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It's been a busy couple of months here in the New England Region. We've been exhibiting and teaching in lots of different venues. Here's a sample of what's been going on in Outreach since our last newsletter:

• Taught PubMed at Newport Hospital Grand Rounds in Newport, RI
• Attended the Building Bridges Conference in Worcester, MA sponsored by MIRA (Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition)
• Exhibited at the New England Business Expo in Worcester, MA
• Attended NAHSL and exhibited there
• Taught PubMed for CMCHRL (Central MA Consortium of Health Related Libraries) in Shrewsbury, MA
• Taught Toxnet at the North Country Health Consortium in Littleton, NH
• Taught PubMed at the Littleton Regional Hospital in Littleton, NH
• Did an Intro to PubMed session for the Emergency Medicine residents at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, CT
• Exhibited and taught PubMed at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA
• Taught PubMed at Tufts in Boston, MA
• Exhibited at the Midwives Alliance of North America annual meeting in Wakefield, MA
• Taught PubMed to the nursing faculty at U Mass Boston in Boston, MA
• Taught PubMed at Baystate in Springfield, MA

  Others in our office have been busy with meetings and teaching classes. It's been a whirlwind month.

  But, we want to do more! It would benefit everyone in our region if we could schedule introductory PubMed classes monthly in various locations around New England. If your institution has a computer classroom or a meeting room that would hold about 15 students and you'd be willing to host such an event, please contact me. It would be terrific if we could have these learning opportunities available to more people in more locations.

  Noteworthy:

  NLM has a new online exhibit called Smallpox: A Great and Terrible Scourge available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/index.html. It is worth a look.

  The Journals database in PubMed has changed. For a full description of the changes, please see the NLM Technical Bulletin article at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so02/so02_journals_database.html. ** To do a search for all the citations from a particular journal using the Journals Database, click on "Links" on the right hand side of the page and then click on PubMed.

  The NLM Classification 2002 edition is now available online. Please see the NLM Technical Bulletin article at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so02/so02_classification.html

  Those of you who are MLA members have probably already received your MLA News. In it, there was this interesting tidbit that may be of use to many of us:

  If you need a free tool that converts documents into portable document format (PDF) files, then NLM's DocMorph (http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/default.htm) may be for you. It allows users from anywhere on the Internet to upload scanned image files and other types of information for conversion to alternative formats. Some of the document conversion techniques offered by this service are reportedly not readily available elsewhere on the Web. After a one-time free registration, you may use your Web browser to upload files to DocMorph for conversion, or download MyMorph, DocMorph's new companion software, which may significantly increase user productivity. For more information, contact Frank Walker, webmaster, at walker@nlm.nih.gov.

  And, finally, the History of Medicine division as produced yet another excellent online exhibit entitled Dream Anatomy which makes available some of the anatomical images from the collection of the NLM, 1500 to the present. See the exhibit at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/index.html

  Donna Berryman, Outreach Coordinator