Karla Block
Associate Librarian
Bio-Medical Library
Minneapolis, MN 58701

The Minnesota Library Association’s 2007 meeting, All the World’s a Stage, was held October 24-26 in Mankato, MN. My Health Minnesota → Go Local was included in the meeting with an exhibit and a presentation, Health Information Takes Center Stage: My Health Minnesota → Go Local, by Karla Block. The conference provided a great opportunity to share Go Local, along with other wonderful NLM resources, with librarians and library staff throughout the state.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) SeniorHealth website has a Toolkit for Trainers developed by the National Institute on Aging. This free, downloadable toolkit is designed to help older adults find reliable health information online. Check it out at NIHSeniorHealth: http://www.nihseniorhealth.gov/toolkit.

Jerry Kaup
Minot Public Library Director
516 2^nd Ave SW
Minot, ND 58701

Karen Anderson
University of North Dakota Clinical Campus Librarian
Angus L. Cameron Medical Library Director
20 Burdick Expy W
Minot, ND 58701

Jerry Kaup, the Minot Public Library Director and I, Karen Anderson, University of North Dakota’s Northwest Clinical Campus Librarian, Angus L Cameron Medical Library Director at Trinity Health in Minot, are in the used book room at the Bagel Stop and Book Nook for lunch, talking about our cooperative library adventures. We are composing this article as we eat. We were asked to write an article about how we have partnered with our libraries, both of them being members of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR). (more…)