Mark your calendars!  MAR is introducing two monthly sessions that may interest all of you…

Lunch with the RML will occur the last Thursday of each month from Noon – 1:00 pm.

• These sessions are designed to bring MAR staff together with Network members to share experiences and ideas and elicit feedback in an open, informal atmosphere.

• You are invited to join MAR staff on May 31 for a MAR update.  Highlights from our first year will be presented, along with staff introductions and plans for year 2 activities.

https://webmeeting.nih.gov/lunchwithrml/
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Noon – 1:00 pm ET

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Conference Number(s):  1-888-450-5996
Participant Code:  888072

Boost Box sessions will occur the second Tuesday of each month from Noon – 1:00 pm.

• These sessions are educational webinars designed to boost knowledge of NLM products or other topics of interest.

• On June 12, Mary Lou Klem PhD, MLIS, Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh, will present:  “Study Design and Systematic Reviews.”  Systematic reviews are literature reviews that critically appraise and summarize the “best available evidence” for a clinical question or topic.  While the most well-known “best evidence” is the randomized controlled trial (RCT), other study designs may also be appropriate for use in systematic reviews.  This presentation provides an overview and description of two broad classes of study designs (experimental and observational), an explanation of critical differences between these two types of design, and a real-world example of the impact of such design differences on study outcomes.

https://webmeeting.nih.gov/boostbox/
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Noon – 1:00 pm ET

Please log-in and allow Adobe Connect to call your phone if possible. But, just in case, the back-up phone number for Adobe Connect is:

Conference Number(s):  1-888-450-5996
Participant Code:  888072

Monday, May 28 is Memorial Day.  Please observe a minute of silence at 3:00 pm local time to pay tribute to Americans who’ve died in military service.

Visit USA.gov’s Memorial Day page to learn about the origins of this federal holiday; read veterans’ stories; find patriotic songs; get tips on barbecue, boating, and swimming safety; and more!

For a nice summary of the steps for searching for evidence-based resources, see this month’s “Ask a Librarian” column in the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants:  http://bit.ly/KNLjv3

Sunday, May 20th

Bases Loaded, Patient at Bat: Genetics clinicians, Clinical Librarian and Consumer Librarian Collaborate to Enhance Patient Care
Susan Robishaw and Patricia Ulmer

This successful, collaborative project among genetics clinicians and librarians has had a positive impact on patient care for both clinicians and patients. The clinicians need less time to prepare for a patient encounter. They maximize the time they spend with the patients. They have more information about the patient’s potential diagnoses at the time of the initial visit. Having more information allows the clinician to spend more time reviewing the diagnosis with the patient and addressing his/her concerns and to selectively order tests. Patients receive trusted, accurate and up to date health they use to better understand their condition/treatment.

Covering the Bases: Running a Library-Based Bioinformatics Service at a Health Sciences University
Carrie L. Iwema and Ansuman Chattopadhyay

iPad Lending Library for On Call/Night Float Residents: Home Run or Foul Ball?
Catherine M. Boss and Chunwei Ma

A pilot study was conducted to determine the usefulness of an iPad for independent learning and direct patient care by on-call/night float residents. An iPad with WiFi would allow for connectivity to the medical center’s patient care portal with licensed patient-based and evidence-based databases, electronic books, and journals.

iPads as a Tool to Enhance Communications and Access to Emergency Preparedness Resources
Cristina A. Pope and Donna K. Sowles

Poster Sessions

Building a Farm Team: Ten Years of Developing New Academic Health Sciences Library Directors; The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program
Carolyn E. Lipscomb, Barbara A. Epstein, Lynn Kasner Morgan, Julia F. Sollenberger and M.J. Tooey

In response to a documented need to build the next generation of leadership for academic health sciences libraries, the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, with co-sponsorship from the National Library of Medicine, initiated a program to identify, encourage and develop candidates for director. The poster measures program results and identifies factors of success.

Gray Literature Searching in Health Sciences Systematic Reviews: A Survey Study
Ahlam Saleh, Melissa A. Ratajeski and Marnie Bertolet

Using Quick Response (QR) Codes to Promote E-Books
Melissa A. Ratajeski

The Value of Health Libraries and Information Services for Clinical Decision Making and Patient Safety
Joanne Marshall and Julia Sollenberger

Monday, May 21st

Enhancing PubMed EBM Search Outcomes with Customized My NCBI Filters
Tanya Shkolnikov

The customized Levels of Evidence Filters (LEF) for PubMed searches provide medical residents with a much-needed tool for retrieving EBM information in accordance with the Levels of Evidence Pyramid. LEF allow users to locate materials with higher levels of evidence in one click, and to easily access articles with lower levels of evidence, if needed.

Tuesday, May 22nd

Partnering to Encourage Health Information Seeking at an Urban Minority Health Center: A Case Study
Prudence Dalrymple, Lenore Hardy, Lisl Zach, Michelle Rogers, Patricia Gerrity, Mary Green and Kathleen Turner

A multidisciplinary partnership of librarians, health professionals, and LIS faculty collaborated to encourage health information seeking by medically underserved patients at an urban health center. The objectives of the program were to 1) gain greater insight into the information behaviors of these patients and 2) test the effectiveness of sending tailored text messages to participants in a group prenatal class.

154 Results of the Value of Health Library and Information Services Study
Joanne Marshall and Julia Sollenberger

Free CE course offered at Penn State Hershey:

Public Health Information on the Web

Monday, June 4, 2012, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library

Penn State Hershey

Hershey, PA

4 MLA CE credits

Instructor: Kate Flewelling, MAR Outreach Coordinator flewkate@pitt.edu

Registration information:

http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/class_details.html?class_id=27.

The AAMC issued a statement expressing support for the newly introduced “Graduate Medical Education Reform Act of 2012,” (S. 3201) sponsored by Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), as an important positive component of a larger graduate medical education (GME) reform package that must include an increase in the number of Medicare-funded residency slots. “This is a thoughtful approach to transparency and accountability, which, when combined with an increase in the number of Medicare-supported residency positions, could be part of a comprehensive strategy to address the access crisis facing this country,” said Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., AAMC president and CEO, in a letter to the two Senators.
https://www.aamc.org/download/282982/data/120518.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/7xet2jf (bill text available shortly)

MAR would like to know if anyone else within our region may be presenting at MLA.  After MLA, we would like to highlight and share details about what you’re doing.  If you are doing a paper presentation or a poster, please provide answers to the questions listed below to:  nnlmmar@pitt.edu by Thursday, May 24^th.

1. Title of the Presentation/Poster
2. Date of the Presentation/Poster
3. Names of the Presenters
4. Description/Abstract of the Presentation/Poster

ANNOUNCEMENTS

National Library of Medicine Announces “Tropical Disease Motion Pictures”

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/trop_disease_motion_pictures.html

National Library of Medicine Awarded Two “Google Summer of Code 2012” Students

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/google_studens.html

NLM Classification Updated, April 30, 2012

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/nlmclass2012.html

UMLS 2012AA Release Available

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj12/mj12_umls_2012aa_release.html

NLM DIRECTOR’S PODCASTS

Increased Brain Function and Omega-3s

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript043012.html

Joye Patterson — Pioneer in Teaching Science Journalism

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript050712.html

NLM IN THE NEWS

Autoimmune disorders can be a mystery to doctors, frustrating to patients

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120426/FEATURES03/304260036/1012/FEATURES/Autoimmune-disorders-can-mystery-doctors-frustrating-patients

Exercise at My Age?!  Encouraging Fitness in Challenging Situations

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathryn-haslanger/seniors-exercise_b_1459038.html

Characteristics of Clinical Trials Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, 2007-2010

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/17/1838.full

FDA says study overestimated non-compliance with data reporting laws

http://www.nature.com/news/fda-says-study-overestimated-non-compliance-with-data-reporting-laws-1.10549

Getting the Full Story:  How We Waste Research

http://www.genengnews.com/blog-biotech/getting-the-full-story-how-we-waste-research/685/

Joye Patterson, 1925-2012

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/25/joye-patterson-1925-2012/

Life and Limb Civil War exhibit

http://events.pe.com/loma_linda_ca/events/show/258471364-life-and-limb-civil-war-exhibit

Medical Heritage Library Awarded NEH Grant for Digitization of Historical Medical Journals http://www.medicalheritage.org/2012/04/medical-heritage-library-awarded-neh-grant-for-digitization-of-historical-medical-journals/

Simpler Language, More Access to Results Sought for Clinical-Trial Volunteers

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/24/simpler-language-more-access-to-results-sought-for-clinical-trial-volunteers/

Suburban Hospital wins award:  Patient tracking and locating system brings attention

http://www.gazette.net/article/20120425/NEWS/704259958/1070/suburban-hospital-wins-award&template=gazette

NLM Native Voices 1.0

http://www.addict3d.org/downloads/iphone/185443/nlm-native-voices.html

White House team tackles identity management in the cloud

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=364&sid=2842080

NEW IN NLM IN FOCUS

2012 Leiter Lecture “Future Humanitarian Crises: Challenges to Practice, Policy and Public Health”

http://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2012/05/2012-leiter-lecture-future-hum.html

Innovative Collaboration Yields New “Teaching Tool” for Cervical Cancer

http://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2012/04/innovative-collaboration-produ.html

New Look for NLM Technical Bulletin

http://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2012/05/new-look-for-nlm-technical-bul.html

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.  The month-long observance was officially designated in 1992 and the month of May was chosen to commemorate the first Japanese immigrants to the U.S. on May 7, 1843 and to recognize the Chinese immigrants who helped lay tracks for the transcontinental railroad, which was completed on May 10, 1869.

Visit asianpacificheritage.gov to learn more about the contributions of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

• PubMed Filters Sidebar has Replaced Limits
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj12/mj12_pm_sidebar.html
• Computed Author Sorted Display
  The PubMed abstract display was modified to display results using a ranking algorithm when users click the author search link:
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj12/mj12_pm_author_ranking.html