Teresa L. Knott, AHIP, Medical Library Association President, 2016–2017

Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Library Association President, 2017–2018

Meeting Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, for the first time at the 2010 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Washington, DC, was very memorable. That was the meeting that cardboard cutouts of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted everyone at the top of the Hilton Washington escalator. It was also the meeting that Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. made an appearance at...

World Medical Association's tainted president, Ketan Desai.

Introducing altmetrics to the Journal of the Medical Library Association

Most readers of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) are well aware of the inappropriateness of evaluating individual journal articles by their journals’ impact factors. This is because, among other reasons, a journal’s citations are not evenly distributed across its articles. Rather, a small proportion (20%) of articles often accounts for most (80%) of a journal’s citations [1...

The Medical Library Association Guide to Data Management for Librarians

Editorial Teresa Romão

Biographical notes: Teresa Romão is an Assistant Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), where she teaches and develops research work in the area of HCI. She is a member of the Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies (CITI-FCT/UNL) and was a Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. She studied computer science at F...