Basia Delawska-Elliott

Hey #MedLibs! There is a very cool #LibJobs at a place working with some awesome folks. The UGA School of Medicine is hiring a Clinical Information Librarian! Details and application instructions found here: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/442...

working on a lit review.
Word underlines Escitalopram in red. Sure. It’s a made-up word (yes, all words are made up, bear with me) - but right-clicking it, one of the suggested replacements is Citalopram.
That is ALSO a made-up word. I dread carelessness switching people’s meds on them.
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We are currently in Year 5 of the existing funding cycle. Under typical circumstances, the new RFA would have been released in June; however, it is now anticipated to be issued after the current cycle concludes on April 30, 2026. A "gap year" or a “Year 6” is expected with no additional funding, with the next funding cycle set to begin on May 1, 2027. During that interim year (May 1, 2026 – April 30, 2027), many, if not all, Regional Medical Libraries and Offices will be closed. As a result, NNLM is not expected to offer funding opportunities, professional development, or related services during this time.

Potentially catastrophic behind-the-scenes news about the Network of the National Library of Medicine (www.nnlm.gov) shared with me today.

While some NNLM host institutions were able to float the offices while funding was paused or delayed in 2025... it is unlikely that happens again.

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As a librarian, I approve this ad! #libraries #medlibs

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How are folks handling #copyright when it comes to using things like chatGPT/Claude/CoPilot for #evidencesynthesis tasks. E.g. using CoPilot to do QA/bias assessments, or Claude for data extraction. Do you use only open article pdfs? Has anyone seen any work on this? #systematicreviews #medlibs

I’m a Republican former congressman and doctor. The new HHS placebo-controlled trial mandate is dangerous “The notion that we should require placebo trials even when there's already a safe, effective vaccine goes against decades of established norms in clinical research,” writes physician and former Rep. ...

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More testing might seem like a step toward greater safety. But this change doesn’t make vaccines safer or science stronger. Instead, it forces researchers to unethically withhold proven protection from some patients, under the guise of “scientific rigor.” www.statnews.com/2025/05/22/v...

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We're excited to announce the @jmla co-lead editors have been reappointed for three more years.

🎉 Congratulations to Jill Boruff and Michelle Kraft on their well-deserved reappointment!

Read more: https://bit.ly/45pQzCf

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Check out this week's #JMLASpotlight!

Original Investigation: Non-clinician involvement in interprofessional health sciences education: educator experiences and attitudes➡️ https://bit.ly/3GYVrEv

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Comparing the performance of librarians and medical specialists in retrieving clinical evidence: an observational study - PubMed Access to precise and reliable scientific evidence is one of the fundamental principles of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) in clinical decision-making processes. Medical librarians, by employing advance...

So glad someone did this study #medlibs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40387123/

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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05.... #medlibs #meded #publichealth

"Unfortunately the publisher will not sell this title to us as an eBook (likely because it is used as a course text). Would you like me to order a print copy?"

I have to send this reply more every semester.

But, sure, big scholarly publishers are our "partners."

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I second Chicago. You can fly directly to Chicago from most places in the U.S. that is a huge selling point for me. Plus, Chicago. 😀

Happy to chat about this.

Many systems buy something specific, like Lippincott or Clinical Skills for the offered features. Are they asking you to help evaluate them? Or are you talking something completely different?

Medical schools move from worrying about AI to teaching it Faculty used to fret over how artificial intelligence might affect education. Now they’re training medical students how to use it for patient care and research.

This article from the American Association of Medical Colleges discusses the use of AI in teaching, including ethical concerns. #medlibs www.aamc.org/news/medical...

A decade of Does: celebrating the 125th anniversary of MLA through an annual meeting conversation with past Janet Doe lecturers | Journal of the Medical Library Association A decade of Does: celebrating the 125th anniversary of MLA through an annual meeting conversation with past Janet Doe lecturers Authors Gerald Perry, AHIP, FMLA University of Arizona Mary Joan (M.J.) Tooey, AHIP, FMLA University of Maryland DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2150 Keywords: Medic...

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Awards and Lectures: A decade of Does: celebrating the 125th anniversary of MLA through an annual meeting conversation with past Janet Doe lecturers➡️ https://bit.ly/3F9GqPn

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STATEMENT: President Trump Fires the Librarian of Congress and Now Congress Must Push Back

Petitions to advocate for the Librarian of Congress:
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Read @everylibrary.bsky.social's statement here.
www.everylibrary.org/trump_fires_...

Somewhat related to last skeet, have any #medlibs et al. ( #SystematicReview #ExpertSearching etc.) used Semantic Scholar for #EvidenceSynthesis work? "semantic scholar"[tw] gets 179 results in PubMed currently, and curious what folks might be doing with it.

5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information (Gift Article) Changes to federal health websites have raised concerns about their reliability. These independent sources offer an alternative.

5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information
Changes to federal health websites have raised concerns about their reliability. These independent sources offer an alternative.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...
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We presented "Automated indexing of the biomedical literature: a scoping review" at @medlibassn.bsky.social MLA Conference 2025. See our handouts, slidedeck, poster, and our protocol : osf.io/zkj8p #MLANET25 #medlibs

Wegen Trump: Zentralbibliothek Medizin baut Alternative zu US-Datenbank auf Ein deutsches Informationszentrum will eine Alternative zur PubMed-Datenbank in den USA entwickeln, um die Informationsversorgung in der Biomedizin zu sichern.

Germany's central medical library, ZBMed, is building an alternative to PubMed. It will be open source, based on MeSH & associated data standards, built to be sustainable in case PubMed becomes unreliable - with APIs & MeSH maintenance. Open meeting called! 1/2 www.heise.de/news/Wegen-T... #MedLibs

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