by Toni Yancey, outreach coordinator

On September 19, 2007, SE/A will be hosting its sixth hospital librarians’ webconference. These one-hour “lunch and learn” presentations allow attendees an opportunity to learn about new and important issues in hospital librarianship. To make them relevant, hospital librarians from the region can recommend topics to be covered and Toni Yancey, your exhibit coordinator extraordinaire, will find the appropriate speaker.

Previous speakers have included Dan Doody from Doody Enterprises on collection development, Tina Joy from the American Nurse Association on magnet recognition, and most recently, Dan Wilson, chair of the SE/A Emergency Preparedness Task Force, on emergency preparedness.

Our speaker for September 19 is Dr. Timothy Cain from the Center for Knowledge Management at the Ohio State University (OSU). He will be discussing knowledge management in general and how it is conceived at OSU. Dr. Cain co-wrote an article for the November 2005 issue of Academic Medicine on managing knowledge and technology. We will also hear from Katherine Stemmer Frumento, MLA representative to the Joint Commission, on the proposed changes to the knowledge/information management standards.

If you are an SE/A hospital librarian please plan to join us on September 19, 2007 at 12 noon Eastern Time. Point your browser to https://webmeeting.nih.gov/knowledge/. Remember to log in as a guest but enter your first and last name.

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Thank you to those who attended our SE/A region wide web conference It Takes a Village. Because of technical difficulties, we were unable to record the meeting for future viewings, so we are making the bibliography available.

Bibliography:

16 Ways to Use Flickr @ Your Library. One-Person Library. March 2007;23(11):9-10.

Muzzerall D, McLeod P, Pacheco S, Sharkey K. Community Development Librarians: Starting Out. Feliciter. 2005;51(6):265-267.

Huwe T. Some Best Practices for Personalizing Outreach. Computers in Libraries. February 2006;26(2):36-38.

Evans G. Libraries, Lifelong Learning and Outreach. Feliciter. 2006;52(6):238-239.

Cummings L. Bursting out of the box Outreach to the millennial generation through student services programs. Reference Services Review. 2007;35(2):285-295.

With summer coming to a close, it’s time to go back to school. Learn more about School Health

Overviews

• Back to School Tips(American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Safe Youth. Safe Schools.(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• School Health (American Cancer Society)

Latest News

• Heavy Kids Miss More School Days (08/23/2007, Reuters Health)
• Time to Set Kids’ Back-to-School Sleep Clocks (08/17/2007, HealthDay)
• Schools Infested with Drugs: Teen Survey (08/17/2007, Reuters Health)
• Consensus Statement: Sickle Cell Trait and the Athlete (06/27/2007, National Athletic Trainers’ Association)

The National Institute on Aging has published a free guide to seniors, available online at http://www.niapublications.org/pubs/talking/Talking_with_Your_Doctor.pdf, or by calling 1-800-222-2225. The guide discusses preparations for an office visit to the doctor, discussions and questions during the visit and gives tips for following-up after the visit and diagnosis.

Talking with Your Doctor, features four chapters:

1. Planning Your Doctor Visit; How well you and your doctor talk to each other is one of the most important parts of getting good health care.

2. Your Visit to the Doctor; Your health can have a big impact on other parts of your life, and that needs to be talked about too. The tips in this chapter will help you make the most of your doctor visit.

3. Asking Questions; Asking questions helps your doctor know what is important to you. It also lets your doctor know when something he or she says is unclear.

4. Conversations After Diagnosis; making decisions about your care is easier if you follow these tips to help you talk to your doctor after you get your diagnosis.

Selected from http://nnlm.gov/mar/blog/, August 3rd, 2007 by arpitabose

The New York Medical College conference entitled, “Health Literacy: Tools for Improving Health Communications,” was held on May 30, 2007 with 194 attendees from a wide array of community or health-related advocacy organizations, hospitals, local health departments, public libraries, and/or academic institutions.

A primary outcome was the creation of a health literacy tool kit, which was soon followed by a virtual version. The conference tool kit, with new links added as needed, is available at: http://library.nymc.edu/PHInformatics/hltoolkit.cfm. When the so-called “dancing nurses” video shown by one of the speakers was requested more than 14 times, the link was immediately added to the site: http://www.ahrq.gov/QuestionsAreTheAnswer//. You are encouraged to make use of the conference tool kit.

A message from Stuart J. Nelson, MD, Head, Medical Subject Headings Section, National Library of Medicine:

The National Library of Medicine has decided to discontinue the printing of the Index Medicus Supplement, sometimes known as the Black and White MeSH. We have received a great number of comments on this proposal, and are grateful for the input. Overall, it appears that our impression that few would be inconvenienced by the discontinuation of the printed edition was correct. Given the high cost of printing even a few copies of the book, we do not see the benefit as justifying the expense. For those wishing a souvenir copy, the 2007 MeSH will continue to be available from the Government Printing Office for another 14 months.

In response to concerns expressed by several individuals, we plan to make available a set of PDF files containing the various hierarchies.

These will be formatted in such a way as to make printing them on 81/2 by 11 inch paper feasible, enabling a user to print out and review an entire tree easily.

We encourage all to avail themselves of the resources available at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh. There is a considerable amount of printable introductory material, information about how we update MEDLINE, as well as links to downloadable files and the MeSH browser. The PDF files of the trees will also be available there.

The current MeSH files are available for download, in one of three different formats. Furthermore, the browser at the MeSH website provides ready access to the current version of MeSH. The browser supports partial word searches of three letters or more, and provides many links between related terms. As is our practice, all of these services and files will remain free of charge.
Once again, we wish to express our gratitude for the many comments received.

Stuart J. Nelson, MD
Head, Medical Subject Headings Section

http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/

As of October 2007, the National Institutes of Health is replacing paper grant applications with electronic applications and has already begun the transition to requiring electronic submission of grant applications via the online portal of Grants.gov. NIH is transitioning from the paper 398 application form to the electronic application form called the SF424 (R&R).

Some NLM grant programs have already made the transition: NLM’s Knowledge Management & Applied Informatics Grants, Planning Grants for Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS), and Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine & Health.

The electronic submission process involves two systems working together; Grants.gov and the NIH electronic Research Administration (eRA) system. Grants.gov provides potential applicants with a single portal to find and apply for funding from all federal grant-making agencies. The NIH eRA Commons provides grantees with information about their grants, including summary statements and progress reports.

See http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/files/eSub_process_flow14.pdf for a process flow chart.

Application deadlines also changed in 2007. Each NLM grant program still has three application deadlines per year, on a new “rolling” calendar of deadlines. Program-specific application deadline dates are also included in Grants.gov entries.

Issued by the National Institute on Aging

Faced with the death of a spouse, many older people feel their entire world has changed. They may struggle with feelings of shock, sorrow, anger, fear and occasionally guilt. Grief can make everyday activities like sleeping and eating difficult. To help older people cope with grief, the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has added Mourning the Death of a Spouse to its Age Page series of easy-to-read brochures on health topics and related concerns.

This new publication provides useful and practical advice on topics ranging from reactions to death to taking charge of life again. The brochure covers many facets of mourning and learning to live without a partner.

Visit: http://www.nia.nih.gov/HealthInformation/Publications/spouse.htm

Roundtable on Health Literacy Meeting 5

The Roundtable on Health Literacy will hold its fifth workshop on Friday, October 12th in Room 100 of the Keck Center of the National Academies, located at 500 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC. The workshop will focus on “Improving Prescription Drug Use Container Instructions: An Issue of Health Literacy and Medication Safety.”
The Workshop will be open to the public. For those interested in attending, pre-registration is suggested. http://www8.nationalacademies.org/isc-registration/public/default.asp?event=1BB026B0

An agenda will be posted in the coming weeks.

Advances in Health Literacy

The American College of Physicians Foundation will host its Sixth Annual National Health Communication Conference, Advances in Health Literacy, on November 28, 2007. The conference will again be co-sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and held at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC.

For the 2007 conference, the ACP Foundation is increasing the number of evidence-based panel presentations that focus on successful operational models proven to improve health outcomes among patients with low health literacy levels and strategies to overcome barriers of low health literacy. Historically, the ACP Foundation’s Health Communication Conference series has assembled individuals representing national and local organizations that are in a position to effect real change with the challenges of low health literacy. Attendees represent a wide array of organizations, including academia, medicine, large employers, pharmaceuticals, media, health insurance, patient advocacy, and government.

For more information, and to register for this event, visit the ACP website: http://www.foundation.acponline.org/hl/hcc2007.htm