OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. – August 25, 2008) A new grant from The Commonwealth Fund will be used by The Joint Commission to revise and develop accreditation standards for culturally competent patient-centered care in hospitals across America.  This standards development initiative builds upon The Joint Commission’s ongoing Hospitals, Language, and Culture: A Snapshot of the Nation [...]

National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) trainers will be training just prior to MCMLA in Cody. Add some FREE professional development to your schedule. Learn new skills and brush up old ones. NLM Gateway & ClinicalTrials.gov - Friday, October 3, 2008 2:00pm-6:00pm PubMed - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 8:30am-5:00pm Register at: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/register.html?schedule_id=430 Register today! (mm)

NN/LM MidContinental Region Offices and NLM will be closed on Monday, September 1, 2008 for the Labor Day Holiday.

We are fast approaching National Medical Librarians Month, October 2008! Take advantage of this opportunity to submit a project that you would like to see highlighted on the NLM public web site. Submit project descriptions, the personnel responsible for implementation, and the name of the institution where the project took place to [...]

MCMLA Library Advocacy Task Force is sponsoring a contest for “Frontier Forerunners of Library Marketing and Promotion!” Here is your chance to show off your marketing project or promotional activities that you have used to improve or expand services in your library or for your users. MCR members are encouraged to submit materials [...]

http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2008/drillelempr.htm Hospitals can now identify the most important strengths and weaknesses in their disaster response plans using a new tool from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). [posted on PHPartners http://phpartners.org/ - New Links for the week of Aug 22, 2008 [scb]

Please join your colleagues in Cody, Wyoming for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association, “Open Spaces, Frontier Places” : October 3-7. It’s a great opportunity to focus on health and information access on our rural and urban frontiers! To learn more about the conference, visit the website: http://www.mcmla.org/meetings/2008/index.html and [...]

Due to problems with the Adobe Connect server, the August 21 online class, “Microblogging Using Twitter and Friendfeed,” has been canceled. The class will be rescheduled for Thursday, September 18, from 1 - 2 p.m. MT, 2 - 3 p.m. CT. [SD]

Public’s Use of the Internet for Health Information Rapidly Escalates A national study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change shows that Americans are increasingly looking for health information from sources other than medical professionals. In 2007, 56 percent of American adults sought health information from a source other than their own doctor, [...]

There had been some earlier requests for the ability to identify a batch of PMIDs and get their associated PMCIDs. In support of the Public Access Policy implementation, a new feature has been added to Pubmed this week. This new feature is the NCBI PMID-PMCID converter, which allows you to translate one type of ID [...]

Access Transformed: Building a Primary Care Workforce for the 21st Century National Association of Community Health Centers - August 2008 Available online PDF [40p.] at: http://www.nachc.com/client/documents/ACCESS%20Transformed%20full%20report.PDF For Immediate Release August 11,2008 NACHC Issues New Study on Primary Care Workforce WASHINGTON, D.C. - Though access to primary care protects health and cuts costs, a study released today finds there aren’t enough primary [...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched CDC-TV, a new online video resource available through the CDC. CDC-TV videos will cover a variety of health, safety and preparedness topics. The premiere series on CDC-TV is “Health Matters.” The first segment of the series, “Break the Silence: Stop the Violence,” addresses the topic of [...]

The PubMed Summary results page will soon show results from other high-quality resources in a column to the right of the PubMed search results. Click here to read about the update. [rb]

This Wednesday August 20, 2008 at 10am MT, 11am CT is the time for our monthly Breezing Along with the RML. Barb Jones, Missouri/Library Advocacy Liaison, and Betsy Kelly, Assessment and Evaluation Liaison, will reprise their MLA presentation on tools to enable hospital librarians to determine the return on investment [...]

Come learn how to adopt this Web 2.0 tool and see how it can benefit your library during a one hour session on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 11 AM CDT. The session will be held online using Adobe Connect; all you need to participate is a web browser and a telephone (the phone call [...]

Join me on September 30th at 11 CT for a 90 minute session to explore RSS: Really Simple Syndication. The session will be held online using Adobe Connect; all you need to participate is a web browser and a telephone (the phone call is free of charge). To sign up for the class, contact Rebecca Brown [...]

Quarter of Latinos Get No Health Information from Medical Professionals, New Survey Finds WASHINGTON - More than one in four Hispanic adults in the United States lack a usual health care provider and a similar proportion report obtaining no health care information from medical professionals in the past year, according to a report released today by [...]

This year, under American Library Association (ALA) President Jim Rettig’s leadership, members will have new opportunities to participate in ALA and to communicate their success stories. One of these opportunities is an ALA-wide virtual poster session. The first of two poster sessions will debut this fall. Its focus is “Community Central.” Share your experiences of making [...]

The August issue of the Plains to Peaks Post Newsletter is now available at: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/services/comm/newsletter/PTPP_August_2008.pdf IN THIS ISSUE New Director: Jean Shipman Network Membership by the Numbers Whooo Says Golden Nuggets for Specific Audiences New Wyoming Liaison: Jim Honour NN/LM MidContinental Region Year 3 Objectives It’s Good to Pick Up a Book Marketing to Physician Assistant Students

National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) trainers will be training just prior to MCMLA in Cody. If you’re planning on going to MCMLA, this is a perfect way to add some FREE professional development to your schedule. NLM Gateway & ClinicalTrials.gov - Friday, October 3, 2008 2:00pm-6:00pm PubMed - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 8:30am-5:00pm Register [...]

Curious about what you can do to create a presentation and promote Consumer Health? Take a look at this free, online product, a joint project of the NN/LM MidContinental Region, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, McGoogan Library of Medicine and MLS student, Michael Straatmann of the University of Missouri. Created on Google Docs [...]

Join me on September 30th at 11 CT for a 90 minute session to explore RSS: Really Simple Syndication. The session will be held online using Adobe Connect; all you need to participate is a web browser and a telephone (the phone call is free of charge). To sign up for the class, contact Rebecca Brown (NN/LM [...]

Come learn how to adopt this Web 2.0 tool and see how it can benefit your library during a one hour session on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 11 AM CDT. The session will be held online using Adobe Connect; all you need to participate is a web browser and a telephone (the phone call [...]

The Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking nominations to fill vacant appointments to the 2009 Council of Public Representatives (COPR) roster. Nominations are due Friday, September 26, 2008, and are available online at http://copr.nih.gov/nomination.asp. The COPR advises the NIH Director on cross-cutting issues related to medical research and health issues of public [...]

Are you interested in learning more about “microblogging” services like Twitter and FriendFeed? Perhaps you’ve heard about them and wondered if they had any application for the library. Join me for a 1-hour session online where I’ll demonstrate Twitter and FriendFeed as well as showing some examples of how libraries and other organizations are using [...]

Please join your colleagues in Cody, Wyoming for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association, “Open Spaces, Frontier Places”: October 3-7. It’s a great opportunity to focus on health and information access on our rural and urban frontiers. Earn credit for attending either or both of the preconference classes, offered [...]

New e-books have been added to the NN/LM MidContinental Region web page at: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/education/netlibrary.html And this is one of them: Change in Management in Academic Libraries. It includes chapters on on: The right staff from X to Y: generational change and professional development in future academic libraries, treasuring our traditions and our [...]

Time to brush up your skills or learn some new ones? And you’re planning on attending MCMLA in Cody WY? Add some extra time and take these available classes: NLM Gateway & ClinicalTrials.gov - Friday, October 3, 2008 2:00pm-6:00pm PubMed - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 8:30am-5:00pm Register at: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/register.html?schedule_id=430 Classes are FREE. (mm)

The e-learning course Introduction to Health Services Research: A Self-Study Course http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/ihcm/index.html is a free and open set of modules and case studies that students may study as time permits. This is a self-paced course with no instructor. The completely revised e-learning course introduces students to health services research - its key issues, its history, the [...]

The August 2008 issue of NIH News in Health is now online at http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/. The monthly NIH News in Health newsletter brings you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. In this issue: Arm Yourself for Good Health Stay Up-to-Date on Vaccines As summer winds down, students from kindergarten to college are heading off [...]