Spotlight!  on NLM Resources -LiverTox  -Wed, Nov. 14,  2012, 1:00 MT/ 2:00 CT.  Barb Jones will be presenting.

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.   NOTE 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)

Starting in Spring 2013 changes in the NIH Public Access Policy can affect current and future funding. The NIH is offering this webinar to help grantee institutions better understand these changes. It will:

• Describe the policy change
• Provide an overview of My NCBI, a tool investigators use to track and report compliance
• Describe the Public Access Compliance Monitor, a web based tool institutions can use to track public access compliance
• Advise participants on where to find additional resources and training materials

Date:  Thursday, January 15, 2013 – Live Broadcast
Time: 10:30-12:00 MT,  11:30-1:00 CT
No Charge but Registration Required <http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-016.html> /ch

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Specialized Information Services (SIS) has released “Especially for Toxicologists,” a guide to NLM resources on environmental health, toxicology, and chemical information for toxicologists.

A new Enviro-Health Links – “Laboratory Safety” page offers links to information for clinical, academic and school laboratories, including resources for handling chemical, biological and nanotechnology safely. Also included are links to regulations and policy, hazard analysis, MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets), waste management, and pre-formulated TOXNET and PubMed searches. [da]

As medical mobile applications are being used more frequently by clinicians, the health sciences library needs to provide information on quality mobile resources.  Are you aware of the many mobile sites and apps available from the National Library of Medicine?  PubMed and MedlinePlus are available for mobile devices along with a variety of other NLM resources.  A complete list is available here. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/index.html) To help publicize these resources, a new trifold brochure is available here. (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/mobiletri.pdf)

Knowledge Management in Hospitals:

Developing a team to test and ensure success.

This 1.5 day workshop will explore how corporate knowledge management techniques and processes are applied in a hospital/health system. Multidisciplinary participants will work together to craft a strategy to adopt an expanded role for librarians in hospital/health system. This expanded role will establish a foundation for librarians to support the clinical environment by providing excellent knowledge management techniques and processes.

The purpose of the interactive workshop is to:

• Engage participants to explore how a corporate-modeled knowledge management process can be enabled in hospitals.
• Provide opportunities for institutional teams to work together to design tests to measure project success and use these results to champion knowledge transfer within their health facility.
• Craft a description of optimal roles for medical librarians and others in knowledge management.
• Share examples of participation in knowledge transfer in hospitals from both the traditional and expansive views to craft a list of model activities. Tactics currently in the field include: building expertise directories, managing communities of practice, collecting and sharing best practices and stories to support clinical and organizational improvement.
• Draft processes to implement these tactics to illustrate an expanded application of the expertise of information professionals, break down silos, share experiences and sustain organizational learning.
• Define an implementation plan for this role that includes measurement of its impact on the quality and safety of health care.
• Engage participants in evaluation in order to change and improve the role of librarians as partners in healthcare safety and quality.

Participants should commit to:

• Complete a modest amount of pre-work to prepare for the session.
  • Light introductory reading.
  • Participate in two Adobe Connect sessions focusing on the goals of the work and core concepts to be applied in the workshop.
• Engage with others in a positive way to ensure group interaction and consensus building.
• Partner with other teams to run a post-workshop pilot test of tactics described using the Plan-Do-Study Act concept.
• Conduct a pilot project and report back in several conference calls to the group on progress and share “lessons learned” as a to sustain the learning and inform progress.

Audience: This session is designed for pairs of individuals from hospitals who are interested in the application of knowledge management and transfer concepts in their organization. One member of the team must/should be a librarian. This strategy will build a pair of champions to support uptake of how knowledge management can be applied in the acute care setting through modeling hospital corporate culture. There will be a simple application process to interested parties.

 Date:  February 7-8, 2013

Co-Sponsors: NN/LM MidContinental Region and NN/LM Greater Midwest Region

Registration:   Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GVDL3CK.  Registrations must be received by December 1, 2012.

Cost:                Three pair of applicants from each region will be selected to receive travel expenses to attend.

Location:         University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences.

The session will be limited to 30 participants to facilitate effective small group work.

For questions contact: Lorri Zipperer, Cybrarian and meeting facilitator.

lorri@zpm1.com / 505-559-4458

Funded by the National Library of Medicine under a Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00005-C with the University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences and

Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00006C

with the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (bbj)

Spotlight!  on NLM Resources – Wellness  -Wed, Oct. 24,  2012, 1:00 MT, 2:00 CT.  “Wellness” is such a broad topic that it’s made up of many components.  For this month’s Spotlight! session,  Jim Honour will recommend some wellness resources that focus on exercise, physical fitness, complementary/ alternative medicine, prevention and personal health records.

Please forward to others who may be interested – or invite others to view this with you!

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.   NOTE 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)

Spotlight!  on NLM Resources – Wellness  -Wed, Oct. 24,  2012, 1:00 MT, 2:00 CT.  “Wellness” is such a broad topic that it’s made up of many components.  For this month’s Spotlight! session,  Jim Honour will recommend some wellness resources that focus on exercise, physical fitness, complementary/ alternative medicine, prevention and personal health records.

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.   NOTE 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)

See the recording – presented by Rachel Vukas on Sept. 24:   http://ow.ly/e7sKi

Breezing Along with the RML – Wednesday, Oct 17, 10:00 MT, 11:00 CT.    Topics:  1) Marty Magee will facilitate Education librarians from NN/LM MCR Resource Libraries, as they share what’s new and cool and their libraries!  2)  John Bramble will also be presenting.

NOTE URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr2/ Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone,  Login: as a guest with your first and last name.

Have you heard about the latest & greatest PubMed Features? Used the computed Author Sort Display or the new Discovery Tools?  Find out about these and other new developments in the PubMed Update session. Rachel Vukas will be presenting.

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.   NOTE 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)