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MLA InSight Initiative Fall Forum Future Possibilities and Opportunities

MLA InSight Initiative Fall Forum Future Possibilities and Opportunities

By: Kristine M. Alpi, AHIP

Thu December 10, 2020

On October 29–30, 2020, MLA hosted a free online fall forum that was open to all. This was the sixth summit in the MLA InSight Initiative, bringing together more than 185 health sciences librarians, end users, scholarly communication, and information provider organizations.

Blog link: InSight Initiative

InSight Initiative Videos

By: MLA Headquarters

Thu August 13, 2020

MLA’s InSight Initiative is a thought-leadership initiative uniquely designed to address the common problem of disintermediation by engaging health sciences librarians and information providers in high-level, high-value dialogue on issues that matter to both communities.

Blog link: InSight Initiative

Guest Post: MLA InSight — How to Buy Whisky

By: Elizabeth A. Ketterman

Fri January 18, 2019

This article was published by The Scholarly Kitchen as a guest post by Elizabeth Ketterman, MLS, Director of the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library at East Carolina University, and Sean Pidgeon, Publishing Director for Science and Medicine and Oxford University Press.

Blog link: InSight Initiative

It’s Called Predatory Publishing for a Reason!

By: Daniel J. Doody

Thu December 20, 2018

Predatory publishing has been highlighted at both the first and second summits of the MLA InSight Initiative that took place in 2018 as a common vexing challenge facing both health sciences librarians and information providers. Read more about this challenging issue.

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Report from InSight Summit 2: How Can Librarians, Publishers, and Providers of Discovery and Management Tools Collaborate to More Effectively Communicate the Value of Information?

By: Nadine Dexter, AHIP

Thu November 15, 2018

The theme for the second MLA InSight Summit was “Meeting the Evolving Information Needs of Library Stakeholders.” This article reports on the challenge of how information librarians and librarians can collaborate in explaining to users why licensed (and often costly) content has real value to them.

Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from InSight Summit 2: How Information Providers and Libraries Can Collaborate in Supporting Users in Developing Information Literacy through the Research/Publishing Life Cycle

By: Rich Lampert

Wed October 31, 2018

The theme for the second MLA InSight Summit was “Meeting the Evolving Information Needs of Library Stakeholders,” following closely on observations at the first InSight Summit that librarians and information providers needed to focus on quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding users.

Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Imagining the Ideal Social Networking Site for Collaboration and Sharing

By: Richard Gallagher

Mon July 2, 2018

Much of the time at InSight Initiative Summit 1, held in March, was devoted to small-group discussions of issues that both librarians and vendors regarded as challenging. This is the fourth of four articles that synthesize key points from the discussions.

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Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Leveraging Specialized Discovery Tools to Maximize User Engagement

By: Nadine Dexter, AHIP

Mon June 18, 2018

Much of the time at InSight Initiative Summit 1, held in March, was devoted to small-group discussions of issues that both librarians and vendors regarded as challenging. This is the third of four articles that synthesize key points from the discussions.

Blog link: InSight Initiative

Applications for InSight Initiative Summit 2 Sought

By: MLA Headquarters

Fri June 15, 2018

The InSight Initiative Task Force is pleased to announce that applications are now being sought for the second InSight Initiative Summit, “Meeting the Evolving Information Needs of Library Stakeholders,” to be held September 27–28. Applications for health sciences librarians are being accepted throu

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The Scholarly Kitchen: MLA InSight - A Constructive Forum Emerges

By: Shalu Gillum, AHIP

Thu May 24, 2018

The Scholarly Kitchen post by Shalu Gillum (University of Central Florida College of Medicine) and Steven Heffner (Wolters Kluwer) on the MLA InSight Initiative, an open circle partnership between librarians and industry partners to advance thinking on health information.

Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: What Can Librarians and Vendors Learn from “Pirate” Sites?

By: Harold S Bright, IV, AHIP

Tue May 15, 2018

Much of the time at the InSight Initiative Summit 1, held in March, was devoted to small-group discussions of issues that both librarians and vendors regard as challenging. This is the second of four articles that synthesize key points from the discussions.

Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Thinking about Security and the Future of IP Authentication

By: Gerald J. Perry, AHIP, FMLA

Mon April 30, 2018

Much of the time at the InSight Initiative Summit 1, held in March, was devoted to small-group discussions of issues that both librarians and vendors regard as challenging. This is the first of four articles that synthesize key points from the discussions.

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InSight Initiative Launched, Summit Planned for Early 2018

By: Gerald J. Perry, AHIP, FMLA

Fri September 15, 2017

Read about the InSight Initiative, MLA's new effort to engage with publishers and vendors serving our membership.

Blog link: InSight Initiative