We have to start meeting like this!

Your Regional Medical Library, NN/LM PNR, is unveiling its new series of web-based meetings and talks with its network members - RML Rendezvous.

For our premier “at your desktop” meeting, on April 18th at 1:00 pm Pacific time, Susan Barnes, Assistant Director, Outreach Evaluation Resource Center (OERC), is our presenter. Everyone will find information they can use in Susan’s talk, “Do You Make a Difference? Providing Evidence of Program Value”. (more…)

More opportunities to learn at your desktop! Try these FREE distance learning classes from NN/LM, available in 2007. Classes are led by an instructor and are asynchronous in delivery, allowing flexibility in adapting your schedule to training. Most are using open access software called Moodle as the platform. Moodle is a course management system similar to Blackboard or WebCT.

To register for any of these classes, please contact the instructor via e-mail. Registration will be held on a first-come, first-served basis. Classes will each be offered a minimum of two times in 2007.

Basics of Electronic Document Delivery
Description: This course will help health sciences library staff make decisions regarding whether to provide electronic document delivery, and what software and equipment should be acquired. It will also provide information on how to work with different file types and how to determine whether a library’s electronic publications can be used in electronic document delivery.
Instructor: Andrea Ryce (NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region)
E-Mail: rycea@u.washington.edu
Starting: February 2007
Length: Four weeks
Students: Currently limited to 10
MLA CE Contact Hours: to be determined
**February class full; registrations no longer being accepted**

Caring for the Mind: Providing Reference Services for Mental Health Information
Description: Participants will develop an increased awareness of mental health issues and cultivate their reference skills in the context of mental health information including enhanced knowledge of resources and ability to handle emotional patrons.
Instructor: Michelle Eberle (NN/LM New England Region)
E-Mail: michelle.eberle@umassmed.edu
Starting: February 2007
Length: Four weeks
Students: Currently limited to 10
MLA CE Contact Hours: to be determined
**February class full; registrations no longer being accepted**

From Snake Oil to Penicillin: Evaluating Consumer Health Information on the Internet
Description: This course will introduce participants to issues surrounding the quality of health information resources on the Internet. A set of recommended criteria to evaluate health information will be provided.
Instructor: Gail Kouame (NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region)
E-Mail: gmarie@u.washington.edu
Starting: February 2007
Length: Three weeks
Students: Currently limited to 10
MLA CE Contact Hours: to be determined
**February class full; registrations no longer being accepted**

¿No Comprende?
Description: This course covers resources for learning basic, library, medical, and Internet Spanish vocabulary, along with the evaluation and identification of health websites in Spanish.
Instructor: Sheila Snow-Croft (NN/LM Southeastern Atlantic Region)
E-Mail: ssnowcro@hshsl.umaryland.edu
Starting: February 2007
Length: Two Weeks
Students: Currently limited to 10
MLA CE Contact Hours: to be determined
**February class full; registrations no longer being accepted**

NLM Gateway
Description: This class is designed to teach students how to use the National Library of Medicine Gateway.
Instructor: Maureen Czujak (NN/LM National Training Center & Clearinghouse)
E-Mail: mczujak@nyam.org
Starting: March 2007
Length: 1/2 day
Students: Currently limited to 15
MLA CE Contact Hours: to be determined
**February class full; registrations no longer being accepted**

Nursing on the Net: Health Care Resources You Can Use
Description: This course is designed for librarians responsible for information services to the Nursing and Allied Health professions. Participants will learn to use and evaluate web based health information resources, find online news services, continuing online education courses, and consumer health web sites. Participants will also learn to use the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed and MedlinePlus databases.
Instructor: Tammy Mays (NN/LM Greater Midwest Region)
E-Mail: tmays@uic.edu
Starting: March, 2007
Length: Four weeks
Students: Currently limited to 10
MLA CE Contact Hours: to be determined
**February class full; registrations no longer being accepted**

Thinking Like An MBA: Time, Money, Resources, and Change Management in the Library
Description: As not-for-profit institutions adopt more business practices and processes, librarians need to be more knowledgeable about adapting to these current strategies. The class covers the basics of Project Management, its three components, time , money, and resources, as well as change management.
Instructor: Marty Magee (NN/LM Midcontinental Region)
E-Mail: mmagee@unmc.edu
Starting: Feb. 2007
Length: Four weeks
Students: Currently limited to 10
MLA CE Contact Hours: to be determined
**February class full; registrations no longer being accepted**

For more online learning opportunities, visit the MLA CE Institute Web-based Courses and Offerings webpage.

The NN/LM PNR Lending Library has recently grown by 23 new titles. Our new NetLibrary collection includes titles in marketing, evidence-based medicine, evaluation, and licensing and copyright, to name a few. You can view the full list of titles here: NN/LM PNR NetLibrary Collection.

The titles in the NetLibrary collection are accessible online, anytime and anywhere, but they are not downloadable. However - pages from the titles can be printed, page by page, and sections of text can also be copied and pasted.

Access is available with your network membership. Please email nnlm@u.washington.edu to request a username and password. And remember – we still have ‘real’ books available for circulation! Items circulate for two weeks and postage is prepaid by the RML.

On December 12 at 12:00 – 1:00 PM (Pacific), the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPHP) will broadcast a webcast called “Emergency Plan Implementing Procedures for All Hazards Preparedness and Response”.

This session is one of a series of “Hot Topics in Preparedness” offered by NWCPHP. It is geared for local health departments but general principles about planning and implementing emergency preparedness plans will be useful for any type of organization. (more…)

Yes, you have free access to the full text of more than 50 publications, using the familiar interface common to PubMed and other Entrez resources! When the Bookshelf first became available from NCBI, the textbooks in its collection were almost exclusively from the fields of molecular and cell biology. However, this is no longer the case. (more…)

New to our Lending Library and ready for check out:

Hay Group/
MLA 2005 Salary Survey by the Hay Group/Medical Library Association

The New OPL Sourcebook: A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries
by Judith A. Seiss

Library Marketing that Works!
by Suzanne Walters

Interpreting the Medical Literature, 4th edition
by Stephen H. Gehlbach

Evidence-based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, 3rd edition
by Sharon E. Straus, W. Scott Richardson, Paul Glasziou, R. Brian Haynes

This service is FREE to libraries and Network members in the Pacific Northwest Region.

To order, send email request to: nnlm@u.washington.edu.