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Archive for the ‘Outreach’ Category
Monday, May 13th, 2013
Check out the May issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. In this edition:
A Bang to the Brain
What We Know About Concussions
Concussions are a type of mild brain injury, but they need to be taken seriously. Learn to recognize the causes and symptoms of concussion, and take steps to prevent head injuries.
On Sound Footing
The Health of Your Feet
Your feet are pretty small, considering they have to support the entire height and weight of your body. But they can cause big problems. So take steps to keep your feet healthy!
Health Capsules:
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Please pass the word on to your colleagues about NIH News in Health. We are happy to send a limited number of print copies free of charge for display in offices, libraries or clinics. Just email us or call 301-435-7489 for more information.
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
All MAR staff are attending MLA in Boston as we speak. So we ask your patience while we’re out of the office. We hope that if you’re attending MLA, we encourage you to drop by to visit us at one of our presentations or posters. We’d love to see you!
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Free Printed Summaries of AHRQ’s “Closing the Quality Gap” Evidence Report Series Available
The federal government’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a free resource to help health care providers learn more about the evidence supporting eight quality improvement strategies. “Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science” offers Executive Summaries of eight evidence reports that focus on various aspects of health care quality. AHRQ’s evidence reports offer an unbiased analysis of available research on specific health care topics. The individual reports are:
- “Bundled Payment: Effects on Health Care Spending and Quality” 12-E007-1
- “The Patient-Centered Medical Home” 12-E008-1
- “Quality Improvement Interventions to Address Health Disparities” 12-E009-1
- “Medication Adherence Interventions: Comparative Effectiveness” 12-E010-1
- “Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy” 12-E011-1
- “Prevention of Healthcare–Associated Infections” 12(13)-E012-1
- “Quality Improvement Measurement of Outcomes for People With Disabilities” 12(13)-E013-1
- “Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness” 12(13)-E014-1
To order the set, request publication OM 13-0014 from the AHRQ Publications Clearinghouse at 1-800-358-9295 or ahrqpubs@ahrq.gov.
To order individual reports, please order by title and publication number:
For online copies, go to http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports/.
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
The Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association (MLA) will be held May 3-8, 2013 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. Attendees are invited to visit the NLM exhibit booth #226 (May 4-7) to meet NLM staff and see NLM Web products and services. The NLM Theater at the booth will feature demonstrations and tutorials on a wide variety of topics.
Check out all the events that include presentations/posters by your friends from MAR, as well as NLM: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma13/ma13_mla_invite.html
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
PubMed for Experts
Presenter: Kate Flewelling, Outreach Coordinator, MAR
Location: Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Date: April 26, 2013
Details: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/class_details.html?class_id=28
Beyond an Apple a Day: Providing Consumer Health Information at Your Library
Presenter: Kate Flewelling, Outreach Coordinator, MAR
Location: Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Date: April 26, 2013
Details: http://nnlm.gov/ntcc/classes/class_details.html?class_id=30
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
Digital Memories: Preserving personal digital photos, documents, and videos
Sponsored by
National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)
National Network Office
National Library of Medicine
April 23, 2013 from 3-4 PM ET
As part of National Preservation Week, the National Library of Medicine will sponsor a one- hour webinar for NN/LM members on preserving personal digital photos, documents and videos. A panel of NLM staff including Walter Cybulski from the Preservation and Collection Management Section and Stephen Greenberg, Christie Moffatt, and Ginny Roth from the History of Medicine Division will discuss how to preserve personal digital information.
NLM staff will discuss how to preserve personal digital photos, documents, videos, and review storage, and conversion options to celebrate Preservation Week 2013. To view the webinar use the following URL https://webmeeting.nih.gov/preservationweek2013/.
Presenters’ Biographical Information
Walter Cybulski is a Preservation Librarian in NLM’s Preservation and Collection Management Section. He supervises a digitization lab, serves as collections disaster response chief and has taught preservation classes at the University of Maryland and Catholic University.
Stephen Greenberg earned his PhD from Fordham University and his library degree from Columbia. For over twenty years he has provided collection access and public services in the History of Medicine Division here at NLM.
Christie Moffatt, MSLS, is an archivist in the History of Medicine Division and manager of the Digital Manuscripts Program. Her primary focus is on the development of NLM’s Profiles in Science Web site at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/, which provides access to the digitized manuscript collections of leading innovators in science, medicine, and public health.
Ginny Roth is Curator for the Prints & Photographs collection in the History of Medicine Division. Her areas of specialization include collection management, visual resource cataloging, and photography.
Roxanne Beatty is the webinar moderator. She is the Web Program Specialist in the History of Medicine Division and earned a MLIS from The Catholic University of America in May 2011.
Preservation Week Contact:
Holly Herro
herroh@mail.nlm.nih.gov
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
Meet the instructors who will lend their professional knowledge and experience to the 4 sessions of this class. Each presenter has written a very brief bio about who they are.
May 31, Session 1 / Michelle Burda
A Paradigm Shift: Asking “Why” Before Saying “Yes”
As the NN/LM Network and Advocacy Coordinator for the Middle Atlantic Region, Michelle’s position allows her the opportunity to see first-hand the challenges that hospital librarians face in the current healthcare market. Michelle has worked in small community hospitals and in a large academic urban hospital in both clinical services and consumer health, as well as a faculty medical reference librarian. With more than 30 years of experience in the hospital environment, she has seen the many changes in healthcare.
June 7, Session 2 / Joy Harriman
Writing a Business Plan
Joy has worked for over 20 years in the health care industry as a medical librarian as well as in marketing, training, and research. She is currently the Medical Librarian at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions in Provo, UT. She was formerly the Director of the Medical Library at the Mobile Infirmary, in Mobile, AL, and a consultant with Right Management Consultants, Inc. Harriman’s book, Creating Your Library’s Business Plan: A How-To-Do-It Manual was published March 2008. A second book, Health Care in Mobile: An Oral History of the 1940s was published in September 2011.
June 14, Session 3 / Barbara Epstein
The Art of Negotiation
Barbara is Director of the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System and of the NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region. Previous positions included Director of a psychiatric hospital library, and high school librarian in an urban school district. Her career has depended on successful negotiation with administrators, staff, students, vendors and peers. Barbara is an experienced instructor and presenter and has held offices in several organizations, including MLA and AAHSL
June 21, Session 4 / Helen-Ann Brown and Claire Joseph
Proving Your Worth / Adding to Your Value
Helen-Ann is a champion for hospital librarians. Her clinical librarianship brings the hospital library to the bedside directly contributing to improving health. Her professorship at the Pratt School of Library and Information Science in the Health Information Concentration inspires future hospital librarians that they can make a difference in patient care, educating the healthcare team and research.
Claire Joseph is a solo librarian at a 435-bed teaching community hospital on Long Island’s south shore. Claire is committed to working for the survival of hospital librarians. As Chair of MLA’s Hospital Libraries Section (2012-2013), Claire’s mission is to work with HLS to create a plan to aggressively support its membership in its ongoing fight to survive. Claire will offer real-life strategies, based on her over 30 years of experience, that hospital librarians can use to proactively prove their worth to their administrators.
Beginning May 31 running four successive Fridays, 1:30 – 3:00 pm (ET)
Participants in this series of programs will further develop their library business skills.
Members of NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region will be given first priority. Those outside of the NJ,NY,DE and PA region will be put on a special waitlist.
**Registration: Register < http://nnlm.gov/mar/training/register.html?schedule_id=2255> No cost
Deadline: May 28, 2013 **
Sponsored by Middle Atlantic Region
Additional questions: Michelle Burda / mburda@pitt.edu / (412) 624-1589
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
MLA and AAHSL are issuing the following statement encouraging publishers to support authors in complying with NIH Public Access Policy:
NIH Policy Support Statement
The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries and the Medical Library Association urge journal publishers to fully support authors who are federally mandated to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy. Many authors are confused by the varied approaches and policies of different journals for submitting articles to PubMed Central. This issue will become even more pressing beginning July 1, 2013, when NIH will delay processing an award if publications arising from it are not in compliance with the Policy. Additionally, authors and their institutions need publisher support to address prior lapses in compliance, dating back to 2008, as failure to do so will adversely affect future grant funding.
On behalf of academic health centers, health sciences schools, libraries and more importantly, journal authors, we ask that:
- Publishers allow authors to submit to PubMed Central the final published versions of their articles published after April 7, 2008, related to awards that will have an anticipated start date of July 1, 2013. We ask that this permission be communicated to authors via the journal website and other relevant communication mechanisms between now and July 1, 2013.
- Going forward, publishers consider entering into an NIH Portfolio agreement with PubMed Central, wherein the journal commits to depositing all articles funded by the NIH (as defined by the NIH Public Access Policy), starting with a specified volume/issue or publication date. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/faq/#q15.
Authors in academic health centers are increasingly aware of the importance of selecting journals that simplify compliance. Publisher assistance with the compliance process would strengthen ties with their authors, an important market, and establish a strong pipeline for future cutting-edge research articles. Also, it would avoid the potential problem of researchers inadvertently violating publisher agreements when attempting to bring older publications into compliance. Finally, having a standard, easy solution for all authors would reduce publisher workload in consulting with individual authors to bring older articles into compliance.
Any delay in grant awards will have an adverse effect on major research institutions that thrive on competitive NIH funding. Publishers have a major role in the compliance process. We strongly encourage them to streamline the process and offer all possible assistance to authors mandated to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.
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The Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) supports academic health sciences libraries and directors in advancing the patient care, research, education and community service missions of academic health centers through visionary executive leadership and expertise in health information, scholarly communication, and knowledge management.
Founded in 1898, the Medical Library Association (MLA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, educational organization of 4,000 individual and institutional members in the health sciences information field that provides lifelong educational opportunities, supports a knowledgebase of health information research, and works with a global network of partners to promote the importance of quality information for improved health to the health care community and the public.
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
PRINCETON, NJ (April 15, 2013)—The April 15 deadline has been extended to April 26, for participation in the Group Licensing Initiative formed under the umbrella organization Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ). The organization’s spring 2013 offer features more than 446 resources from 10 vendors, at a cost savings of 15-60% off regular pricing.
Participation, open to all hospital librarians throughout the Mid-Atlantic region (DE, NJ, NY and PA), has grown from 75 to more than 100 Mid-Atlantic hospital libraries during the past year. Known as the first consortium of its kind in the nation, the non-profit Group Licensing Initiative strives to provide access to the highest-quality, current electronic resources in the form of medical journals, books and databases, and at the most cost-effective pricing available thanks to the organization’s leverage of group purchasing strategy.
To receive a copy of the offer, please contact Project Manager Robert Mackes, MLS, AHIP, at 570-856-5952 or rtmackes@gmail.com. Deadline for participation has been extended to April 26 due to high interest.
For more information, on the HSLANJ Group Licensing Initiative, including FAQs and testimonials, see www.hslanj.org/gli.html.
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. HHS-N-276-2011-00003-C with the University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System.
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