We are excited to announce a funding opportunity from the NN/LM GMR to support purchase, installation, and/or upgrading of hardware and software that enhance access to health information. This funding opportunity is the Technology Improvement Award. Awards may be used to improve information services to health professionals and health care consumers through the use of technology. What types of projects can you fund with this award? Some ideas include:

• Purchasing equipment and/or software (i.e. a scanner, web server, public access computer) to aid in delivering health information electronically;
• Paying for Internet access for one year;
• Paying for wiring and/or installation of new connections;
• Upgrading computer equipment.

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Now, where is that library? I know I put it here somewhere! Thanks to a mashup of Google Maps and your location in DOCLINE by Web Services Technology Operations Center (Web-STOC) programmer Aron Beal in Seattle, you can find other institutions more easily via NN/LM Member Maps. Before I get into too much detail about the member maps, let me briefly explain about Web-STOC.  This team keeps our websites in good running order and keeps us compliant with federal guidelines related to accessibility.  They are located at the University of Washington, which is home to the NN/LM – Pacific Northwest Region.

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Once the domain of the television show Star Trek, a whole new world of communication allows users to communicate instantaneously with each other. The Vocera Communications Badge (http://www.vocera.com) is what enables this instant communication. Via an identification badge like those already worn by many, on a lanyard or clipped to a shirt or a suit coat, and using wireless communication protocols, people can communicate using voice recognition. (more…)

Margaret (Peggy) Richwine, MS, MLS, AHIP, will retire September 30, 2008 as Outreach Services Director at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) Libraries. Ms. Richwine has over twenty years at IUSM Libraries serving in Reference, Cataloging, Interlibrary Loan, and Outreach Services. With grants from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), she created Shared Hospital Electronic Library of Southern Indiana (SHELSI) http://library.medicine.iu.edu/body.cfm?id=77, the consortium of hospital libraries in Southern Indiana that share access to electronic resources.

She was also awarded a series of contracts to manage a team of Indiana librarians that assisted the National Library of Medicine in the development and maintenance of MedlinePlus. As a capstone to a long and productive career, Ms. Richwine led the Indiana team to establish InHealthConnect http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/local/indiana/homepage.cfm?areaid=13, one of the pioneer Go Local projects to use the NLM system.

We are very proud of Peggy and her accomplishments and wish her the very best.

Carole Gall, MLS, AHIP
Gift Officer & Medical Resources Consultant
Indiana University School of Medicine Libraries