The National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center and Montana State University’s Center for Native Health Partnerships have published a new resource, Walk Softly and Listen Carefully: Building Research Relationships with Tribal Communities. A PDF version of the document is available for downloading. This new resource was developed with insights from those involved with tribal research in Montana and elsewhere.

Increasingly, tribal leaders acknowledge that research is a key tool of tribal sovereignty in providing data and information to guide community planning, cross-community coordination, and program and policy development. Efforts to address longstanding issues, such as health disparities for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN), have increasingly used partnership research approaches. This document seeks to strengthen these partnerships by providing insight about how culture, sovereignty, and experience matter in research with Native communities.

From Monday, July 11, 2011, through Friday, October 7, 2011, the National Library of Medicine will host a new exhibition, “From Craft to Profession: The Transition from Horse Farrier to Professional Veterinarian,” in the NLM History of Medicine Reading Room, Building 38, on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The public is invited to visit from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Mondays through Fridays and from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM on Saturdays (except Labor Day weekend, September 3-5).

This exhibition will showcase original illustrated manuscripts and early printed books from the Library’s collections featuring the care and treatment of horses over the past five centuries. The curator is Michael North, Head, Rare Books and Early Manuscripts, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.

The year 2011 has been named World Veterinary Year, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the first veterinary school in Lyon, France. In 1761, French riding master Claude Bourgelat (1712-1779) founded the first veterinary school, marking the beginning of the scientific study of the horse, eventually replacing the traditional art of farriery. Farriers were often blacksmiths and the equivalent of barber surgeons for horses, who learned their trade through apprenticeship. In the century after Bourgelat’s school opened, the practice of veterinary medicine became a credentialed profession requiring an academic degree and strict licensing, replacing the old system of farriers and apprenticeships. A slide show of the exhibition is available on Flickr.com.

On April 30, 2011, the National Library of Medicine announced that the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library is the recipient of a new five-year contract to serve as Regional Medical Library for the Pacific Southwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The new contract will run from May 1, 2011 through April 30, 2016. The Biomedical Library has served as Regional Medical Library since 1969.

The press release  also named the awardees for the seven other Regional Medical Libraries as well as the NLM National Training Center, the Outreach Evaluation Resource Center, and the Web Services Technology Operations Center.

 Please join NLM, RML and resource library staff at an informal meeting to be held on Sunday May 15 2:00-3:00pm in Minneapolis to learn about and discuss plans for a national cooperative print retention program.  The meeting will be chaired by Martha Fishel from NLM, and you will hear reports from regions 2 and 3 where regional planning efforts have started.  The purpose of this meeting is to learn about what we have investigated so far, and hear some of the recommendations that are under consideration.  We encourage participation from every region. 

If you have questions now that you would like addressed at the meeting, please send them by April 29th to Martha Fishel: fishel@nlm.nih.gov. 

Meeting Details:

Sunday, May 15, 2011, 2:00PM – 3:00 PM

Minneapolis Convention Center – Room 101B, Level One

The April issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now available! In this edition:

• Waking Up to Anesthesia: Learn More Before You Go Under
• Reflux or GERD? When Heartburn Spells Trouble
• Barbers Help Beat High Blood Pressure
• Booklet Offers Tips for Staying Fit
• Featured Web Site: Smokefree.gov

NIH News in Health is also available as a PDF for printing. Visit their Facebook Page to suggest topics you’d like covered, or start a discussion about how you use the newsletter. A limited number of print copies are available free of charge for display in offices, libraries, or clinics. Call 301-435-7489 for more information.

NLM’s Emergency Access Initiative, http://eai.nlm.nih.gov, is now available through November 20 for access to resources usually available only by subscription. Publishers are providing access only for those affected by the cholera outbreak in Haiti and for those providing assistance to the affected population.

Click on Online Databases for access to Cochrane, DynaMed, and UpToDate. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has relevant materials under “cholera,”  and both spellings: “diarrhea” or “diarrhoea,” and “diarrhoeal” or “diarrheal.” DynaMed has an entry for “Cholera” and UpToDate has a section titled “Overview of Vibrio cholerae infection.” Over 70 online textbooks and over 200 journals are also available.

NLM also has a topic page, “Health Resources for Haiti, Post-Earthquake,” http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/haitiearthquake.html with information about cholera in the top section labeled “Earthquakes and Health.” Some resources are also in Spanish, French, or Haitian Creole.

MedlinePlus offers cholera information for the general public at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/cholera.html in English and http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/cholera.html in Spanish. 

 Reprinted from Cindy Love’s post on the DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB discussion group.

From the NLM Technical Bulletin, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma10/ma10_pm_search_clinic.html

Search Clinic: Building a PubMed® Search

A thirty-minute online search clinic will be presented by the NLM® via Adobe® Connect™ on Tuesday, April 20 at 1:00 pm ET. The presentation will cover the mechanics of the PubMed Search Builder page and how to use search tags.

For more information and access to the clinic, go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/build.html.
The clinic will be recorded and available for viewing at this address.

Please note that, due to technical limitations, there is a maximum capacity of 300 participants permitted…

PSR will put a link to the recorded Search Clinic on our Distance Learning web page, http://nnlm.gov/psr/training/distance_learning/index.html when it is available.

From the NCBI News, February 2010
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=KCKQBm746.bid.1

Bookshelf

New books added to the Bookshelf include: Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses, Familial Cancer Syndromes, and UMLS Reference Manual. To view these and other books see: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books.

See the Technical Bulletin article for new changes to My NCBI. Some of them are ones I have heard from Network Members during recent PubMed trainings! You can increase the number of filters from 5 to as many as 15; you can change the display to always show you 50 citations in the Abstract format if you wish!

PubMed® Search Results can be Customized Using My NCBI

Two new online services have made the news lately:  Google Buzz and Foursquare.

Google Buzz is a good example of why it’s not always a good idea to immediately go out and try a new service.  Give it a week and let the “dust settle.”

At first, Google Buzz seemed like a great idea:  Facebook-like interaction with your contacts integrated directly into Gmail.  Unfortunately, reports of privacy issues and too many “automatic” features began almost immediately.  For instance, users reported that all their Gmail contacts were now public for everyone to see.  Google has now been forced to admit it made a mistake and to try to fix the system.  See this blog post entitled, “Google: We Screwed Up with Buzz, Stay Tuned” for a summary.

Meanwhile, a mobile service called “Foursquare” has been getting a lot of attention. Foursquare is a “geo-location” app for mobile phones.  People can share their location with their friends and offer “tips” about particular places in their city.  The Krafty Librarian has an interesting post about the service and whether it has any application to libraries.  For now, it appears to be mostly a “fun” application but it’s worth keeping an eye on for future library applications.