Shannon D. Jones, MLS, MEd, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2022-2023.

In this profile, Shannon D. Jones, MLS, MEd, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2022-2023, MJ Tooey describes her as someone who "takes chances on people, valuing those others might not see as valuable". Jones embraces lifelong learning, and it shows up in her collegiate journey; she has been a student of leadership, a leader of institutions, especially within the Medical Library Association (MLA); and a leader in librarianship. She is a trailblazer, the second African American MLA president, and a champion of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Jones has been Director of Libraries & Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) for the past seven years and is also Director of Region 2 of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, National Library of Medicine.

A passion for the profession: a festschrift honoring Erich Meyerhoff.

An introduction to a series of essays honoring Erich Meyerhoff (1919-2015), AHIP, FMLA, who was active in and contributed to the Medical Library Association for generations.

Erich Meyerhoff: a man for all medical librarians.

Erich Meyerhoff-recipient of the Marcia C. Noyes Award, Janet Doe Lecturer, and Fellow-was one of the Medical Library Association's (MLA's) most illustrious members who contributed to the welfare of MLA and its members throughout his long life. The authors review his life and significant contributions to the health sciences library profession. Erich was a friend and mentor to countless medical librarians and was truly a man for all medical librarians.

The tenth Janet Doe Lecture, a forty-year perspective: still relevant after all these years.

Erich Meyerhoff was an academic health sciences librarian and a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association when he was invited to present the Janet Doe Lecture in 1977. His lecture on the state of the association is considered one of the finest Doe lectures and is still relevant more than forty years later, not only from an historical perspective, but also for his projections for the future and his prescient comments about the future of hospital librarianship and the important role of women in the association. Key 1977 Doe lecture topics are reviewed and updated in the context of the current health sciences library environment.

Medical history: as it was; as it will be.

Born shortly after World War I in 1919 and living through multiple wars, conflicts, and cultural changes in his ninety-six years, Erich Meyerhoff remained a student of history throughout his long life. He regularly attended the annual meetings of the American Association for the History of Medicine and other history groups such as the Medical Library Association's History of the Health Sciences well into his nineties. This essay traces how the field of history and historical methods changed during Erich's life and suggests that he saw history and librarianship as a means for achieving social justice and social equity.

Biblioteconomia: passado e presente de uma profissão / Library science: past and present of a profession

Biblioteconomia: passado e futuro de uma profissão' é um livro comemorativo, lançado após exatos 80 anos da criação do curso de Biblioteconomia que, em 1940, foi acolhido pela então Escola Livre de Sociologia e Política, num momento em que a cidade vivia uma expansão populacional, industrial e cultural e as bibliotecas se destacavam como polos de conhecimento. A presente obra se inicia com um panorama sobre o surgimento das bibliotecas no Brasil, descortinando aspectos históricos do nosso País de maneira instigante, culminando com a trajetória dos primeiros bibliotecários brasileiros, cuja imagem ainda estava muito ligada a guarda e preservação de acervos. No começo do século XX, a Biblioteca Nacional, sediada no Rio de Janeiro, começou a promover a capacitação de profissionais para organizar os acervos que proliferavam no País e em São Paulo. Duas personalidades são marcantes para o início dos cursos de Biblioteconomia: Rubens Borba de Moraes e Adelpha Figueiredo, cujo pioneirismo marcou profundamente a nossa história. E, falando em história, a obra apresenta a participação de Mário de Andrade no nascimento da biblioteconomia paulistana e o acolhimento pela Escola Livre, iniciando a longa e profícua formação de bibliotecários e bibliotecárias, com relatos das várias fases de formação, sempre acompanhando as necessidades da sociedade e os desafios que ela apresentava. O curso, ao longo de oito décadas, vem preparando profissionais capazes de atender às demandas informacionais da sociedade, seja nos ambientes mais tradicionais, seja em sistemas e serviços ligados à tecnologia e, nas últimas décadas, dos inúmeros desafios que a sociedade da informação e do conhecimento descortinam. E por falar em desafio, uma figura que representa muito bem essa palavra é Laura Russo. Uma mulher à frente do seu tempo, que foi responsável por muitas conquistas da profissão, dentre elas, sua regulamentação na década de 1960. Como nos relembra o presente livro "Junto com Rubens Borba de Moraes e Adelpha Figueiredo, Laura Russo forma a tríade fundadora da Biblioteconomia brasileira". Biblioteconomia essa que evoluiu e cujo mercado de atuação vem se ampliando e diversificando, do mais tradicional ao não explorado, como é muito bem descrito nesta obra, com destaque para o excelente panorama apresentado sobre o papel da biblioteca no século XXI.

Julia M. Esparza, AHIP, Medical Library Association President, 2019-2020.

In this profile of Julia M. Esparza, AHIP, Medical Library Association President, 2019-2020, she is described as a pleasure to work with, practical, and intelligent, and she adds a spark of humor to any activity. Esparza has spent the last twelve years of her career in the Health Sciences Library and Department of Medical Library Science at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. She is an excellent role model for medical librarians who want to engage in scholarly activities and is active in supporting the educational needs of health care providers, students, library personnel, and the community through her instructional efforts.

Beverly Murphy, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2018-2019.

When I think of Beverly Murphy, AHIP, FMLA, three words come to mind: Bold, Brave, Brilliant. In every action that Beverly has undertaken as a health sciences librarian, she has demonstrated an innate ability to just "Be." Being bold, brave, and brilliant is just what she will need to be as the Medical Library Association's first African-American president since the association's founding in 1898.

In their own words: oral histories of Medical Library Association past presidents.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this lecture was to review the development of the Medical Library Association (MLA) oral history program and to highlight the oral histories of thirty-seven past MLA presidents to identify themes of common interest and relevance to current MLA members. METHODS: The lecture focused on three main topics discussed in many of the interviews: the presidents' backgrounds and how they came to be medical librarians, how MLA developed as an organization as a reflection of the growth of medical libraries, and the presidents' predictions and advice about the future. RESULTS: MLA presidents came from varied backgrounds and locales. As MLA grew from a small, intimate group into a multifaceted organization with a professional management staff, the workload of the presidents changed in scope. One recurring theme in the presidential oral histories was the power differential between men and women in the organization and the profession. MLA presidents reminisced about notable annual meetings and praised the positive impact of the organization on members' professional and personal lives. CONCLUSIONS: The lecture concludes with recommendations to the organization to increase the availability of the oral histories by providing online access for future interviews and to pay careful attention to their long-term preservation.

Our words, our story: a textual analysis of articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association/Journal of the Medical Library Association from 1961 to 2010.

PURPOSE: This lecture explores changes in the medical library profession over the last fifty years, as revealed by individual word usage in a body of literature. METHODS: I downloaded articles published in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and Journal of the Medical Library Association between 1961 and 2000 to create an electronic corpus and tracked annual frequency of individual word usage. I used frequency sparklines of words, matching one of four archetypal shapes (level, rise, fall, and rise-and-fall) to identify significant words. RESULTS: Most significant words fell into the categories of environment, management, technology, and research. Based on word usage changes, the following trends are revealed: Compared to 1961, today's medical librarians are more concerned with digital information, not physical packages. We prefer information to be evidence-based. We focus more on health than medicine. We are reaching out to new constituents, sometimes leaving our building to do so. Teaching has become important for us. We run our libraries more like businesses, using constantly changing technology. We are publishing more research articles. CONCLUSIONS: Although these words were chosen by individual authors to tell their particular stories, in the aggregate, our words reveal our story of change in our profession.

Medicus Deus: a review of factors affecting hospital library services to patients between 1790-1950.

QUESTION: What are some of the historical societal, medical, and public health trends leading to today's provision of hospital library services to patients? DATA SOURCES: Literature from the archives of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and other library sources, medical journals, primary historical documents, and texts from the history of medicine form the core of this review. STUDY SELECTION: The period of review extends from about 1790 through 1950 and focuses solely on trends in the United States. Of primary concern are explicitly documented examples that appear to illustrate the patient-physician relationship and those between librarians and their patient-patrons during the earliest years of the profession's development. DATA EXTRACTION: An historical timeline was created to allow the identification of major trends that may have affected library services. Multiple literature searches were conducted using library, medical, and health anthropology resources. When possible, primary sources were preferred over reviews. MAIN RESULTS: Juxtapositioning historical events allows the reader to obtain an overview of the roots of consumer health services in medical libraries and to consider their potential legacy in today's health care libraries. CONCLUSION: This review article highlights early developments in hospital library service to patients. Further research is needed to verify a preliminary conclusion that in some medical library settings, services to the general public are shaped by the broader health care environment as it has evolved.

The professionalization of health librarianship in the UK between 1909 and 1978.

Many strands exist within health information work and during the last century librarians in this field identified themselves through special groups or associations. This paper focuses on the key role of the Library Association Medical Section in the professional development of medical librarians in the United Kingdom up to 1978 when it merged with the Library Association Hospital Libraries and Handicapped Readers Group to create the Medical, Health and Welfare Group. Uniting to form a stronger organization, under the ultimate designation of the Health Libraries Group, was part of an evolutionary process. The invention and promotion of co-operative schemes, networking and educational opportunities for members, the publication of specialized material and the fostering of international relationships during the first three-quarters of the century are illuminated by personal reminiscences from some of the major participants in the field.