At the MLA meeting in Hawaii, Sheldon Kotzin announced that Estelle Brodman’s 1954 edition of The Development of Medical Bibliography is now available digitally at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/digital/brodman/brodman.html.

The digital collection in the NLM History of Medicine Division has many interesting works that might be on interest to librarians, historians, or anyone seeking to understand the past: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/digital/index.html. For example, you can go to Turning the Pages Online to view rare books such as Robert Hooke’s Micrographia.

Teachers of history of health sciences courses will find this collection essential.

The National Training Center and Clearinghouse offers full day courses in PubMed and TOXNET, plus a half-day class in NLM Gateway and ClinicalTrials.gov.  Several classes are coming soon to our region:

PubMed - July 20th and 22nd in Detroit, MI, and October 19th in Maywood, IL
NLM Gateway/ClinicalTrials.gov - October 20th in Maywood, IL
TOXNET® and Beyond - July 21st in Detroit MI, and October 21st in Maywood, IL

For class details and registration information
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First the good news - Single Citation Matcher is NOT going away!

NLM has responded to the requests many of you made. Although other changes will be coming soon …
“It was also mentioned at the [MLA] meeting that although there had been discussion about removal of the Single Citation Matcher, that will not happen; the link to Single Citation Matcher will remain on the PubMed homepage.” Read more about the PubMed Redesign 2009 in the NLM Technical Bulletin at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj09/mj09_pm_redesign_2009.html

Second, a formal PubMed update given at MLA is available online.  Visit the NLM Distance Education Program Resources page at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html or go directly to the MLA Annual Meeting Theater Presentation.

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The National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide links to resources about the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak. The National Library of Medicine Division of Specialized Information Services has released an Enviro-Health Links page on Swine Flu. This page contains links to resources about the flu outbreak, including transmission, prevention, treatment, and the genetic makeup of the influenza virus. MedlinePlus released a new health topic page on Swine Flu: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/swineflu.html. The page is also provided in Spanish: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/swineflu.html.

MedlinePlus - Multiple Languages provides information in Arabic to Vietnamese on the MedlinePlus: Flu - Multiple Languages site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/flu.html. Related Multiple Language links from MedlinePlus include the Germs and Hygiene resources: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/germsandhygiene.html translated in ASL (American Sign Language), Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

The World Health Organization site: http://www.who.int/ provides information in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and English.

An easy way to post updated information is to use the widget seen below:

Clicking on Get widget now! will bring you to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Image and Icon Library and the code for this installing the widget on your web page.

Additional resources are included on PandemicFlu.gov providing one-stop access to U.S. Government swine, avian and pandemic flu information.

The  History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the launch of a new image platform for its premier database, Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).  The IHM provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the HMD.

Visit http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/ to see the collection of portraits, photographs, fine prints, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and other graphic art which illustrates the social and historical aspects of medicine from the Middle Ages to the present. Subjects range from medieval medical practice to 19th century slum conditions to World War I hospitals to the international fight against drug abuse and AIDS. Most of the images in the collection are from earlier time periods, although 20th century images are also included, the majority dating from before World War II.

Call for Papers and Posters: 2009 Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting

By Linda DeMuro
Director, Library Services
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH

The Program Committee of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association invites proposals for contributed papers and posters for the 2009 Midwest Chapter/MLA  Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio from October 3-6 at the Hyatt on Capitol Square. The conference theme of  Seek, Discover, Explore lends itself to a variety of topics, and provides opportunities for presenters to show how they endeavor to seek out new and improved ways to provide cutting-edge library services, to discover innovative techniques for using technology and the Internet, or to explore how libraries connect people to information in creative ways. Papers and posters may highlight practical problem-solving approaches, report on research in librarianship, document collaborative efforts or outreach activities, or describe innovative programs, resources or services. Contributed paper and poster topics are as unlimited as your imagination, talents and creativity can devise. (more…)

The Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) is pleased to announce the launch of The New Americans Health Information Portal (NAHIP).

http://palantir.lib.uic.edu/nahip/

This portal is a collaboration with the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights. Our new portal links to a variety of quality multi-lingual health education documents. Languages include: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, French, Haitian Creole, Karen, Khmer, Lao, Russian, Somali, Swahili, Thai, Tigrina and Vietnamese.

We hope this site is useful and welcome feedback. For comments on website: lmassen1 at uic.edu

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From the NLM:

“NLM is pleased to announce the debut of the Unified Medical Language System(r)
(UMLS(r)) Basics, a Web-based tutorial that enables anyone with Internet access to learn about the UMLS. You can reach the tutorial at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/online%20learning/index.htm.

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With the hurricane season’s dynamic reminder of nature’s power comes an explosion of information on hurricanes.  The Specialized Information Services (SIS) branch of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has added a new section on Hurricanes to their Environmental Health and Toxicology section.  Visit: Hurricanes: Links to Health Information Including Toxicology and Environmental Health at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/hurricane.html

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The Outreach Express Award entitled Only Connect….to the Community was funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region (NN/LM GMR). This award allowed the Medical Library Association’s (MLA) National Planning Committee ‘08 to provide the first annual community service events. The two community service events held in Chicago, Illinois, allowed medical librarians to put words such as advocacy and visibility into action by creating partnerships with public librarians and volunteering in the neediest community, North Lawndale on the west side of Chicago. (more…)