2025 MACMLA Awards

2025 MACMLA Awards The MAC Honors and Awards Committee recognized the following award recipients at the 2025 annual business meeting. Please read the following excerpts from their colleagues’ nominations and join us in wishing them our warmest congratulations! 2025 MAC Award for Excellence by Health Sciences Library Staff Katherine A. Carlson, Duke

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APPLY TODAY! Director of Medical and Health Sciences Libraries

The Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Libraries are seeking an experienced, collaborative, and visionary leader to serve as their Director of Medical and Health Sciences Libraries. One of the nation’s oldest medical schools, Geisel’s mission to address the world’s health problems through research and discovery, the evaluation and improvement of systems

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Basket Case – We Need Your Help!

Hello MAC Members! I am writing again about the Scholarship Basket Raffle because we need your help! I know this is a tough time for many members, but if you are able to donate an item I ask for your help! If you can, please fill out the the form below before

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Recruiting librarians for a research project 

Hello,   I invite you to be part of a research project aimed at understanding how information professionals across disciplines gain evidence synthesis (ES) knowledge and skills. Additional outcomes we hope to evaluate from this survey are the differences between how information professionals in the health sciences gain ES knowledge versus those in

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Scholarship Basket Raffle

One of the MAC meeting’s wonderful traditions is the Scholarship Basket Raffle. We will be having a raffle this year in Baltimore, but we need your help! Raffle items are donated by MAC members and supporters. If you are able to donate an item or a basket of goodies, please complete this

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Reminder: Register for the MAC-MLA Annual Meeting in Baltimore!

2025 MAC/MLA Annual Meeting “Spice Up the Library: Thinking Outside the Box” October 19-21; Baltimore, MD Registration for the 2025 MAC-MLA Meeting is open! Make plans to join your colleagues and Spice up the Library. Online Registration To register for the 2025 meeting, connect to http://macmla.wildapricot.org/macregistration You must register for the meeting by October 3rd and for

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MLA Leadership Nominations

Hi MAC/MLA members! I’m serving on the Medical Library Association Nominating Committee this year and am reaching out for your recommendations. We are seeking nominations for candidates for the MLA Board of Directors and for MLA President. Self-nominations are welcome. If you know someone who would be a great candidate—or if you

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Invitation to Participate in Survey: Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Instruction

**Apologies for cross-posting** Dear Colleagues, My name is Kathleen Phillips, and I am the Nursing & Allied Health Librarian at Penn State University. As part of my sabbatical research, I am conducting a survey to benchmark current credit-bearing information literacy instruction practices within higher education in the United States and Great Britain.

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