My experience with the Mid Atlantic Medical Librarian Association Conference – October 19-22, 2025: This was an amazing opportunity to meet my colleagues in a convivial atmosphere, outside of our places of employment, where we could relax and enjoy each other’s company in a collegiate environment of learning from each other, our
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
Each year, MAC honors members who have made an impact in their libraries and the chapter with four awards. Below are the available awards and links to the criteria: MAC Award for Professional Excellence by a Health Sciences Librarian MAC Award for Professional Excellence by a New Health Sciences Librarian MAC Award
Do you know a MAC member who has shown leadership or initiative in the field of health sciences librarianship, or who has provided exceptional service to the Mid-Atlantic Chapter? We encourage you to nominate them for one of our four annual awards! MAC Award for Professional Excellence by a Health Sciences Librarian
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association is excited to announce that Layla Heimlich is the winner of the 2024 Marguerite Abel Service Recognition Award. Layla Heimlich’s service to MAC has been unmatched in the last several years. Layla served a three-year term as treasurer and then immediately began a three-year term as
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association is very happy to announce that Carrie Baldwin-SoRelle is the winner of the 2024 MAC Award for Professional Excellence by a New Health Sciences Librarian. Carrie is the Health Sciences Librarian and Liaison to the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association is excited to announce that Mary Gail Merlina is the winner of the 2024 MAC Award for Excellence by Health Sciences Library Staff. Mary Gail Merlina, the Main Desk Circulation Manager at Falk Library, University of Pittsburgh, is amazing! She has been with the library for
The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association is excited to announce that Layla Heimlich is the winner of the 2024 Marguerite Abel Service Recognition Award. Layla Heimlich’s service to MAC has been unmatched in the last several years. Layla served a three-year term as treasurer and then immediately began a three-year term as
Congratulations to Alessia Zanin-Yost, Health Sciences Librarian, at Slippery Rock University on winning this year’s MAC Research & Assessment Grant! This is her second time winning this grant. Her research will focus on investigating the general public’s knowledge and perceptions about phytomedicine in the US and Italy. Potential findings could contribute to
The Medical Library Association (MLA) is now accepting applications for the Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship. This fellowship funds research aimed at expanding the research knowledge base, linking the information services provided by librarians to improve health care and advances in biomedical research. The fellowship offers a grant of up to
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