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The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region (NN/LM PNR), is pleased to announce a call for applications for a workshop 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.

Please visit the course website at http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/KMPNRworkshop.html for detailed information and application instructions. Applications for the workshop are due by Monday, April 19th, 2010.

Do you have questions about the upcoming workshop? Contact Lorri Zipperer at lorri@zpm1.com. We look forward to receiving your applications soon!

Interested in health information outreach to rural health advocates? The NW Regional Rural Health Conference, “Weathering the Perfect Storm: Challenges & Changes“, will be held in Spokane, WA, March 24-25, 2010.

If you are interested in exhibiting at the conference, you may apply for a $500 exhibit award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific NW Region. The NN/LM PNR will pay for the $240 booth directly and make available an additional $260 to to be used for travel, etc.

Let us know by contacting Patricia Devine, 206-543-8275 or devine@u.washington.edu if you’re interested. Exhibit spaces are filling up fast!

UW HSLIC Acting Director Neil Rambo introducing the EthnoMed team. Photo by Josh Malamy.

Congratulations to the EthnoMed team at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington Health Sciences Library on the unveiling of its redesigned website. EthnoMed:

http://ethnomed.org/

EthnoMed debuted in 1994 as a collaboratively developed online resource for cultural health information. The redesigned site has enhanced content, display, and navigation features. Behind the scenes is a Plone-based content management system which will allow for faster updates and editing. The site also features a new, prize-winning logo.

EthnoMed “contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.”  Although its primary focus has been ethnic communities (Cambodian, Ethiopian, Hispanic, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean and Vietnamese) served by Harborview Medical Center’s Community House Calls program in Seattle, EthnoMed has added pertinent information by and for other cultural groups.

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For people with disabilities, surfing the web can be a very frustrating experience. Many websites are developed without the special needs of people with visual impairments, hearing loss, and/or mobility challenges in mind. Here are a few simple steps you can take today that will improve the accessibility of your organization’s webpages.

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Update: A recording of this Rendezvous is available at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p65368195/ We apologize that closed captioning was not available for this session.

What is public health? What isn’t public health? Who are public health workers, and what do they do?

Join us for a free RML Rendezvous webcast on Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 1pm Pacific Time (2pm Mountain, noon Alaska) at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/rendezvous.

Gather Around the Water Pump: Public Health Resources and Outreach Ideas will be presented by our Technology Outreach Coordinator Alison Aldrich, who also has a Master of Public Health degree, and give you a better understanding about the vital role of public health in our communities. We will discuss ideas for library-public health partnerships and review relevant information resources.

As part of our Federal agency services regarding electronic and information technology resources being accessible to people with disabilities, closed captioning is now available on this and all future RML Rendezvous webcasts. If you are hearing impaired and in need of closed captioning, please contact Nikki Dettmar at snydern@u.washington.edu by noon Pacific time on Friday, February 5th so we may gladly arrange for this service.

We look forward to seeing you at the webcast! For more information please visit How do I connect to the Rendezvous? to test your computer connection.

Greetings Pacific Northwest Region!

Know any physician assistants or librarians with whom you want to partner?  How about a group with which you’ve always wanted to do outreach activities surrounding health information?  The NN/LM PNR is pleased to announce two new funding opportunities.

First, there is the “Health Information Literacy Partnership Award: Physician Assistants & Librarians.”  The goals of this award are:

* To promote health information literacy and surrounding issues;
* To improve the use of quality health information resources for patient education by physician assistants;
* To promote strategies for improving patient health information literacy by physician assistants;
* To foster local health information expertise among physician assistants;
* To promote awareness and use of the products and services of the NLM and the NNLM, including, but not limited to the InfoRx Program.

See the full announcement and find the application for the “Health Literacy Partnership Award” at: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/HealthLitPAs.html

Next, we have another round of “Express Outreach Awards.”  Goals of these awards are:

* To improve use of quality online health information resources by priority populations (as defined below);
* To promote health information literacy in health education and health care;
* To build or strengthen partnerships between network members and other community organizations;
* To foster local health information expertise in community organizations;
* To promote awareness and use of the products and services of the NLM and the NNLM.

The full announcement this year’s Express Outreach Awards, along with the application are linked here: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding/Express_Outreach_Jan_2010.html.

Both of these awards will be for a maximum of $12,000.  Then deadline for both applications is April 23, 2010.  If you have questions contact Gail Kouame, Consumer Health Coordinator, at gmarie@u.washington.edu or Cathy Burroughs, Associate Director, at cburroug@u.washington.edu.  You can also call the Regional Medical Library at 1-800-338-7657 (in AK, ID, MT,  OR, and WA) or 206-543-8262.