Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Ph.D., Director of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), announced the 65 museum recipients of the 2007 Conservation Project Support (CPS) grants totaling $4.9 million. The grant program helps museums identify conservation needs and priorities and perform activities to ensure the safekeeping of its collections. [What is discovered, learned and applied in these projects may well be put to good use in medical libraries, too.] http://www.imls.gov/news/2007/051007_list.shtm#DC

District of Columbia

Woodrow Wilson House, National Trust for Historic Preservation - Washington, DC
Award Amount: $76,022; Matching Amount:$77,760
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. Frank Aucella
(202)387-4062×011; faucella@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
1785 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC 20036-2117

Project Title: “Woodrow Wilson House Comprehensive Conservation Planning”
The National Trust will use its grant to conduct an environmental survey of the Woodrow Wilson House’s building and existing mechanical systems to develop priorities for collections improvements and a strategy for mechanical upgrades. The Woodrow Wilson House is a national historic landmark and house museum that focuses on President Woodrow Wilson’s Washington Years (1912-1924).

Florida

Henry B. Plant Museum - Tampa, FL
Award Amount: $43,494; Matching Amount:$48,844
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mrs. Susan Carter
Curator / Registrar
(813)258-7303; scarter@ut.edu
401 West Kennedy Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33606-1450

Project Title: “Detailed Survey”
The Henry B. Plant Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of nearly 2,000 pieces in its permanent collections, including archives, furniture, and decorative arts. The museum is housed in a former late Victorian-era railroad resort hotel, the Tampa Bay Hotel, and interprets the lifestyle of the hotel and the beginnings of Florida’s tourist industry.

Georgia

Center for Puppetry Arts - Atlanta, GA
Award Amount: $17,250; Matching Amount:$17,827
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. Alan Louis
Director of Museum and Education Programs
(404)881-5144; alanlouis@puppet.org
1404 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30309-2820

Project Title: “Detailed Condition Survey of the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Asian Puppet Collection”
The Center for Puppetry Arts will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of the Center’s Asian collection of 650 puppets and related performing objects of historical, cultural, religious, sociopolitical, and artistic significance. The puppets in this collection represent China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as the Asia Minor countries of Turkey and Israel.

Maryland

B & O Railroad Museum - Baltimore, MD
Award Amount: $26,979; Matching Amount:$27,493
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. David Shackelford
Chief Curator
(410)752-2490; chiefcurator@borail.org
901 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21223-2644

Project Title: “Assessing the Small-Object Collections of the B&O Railroad Museum”
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of the museum’s vast historic paper-based and audiovisual collections, which include motion picture film, videos, sound recordings, photographic prints, slides, transparencies, and glass plate/film negatives related to early American railroading. The paper holdings include periodicals and trade publications, documents of early B&O Railroad presidents, corporate records from 1827, old payroll files, manuscripts, maps, engineering drawings, and lithographs.

North Carolina

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. - Raleigh, NC
Award Amount: $17,047; Matching Amount:$18,636
Grant Category: Survey of collections

Contact: Mr. William Brown
Chief Conservator
(919)664-6812; wbrown@ncmamail.dcr.state.nc.us
4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699

Project Title: “NCMA Detailed Condition Survey - Objects and Textiles”
The North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of ancient art and ethnographic materials, decorative arts, contemporary sculpture, and African textiles.

Virginia

Chrysler Museum of Art - Norfolk, VA
Award Amount: $96,382; Matching Amount:$96,382
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Mrs. Catherine Wass
Deputy Director of Operations
(757)965-2037; cjordan@chrysler.org
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510-1587

Project Title: “Collection Storage Renovation”
The Chrysler Museum of Art will use its grant to purchase and install new storage equipment in which to properly house the museum’s reserve collection of small and medium size paintings.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - Williamsburg, VA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$253,173
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment

Contact: Dr. Marley Brown
Director of Archaeological Research
(757)220-7331; mbrown2@cwf.org
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776

Project Title: “Improving Environmental Storage for Archaeological Collections”
Colonial Williamsburg will use its grant to purchase and install new storage furniture and supplies with which to properly house the museum’s archaeological and architectural collections. These collections represent an important resource for the study of colonial life and the early history of the United States.

PubMed Central (PMC), NLM’s free digital archive of full-text journal articles, reached the one million-article mark the week of June 18. The millionth article reportedly came from the American Journal of Pathology. Now in its seventh year, PMC is enhanced each week with articles from over 350 important life sciences journals whose publishers have agreed to deposit current issues. All of the content submitted to PMC is converted to a normalized electronic format for long-term storage and display on the web.

Many of the participating publishers have also benefited from the PMC Back Issue Digitization Project, where NLM scans older issues from cover to cover, starting with volume 1, and creates PubMed citations for articles that are not in PubMed. Jointly sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK, the NLM scanning project has collected and collated over 5 million pages of material. As of June 2007, these scanned articles accounted for 675,000 of the million articles in PMC.

Because of back issue digitization, several historically important works are now available in their entirety, including: Annals of Surgery from v.1, 1885; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. from v. 1, 1915; and all of the titles published by the American Society for Microbiology, including the Journal of Bacteriology, from v.1, 1916. This year, scanning was completed for the American Journal of Public Health v. 2 1912, and very soon BMJ will be available back to v. 1, 1857 along with all of the specialty journals published by the British Medical Association. Each of these titles continues to participate in PMC by submitting current content in full-text electronic form for every issue.

NLM is indebted to a wide range of publishers depositing electronically produced content to PMC and to a host of contributors to the back issue scanning project. Worldwide donations from libraries and associations of disposable back issues have assisted NLM with filling in journal volumes not supplied by publishers. While all donations are gratefully received, two institutions deserve special mention: the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA and Brown University in Providence, RI.

The staff of NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information is responsible for the technical oversight of PMC and for the flow of current and scanned content, enabling PMC to grow exponentially each month. The staff of Library Operations manages contract activities, quality control and journal issue collection for the scanning project. To learn more about PubMed Central, or to browse its contents, go to: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Women’s Health (OWH), announces the launch of a new online course, “The Science of Sex and Gender in Human Health.” The course offers participants a basic scientific understanding of the major physiological differences between the sexes, their influence on illness and health outcomes, and their implications for policy, medical research, and health care.

The current course, Basic Science and the Biological Basis for Sex- and Gender-Related Differences includes six lessons, each of which take from 20 minutes to an hour to complete. Taking the course is free and continuing medical education credit can be awarded. To receive six AMA PRA Category 1 credits, participants are required to complete all six lesson quizzes with a score of at least 70 percent, and to complete a brief course evaluation form.

Hospitals, Language, and Culture Free Webinar http://www.massgeneral.org/disparitiessolutions/The Massachusetts General Hospital Disparities Solutions Center is opening it’s year- long web seminar series, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with a session on Hospitals, Language and Culture. The 90-minute, interactive, web-based seminars are free and open to the public. The first is on Friday, June 29, from 3-4:30 PM EST, entitled “Hospitals, Language, and Culture: A Discussion of the Joint Commission’s Survey of Culturally Competent Practices” with Paul Schyve, MD, Senior Vice President at the Joint Commission, and Amy Wilson-Stronks, MPP, CPHQ, Associate Project Director in the Division of Standards and Survey Methods at the Joint Commission. This three year, cross-sectional qualitative study, funded by the California Endowment explores how 60 hospitals across the country have adapted their systems to provide health care to culturally and linguistically diverse patient populations. Dr. Schyve and Ms. Wilson-Stronks will discuss the report findings on the challenges these hospitals face and how they address them. To register for this web seminar, please click or cut and paste the following link: http://www.massgeneral.org/disparitiessolutions/web.html

The Disparities Solutions Center is committed to disseminating the latest information on disparities interventions, findings from important disparities research and health policy updates regarding disparities reduction efforts. In order to disseminate this information to the broadest possible audience in a stimulating and interactive manner, the DSC will host several web seminars each year. These calls will feature informative presentations from experts in the field; context, perspectives and opinions from key healthcare stakeholders; and opportunity for discussion from all participants.

Slides and audio downloads of earlier webinars are available, too, as well be the audio and video of this next offering.

Interested in Herbals and Alternative Treatments? Take this online training from the National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) from the Spring 2007 edition of NIH MedlinePlus: The Magazine. The training can be found at the NCCAM site: http://nccam.nih.gov/videolectures.

Dan Wilson and Susan Yowell continue to offer suggestions for emergency preparedness at the Disaster Planning for Health Sciences Libraries blog. Number 16 in the list are tips on preparing for hurricane season.

Hurricane season housekeeping reminders: about the only upside of a long hurricane season is that we have some time to prepare, since it seems that most of the big storms don’t really get themselves together until later in the summer for the Southeast USA, however, we know one can happen anytime! Aside from the procedure for hurricane preparedness that’s in our disaster plan, here are some things we can all be doing now “just in case”:

• Make sure all your contact information is current, both for your staff and your vendors and other support organizations or people. Many people use only cell phones now, and their telephone numbers change more often than in the past when everyone used a “land” line.

• Check your disaster supplies: make sure there’s plastic sheeting for covering books and equipment, duct tape, and any other supplies you might need to protect your collection and facility.

• Check out the ProText disaster supplies site; they sell supplies and also offer tips on salvage techniques for water damaged materials.

• Check the SoliNet site for a list of vendors providing salvage services such as de-humidifying, freezing, etc.

• Walk around your library and note whether any collections have been re-located since the last time you updated your plan. Revise your salvage priority list if need be, i.e. if you had two hours to remove your most important materials from your library, do you know what you would take, how you’d pack them up, and where you’d put them?

• Think about what services, if any, you could offer from off-site in the aftermath of a hurricane. Can you arrange to access your library’s information from home? Is there a way to continue to provide help to your patrons with information/research needs if your library space isn’t available?

• Especially if you live in an area that is “hurricane prone,” such as Wilmington, NC or just about anywhere along the Gulf Coast and Florida, make sure you have a “Go Pack” ready at home in case you need to evacuate. Check your state’s emergency management website or the Homeland Security site for a list of what to keep ready at home.

• Remember the Regional Medical Library! Have RML contact information at hand, and at home, in case you need to send up a flare for help from the Regional Medical Library for your area; 800-338-7657.

Be sure to check on Disaster Planning for Health Sciences Libraries for more tips and specific instruction for such things as dealing with water damage.

In May, 2007, Dan Wilson and others at the University of Virginia and the UVA Health System gathered a team of library managers and devised strategies for maintaining certain essential library services during emergencies or disasters. The team identified four different scenarios and made tables of the policies and the procedures developed for each eventuality.

• Scenario A: Building not habitable (damaged or closed due to epidemic) or staff not able to get to the site (severe storm), power up and internet available
• Scenario B: Building not habitable, no power, no internet
• Scenario C: Building habitable, power on, no internet access
• Scenario D: Building habitable, no power, no internet available

Naturally, this document will be updated often as personnel and technologies change, but feel free to adapt anything helpful to your own plan. The full text is available at: http://dtw2t.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/continuing-essential-library-services.doc

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) won is this category for using posters, newsletters, and save-the-date cards to promote the special traveling exhibition, “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians,” to raise awareness of VCU libraries.

Join the VCU Libraries on June 29, 2007, 5:00 - 7:00PM at the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences in honoring women in all fields of medical sciences. The opening reception celebrates the contributions of VCU’s own Dr. Marcella Fierro, Dr. Eleanor Sue Cantrell, and Dr. Yvonnecris Smith Veal, who are featured in this exhibit.

Go to http://www.library.vcu.edu/events/cfm_events.html for a schedule of upcoming events.

Go to http://www.library.vcu.edu/events/documents/DocPoster.pdf for a flier about “So you want to be a doctor.”

Go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Kaplowitz_Lisa.html
For NLM’s local legends bi of Virginia’s own Lisa Kaplowitz, M.D., Deputy Commissioner for Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R) at the Virginia Department of Health (VDH).

Regional Library System: Ongoing Consumer Campaign

Community Health Information Partners (CHIPS) in Mid-State, TN, won in this category for its multiyear campaign encompassing health fairs, regional library events, classes, and a variety of marketing vehicles including CHIPS brown bags and CHIPS clips, a DVD “infomercial,” posters, and brochures.CHIPs hosted a booth at the 2007 Tour de Nash event. The CHIPs representatives provided a menu of commonly requested health information, conducted mini computer demonstrations on how to search for health information, and provided items to promote the CHIPs website. Consumers placed orders to receive information specific to their needs mailed to them at a later date. Over 1,000 health consumers attended.

Go to http://www.tnchips.org/webppt.ppt for their presentation about locating consumer health information on the Internet.

Visible Human Project

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/visible_human_2007.htmlThe Visible Human Project was formulated in response to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) 1986 Long-Range Plan that challenged NLM staff to investigate the concept of an electronic image library. The Visible Human Data Sets are complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional data sets which allow the computer reconstruction of any part of the normal male and female bodies. The data sets consist of transverse CT, MRI, and cryosection images.

The Visible Human Data Sets may be used without charge, but a license with the NLM is required. In return for use of the data sets, the user must credit the NLM in any derived product and must send a copy of the product to the NLM. Many data set users display their products and research on their Web sites and have notified the Library of their availability. The NLM has created links to these user sites from its own Visible Human Project Web site at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html. This provides an access point to applications, sources, products, tools, and mirror sites using images from the Visible Human Project. The Visible Human Project has become an open, community-based project. It is in this spirit that NLM created this Visible Human Project bibliography. This bibliography includes and updates a previous edition made available in conjunction with the Third Visible Human Conference held in October 2000. It contains citations to the published literature that we have been able to identify through March 2007. Additionally, it includes citations from the Insight Toolkit (ITK), an open source, freely available, object-oriented software package for medical image processing, segmentation, and registration.

This publication is not copyrighted and may be freely reproduced. However any reproductions of this bibliography, in whole or in part, should include all credits. If you wish to cite this bibliography, the correct format is:

Burke, Cynthia; Patrias, Karen, compilers. Visible Human Project [bibliography on the Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007 May [cited YYYY MMM DD]. (Current bibliographies in medicine; 2007-1). 912 citations from January 1987 through March 2007. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/visiblehuman2007.html

Each year, the Medical Library Association, its own Hospital Libraries Section, and the Friends of the National Library of Medicine give a variety of awards, grants, and scholarships to individuals in recognition and support of the valuable contributions they have made to the health sciences librarianship profession. MLA’s professional recognition program supports and encourages the best and brightest in the field. Congratulations to the 2007 winners from the Southeastern Atlantic Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine!

Marcia C. Noyes Award
Betsy L. Humphreys, AHIP, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year
Jan LaBeause, AHIP, Medical Library and Learning Resources Center, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA

Janet Doe Lectureship for 2008
Thomas G. Basler, FMLA, MUSC Library, Medical University of South Carolina–Charleston, SC

Murray Gottlieb Prize
Elizabeth Connor, AHIP, Daniel Library, The Citadel, Charleston, SC, for “The Body Politic: The Contributions of Physician-Patriot Joseph Warren”

T. Mark Hodges International Service Award
T. Mark Hodges, FMLA, Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (posthumously)

Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lectureship
Kent A. Smith, FMLA, retired, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award
Renata Geer, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

President’s Award
Beth M. Wescott, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

MLA Fellows

• Nancy Clemmons, AHIP, FMLA, retired, Lister Hill Library, University of Alabama–Birmingham, AL
• Sheldon Kotzin, FMLA, Library Operations, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
• Patricia Thibodeau, AHIP, FMLA, Medical Center Library, Duke University, Durham, NC

Continuing Education Award
Rick Wallace, AHIP, Quillen College of Medicine Library, East Tennessee State University–Johnson City, TN

EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grant
Lauren Young, Rowland Medical Library, University of Mississippi Medical Center–Jackson , MS

David A. Kronick Traveling Fellowship
Michele R. Tennant, AHIP, Health Science Center Libraries and Genetics Institute, University of Florida–Gainesville, FL

Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship
Michele R. Tennant, AHIP, Health Science Center Libraries and Genetics Institute, University of Florida–Gainesville, FL

MLA Scholarship
Catherine Murch, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa, AL

Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association Awards

• Catch a Rising Star
  Donna McCloskey, Manager, Health Information Center, Presbyterian Hospital, Huntersville, North Carolina

• Technology
  Mary Wallace Berry, Manager, Learning Resource Center, Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte, North Carolina

Friends of the National Library of Medicine’s Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award for Outstanding Service to Rural or Underserved Communities
Ada Seltzer, Director, Rowland Medical Library, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi