May 9th, 2008 by Barbara Platts | Posted in General, News from the Region | Comments Off
2008 Midwest Chapter MLA / MHSLA Joint Conference
by Barbara Platts, MLIS, AHIP
Munson Healthcare
Traverse City, MI
The Midwest MLA / MHSLA 2008 Conference Program Committee invites proposals for contributed papers relating to the conference theme of Vital Signs: Keeping You and Your Library Vibrant and Healthy. Topics may be informational or research-oriented and should fall into one of the four vital sign categories of Pulse, Respiration, Blood Pressure, or Temperature.
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May 9th, 2008 by Barbara Platts | Posted in General, News from the Region | Comments Off
2008 Midwest Chapter MLA / MHSLA Joint Conference
by Barbara Platts, MLIS, AHIP
Munson Healthcare
Traverse City, MI
The Midwest MLA/MHSLA Program Committee invites poster session proposals for the Midwest MLA / MHSLA Conference in Troy, Michigan, October 17-21, 2008. Here is an opportunity to present your research, best practices, library services, technologies and all health sciences ideas in relation to the overall theme: Vital Signs: Keeping You and Your Library Vibrant and Healthy.
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May 7th, 2008 by Ruth Holst | Posted in Advocacy, From the GMR | Comments Off
GMR began a new year on May 1, 2008. We are delighted to announce that we again have multiple funding opportunities for Network members for Year 3 of our contract with the National Library of Medicine (NLM). For a summary, go to: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/current.html
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May 7th, 2008 by Jacqueline Leskovec | Posted in Consumer Health, News from NIH/NLM | Comments Off
As of today May 7, 2008, MedlinePlus® has a multilingual feature, providing access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish. This new service benefits people who prefer to read consumer health information in their native language. It also helps the information professionals and health care providers who serve them. Over the years, many of you have requested this enhancement. Your suggestions helped the MedlinePlus team to develop this important service. Read the rest of this entry »
May 3rd, 2008 by Jacqueline Leskovec | Posted in Consumer Health, General, News from the Region | Comments Off
Anna Ercoli Schnitzer
InfoPoint Librarian
Health Sciences Libraries
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Health Fair for Michigan’s Uninsured Children
On April 29, 2008, the Washtenaw County (Michigan) Department of Health and Human Services highlighted the need for health insurance for all children by holding a free Children’s Health and Enrollment Fair at the Towner Health and Human Services Complex in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries were represented along with Blue Care Network; Engage Project (volunteering for clinical studies at the University of Michigan Health System); Women, Infants and Children (WIC); and various relevant nutrition and parenting groups. Read the rest of this entry »
April 18th, 2008 by Jacqueline Leskovec | Posted in Consumer Health, General | Comments Off
Anna Ercoli Schnitzer
InfoPoint Librarian
Health Sciences Libraries
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
In early November of 2007, two University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries staff members visited Estabrook Elementary School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to present a class of 26 5th-grade students with a PowerPoint presentation on Good Health Sites and some age-appropriate handouts.
Essentially two major government sites were shown from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), HHS for Kids (http://www.hhs.gov/kids/) and healthfinder.gov kids (http://www.healthfinder.gov/kids/). The class members were very excited, and many questions were asked about which websites were good ones and which ones were not. Read the rest of this entry »
April 15th, 2008 by Jacqueline Leskovec | Posted in Consumer Health, General, News from NIH/NLM | Comments Off
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: Read the rest of this entry »
April 9th, 2008 by Jacqueline Leskovec | Posted in News from NIH/NLM | Comments Off
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce a new web resource about its Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC). The DIMRC web site seeks to provide access to quality disaster health information at all stages of preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery. Initially, the site will focus on NLM and NLM-supported resources and activities. It will then expand to include other sources of authoritative disaster health information. Read the rest of this entry »
April 8th, 2008 by Jacqueline Leskovec | Posted in Consumer Health, News from NIH/NLM | Comments Off
The April 2008 issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now online at http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/ with new access features. Topics in the April Issue: Read the rest of this entry »
April 4th, 2008 by Charniel McDaniels | Posted in Resource Sharing, Technology | No Comments »
Kevin O’Brien
Assistant Access Services Librarian
University of Illinois at Chicago
The world of library resource sharing is undergoing a period of change. Electronic journals and freely available content like the material in PubMed Central are contributing to a decline in demand for interlibrary loan service as it has been traditionally defined. In response, many libraries are changing the way they do business. Read the rest of this entry »
