The National Library of Medicine provides a People Finder to help locate your loved ones after a disaster. You can now add people and search for people affected by the Typhoon Sendong. You can also report and search for people surviving the Turkey earthquake and the Japan earthquake and tsunami.

From the NLM People Finder About Us:
All data contained on this Web site are available to the public and are searchable by all visitors to the Web site. Data are received from multiple sources: direct submissions to NLM using the “ReUnite” application or email, from the Google Person Finder, and from other organizations, as indicated on individual records. The site may not be moderated, and NLM and other contributing organizations do not review or verify the accuracy of any of the data presented on this Web site. Note that data received by direct submission to NLM may be disseminated to other agencies, institutions, and organizations assisting the effort to locate missing people,including the Google Person Finder.

Ways You Can Search:
Once you have performed a search, you may also limit your results by status, gender, and age. Status choices are missing (blue), alive and well (green), injured (red), deceased (black), found (brown) or unknown (gray). Gender choices are male, female, and other/unknown.
Age choices are 0-17, 18+, or unknown.

Please spread the word about the NLM People Finder, to help family and friends find eachother in times of natural disasters.

The Health Data Tools and Statistics page on the PHPartners.org website has been reorganized to make public health data and statistics easier to find and use.

New Public Health Data Tools and Statistics Categories:
• County and Local Health Data
• State Health Data
• Individual State Data
• National Health Data
• Global Health Data
• Statistical Reports
• Demographic Data
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Training and Education
• Health Information Technology and Standards
• Tools for Data Collection and Planning

The Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce (PHPartners) is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health science libraries. The mission of PHPartners is to help the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public’s health.

PHPartners.org welcomes suggestions of public health online information resources. Submit new link suggestions at http://phpartners.org/suggestlink.html.

Questions, comments, and feedback about PHPartners.org can be submitted at http://phpartners.org/about.html#Contact%20Us.

To keep up-to-date with public health news and online information resources, subscribe to a weekly email announcement of What’s New on PHPartners or to the PHPartners RSS feed.

A new topic page on Obesity is now available on PHPartners.org at http://phpartners.org/obesity.html.

The topic page links to obesity information and resources including government, professional and research organizations that focus obesity issues; reports, publications and guidelines; obesity programs and campaigns; child obesity information; data and statistics; legislation and policy issues; grants and funding opportunities; training and continuing education; and upcoming conferences and events.

The Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, PHPartners.org, is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries. The mission of PHPartners is to help the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public’s health.

PHPartners.org welcomes suggestions of new links to post. Please suggest links at http://phpartners.org/suggestlink.html.

To keep up-to-date with public health news and online information resources, you can subscribe to the PHPartners RSS feed at http://phpartners.org/rss_phpartners.xml, or to the weekly email announcement list at http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=phpartners_link&A=1.

Today is Earth Day. In honor of Earth Day, here are some tips to go green at your library.

1. Form a green library committee
2. Link going green to saving energy costs to earn administrative support
3. Recycle books (Better World Books)
4. Turn down the heat 1 or 2 degrees
5. Use energy efficient lighting and automatic timers and/or collect batteries and CFL bulbs for recycling
6. Encourage telecommuting if possible
7. Encourage people to turn off lights when a room is not in use
8.  Encourage people to bring mugs rather than disposable cups
9. Clean green
10. Start a library community garden or have more houseplants

Some resources you can explore for more information about the environment and your library are:

Antonelli, Monika. The Green Library Movement: An Overview and Beyond. Electronic Green Journal. 1(27). 2008

http://www.greenlibraries.org
http://thegreenlibraryblog.blogspot.com/
http://greeningyourlibrary.wordpress.com/

Celebrate Earth Day by thinking of at least one step you can take to make your library more earth friendly, and put that step into action!