As MLA President, Mark Funk visits MLA chapters around the country. He is an accomplished photographer and chronicles his visits with stories and photos on his blog, Only Connect! His report on his Las Vegas trip to the Joint Chapter Meeting of the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group and the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona is available here . Check out those photos with Elvis!

The LinkOut Team at NCBI is releasing a new LinkOut Library Submission Utility during the first week of April 2008. Read more »

The Medical Library Association’s educational webcast, “Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web,” was a great success! Read more »

In September, 2007, the National Library of Medicine made funding awards for the 14th round of AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects. Since the beginning of this program in 1994, NLM has continued its HIV/AIDS-related outreach efforts to community-based organizations, patient advocacy groups, faith-based organizations, state and local departments of health, and libraries, including public libraries. The program is designed to support local efforts for improving information access for HIV/AIDS patients and the affected community as well as their caregivers. Emphasis is on providing information or access in a way meaningful to the target community. Read more »

Everyone’s talking about it! Perhaps you’ve explored MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Your library may be using these sites to communicate with your library’s clientele — or thinking about doing so. Maybe you’ve attended workshops on Web 2.0. You may have read the reports of MLA’s Social Networking Software Task Force. Do you want to learn more? Read more »

In December, we surveyed PSR Network members to determine their involvement and interest in cooperative licensing of electronic resources. We were surprised and delighted with the response. We received 115 completed surveys from individual member libraries. Read more »

The National Library of Medicine has released information regarding an R01 grant program titled “NLM Express Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics.” Read more »

Did you know that the National Library of Medicine encourages all DOCLINE libraries to join EFTS? Read more »

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DOCLINE libraries in the Pacific Southwest Region are overwhelmingly moving to the Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) and to reciprocal groups for resource sharing, such as FreeShare. As a result, both the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona (MLGSCA) and the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group (NCNMLG) are planning to end their coupon sales and redemption programs. Although coupons played a very useful role for libraries to share among themselves in the days of paper-based interlibrary loan, they do not work well in today’s electronic based system. Read more »