The following is a message from the National Library of Medicine regarding MedlinePlus Go Local.  This news was announced on a Go Local conference call earlier today. There is a link to the Power Point slides that were presented on the call at the end of this message. The slides illustrate the evaluation efforts of NLM to reach their decision.

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Knowledge Management Cafe by eogez

Update: As of February 12, applications for the knowledge sharing workshop are now being accepted through Monday, April 19th 2010. Please visit the course webpage at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/KMPNRworkshop.html for detailed information and application instructions.

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region (NN/LM PNR), is pleased to announce its sponsorship of a workshop for 14 teams on Knowledge Sharing in Hospitals: The Librarian’s Role at the Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland, Oregon on July 29-30, 2010 led by Lorri Zipperer and eligible for 9.5 units of MLA CE credit.  NN/LM PNR will announce a call for team applications later next month.

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Chris Shaffer and the Oregon Health & Science University Library are part of a national consortium recently awarded NIH funding to implement a Federated National Informatics Network.  This web-based initiative, called the eagle-i Consortium,  will be developed by OHSU and 8 other universities–led by Harvard Medical School.  Funding is from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), part of the NIH.

As one of 2 major awards made NCRR, Director Barbara Alving, M.D. states: “The infrastructure created and implemented through these awards has the potential to greatly facilitate the pace of biomedical research nationwide.”

For more information about the project,  see announcements on OHSU’s library website, and  the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center.

What happens when a librarian, a hospital public relations department, and the local media work together to provide health information outreach? Here is a great example:

Nurse’s Notes: Seeking health online? Use care.

Thanks to Dana Kopp for sharing her success with us. Dana is director of the Center for Health Information at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center in Missoula, Montana.

Today is October 1st … which means we’re in  National Medical Librarians Month 2009!

During the month, please visit NLM’s Web pages highlighting medical library projects across the NN/LM regions.

Congratulations to 10  (yes, ten!)  PNR librarians featured by NLM:

Todd Hannon and Emily Ford for Oregon Health Go Local

Jane Saxton and Susan Banks for Mobile Library Outreach

And the following librarians who participated in the Podcasting for Advocacy class, taught by Alison Aldrich and Maryanne Blake in the RML.  These students created podcasts on topics related to advocacy or promotion of their library services:

Anna Heinrich (Tuality Health Sciences Library) - http://heinrichhousehold.podbean.com/
Loree Hyde (Oregon Health and Science University Library) - http://loreehyde.podbean.com/
Rose Jackson and Claudia Weston (Portland State University Library) - http://psulibrary.podbean.com/2009/07/02/portland-state-reference/
Val Lawrence (University of Washington Health Sciences Library) - http://healwa.podbean.com
Laura Zeigen (Oregon Health and Science University Library) - http://ohsulibrary.podbean.com

All of these projects are  wonderful examples that illustrate PNR medical librarians’ impact in your organizations and communities.

Congratulations!

Should I send my survey out in paper or in email? How many people do I need to interview for the data to be valid? What kind of questions do I ask to get at what people think about our service?

If these and other questions have crossed your mind from time to time you might want to take the class Asking the Right Questions: Data Collection for Health Information Outreach being taught by Susan Barnes, Assistant Director of the Outreach Evaluation Resource Center and Maryanne Blake, NN/LM PNR Outreach/Evaluation Coordinator. This three-session free online class will be taught on September 9th, 16th and 23rd from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Pacific time). All you need to participate is a telephone and a computer.

In this workshop, participants will learn to apply good principles of data collection to assure that data – both qualitative and quantitative – will be useful in making … decisions. The emphasis will be on efficient methods that can keep data collection at a manageable level. Topics will include designing and administering questionnaires and developing guides for conducting interviews.
Go to: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/data_collection.html for a complete description and the learning objectives for the class. Registration information is at the bottom of the web page or you can go directly to www.surveymonkey.com to register. The class is limited to twenty (20) participants, so please register as soon as possible.

The class has been approved for 4 MLA contact hours.

For more information send an email to nnlm at u.washington.edu or post a comment. We look forward to having you in class!