We at the GMR are pleased to sponsor webcast sites across our region for the March 24, 2010, MLA Webcast: Now’s The Time: Understanding The Electronic Health Record Maze And Health Science Librarians’ Roles

The complete list of sponsored sites is available at: http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/mlawebcastsites.html.  Please contact the site directly if you wish to attend.

Find information about this webcast and additional site locations at: http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/ehr/

The GMR is offering to sponsor a number of webcast sites for the upcoming
MLA Webcast:  “Now’s The Time: Understanding the Electronic Health Record Maze and Health Science Librarians’ Roles” to be held on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, from 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m., central time.

Visit:
http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/mlawebcast.html
for detailed information on how to become a
sponsored site. (more…)

Are you a seasoned GMR award funding recipient? Are you thinking this might be the year to try for your first GMR award? In either case, the GMR has updated its award application forms to make your funding request easier and more accurate. The GMR offers seven types of awards which are in amounts less than $5,000. Network members may apply for these awards at any time using the application form linked to the Call for Application (CFA) for each of the awards. Because of reported difficulties with the online forms, the GMR has revised the way members apply. (more…)

Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!

It’s time to make some resolutions and the GMR is no exception. Building on what we have heard from our stakeholders, including Regional Advisory Council (RAC) representatives and other network members, the GMR is seeking some additional feedback from our Network members to assist with program planning.

Reply to the brief GMR Planning Questionnaire 2010, and you will be helping us set program priorities for several years to come. The questionnaire should not take more than 10 minutes.

Thank you in advance for your feedback, and thank you for supporting the mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Urban or rural, the Midwest sparkles during the winter months.  The twinkle of holiday lights in the city or the wink of stars over a chill landscape, both are a source of well-being and delight at this time of year.

A positive view of winter is good preparation for a positive outlook on the current economic state of affairs affecting health sciences and hospital libraries in GMR.

Economic conditions and their impact continue to be a focus for the GMR membership.  At the GMR Town Hall meeting at the MC/MLA Conference in October 2009, our members were eager to participate in the development of a region-wide licensing consortium that the E-licensing Working Group of the Regional Advisory Council (RAC) is pursuing.  The Michigan Library Consortium may be able to provide a template as well as serve as an agent for consortial licensing by hospital and smaller academic libraries. (more…)

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Just cataloged in the GMR Lending Library and available for checkout:

• Staff Development Strategies That Work, edited by Georgie L. Donovan and Miguel A. Figueroa
• Answers to the Health Questions People Ask in Libraries, by Laura Townsend Kane, et al.
• Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching, by Jane Devine and Francine Egger-Sider
• Internet Cool Tools for Physicians, by Melissa L. Rethlefsen, David L. Rothman and Daniel S. Mojon.

As always, GMR members can check out items from our lending library free of charge.  You will need to obtain a login and password if you do not have one already.  Just send an email to gmrlib [at] uic [dot] edu.   Remember, there are materials in our lending library for which you can obtain MLA CE credit.  To find these specific items, like past MLA webcasts, choose MLA CE from the Collection drop down box in Power Search.  You can put an asterisk in the search term box to pull up everything we have for which you can earn CE.

As soon as the MLA webcast from this week is made available, it will be included in our collection and ready for checkout.

In this time of economic down turn you may have considered broadening your library services,  sharpening up  your professional skills or attending a motivating plenary. The problem is in this time of economic down turn you don’t have the funds to become cutting edge.  You can use the GMR funding opportunities to make some headway.

Amplify your ILL service -  Interlibrary Loan is a service that doesn’t have to change very much.  It still works if you don’t do anything.  This is an area that can easily be brought into the new millennium.  The first thing you can do is to STOP invoicing other libraries for the things that you borrow.  Apply for an EFTS Award. The staff at the Electronic Fund Transfer System are happy to assist you with the paper work. The GMR is supoorting funding for it.

Take a  class – You may be able to get to a meeting but, that’s it! You can’t take a class too.  Apply for the Professional Development Award to cover the cost of the class.  You might find that your local community college has a course that you can take.  Apply for the Professional Development Award to defer the cost of  registration.  Consider a meeting that you may not usually go to Internet Librarian, EDUCAUSE, ALA or maybe a health professional meeting. You need to have a project that you are working on that the class will support and the permission of your administration the award is issued through a cost reimbursement.  You can only apply for this award once.

Bring in a speaker -  Sometimes we could benefit from the opportunity to be reminded that we are a growing profession.  The skills that we have, need to be cultivated to remain viable.  Consider applying for the Professional Instruction Award to offer your group the opportunity to enjoy a speaker you may not otherwise have been able to invite.

The PubMed redesign is live NOW!

The GMR will be presenting several one-hour PubMed updates for MLA CE.
Visit our GMR Calendar to sign up:
http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=NNLMGMR
If classes fill up, additional sessions will be offered.

Information on the redesign is available at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html

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Congratulations and thank you to those who have offered their sites for
the MLA Webcast – Cut the Cord: Connecting to our Mobile Users – on
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., central time.

The list of GMR Sponsored Webcasts is posted at:
http://nnlm.gov/gmr/funding/mlawebcastsites.html

Additionally, for this Webcast, registered sites across the continent – including ours – may be found at:
http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/mobile/states09.html
a page that is being updated frequently.

Enjoy a webcast near you!