community engagement and…

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  • Personals: Rachael Posey

    Rachael Posey has joined the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries as the health and life sciences research librarian and associate director, William Rand Kenan,…

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  • Personals: Emily Vardell

    This May, Emily Vardell successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions,” and graduated with her…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    When you graduate from a school of librarianship, you feel ready to jump into a job. When you actually begin the job, you sometimes feel…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    Do you remember Women’s Lib in the 1970s? One of the great ladies of librarianship is Gertrude L. Annan.* She gave her opinion of this…

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  • Honoring Our Past

    An article, “The Rorschach Test,” was published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA) in 1953 [1]. This personality test was created and…

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  • Personals: Jennifer K. Lloyd, AHIP

    Jennifer K. Lloyd, AHIP, serves as the interim director, Libraries, Louisiana State University Health (LSU)–New Orleans, effective August 1, 2017. Lloyd has worked at the…

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  • Personals: Jerry Sheehan

    Jerry Sheehan has been named the new National Library of Medicine (NLM) deputy director, effective July 31, 2017. The appointment was announced by Library Director…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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