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News & Perspectives for Health Information Professionals View all MLA News & MLAConnect Join the COVID-19 Conversation: Managing Remote Workers and Work Thu April 16, 2020 Join the COVID-19 Conversation: COVID-19 Searching: Strategies and Sources Tue April 14, 2020 Global Health & Health Equity: Assisting Clinicians in Addressing Human Trafficking Thu April 9, 2020 Join the COVID-19 Conversation: Professional Partnerships in the Time of COVID-19: Masks and More Thu April 9, 2020 Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative Thu April 9, 2020 Join the Covid-19 Conversation: How to Be with Others When You Are Alone Thu April 9, 2020 A Librarian Can…Integrate Work and Life Thu March 26, 2020 Statement of Support to Libraries and Library Workers Thu April 9, 2020 MLA Board Reschedules MLA ’20 to August 15–19, 2020, in Portland Thu March 19, 2020 Check Out These Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Bookstores! Fri March 6, 2020 Statement from Travel Portland Wed March 4, 2020 MLA ’20 Communication about COVID-19 Wed March 4, 2020 Tour Two of Portland’s Integrative Medicine Libraries Thu February 27, 2020 The NEW MLA Annual Meeting Travel Grant Thu February 13, 2020 Select MLAConnect articles are public. Login for a display of all articles available to MLA members. Invitation to the MLA 2020 Business Meeting By: Julia Esparza, AHIP Thu April 23, 2020 Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, the MLA Board of Directors has approved changing the May 2020 annual business meeting to a virtual format on Tuesday, May 19, at 1:00 p.m., central time. The business meeting is restricted to members only. A quorum of 200 voting members is needed. Blog link: Featured Articles Join the COVID-19 Conversation: I Feel Fine: A Musical Happy Half-Hour By: MLA Headquarters Tue April 21, 2020 Date: Thursday, April 23 Time: 2:00 p.m., pacific time; 3:00 p.m., mountain time; 4:00 p.m., central time; 5:00 p.m., eastern time. Note the Thursday date and special mid/late afternoon times for this session. Audience: Medical librarians, music lovers, and anyone feeling stressed these days. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead COVID19 Spanish Language Materials Resource Available! By: Nora Franco Fri April 17, 2020 Aligned with the call of the LatinX Caucus of the MLA to contribute to the MLA COVID-19 Resources for Medical Librarians & Other Health Information Professionals page, Nora Franco and the LatinX Caucus assembled Spanish language resources. Read more in Nora Franco’s article posted in Latitudes. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead Citizen Science Needs You! Help Fight COVID-19 By: Michele Spatz Fri April 17, 2020 The COVID-19 Citizen Science (CCS) project has just been launched a way for people from every walk of life to help in the battle against this virus. Learn more in Michele Spatz’s article originally posted in PNR Dragonfly. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead Consumer Health: Cancer Comics By: Donald Pearson, AHIP Thu April 16, 2020 Comics about cancer? Comic book writer A. David Lewis writes about building a virtual collection of graphic medicine titles for oncology patients and caregivers. Lewis is a comics scholar focusing on literary theory, religious studies, and graphic medicine. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead More Articles Join the COVID-19 Conversation: Managing Remote Workers and Work By: MLA Headquarters Thu April 16, 2020 On Tuesday, April 21, Michelle Kraft, AHIP,will share her experiences, challenges, and solutions to managing employees remotely. Ellen Aaronson, AHIP, will share how her virtual role has changed during the time of COVID-19. Participants will have opportunities to share their experiences and tips. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead Join the COVID-19 Conversation: COVID-19 Searching: Strategies and Sources By: MLA Headquarters Thu April 9, 2020 Sarah T. Jewell and Margaret Jane Foster, AHIP, team up to explore curated article sets, MEDLINE search issues specific to platforms, and epidemiological, clinical, and policy data sets in this rapidly changing COVID-19 information environment. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead Global Health & Health Equity: Assisting Clinicians in Addressing Human Trafficking By: Amy Sharpe Thu April 9, 2020 Health care providers have unique opportunities to identify and support patients who have been trafficked for labor or sex. Because human trafficking happens in all communities and impacts short- and long-term health of victims, it is essential for clinicians to know how to identify it. Blog link: Global Health & Health Equity Join the COVID-19 Conversation: Professional Partnerships in the Time of COVID-19: Masks and More By: MLA Headquarters Thu April 2, 2020 Join the COVID-19 Conversation: Professional Partnerships in the Time of COVID-19: Masks and More on Tuesday, April 7. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative By: MLA Headquarters Tue March 31, 2020 To support the ongoing public health emergency response efforts, national science and technology advisors from a dozen countries formed a Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative, calling on publishers to voluntarily agree to make their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications accessible. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead Join the Covid-19 Conversation: How to Be with Others When You Are Alone By: MLA Headquarters Mon March 30, 2020 MLA is launching a series of free, live, online conversations, Coping and Caring in the Time of COVID. These weekly conversations for MLA members and the wider health information professional community are designed to help share ideas and to address pain points related to the crisis. Blog link: Full Speed Ahead A Librarian Can…Integrate Work and Life By: Martha E. Meacham Thu March 26, 2020 These are strange times. My entire staff and I are working from home as our University is shut down while dealing with COVID-19. I never thought I would miss being constantly interrupted, but there is a definite feeling of disconnection and loneliness when you don’t see the same people in person. Blog link: Op Ed Statement of Support to Libraries and Library Workers By: Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP Sat March 21,...