What Can MLA Sections Do for You?
MLA’s 20+ sections, built around themes of long-term concern to MLA members, are core to our mission and work. Cumulatively, these sections have almost 3,400…
IFLA Report from Jaime Friel Blanck, First Recipient of the Avraham Reis IFLA Annual Meeting Grant
Report for the Avraham Reis IFLA Annual Meeting Grant 2015 Recipient: Jaime Friel Blanck, Clinical Informationist, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD …
Welcome to Mosaic/Mosaïque, MLA, CHLA/ABSC, ICLC, 2016 in Toronto!
If you haven’t already seen the welcome to Mosaic/Mosaïque 2016 video, created by Toronto health librarians welcoming you to Toronto in May 2016, you need…
“Crap Detecting” with 2016 McGovern Speaker Ben Goldacre
Source: “Crap Detecting” with 2016 McGovern Speaker Ben Goldacre Vanessa Kitchin of the Local Assistance Committee for the 2016 Joint MLA/CHLA/ABSC/ICLC Planning Committee, provides an…
The New Shape of Annual Meeting Programs
“Mosaic: Be Part of the Big Picture,” brings together three diverse organizations: the Medical Library Association (MLA), the Canadian Health Libraries Association/Association des bibliothéques de…
Have you met Mosie Mosaic Mascot?
Mosie is a racoon who was born and raised in Toronto and is the official mascot of “Mosaic: Be Part of the Big Picture”. (Note…
6 (or 2600?) Reasons to Log In
If you’ve visited the new MLA website, you may have noticed that things change—a lot—once you log in. The non-logged-in “public” home page is geared…
Congress passes stop-gap funding
Today, the House and Senate passed legislation that will fund the government through December 11th, just hours before the start of the new fiscal year.…
2015 Sewell Stipend Recipients
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Sewell Stipend to attend the 2015 APHA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. Alex Carroll, University of Maryland Jamie…
Technology: The colwiz Research Collaboration Tool
Submitted by Lynne M. Fox, AHIP, Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado–Denver Anschutz Medical Campus [retired]; edited by Jean M. Gudenas A free tool for…
Section & SIG News
Edited by Saori Wendy Herman, AHIP Announcement from the Association of Vision Sciences Librarians Submitted by Leslie Holland, Cochair, Association of Vision Science Librarians The…
Chapter News
Edited by Jennifer K. Lloyd, AHIP News from the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona Submitted by Danielle Linden, AHIP, President, Medical Library…
MLA Welcomes New Director of Education
MLA is pleased welcome Barry Grant as the new director of education. Grant joined the MLA staff on September 28, 2015. Grant holds a doctorate…
Member Spotlight: Nancy Tannery
Editor’s note: This issue features the new column editor for the Leadership and Management column, which is filled each year by the MLA Leadership and…
Leadership and Management: How Do We Lead?
Submitted by Nancy Tannery, Chair, Leadership and Management Section Wikipedia defines leadership as the “ability…to lead” or “guide.” Many think of the term leadership in…
Social Media: How Libraries Are Using Instagram
Submitted by Lara Killian, AHIP, Nova Scotia Hospital Library, Capital Health, Dartmouth, NS, Canada Introduction to Instagram Instagram, the popular photo-sharing platform now owned by…
International News
Submitted by Katie D. McLean, AHIP ALIA Releases 2015 Trend Report on Library and Information Science The Australia Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released…
FYI
Submitted by Donald Welch The Ongoing Threat of Disappearing Libraries One of the latest to sound the alarm that libraries are disappearing (if you haven’t…
Honoring Our Past
Submitted by Lucretia W. McClure, AHIP, FMLA One of the papers presented at the MLA annual meeting in 1967 caused lots of comment and discussion.…
2016/17 MLA Election Candidates Announced
MLA is pleased to announce the slate for the upcoming 2016/17 election. The MLA Nominating Committee, chaired by MLA Past President Dixie A. Jones, AHIP,…