The Journal of the MLA reports this as the most read article recently published. Check out how frequently visitors have accessed the study in JMLA, PubMed Central, and from our MAR website:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/about/valuenews.html.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NLM Announces New Funding Opportunity: Disaster Health Information Outreach and Collaboration Projects 2013:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/disaster_funding_opportunity.html

NLM Announces the New Director of Acquisitions:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/hartinger_appointment.html

NLM Lends from Its Historical Collections to The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition “Search for the Unicorn”:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/NLMtCoMMA.html

NLM Library Operations Division Announces Two Appointments: John Kilbourne and Dianne Babski:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/lo_appointments_2013.html

NLM’s Sappol and Reznick Honored by ALHHS; Medical Heritage Library Also Honored:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/hmd_staff_honored.html

NLM to Participate in Health Datapalooza IV:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/datapaloza_iv.html

NLM DIRECTOR’S PODCASTS 

ABIM: Avoid these Medical Tests:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript050613.html

Boston Marathon explosions @ NLM’s People Finder:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript041913.html

Early Stroke Increases Mortality Risk:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript052013.html

Internet Search Provides Early Warning of Drug Interaction:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript051313.html

Lessons from Boston’s Emergency Medical Response:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/podcast/transcript042913.html

NLM IN THE NEWS

Battlefield Innovations Boost Medical Care from Baghdad to Boston: http://www.healthimaging.com/topics/imaging-informatics/battlefield-innovations-boost-medical-care-baghdad-boston

Ebix To Deliver Multimedia Health Content on Bing:  http://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/ebix-deliver-multimedia-health-content-120000892.html

Every Necessary Care and Attention:  https://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2013/scout-130419#12

Henkel Physicians:  http://events.detroitnews.com/ann_arbor_mi/events/show/310870663-henkel-physicians

In search of medical riches:  http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2013/05/21/cmaj.130095

National Library of Medicine Digital Collections API Profile:  http://www.programmableweb.com/api/national-library-of-medicine-digital-collections

NIH Mourns Sheldon Cohen [please scroll down]:  http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2013/04_26_2013/milestones.htm

NLM suggests digital ‘go-bag’ with apps for emergencies:  http://www.fiercemobilegovernment.com/story/nlm-suggests-digital-go-bag-apps-emergencies/2013-04-30

ONS: Health IT as a Tool for Improved, Patient-Centric Care:  http://www.cancernetwork.com/conference-reports/ons2013/content/article/10165/2139770

Open Science, Open Data, Open Access:  http://www.bio-itworld.com/2013/4/16/open-science-open-data-open-access.html

Postpartum depression resources:  http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/22079394/2013/04/25/post-partum-depression-resources

Presentations: Updates About National Library of Medicine Products and Services Including PubMed and MedlinePlus:  http://www.infodocket.com/2013/05/09/presentations-updates-about-national-library-of-medicine-products-and-services-including-pubmed-and-medlineplus/

Remarkable Growth of Open Access in the Biomedical Field: Analysis of PubMed Articles from 2006 to 2010:  http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0060925?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosone%2FPLoSONE+%28PLOS+ONE+Alerts%3A+New+Articles%29

Scientists Study Genome of H7N9 Isolates:  http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2013/04/scientists-study-genome-of-h7n9-isolates.aspx

Sheldon G. Cohen, immunologist:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sheldon-g-cohen-immunologist/2013/04/19/af0e3144-a769-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html

Students get firsthand look at health careers:  http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/students-get-firsthand-look-at-health-careers/article_10269ddf-1475-53c0-86bc-28dc15dc8a82.html

Teen is 1 in a million:  http://www.necn.com/05/11/13/Teen-is-1-in-a-million/landing_health.html?&apID=74cccbb24343409b8332596e66c58a48

The Content Matters Interview Series: Dr. Sylvia Chou of the National Cancer Institute:  http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/04/the-content-matters-interview-series-dr-sylvia-chou-of-the-national-cancer-institute/

Unprecedented Licensing Agreement to Spark Economic Growth and Discovery in Health IT:  http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130419-909669.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

U.S. COLORED TROOPS DURING THE CIVIL WAR [Gettysburg College symposium on C-SPAN]:  http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311639-2

U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Fred Wood:  http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/u-s-national-library-of-medicine-s-fred-wood/image_2c69dc94-caca-59fc-8b52-2edfd20af5ed.html

WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER, EVER SELF-DIAGNOSIS USING GOOGLE:  http://blogs.phillymag.com/bewellphilly/2013/04/26/never-ever-self-diagnosis-google/

NEW OR UPDATED MEDLINEPLUS TOPICS AND FEATURES

Spring 2013 Issue of NIH MedlinePlus the magazine:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/spring13/toc.html

Overactive Bladder:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/overactivebladder.html

Vejiga hiperactiva:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/overactivebladder.html

NEW FROM SIS

TOXNET TRI and TOXMAP now include the 2011 Toxics Release Inventory data, the most current US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data available.

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), a resource of the EPA, is a set of publicly available databases containing information on releases of specific toxic chemicals and their management as waste, as reported annually by US industrial and federal facilities.

MAR will be offering free four successive Fridays, 1:30 – 3:00 pm (ET)

Details:  http://nnlm.gov/training/schedule/class_details.html?class_id=603

May 31/ Session 1:          A Paradigm Shift:  Asking “Why” Before Saying “Yes”

June 7 ^/ Session 2:            Writing a Business Plan

June 14 / Session 3:        The Art of Negotiation

June 21 / Session 4:        Proving Your Worth / Adding to Your Value

• 1.5 hours MLA CE credit awarded for each session
• Watch for Registration information—MAR members will be given first priority
• Additional questions:  Michelle Burda, mburda@pitt.edu, (412) 624-1589

Beginning May 31st, MAR will be offering free four successive Fridays, 1:30 – 3:00 pm (ET)

May 31 / Session 1:          A Paradigm Shift:  Asking “Why” Before Saying “Yes”

June 7  ^/ Session 2:           Writing a Business Plan

June 14 / Session 3:        The Art of Negotiation

June 21 / Session 4:        Proving Your Worth / Adding to Your Value

• 1.5 hours MLA CE credit awarded for each session
• Watch for Registration information—MAR members will be given first priority

Additional questions:  Michelle Burda, mburda@pitt.edu, (412) 624-1589

As a result of focus groups and usability testing, MAR has restructured our website (http://nnlm.gov/mar/) to provide entry points for the populations we serve:  libraries, unaffiliated health professionals, K-12 professionals, and organizations providing consumer health information.  We’ve heard your voices and have redesigned our site to focus on you!

New Subject Categories

We added 4 new tabs/categories directing you to content designed specifically to meet your needs:

• Libraries arranged by type of library:

• Academic Libraries:       http://nnlm.gov/mar/libraries/academic.html
• Hospital Libraries:           http://nnlm.gov/mar/libraries/hospital.html
• Public Libraries:               http://nnlm.gov/mar/libraries/public.html
• School Libraries:              http://nnlm.gov/mar/educators/

• Health Professionals

For health professionals unaffiliated with a medical library, public health professionals, mental health professionals, minority health professionals, and those working at Critical Access Hospitals:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/hp/

• K-12 Professionals

For K-12 health and science educators, as well as those providing after-school programming in a K-12 school, community-based or faith-Based Organization:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/educators/

• Consumer Health

For libraries, community-based and faith-based organizations providing consumer health information:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/consumer/

More Highlights

• We added pages for Grant & Proposal Writing, as well as Planning & Evaluation Methods:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/planning.html

• We created a new Outreach Toolkit to support your own outreach initiatives:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/libraries/toolkit.html

• We added selected NLM resources to each page to get you started with resources to meet your needs

• We added your primary MAR contact person on each page—so you’ll know who can answer your questions or concerns

So visit our redesigned website and let us know what you think!

http://nnlm.gov/mar/

The MAR website has been updated with the last of the special reports:

1. for physicians and residents only
2. nurses only
3. AAHSL members only, and
4. non-AAHSL members only

Also, the full study results are now available and may be helpful to librarians who want to use some slides or data in their own presentations:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/about/valueresults.html.

The JMLA paper is now linking correctly to PMC along with the online only appendices: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543128/.  You may prefer to check out the PubReader version.

We would like to share how the University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System has highlighted the Value of Libraries project to its clinical administrators and users at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).  You may find it helpful to generate ideas on how to promote the study in your own institution:

• The Values of Libraries Study: An Update:  http://info.hsls.pitt.edu/updatereport/?p=6068

• Director’s Reflections…Does Access to Information Make a Difference?:  http://info.hsls.pitt.edu/updatereport/?p=6065

Dear Colleagues,

I’ve been working on this FEDLINK interagency group to identify and explore current & new roles that we librarians might move into, re-invent ourselves to participate in, or in some of our cases—identify roles that we are already performing that aren’t usually thought of as librarian territory.

I’m asking you to take a bit of time and give your thoughtful responses to our survey.  The results will provide evidence, for our both our continued existence as well as point us toward newer, 21^st century roles and jobs.  Please forward it to any medical, clinical, or patient/health education librarians you know as well.

Hearty Thanks!

Elaine Alligood, MLS

Informationista & Chief Library Service

VA Boston Healthcare System

857-364-5778

The Library of Congress FEDLINK invites you to participate in a survey that explores the roles library and information science (LIS) professionals are undertaking to support clinical care.  This survey will also ask you about the partnerships you have created and work within to support clinical care and its practitioners.

This is the first of three studies that the Library of Congress FEDLINK is conducting to learn about the ways LIS professionals are involved with health information.  Future surveys will focus on LIS professionals who support public health and their contributions to reducing the cost of care and other cost efficiencies for their organizations.

We hope you will help us by completing this survey.  It will take approximately 30-45 minutes of your time.

To complete the survey please go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FEDLINKHITCC
The survey will be open until February 22, 2013.

The results will be used to promote the emerging roles LIS professionals have taken on. Additionally, we plan to use the findings to inform our education, training, and programming.

If you have any questions, you may contact Jamie Stevenson, at jstev@loc.gov or 202-707-4852.

Jamie Stevenson, MPH

Principal Investigator

Library of Congress | FEDLINK

MAR is delighted to report that the “Value of Library and Information Services in Patient Care Study” has now been published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association.

Marshall JG, Sollenberger J,  Easterby-Gannett S, Morgan LK, Klem ML, Cavanaugh SK, Oliver KB, Thompson CA, Romanosky N, Hunter S. The value of library and information services in patient care: Results of a multi-site study. Journal of the Medical Library Association 2013 Jan; 101(1):39-46.

MAR will be making the full study results available on our website early next week:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/about/valueresults.html.  Please join us in wishing hearty congratulations to all the authors who worked so diligently on this study.

We are pleased to announce the 2^nd issue of our quarterly newsletter.  Our goal is…

• to spotlight various aspects of our services and NLM resources
• to highlight a Network member
• to announce classes and training for the next quarter, and
• to touch on any number of possible topics in future issues

Please share the newsletter:  http://nnlm.gov/mar/newsletter/.  Make sure to sign-up to receive future issues using the Subscribe feature.

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have just published an excellent report entitled “Questions of life and death, describing the value of health library and information services in Australia http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/HLI-ALIAValuingHealthInformationServicesReport2012Final.pdf. Based on a survey done in September 2012, the report shows how people use health library and information services in the country, and the impact usage has on clinical care and education. This is the type of report we need to conduct in Canada to answer to those who want to close health and medical libraries.

Library and information service users were asked how they believed their use of the service over the last year had helped them.

*   95% said it helped them discover new information
*   86% said it helped keep them current with the latest clinical developments
*   83% said it helped them improve health outcomes for patients
*   82% said it helped them progress their research
*   76% said it improved their diagnosis or treatment plan for a patient
*   76% said it helped them achieve higher marks in exams
*   65% said it helped confirm their diagnosis or treatment plan

HLI and ALIA are using the report to advocate for renewed investment in health libraries in Australia. The survey shows that despite significant increases in users, budgets for books, staffing levels and floor areas have declined with no prospect of improvement in 2013.

Key issues included:

*   Reduction in staff hours having a detrimental effect on the delivery of services
*   Lack of budget for essential print and e-resources
*   Visibility of the service in the digital environment
*   Continuing need for print collections
*   Uncertainty about the future
*   Lack of understanding about the value of libraries at a senior level

The full report can be downloaded here: http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/HLI-ALIAValuingHealthInformationServicesReport2012Final.pdf

Other studies of the value of health libraries

Harrison J, Creaser C, Greenwood H. Irish health libraries: new directions. Report of the status of health librarianship and libraries in Ireland (SHELLI). Dublin. Library Association of Ireland, Health Sciences Library Group, 2011.<http://www.lenus.ie/hse/handle/10147/205016>

Marshall JG. The impact of the hospital library on clinical decision making: the Rochester study. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1992;80(2):169-78.<http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=1600426>

See also Hospital library standards & their value<http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Hospital_library_standards_%26_their_value>

Connie Schardt
Associate Director for Research & Education Medical Center Library Duke University DUMC 3702
10 Searle Center Drive
Durham, NC 27710
connie.schardt@duke.edu