NLM’s Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) will provide a special webinar on Thursday, April 25, 2013, 11:30 am MT, 12:30 pm CT, “Packing Your Digital Go-Bag: Essential Disaster Health Information on Your Mobile Device.” In this webinar, representatives from NLM will identify and discuss key resources that responders and disaster/emergency preparedness professionals should load on their mobile devices as part of their preparedness activities. No advance registration is necessary. This session will be recorded and posted at on the DIMRC web site  (http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/dismeetings.html)a few days after the meeting.

Click here to connect to the webinar or copy this URL into your browser ( https://webmeeting.nih.gov/gobag ), then enter your name in the guest box and click “Enter Room.”  A pop-up box should appear asking for your phone number. Enter your phone number and the system will call you. If you cannot use the call-back feature, the dial-in information is:

• Dial-In:  1-888-757-2790
• Pass-Code: 745907

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“Catch the Highlights” – Professional Development Award winners will be “sharing back” information on conferences attended:

• Ben Harnke and Alissa Fial  – EScience Conference
• Sheryl Williams – Disaster Communication Summit

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr2/ 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 will be provided.  Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

The Health Literacy Advisor project funded for the McGoogan Library of Medicine is highlighted in the Washington Post article “Turning medical jargon into plain language.” For this project, the NN/LM MCR selected members for a 1 year license to Health Literacy Advisor, a software program that helps to lower the reading level of a medical document. Congrats to Jana Uryasz, who has been running the service, for being selected for the interview! /ch

NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and NLM partnered to fund a pilot program for information outreach dissemination projects to promote the NLM-ORWH Women’s Health Resources Web Portal (http://www.womenshealthresources.nlm.nih.gov)  and to support the ORWH Strategic Goals.  Congratulations to Eccles Health Sciences Library for submitting a successful  proposal. Their project, Building Awareness of Sex and Gender Differences Research, is described in their newsletter.

All projects focused on information dissemination, information access or resource development for a university/college or community agency. Each project will promote the NLM-ORWH Women’s Health Resources portal, create a library guide on sex and gender differences/research information resources at the institution, and promote “The Science of Sex and Gender in Human Health” online curriculum to students and faculty.

Additional libraries who were funded :

Arizona Health Sciences Library, University of Arizona

Earl S. Richardson Library, Morgan State University

Hardin Library for Health Sciences, University of Iowa

Health Science Center Libraries, University of Florida

Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama

Medical University of South Carolina Library

Oviatt Library, California State University at Northridge

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• Systematic reviews and practice guidelines: you have researched them, you have read them – now hear from librarians who write them. Join Shandra Protzko and Peggy Cruse from National Jewish Health, Tucker Memorial Library for a lively discussion about their work in the systematic review and practice guideline process.  When you learn how much time and energy is involved – in addition to the over 400 expert searches they logged in 2011 – you will be amazed! Come with questions and your own experiences.  Led by Dana Abbey
• Winning the Story Wars! – Barb Jones and the Advocacy Bookclub

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr2/ 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 will be provided.  Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

• What’s the difference between an EHR, EMR, and PHR?  How does MedlinePlus Connect support meaningful use?  What does it all mean to health sciences librarians?  If you need answers to these questions, then plan to attend our Spotlight Session on “EHRs, Meaningful Use, and MedlinePlus Connect,” presented by Rachel Vukas

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr2/ 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 will be provided.  Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

The April 2013 issue of NIH News in Health is now available online. This month learn how less sleep can affect your mental and physical health and discover new research in antidepressants. /da

From March 20, 2013 – Breezing Along with the RML

• Betsy Kelly led a panel on Academic Library Data Collection
• Barb Jones led a panel on Hospital Library Data Collection

View the archived recording at: http://ow.ly/jhMHT

From March 27, 2013 – Spotlight! on NLM Resources

• National Library of Medicine – K-12 Resources presented by Monica Rogers

View the archived recording at: http://ow.ly/jy1sl

“Catch the Highlights” – Professional Development Award winners will be “sharing back” information on conferences attended:

• Ben Harnke and Alissa Fial  – EScience Conference
• Sheryl Williams – Disaster Communication Summit

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr2/ 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 will be provided.  Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

Hear stories from the front lines of libraries affected by Hurricane Sandy in this recently recorded 90-minute webinar.

FEMA just posted stats on Hurricane Sandy @ https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2013/03/29/new-york-recovery-hurricane-sandy-numbers

• Sharing Experiences and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy / March 2013 (Recording | Transcript )
  • Presentation (PDF)

Representatives from damaged or destroyed academic, hospital and public libraries spoke on the state of their library/institution immediately following the hurricane, response efforts, follow-up activities and lessons learned to prepare for a future disaster. /da