Looking for materials to use to share with clients, patrons, co-workers, on the National Library of Medicine’s premiere consumer and medical research websites? Download and copy these online brochures to use in promotion of resources you have access to at your institution.

PubMed Basics:
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf

MedlinePlus Basics: (English and Spanish versions)

http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/mptri.pdf
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/mptri_esp.pdf

MedlinePlus for Health Professionals:
http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/mp4hptri.pdf

Included among the revisions are mention of MedlinePlus’ “Multiple Languages” feature and updated snapshots of the PubMed and MedlinePlus home pages.

Additionally, The Exhibition Program: K-12 Resources on the Web brochure has been updated.  This PDF can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/pdf/EPonlineK_12resources.pdf.  Similar information is also available on an HMD/Exhibition Program web site at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/especiallyfor/teachersstudents.html#A1.

These and other brochures can also be found at http://nnlm.gov/sea/services/promotional.html

http://www.mchlibrary.info/alert/default.html

Adapted by Beth Wescott

The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health is housed at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It collects the materials and administers the Maternal and Child Health Library and issues the weekly MCH Alerts.

The MCH Alert is an electronic newsletter that provides timely reference to research findings, policy developments, recently released publications, new programs, and initiatives affecting the maternal and child health (MCH) community. The goal is to make MCH news and policy more accessible to health professionals, policymakers, family advocates, community service professionals, MCH/public health faculty and students, families, and the public.

To subscribe to MCH Alert, send an e-mail message to MCHAlert-request@list.ncemch.org with subscribe in the subject line. You do not need to enter any text in the body of your message; just click send. This e-mail message will be sent to MCH Alert, and you will be automatically subscribed. You will receive confirmation that the subscription is being processed. You will receive your first issue of MCH Alert within 1 week after you send the message.

http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Adapted by Beth Wescott

AHRQ and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have jointly sponsored the development of a new 1,400 page patient safety resource for nurses. Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. The handbook examines the broad range of issues involved in providing high quality and safe care across health care settings.

Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes.This three-volume resource-rich handbook contains 89 contributions that represent the work of a broad range of nurses and other patient safety researchers throughout the nation.  Go to http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/ to review the handbook.   A print copy of the publication or a CD-ROM is available by sending an e-mail to ahrqpubs@ahrq.hhs.gov.

A recording of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources course, held in New York, NY on April 2-4, 2008, is now available online for public use from the Distance Education Program Resources Web page (or directly at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/courses/molbio.html). The recordings were created in Adobe® Connect^TM and are available in Flash^TM format with captions.

This three-day course is intended for librarians, NCBI recently suspended their educational programs including this class because of budget constraints. After April 2008 this class will no longer be taught. Therefore, the current class has been archived for use by the medical librarian community with an interest in searching molecular sequence databases.

The Bathtub collection consists of fragments found in the old and rare bindings of the NLM’s rare book collection when items were rebound and conserved in the 1940s and 1950s. It is called the “Bathtub Collection” because then-curator Dorothy Schullian took the leftovers of conservation work home and soaked them in her bathtub to retrieve the often interesting bits and pieces of medieval manuscripts and early printed ephemera she found.

Slowly and ploddingly, especially where they had been glued together to form the linings of covers, I have soaked them apart in my bathtub. My knees, I assure you, have suffered, but I have entered a bibliographer’s paradise …” (Dorothy M. Schullian. “Here the Frailest Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 47 (1953))

Please visit the site at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bathtub/

NLM is also home to numerous genealogical resources for those seeking information about ancestors with medical or health related training. Among these is the AMA Deceased Physicians Card File, a collection of nearly 400,000 index cards created by the AMA between about 1901 and 1969 focusing on everyone in the U.S. who received a medical degree. The cards were updated throughout the physician’s career with information about degrees obtained, licensing, addresses and finally cause of death and sometimes obituary citations and even portraits. Please visit the site at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/genealogy/

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the solicitation of quotations from organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers.

Projects must involve one or more of the following information access categories:

• Information retrieval
• Skills development
• State-of-the-art resources
• Resource development
• Document Access.

Emphasis is placed upon the following types of organizations or arrangements for developing these programs:

• Community-based organizations (CBOs) or patient advocacy groups currently providing HIV/AIDS related serves to the affected community
• Public libraries serving communities in the provision of HIV/AIDS-related information and resources
• Health departments or other local, municipal, or state agencies working to improve public health
• Faith-based organizations currently providing HIV/AIDS-related services
• Multi-type consortia of the above-listed organizations that may be in existence or formed specifically for this project.

Standard Awards are offered for up to $60,000. Express Awards are offered for up to $10,000.

Quotations are due to NLM on Monday, June 16, 2008.

The solicitation for the 2008 AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects is posted at http://www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv/2008aidsrfq.html .

Previously funded AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects are posted at http://www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/aids_cio_projects.html .

If there are any questions or concerns regarding the Request for Quotations (RFQ) or submission of the proposal, please contact Robin Hope-Williams, the NLM Contracting Officer, at (301) 496-6546 or email to: rhwilli@mail.nih.gov.

The NGC mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use. Below are links to guidelines for April’s health topics.

Health Awareness Topics - April 2008

• Alcohol Awareness Month (see related guidelines)
• Cancer Control Month (see the Frequently Requested Search page for various cancer-related topics)
• National Autism Awareness Month (see related guidelines)
• STD Awareness Month (see the Frequently Requested Search page for various STD-related topics)

National LGBT Health Awareness Week is a way for health librarians and health care organizations to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health in their communities.

The theme of the 2008 National LGBT Health Awareness Week is Take Action. This is a call to Take Action in improving the health of the LGBT community. Fuller information, resources, contacts and sponsors can be found at National Coalition for LGBT Health site: http://www.lgbthealth.net/awarenessweek08/. There is also LGBT health and wellness information within MedlinePlus, at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/gaylesbianandtransgenderhealth.html. Go Local has offerings as well. Note those in North Carolina, at http://www.nchealthinfo.org/resources.cfm?info=0,247,102,0,0.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have established the NIH Intramural Center for Genomics and Health Disparities (NICGHD), a new venue for research about the way populations are impacted by diseases, including obesity, diabetes and hypertension. NICGHD employs a genomics approach, collecting and analyzing genetic, clinical, lifestyle and socio-economic data to study a range of clinical conditions that have puzzled and troubled public health experts for decades. An additional focus of NICGHD will be to provide training opportunities for students and established scientists from developing countries and from minority groups in the United States. Fuller information about NHGRI can be found at its Web site,  http://www.genome.gov.

The trans-NIH center is directed by internationally renowned genetic epidemiologist Charles N. Rotimi, Ph.D., former director of the National Human Genome Center at Howard University. Read the complete NIH News Release at http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2008/nhgri-17.htm

The Medical Library Association is hosting its 2nd institute to teach the skills need to develop web-based instruction. MLA is currently accepting applications to this Institute.  The deadline date for submissions is Friday, March 21st.

The MLA CE Institute 2008: Developing Web-Based InstructionBased on a competitive process, twenty MLA-approved continuing education (CE) instructors and NN/LM coordinators will be selected for this learning opportunity.

Who:

What: At the MLA CE Institute, instructors will participate in intensive training and spend time in course development to transfer their existing face-to-face classes into Web-based mentored courses.

Where: Downtown Chicago

When: May 13-16, 2008

Why: To turn your class into an easily accessible Web-based mentored course and make it available as a learning opportunity to MLA members and other health sciences librarians around the world.

How: Submit your application to be accepted into the Institute using the form at http://www.mlanet.org/education/institute/2008/index.html?home_20080221The Finances:  Costs to attend will be shared between the Scholars and the NN/LM. Costs generously provided with funding from the NN/LM include:

• Hotel
• Per Diem
• Institute Registration Fees

Costs to be the responsibility of the Scholars:

• Local Travel
• Round Trip Travel to and from Chicago

This project has been funded in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

For more information see MLANET at http://www.mlanet.org/education/institute/2008/index.html?home_20080221

Or, contact Kathleen Combs, mlapd1@mlahq.org, 312.419.9094 x29.