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When: at 12 pm MT and 1 pm CT What: Two staff members from the RML or guests will present information on the 10-Step Approach to Service Continuity Planning How: The sessions are conducted using Adobe Acrobat Connect. To test whether you can view the session try playing back one of our archived versions. If [...]

Tune in at 8:30 am Mountain Time/9:30 am Central Time. **Note the starting time! Mobile MedlinePlus &MedlinePlus Twitter will be the subjects presented by Sharon Dennis. Taking the one-hour class and completing the exercises and class evaluation makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE. Register [...]

Realizing that professional development is an essential part a librarian’s continuing education, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region will be awarding approximately 25 Professional Development subsidies (up to $1,500 each) to support health science or hospital librarians who wish to attend a conference, or take a training or workshop of their choice [...]

New URLs for Some PubMed Web Pages http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja10/ja10_pm_static_url.html This article provides information for updating your documentation and websites to avoid problems in the future with PubMed links for Single and Batch Citation Matcher and Clinical Queries. NLM Announces New “Health Hotlines” App http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/health_hotline_app.html NLM’s Health Hotlines is now available as an app for the iPhone [...]

A new web site sponsored by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now available. The Substance Registration System (SRS) can be accessed at http://fdasis.nlm.nih.gov. The primary goal of this system is to unambiguously define all substances present in regulated products. This database provides access to the FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) (http://fdasis.nlm.nih.gov/srs/jsp/srs/faq.jsp) assigned [...]

DeafMD’s (http://www.deafmd.org/) website provides health information in American Sign Language to the Deaf & Hard of Hearing population. Using health information created by two trustworthy and unbiased government sources-the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health, DeafMD’s team of healthcare providers, linguists, and educators translates this complex information into ASL. DeafMD contains [...]

1) Barb Jones will be introducing Margaret Bandy and Brenda Pfannenstiel, medical librarians, as they describe how they have brought library services into new arenas in their hospitals. Both will describe how they expanded into non-traditional areas, how they interact in new ways and the impact of these activities on the perception and activities of [...]

Have you wanted the chance to learn more about Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, and social networking? MCR is offering a 7-week online class using a self-discovery format called Learning 2.0. You may recall that we previously taught an implementation of Learning 2.0 called “13 Things” (based on the popular “Learning [...]

Today (7/14/2010) the MedlinePlus redesign was released. Along with this unveiling comes the retirement of Go Local. The links from MedlinePlus to Go Local, as well as the “national” Go Local pages (including the home page and the Contacts list) are now gone. Visitors will be redirected from retired projects until May 1, 2011. The [...]

PubMed Health is a new online resource under development at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubMed Health is being introduced in phases, starting with consumer drug information provided by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. The drug information will be integrated with several other NCBI/NLM databases, ultimately providing a linked [...]

http://bit.ly/bHm1qN Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Digital Strategy, Pew Internet & American Life Project, relates her thoughts and experience on speaking with senior staff at the National Library of Medicine. I love the statement: “Few people report harm when it comes to health information online, many more people report that it has helped them or a [...]

Educause Quarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 2, 2010, has published an interesting article called, “Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web.” The article reports on a study that looked at the mobile web sites of large research universities and their libraries. The results found that “few functions on university mobile web sites clearly addressed [...]

The Software Advice Medical Blog has great list of the “best Android apps for doctors, nurses, and health care”: http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/medical/the-best-android-apps-for-doctors-nurses-and-health-care-professionals-1062810/ Apps are listed in many different categories, including anatomy, cardiology, clinical decision support, nursing, and pediatrics. Most of the apps listed have a small charge; a few cost over $100.

Are you curious about the social media policies of other institutions? Take a look at the growing list at HLWIKI: http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Social_media_policies It includes links to policies for health care institutions. [SD]

On Wednesday, July 14, MedlinePlus will unveil a completely redesigned site with a freshened look and feel, a new logo, and distinctive color schemes for English and Spanish pages. The content on the current site will still be available in the new design, with some exciting new features and enhancements. The new design emphasizes search, [...]

MCMLA Continuing Education class registration is now open! See http://sites.google.com/site/2010mcmla/ce/ce-classes for a list of classes and registration information. The free, National Library of Medicine classes are also listed on the site. Each class requires a minimum number of participants, so register before Aug. 16 to secure a spot! See the conference web site at: www.mcmla.org/meetings/2010

NLM Technical Bulletin, Jul-Aug 2010 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja10/ja10_myncbi_era.html In order to maintain compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy, NIH program directors (PDs) and principal investigators (PIs) registered in eRA Commons must soon manage their professional bibliographies using the My Bibliography feature in My NCBI. As of July 23, 2010, PD/PIs will be unable to enter citations [...]

NIH MedlinePlus Magazine, Summer 2010 (July 6, 2010) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/sprsum10/toc.html The cover story: Tennis superstar Martina Navratilova stays strong in her battle against breast cancer and her work to help Americans live healthier, more active lives. Listen to the NLM Director’s podcast on the Summer edition http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript070610.html [scb]

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services launched HealthCare.gov, a new online tool for consumers. The site connects consumers with information and resources to help them access quality, affordable coverage in their community. [da]

The July issue of NIH News in Health is now available. In this edition read about current research on the prevention of Alzheimer’s and learn ways to prevent gum disease. [da]

The PubMed Clinical Queries page http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/pubmedutils/clinical has been reconfigured with columns to preview the first five citations of the results for the three research areas. The radio buttons for Clinical Study Categories and the checkboxes for Medical Genetics have been replaced with pull-down menus. While previewing results, you may make alternate menu selections for the [...]

Our annual NetLibrary weeding/collecting is done! Take a look at the newly revised brochure to see a list of all the books available. The collection of the NN/LM MidContinental Region consists of 99 library management and technical e- books oriented toward use for librarians. If you access the collection through the NN/LM MCR webpage, it’s [...]

http://www.healthcare.gov/ HHS Launches New Consumer Focused Health Care Website The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today unveiled an innovative new on-line tool that will help consumers take control of their health care by connecting them to new information and resources that will help them access quality, affordable health care coverage. For more information [...]

1) Barb Jones will be presenting Margaret Bandy and Brenda Pfannenstiel as they describe how they have brought library services into new arenas in the hospital. Both librarians will describe how they expanded into non-traditional areas, how their libraries interact in new ways and the impact of these activities on the perception and activities of [...]

The PubMed Clinical Queries page will soon be redesigned to filter one search by three clinical research areas: Clinical Study Categories, Systematic Reviews, and Medical Genetics. Please visit the NLM Techncial Bulletin at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj10/mj10_clin_query.html to learn more. [da]

During the June Breezing Along with the RML, RML staff shared their top “highlights” from MLA 2010. If you couldn’t attend the conference, this is a great way to hear about new ideas, observations, and trends! Paul Schoening, Director of the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine, discussed “Faculty Survey 2009: [...]

Breezing Along with the RML – Wed. July 21, 10:00 Mountain Time, 11:00 Central Time Barb Jones and Jim Honour will be presenting. Stay tuned for topic details! URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/ Equipment: Connection to the Internet and a phone Login: as a guest with your first and last name Instructions to connect to the audio will [...]

July 14-16, 2010, Coe Library, University of Wyoming in Laramie The Symposium is an annual networking and professional development event for librarians in Wyoming and other states in the region. Health information professionals, along with many public and academic librarians, are keenly interested in health information literacy and health literacy. Health professionals and the public [...]