The Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) recently launched a new web page titled “Disaster Apps and Mobile Optimized Web Page”: http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterapps.html . This page includes links to various mobile tools and apps that have been selected based upon utility in a disaster or emergency context and which adhere to NLM’s Selection Guidelines for non-NLM [...]

Get fast and easy access to health information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) using your iPad. The CDC iPad application has been designed as a way for users to access health information at their fingertips. The application features access to important health news, popular journal information, timely updates, and access to [...]

The annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place earlier this month in Las Vegas. The annual technology trade show allows electronics vendors to demonstrate their latest products. CES has been an annual event with a history going back to the late 1960s. Some of the biggest names in technology showcase new and innovative products [...]

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region (NN/LM SCR) is pleased to announce the following funding opportunity: Electronic Consumer Health Outreach Award http://nnlm.gov/scr/funding/echo.html This award will fund one (1) project of $25,000 for the purpose of ensuring that health professionals, their patients and the general public are connected to the health information [...]

The NN/LM SCR is pleased to announce the following funding opportunity: Digital Preservation and Access Award The purpose of the Digital Preservation and Access (DiPA) Award is to increase accessibility to historically significant and unique items in the South Central Region by providing funding for Network members to digitize portions of their collections. Collections considered [...]

A new year and a new look! The NN/LM SCR has implemented a slideshow on its home page: http://nnlm.gov/scr/. Current news items, with text and images, are highlighted as the slideshow progresses. With this new addition in the center of the page, we will include more than one website or database as well as funding [...]

Looking for a good way to engage with a presentation audience? Want to find out if your library instruction class was really paying attention? Why not poll them to find out? There are several proprietary software options that allow built in polling for PowerPoint but a free option to consider for polling 40 people or [...]

The recording of today’s SCR CONNECTions webinar, PubMed News and Updates, is now available in the SCR CONNECTions archives http://nnlm.gov/scr/training/webmeeting.html#Archives. Join us February 15, 2012 at 10:30 CT to for our next SCR CONNECTions covering MedlinePlus Connect with NLM’s Loren Frant. Don’t forget you have two weeks to apply for CE using the URL found [...]

The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) was established in 2010 to coordinate adolescent health promotion and disease prevention programs and initiatives across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  The OAH website http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/ includes information on adolescent health from organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental [...]

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region will present two free sessions of the workshop Healthy Aging at Your Library: Connecting Older Adults to Health Information on February 22, 2012 at Thomas Branigan Memorial Library in Las Cruces, NM. Session 1 February 22, 2012 9am – 12pm To register: http://nnlm.gov/scr/training/register.html?schedule_id=1553 Session 2 [...]