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GMR Update

January 2012

Personnel

The GMR welcomes Irene Williams as the Network Services Coordinator.  Irene began her new position in December 2011 and comes to the GMR with two years of experience as a reference librarian in the UIC Library of the Health Sciences.

With a new coordinator on board, this is a good time to remind you that each of our program coordinators is assigned to one or more states in the region as their “contact librarian.”  Here is the new list of state assignments for each coordinator:

• Max Anderson – Wisconsin and Indiana
• Holly Ann Burt – Ohio
• Samanthi Hewakapuge – Kentucky, North Dakota, and South Dakota
• Jacqueline Leskovec – Illinois and Iowa
• Irene Williams – Michigan and Minnesota

A Staff Directory on the GMR Web site (http://nnlm.gov/gmr/about/staff.html) provides not only the contact information for each staff member, but outlines the specific program and educational content areas for which each staff member is responsible.

Program Area Updates

Consumer Health Information:

Traveling Exhibitions:
(General information at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/travelingexhibitions.html )

• Binding Wounds Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine will be sponsored by Wayne State University, Shiffman Medical Library, Detroit, MI and Western Illinois University, Malpass Library, Macomb, IL from 3/19/12-4/28/12.
  Online Exhibition: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bindingwounds/index.html
• Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature will be on display at the University of Louisville, Kornhauser Health Sciences Library from 2/13/12-3/24/12.
  Online Exhibition: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/frankenstein/
• Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine will be at Cromaine Library, Harland, MI from 1/15/12-2/25/12 and University of Toledo, Carson Library from 3/11/12-4/21/2012.
  Online Exhibition: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/harrypottersworld/
• Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War will be sponsored by University of Minnesota, Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, Minneapolis, MN and Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine, Springfield, IL from 3/19/12-4/28/12
  Online Exhibition: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/LifeandLimb/
• Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" will be on display at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH from 3/11/12-4/21/12.
  Online Exhibition: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/theliteratureofprescription/
• Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons is already on display at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Library, Rochester, MI from 12/19/11-2/3/12.
  Online Exhibition: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aframsurgeons/ 
• NEW: "And there's the humor of it:" Shakespeare and the four humors is the latest travelling exhibit available at the NLM.
  Details: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/travelingexhibitions/shakespeare.html

Education and Training Opportunities:

Upcoming GMR classes and presentations. View Training Opportunities to register for online courses.

• February 2012
  • GMR Lake Effects: Overview of Mobile Technology in Healthcare for Librarians , February 16, 2012, Online
  • Keeping Up with PubMed and PubMed for Experts , February 14-15, 2012, Cincinnati, OH (SWON)
  • Making PubMed Work for You , January 30-February 20, 2012, Online
  • Patient Safety Resource Seminar: Librarians on the Front Lines , February 20-March 30, 2012, Online
• March 2012
  • GMR Lake Effects: Preparing for the Ides of March! Help from the NLM Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) , March 15, 2012, Online
  • Information Anywhere: Mobile Technology, Libraries and Health , March 15, 2012, Detroit, MI (MDMLG)
  • GMR Lake Effects: DIMRC , March 15, 2012, Online
  • Birds do it, Bees do it...Sexual health resources, March 15, 2012, Philadelphia, PA (PLA)
• April 2012
  • GMR Lake Effects: TBD , April 19, 2012, Online
  • Emergency Preparedness , April 9, 2012, River Forest, IL (DU)

Classes NEW to the GMR include:

• From Beyond Our Borders: Providing Health Information on Refugee Populations

Upcoming NTC Classes (for more information, visit: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/schedule.html )

• PubMed for Trainers , 3 online sessions, 1 in-person session on April 3, 2012, Chicago, IL
• TOXNET and Beyond , April 4, 2012, Chicago, IL

Exhibits:

The GMR will be exhibiting at a number of upcoming events. Visit the GMR Calendar to keep up with our current events. To volunteer to help staff an exhibit, contact the State Contact Librarian.

• Kentucky Health Literacy Summit, Lexington, KY, March 22-23, 2012
• Kentucky Public Health Association/Southern Health Association, Louisville, KY, March 27-30, 2012

Funding:

Year 1 (May 2011 – April 2012)

A small amount of funding is still available for projects during Year 1 of the contract, but don’t wait too long; several of the awards have a February 15 deadline. See our funding page http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/ for details. Specifically, funding is available for exhibits, community preparedness, planning and assessment, and for small outreach projects.

Year 2 (May 2012 – April 2013)

The GMR budget for Year 2 of the contract is still pending but will be finalized by late April, 2012.  A modest amount of funding will be available for smaller awards in the following areas:

• Community Preparedness Award
• Exhibit Awards
• Outreach Express Awards
• Planning and Assessment Awards
• Technology Improvement Awards

The GMR plans to fund at least one Target Outreach subcontract in Year 2 for up to $14,000, and if additional funds become available, we will fund both Major Outreach (up to $25,000) and Target Outreach (up to $14,000) subcontracts for projects beginning on May 1, 2012. In order to be able to fund Year 2 projects on May 1, 2012, the GMR is requesting that institutions that are interested in submitting proposals for Year 2 notify the GMR of their intent by February 15, 2012. Please see the GMR Funding pages for more details: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/ .

New NN/LM Outreach Portal

The GMR is pleased to announce that the new NN/LM Online Contract Reports (OCR) System is now live. The OCR is the first part of the new Outreach Portal coming out of our National Network Office. Eventually all aspects of outreach reporting, including OARFs and Exhibit reports, will be accessed via the portal. For now, only the OCR is active. The GMR is using the OCR for its Quarterly and Annual reports for the 2011-2016 contract. One feature of the OCR is the ability to publish reports online to the NN/LM website.

All GMR funding recipients--except those with only Exhibit Awards--are now required to use the OCR to enter and submit project reports. If you have any questions about the OCR and/or need to obtain an account for a funded project, contact your GMR program coordinator or the GMR Portal Administrator, Jacqueline Leskovec, Outreach, Planning and Evaluation Coordinator .

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