We are pleased to let you know that we now have new MedlinePlus bookmarks available featuring the current logo and color scheme.

They are in English and Spanish and have a space where you can affix a label with your organization’s information  in order to co-brand (see example in photo above).  The space best accommodates labels sized 1″ x 2 5/8″ (Avery 5160 is one example).  We have a good supply of these bookmarks on hand, so if you’d like to order some please email nnlm@u.washington.edu with your request.

Submitted by LeAnn Gelskey, Hailey Public Library, Hailey, ID

The Hailey Public Library received a $5,000 outreach award to host a free emergency preparedness and planning community event.  The event was held on October 23, 2010.  The event “Ready Hailey” partnered with local agencies and community organizations to bring information specific to emergency preparedness and planning to the community.

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David Young, Montana State University Professor, joins us for December’s RML Rendezvous to talk about rural health disparities. Rural health needs and issues, and strategies for partnering with libraries to work in rural communities will be discussed.

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HiveMind by 917 Press

On October 7, 2010, the first organized discussion on Twitter about health literacy using a hashtag of #healthlit was hosted by Dr. Cynthia Baur, the Senior Health Literacy Advisor for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (@CDC_eHealth on Twitter) and healthfinder.gov (@healthfinder on Twitter). The main topic discussed was How can we improve health literacy? along with the recently launched National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy and the CDC blogged about the experience. An online archive of the October 7th #healthlit conversation is available.

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region (@nnlmpnr on Twitter) participated in the second #healthlit chat discussion on October 28, 2010, hosted by Health Literacy Missouri (@HealthLitMO on Twitter) featuring Dr. Baur, Dr. Arthur Culbert (CEO of Health Literacy Missouri), and Gary Schwitzer, publisher of HealthNewsReview.org and organized as a Twitter Town Hall. (more…)

October is National Medical Librarians Month, a time to promote and celebrate the important work of health information professionals. Here at NN/LM PNR, we’re using Twitter to spread the word about the value of health information professionals, especially those here in our own region.

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Several studies have found that while the majority of youth report using the Internet for health questions, they often lack skills to screen search results for quality answers. To help address this gap, the University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition has announced a new curriculum resource for school health personnel, librarians and educators:

Connecting Youth to Quality Health Information

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