Social Media: Twitter’s Best Kept Secret: Curated Twitter Lists
Submitted by Sheryl Ramer Gesoff, Peter Nicholas Memorial Library, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, NY; edited by Lara Killian, AHIP Check out the video version of…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA Have you ever wondered what worried librarians fifty years ago? The issues facing library professionals were described by…
MLA and AAHSL weigh in on the NIH-wide Strategic Plan
MLA and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) have submitted comments and recommendations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on a framework for…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA In 1961, MLA announced the establishment of a central office with Helen Brown Schmidt as executive secretary. In…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch 3D NIH Library A library—virtual, no less—has manifested in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that stages, stores, or “shelves” images…
Blogs to Follow: The Digital Beyond
Submitted by Kelly R. Gonzalez, AHIP It’s a new year and as you are making your new year’s resolutions you might be thinking about your…
Social Media: Podcasts
Submitted by Lara Killian, AHIP Check out the video version of this inaugural Social Media column on MLA’s YouTube channel. Following the recent phenomenal success of…
Technology: Social Media Tools for Physicians
Submitted by Rachel Pinotti, AHIP, Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; edited by Jean M. Gudenas Social media is…
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…
Blogs to Follow: Unquiet Librarian and DMLcentral
Submitted by Kelly R. Gonzalez, AHIP Unquiet Librarian and DMLcentral It’s the name that caught me, The Unquiet Librarian. The author, Buffy Hamilton, was a…
Technology: Using Guide on the Side to Build More Interactive Tutorials
Click Images to enlarge. [Link removed ()] Figure 1 Patron view guide [Link removed ()] Figure 2 Guide on the Side design…
Social Media: Librarians without Limits? Twitter Can Help
Submitted by Caitlyn Ford, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH), Ottawa, ON, Canada; edited by Lara Killian, AHIP Check out the video…
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…
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…
Editor’s Note
Laurie L. Thompson, AHIP, FMLA, Editor, MLA News I’m excited to announce a new column this month: “Social Media,” edited by Lara Killian, AHIP. In…
Technology: Uses of Research Networking Systems
Submitted by Diana Nelson Louden, Health Sciences Library, University of Washington–Seattle; edited by Jean M. Gudenas Numerous research networking systems (RNSs) have been developed [1],…
Technology: There’s an App for That in Our Catalog: Circulating iOS Apps in the Library
Submitted by Dana Thimons, AHIP, Sewell Learning Fellow, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Alexandria, VA; edited by Jean Gudenas When students at Nova Southeastern…
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…
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…