History of the Health Sciences Section of the Medical Library Association

• Purpose

• How to join the Section

Section Activities

• Call for papers
  JMLA is calling for papers to include in a focus issue devoted to the history of the health sciences. Papers must meet guidelines for submission to JMLA, which are available at http://www.mlanet.org/publications/jmla/jmlainfo.html. For this focus issue papers are not to exceed 6,000 words (not including abstract and references). Deadline for all submissions is June 7, 2010 to meet a target publication date of January 2011. The following topical themes are deemed appropriate: History of medical libraries and/or librarianship; history of the book, printing, reading as it relates to the health sciences and medical bibliography; history of special collections in health care professions (e.g., nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine); or articles related to the professional concerns of librarians in managing historical collections (innovations, outreach, best practices). Those interested should send mss. in MS Word or MS Word compatible format as an e-mail attachment to the issue organizer, Michael A. Flannery at flannery@uab.edu.

• Call for Participation - MLA 2010
• Section Activities at MLA Annual Meetings
• Continuing Education Courses
• Read Advocating for History of the Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians




A History of the Section (in honor of the MLA Centennial)

The Incipit : the newsletter of the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA

• Read the latest issue of The Incipit (Fall 2009)

Section Listserv

The Murray Gottlieb Prize ~ Prize Application Information

BibKit #5: History of Health Sciences, second revised edition

Leslie Morton Memorial Bursary Fund

Governance

• Section Officers and Committee Chairs
• Bylaws
• Past Business Meetings