Announcing new web pages and section to the NER website: the section formerly known as Resource Sharing and Document Delivery has been renamed Library Resource Management.

The new section currently incorporates three major areas of library resource management, each area has been dedicated to a separate web page:

• The Resource Sharing page offers information and links to NLM-related resources, such as: DOCLINE, Loansome Doc, LinkOut, and EFTS.
  

• The Scholarly Communications page deals with topics such as: public access, open access, licensing, and copyright.
  

• The Library Evaluation & Assessment page offers a short list of assessment tools for evaluating libraries (LibQual+, the RAC-HLS hospital library toolkits, value calculators — and more!

There’s plenty of space for populating and growing content in this section (see the left column where section links are displayed), so please feel free to pass along suggestions for future pages.

There is still time to register for the Health Literacy Institute Annual Conference in Irvine, California.

Dates = May 6-7, 2010

Our colleagues, Jean Shipman, Sabrina Kurtz Rossi, Gail Kouame, and Kelli Ham will be presenting a session about ways that librarians and health professionals can work together to promote health literacy. The conference will be attended by health care providers, educators, librarians, insurers, policy makers, grant writers and students. It is a great opportunity for tips to collaborate with other professionals on this important issue.

Check out the program at: http://www.iha4health.org/default.aspx/MenuItemID/332/MenuGroup/_Health+Literacy+Conference.htm

I thought this would be a good time to answer some of the common questions I have been hearing while reviewing the recent changes.

1. Where can I set the limits?

You can now access the limits by a NEW link on the homepage just above the search box, this will open a newly created separate page.
• A date range menu has been added.
• The choices have been reorganized by order of popularity.
• The Text Options has been moved to the bottom left of the page.
• Clear limits with the reset button and then run a new search.

Note: there are new publication types in the list, Webcasts and Research Support, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

2. How do I print in the new design?

Printing can be done in a couple of ways. When viewing your results you can use your browsers print function (file—print) or Ctrl P to print what you see on the screen. This will take out the PubMed header but include the full text icons that are associated with a citation.
OR
Choose your items, by clicking the boxes to the left of the citation, and use the display settings: select Summary (Text) or Abstract (text) to eliminate the web related content. The Summary (Text) option will change the format of the citation slightly by putting the author names first, offering that arrangement for those who prefer it.

3. How do I see the MeSH terms and other supplemental data?

Below the citation, if “indexed for MEDLINE”, will be a plus sign followed by the available components: Publication Types, MeSH Terms, Substances, click on this to expand/open the information to display all pertinent information.

4. Where do my Clipboard items display?

After selecting Send To:
• an icon will display on the results page on the right hand side.
• the number 0 will be assigned to clipboard items in the history section.
• NEW: A Clipboard link will show on the PubMed homepage in the list under the PubMed Tools heading

5. What choices do I have for E-mailing formats?

• Summary-Send your citation in the summary format if you want a hyperlink that the recipient can use to go to PubMed where the fulltext and other PubMed features will display.
• Abstract-Send in Abstract form to include the icons connected to full text along with the MeSH terms, Publications Types and other Supplemental Data that is part of the indexed record.
• Abstract (text) Send in the Abstract (text) form to have an easy to print version, this will not include hyperlinks, icons or MeSH and other supplemental data.
• Medline, XML and PMID List are also options.
• NEW: Recently a feature has been added to allow for large sets of citations to be sent in batches. The size limit has been 200 per e-mail but this new option will allow the user to select a starting point. For instance, if the first 200 have been sent the next group should start at 201.
A description is in the NLM Technical Bulletin: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf10/jf10_pm_batch_email.html

The Advanced Search Page has been trimmed down. The former box that contained multiple search menus and the Limits section has been removed.

• In their place is the NEWSearch Builder where you can use the drop down menu to select the field you want to search and use the Boolean operator buttons to combine and build your search.The Index to fields and field values has been streamlined into this section as well allowing for multiple selection of terms: choose the field from the drop down menu, type in your term, click the index button to the right of the search box, select multiple choices from the list by using the Ctrl function and add to the search box.

• Instructions have also been added to the Search Builder and History sections. They are viewable by clicking on the text at the bottom of the box/section.

Read about all the changes including changes to PubMed and many other NLM Resources in the latest NLM Technical Bulletin article. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/current_issue.html

A message from:
Healthnet: Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network
Lyman Maynard Stowe Library
University of Connecticut Health Center
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/
Judith Kronick, Healthnet Reference Librarian

COPING WITH THE TRAUMATIC NEWS FROM HAITI…..
If you are asked for recommendations for online resources about helping children–and adults– cope with the traumatic news about the earthquake in Haiti, here are some suggestions….

“Talking to Kids About World Natural Disasters”
Advice from a child psychologist at the New York Child Study Center

“Managing your distress about the earthquake from afar”
An article from the website of the American Psychological Association, national professional association of psychologists

“Talking to Children about Earthquakes and other Natural Disasters”
Written by a child and adolescent psychiatrist. On the website of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

“The Tragedy in Haiti: Helping Children Cope: Tips for Parents and Caregivers.”
Ideas for helping all children and adolescents as well as those in the U.S. whose families have been personally impacted by the Haitian earthquake. From the website of the National Association of School Psychologists

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces that it will cease providing cutter numbers in LocatorPlus for most of the classification numbers assigned to print monographs that the Library catalogs. Cutter assignment will cease on June 21, 2010. (more…)

Dan Willson, NN/LM National Coordinator for Emergency Preparedness, has recently created a screencast discussing the importance of disaster planning in libraries and why libraries should put together an emergency preparedness or service continuity plan. (more…)

Forwarded from Alberta Richetelle

The Winter 2009 issue of Healthnet News is now available at
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/hnews.html . This issue has important information about child car safety seats, de-stressing for the holidays, help for Connecticut children with food allergies, expanded access to new drugs currently being researched, and the Connecticut based Pregnancy Exposure Information Service. This issue also includes information about important consumer health books you may want to consider purchasing for your library. Your comments and questions about anything in this issue are welcome. Please contact me at my regular email address – richetelle@nso.uchc.edu.

Alberta Richetelle
Healthnet Program Director
Health Center Library
University of Connecticut
Farmington CT

From the NIH Office of Communications & Public Liaison –

We’d like to hear from you. Tell the National Institutes of Health (NIH) how you find and use health information by responding to the questions at http://nihhealthinfoRFI.nih.gov

Your responses will help NIH understand which health topics you’re interested in, so we can prepare more effective health information and get it to the people who need it.

The questions — called the Consumer Health Information Request for Information (RFI) — can be completed online in English or downloaded from the Web site in Spanish.

The RFI was developed through a partnership between NIH’s Office of Communication and Public Liaison and the NIH Director’s Council of Public Representatives.

The RFI closes Wednesday, December 30th. For more information, please visit http://nihhealthinfoRFI.nih.gov.

The New England Region will be hosting the MLA Webcast at several locations.

Cut the Cord: Connecting to our Mobile Users

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
2:00-4:00 p.m., Eastern Time

NAHSL is sponsoring the event at several locations:

Rhode Island – Butler Hospital – Contact: Ruthann Gildea (rgildea@butler.org)

New Hampshire/Vermont -Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center – Contact: Anne Conner (aconner@littletonhospital.org)

Massachusetts – Children’s Hospital, Boston- Contact: Florence Mercer (fmercer@ajh.org)

NN/LM NER is hosting the event at:

University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA.  To register for this location, go to: http://nnlm.gov/ner/training/mlawebcast_reg.html

For more information on the Webcast, see: MLA Distance Learning

Forwarded from Susan Brune Lorenzo

The Maternal and Child Health Library released a new edition of the knowledge path, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. The knowledge path points to resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at developing systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs that are family-centered, community-based, coordinated, and culturally competent. Separate sections address specific aspects of care and development, such as early intervention and special education, financing services, rehabilitation, screening, and transition. The knowledge path is designed for health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, educators, researchers, and families. The knowledge path is available at http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_CSHCN.html . Knowledge paths on other maternal and child health (MCH) topics are available at http://mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/index.html .