Have you ever read a medical word and wondered how to pronounce it?  Do your customers ask you for help pronouncing medical words?  MedlinePlus can help! The MedlinePlus medical dictionary now includes audio pronunciations.  Learn how to say words like ptosis, Sjogren’s and fibrillation.  Search the medical dictionary on MedlinePlus and then click on the red [...]

Congratulations to Stephanie Fulton, Assistant Library Director at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Research Medical Library, the recipient of the 2010 Medical Library Association’s Estelle Brodman Award for Academic Medical Librarian of the Year.  The Estelle Brodman Award recognizes an academic medical librarian at mid-career level who demonstrates significant achievement, the potential for leadership, and continuing [...]

Congratulations to Drs. Ana and Don Cleveland (University of North Texas, College of Information), recipients of the 2010 Medical Library Association’s Ida and George Eliot Prize, for their book “Health Informatics for Medical Librarians“! The Ida and George Eliot Prize is presented annually for a work published in the preceding calendar year that has been judged [...]

The NN/LM SCR will be offering Health Statistics on the Web: It’s as Easy as …1, 2, 3! at the HAM-TMC Library, Houston, TX, on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. This 3-hour hands-on course focuses on the location, selection, and effective use of statistics relevant to health on the local, state, national, and [...]

The NN/LM SCR Educational Needs Assessment is closing on Friday, March 12, 2010. Please go to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/scredneeds to respond.

Social networking opportunities are attracting new users to sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Now you can stay connected with the National Library of Medicine through both Facebook and Twitter. Become a Fan of the National Library of Medicine on Facebook and follow informative tweets on Twitter by using the links below. National Library of [...]

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the solicitation of quotations from organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers. Projects must involve one or more of the following information access categories: Information retrieval; Skills development; State-of-the-art resources; Resource development; [...]

Mobile Site iPhone Emulators Passing your iPhone around a group isn’t necessarily the only way to let your audience get a feel for a mobile site. Why not show off a mobile site by using an emulator? Emulators are designed to imitate the view you would see if you were to view a mobile site on [...]

The NN/LM SCR will be offering Healthy Aging at Your Library: Connecting Older Adults to Health Information at the Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow Campus near Tulsa, OK on May 6, 2010. Class Description Are you interested in expanding your services to older adults?  This “train the trainer” class is designed to help librarians assist their older [...]

The NN/LM SCR will be offering Grants and Proposal Writing at the Tulsa City-County Library, Tulsa, OK on May 7, 2010. Class Description Designed for beginning grant proposal writers, this class presents a general overview of the grant and funding processes as well as the level of detail required in a successful proposal. Each component of the [...]