Genomic Careers Resource for Students
To help students planning their professional careers understand the opportunities in the fields of genetics and genomics, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)  launched the Genomic Careers Resource on the institute’s Web site, genome.gov. The careers resource showcases nearly 50 career opportunities through video interviews, career profiles, tools to rate potential career choices, and an interactive game. The Genomic Careers Resource Web site, available at
http://www.genome.gov/GenomicCareers, is aimed primarily at high school and college students [Read the complete NIH News Release is available online at: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2010/nhgri-18.htm]

Genetic Testing Registry
The National Institutes of Health announced  that it is creating a public database that researchers, consumers, health care providers, and others can search for information submitted voluntarily by genetic test providers. The Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) aims to enhance access to information about the availability, validity, and usefulness of genetic tests. Information about the Genetic Testing Registry and NCBI is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gtr/ Read the complete NIH News Release online at: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2010/od-18.htm ] scb

HIV and AIDS Resources will be the subject of the next Spotlight! on National Library of Medicine Resources, presented by Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, on Wed. March 24.

Tune in at 8:30 am Mountain Time/9:30 am Central Time. **Note the new starting time!

Taking the one-hour class and completing the exercises and class evaluation makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE.

You will need Internet access and a phone. Log onto https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr . You’ll sign in as a guest, enter your phone number when prompted and the system will call you! Register online at http://tinyurl.com/mcrclasses (registration is not required but is appreciated). Captioning available upon request to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

Improving the Odds: Making Frontier Health Project Proposals More Competitive
http://www.coruralhealth.org/events/documents/FrontierProposalTraining.pdf
Training Session – April 19, 2010 Denver, Colorado
The National Center for Frontier Communities (NCFC) is pleased to invite you to a special one-day training session designed to help frontier communities be more successful in their Federal funding proposal preparation. The training will emphasize health project funding available from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. This will be a one-day program held in conjunction with The Forum 2010 conference of the Colorado Rural Health Center. Register online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3TGFH23 [scb]

NLM’s Disaster Information Management Research Center has developed a new disaster health information resource flyer and promotional poster. The poster is available in table-top (8 ½ x 11 inches) and full poster (21 x 32 inches) sizes. These materials can be downloaded from: http://disaster.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/present_pubsdimrc.html [scb]

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]

Did you know that 61% of American adults go online to find health information? Or that 24% of these “e-patients” have sought out online rankings or reviews of healthcare providers? These and other interesting findings are reported in The Social Life of Health Information (http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/8-The-Social-Life-of-Health-Information.aspx). This report, released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, is one of the documents that the RML is using to generate ideas for the next NN/LM contract and we thought you may also be interested.

We’d love to hear back from you about what this work means 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

Next Breezing Along with the RML session, Wed. March 17, 10:00 Mountain Time, 11:00 Central Time. Two great presentations:

1) “Promoting Change” by Heather Brown and Ann Kaste from the University of Nebraska Medical Center
Excited by mobile technologies and social media, two librarians presented their ideas to library leadership in a unique way. In this discussion, find out how they did it and what lessons were learned.

2) Rebecca Brown’s presentation will focus on two citation bookmarking services,CiteULike and Connotea. Both are available at no cost, and are a hybrid of a citation manager and a social bookmarking service. Come learn how to use these tools to save, share, and discover.

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/
Equipment: Connection to the Internet and a phone
Login: as a guest with your first and last name
Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in.

Captioning available upon request to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

New Issue of NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
http://bit.ly/8XsuUf Winter 2010 Issue: Volume 5  Number 1
Healthy blood pressure, TMJ, shingles, diverticulitis & more all in the new issue of NIH MedlinePlus magazine. If your library is not getting a copy, you can subscribe to the print edition at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/subscribe.html

MedlinePlus adds audio pronunciations to dictionary
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
Have you ever read a medical word and wondered how to pronounce it?  Do your customers ask you for help pronouncing medical words?  MedlinePlus can help!  The MedlinePlus medical dictionary now includes audio pronunciations.  Learn how to say words like ptosis, Sjogren’s and fibrillation.  Search the medical dictionary on MedlinePlus.  Then click on the red speaker icon next to your word to hear the pronunciation.

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) posted its Request for Proposal for the 2011-2016 NN/LM Contract.  If you’re interested in what NLM expects from its Regional Medical Libraries: Go to the Federal Business Opportunities web site <https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=46b8705da5a6ca048c7384f1b4883ba2&tab=core&_cview=1>, Click on Attachment 1 Statement of Work. This document lists the tasks that each RML must explain how it will accomplish.

The due date for proposals is June 3, 2010. All interested parties are encouraged to submit a proposal.  /ch