The Maternal and Child Health Library of the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH), at Georgetown University has released a new edition of its knowledge path about adolescent pregnancy prevention. (more…)

Tammy Mays will be leaving her position as the Consumer Health Coordinator, GMR, on August 16, 2007. She is excited and honored to be accepted in the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies PhD program and a recipient of the ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship.

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As the Consumer Health Coordinator my job involves a lot of coordination, which means I do a lot of talking. I am involved in different MLA juries and committees, NLM committees, and community projects. The logistics of schedule coordination can be a nuisance. (more…)

Lucy Webb, MSLIS, Lead Librarian
Aurora Libraries - St. Luke’s Medical Center
Milwaukee, WI

An update on the Aurora Libraries’ recent article in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship about Patient Information Rounds.

As we have continued the project we have discovered that patients are very appreciative of the offer of information. Even if they have no questions at the particular time we visit they repeatedly tell us “what a nice service!” (more…)

Since many of you have recently returned from the Medical Library Association meeting and are eager to initiate new projects for your libraries, June 1st seems like a great time to remind you that we have multiple funding opportunities for Network members for Year 2 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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