Screencasts are an easy way to provide step-by-step instructions (tutorials) for a new software program, how to search the library catalog, or how to make an interlibrary loan request for example.

This class will meet via a blend of one required, virtual, face-to-face orientation session using Adobe Connect on March 23rd at 11 CT, with the remainder of the class work being done online in Moodle, the NN/LM’s online course management system. You should expect the coursework, including the online meeting, to take about 4 hours.

4 MLA CE credits are available for those completing the class.

To register, go to http://tinyurl.com/ybbrntj

Please contact Rebecca Brown at rbrown3@kumc.edu with questions.

What do emergency preparedness planners and responders to disasters talk about when they get together at a conference? What would happen if a librarian was added to that mix? You can find out!

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region is sponsoring travel subsidies to two Network institutions to subsidize travel to an emergency planning conference before the end of March/April, 2010. http://nnlm.gov/mcr/funding.

Institutions will receive up to $1,200 per institutions to send staff to an emergency planning meeting.

Eligibility:

Members of NN/LM MCR who have submitted a continuity of operations plan for their library to the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit: http://nnlm.gov/ep.
One of the first two Network members to complete and submit an application for travel subsidy. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=u3bGuEtFSlet7ncgiMUfFQ_3d_3d.

Responsibility:

Register for a conference that takes place by the end of April 2010.
Attend and participate in conference sessions.
Share your experiences with the region through a newsletter article, presentation, or a way mutually agreed upon with the NN/LM MCR.
For more information contact Claire Hamasu chamasu@rml4.utah.edu 800-338-7656 option #1, #1 or Jim Honour jhonour@uwyo.edu1-800-338-7657 option #1, #2, #8. [jh]

The RML is planning for its next NN/LM contract. Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector from the James Irvine Foundation (http://www.irvine.org/images/stories/pdf/eval/convergencereport.pdf) is one of the documents that we are using to generate ideas and we thought you may also be interested. It discusses how shifts in demographics, advances in technology, changes in the way work is organized, increasing interest in civic engagement and volunteerism, and the blurring of sector boundaries are coming together to reshape the nonprofit sector, and proposes key competencies for nonprofits going forward in the areas of workforce and leadership development, technology, and organizational structure and partnerships.

We’d love to hear back from you about whether the contents of this document have import for you and your library. Comments can be left on the MCR Blog at http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/. If there is another document that you’d like to recommend that we read, please feel free to provide the information in a comment as well. Happy reading! /ka

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region (NN/LM PNR), is pleased to announce its sponsorship of a workshop for 14 teams on Knowledge Sharing in Hospitals: The Librarian’s Role at the Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland, Oregon on July 29-30, 2010 led by Lorri Zipperer and eligible for 9.5 units of MLA CE credit. NN/LM PNR will announce a call for team applications later next month.

This 1.5 day workshop will explore how corporate knowledge management concepts could be implemented in a hospital/health system. Participants must include a team consisting of a hospital librarian who is a Network member (what does it mean to be a Network member?) and a professional from another department in the same institution. These multidisciplinary teams will then work together to craft a foundational strategy for adoption of an expanded role for librarians and others in hospital knowledge sharing efforts to support the clinical environment and its provision of safe, high-quality care.

This workshop is open to all NN/LM members, however preference will be given to NN/LM PNR members. The cost of the workshop is $35, including one lunch and all break refreshments. The first three NN/LM PNR Network member teams accepted for the workshop will have their travel expenses paid. Those funded teams will be responsible to attend all sessions at the workshop and either present their project within 18 months after workshop completion or publish their work in a Pacific Northwest Region publication.

Some of the application questions include:

In your view, what are the most pressing knowledge sharing issues in your organization?
What experience do you have with information and knowledge sharing team-based initiatives?
What activities does your hospital engage in that would provide strategic support for this work?

Do you have questions about the upcoming workshop? Please don’t hesitate to contact Lorri Zipperer at lorri@zpm1.com. We look forward to providing you with more details and seeing your applications soon!

Applications for this workshop may be found at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2010/01/28/knowledgesharing/ (bbj)

http://alalearning.org/2010/02/02/10steps/
Peter Bromberg writes:”If the goal of a library conference is that attendees will learn, what do conference presentations have to look like to achieve that goal? I believe the goal of presenting should be to create a change in the listener—a change of behavior, thinking, and/or feeling. Any good teacher or trainer will tell you that to be effective in creating that change, you must begin with the learning objective(s) in mind, and work backwards from there to design the lesson or the talk.”…
ALA Learning, Feb. 2
[posted in American Libraries Direct 2/3/2010] scb

http://bit.ly/cEswQr
Read this section in the report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project: “Social Media and Young Adults”, February 2010 http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx
“About a third (31%) of online teens ages 12 to 17 use the internet to look for health, dieting or physical fitness information, a finding that has remained relatively stable since the question was first asked in December 2000, when 26% of online teens gathered health information online.” [sc]

If you haven’t had time to review the most recent NLM Technical Bulletin, you can visit this URL to view the latest changes that are going to be implemented shortly. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf10/jf10_pm_advanced_search.html [rb]

Add the Health Resources for Haiti Widget to your library’s website. Find the code on the NLM Diaster Information Management Research Center web site http://disaster.nlm.nih.gov/

Emergency Access Initiative Updates: http://eai.nlm.nih.gov
There are now over 65 reference books available to libraries and hospitals affected by the earthquake in Haiti. In addition, NLM thanks the participating publishers for their generous support of this initiative: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College of Physicians, American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, ASM Press, B.C. Decker, BMJ, Elsevier, FA Davis, Mary Ann Liebert, Massachusetts Medical Society, McGraw-Hill, Merck Publishing, Oxford University Press, People’s Medical Publishing House, Springer, University of Chicago Press, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer. [scb]

Have you ever wanted to receive notification when a web page changes or adds new information, but were unable to do so if the web site did not have an RSS feed? Google Reader has just added a new feature which will allow you to keep up with changes to web pages that do not have RSS feeds. For more information on this feature and instructions for setting it up, see this article on Google’s blog: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/01/follow-changes-to-any-website.html. [SD]