http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dirlinfs.html
DIRLINE, Directory of Information Resources Online, is the National Library of Medicine’s online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxmysteryfs.html
ToxMystery (http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov) is the National Library of Medicine’s new interactive learning site, designed to help children age 7 to 10 find clues about toxic substances that can lurk in the home. With lively animations, surprising sound effects and lots of positive reinforcement, ToxMystery provides a fun, game-like experience, while teaching important lessons about potential environmental health hazards.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxseekfs.html
ToxSeek® is a free meta-search engine enabling users to search across diverse biomedical and environmental health resources and provides a method for efficiently locating information resources on topics related to toxicology and environmental health.

Just a reminder that the funding deadline for the following awards is August 24:

• Library Improvement Award
• Express Follow-Up Awards
• Express Planning Awards
• Express Katrina/Delta Awards
• Express Welcome Awards

All applicants must be SE/A Network members to apply.

https://efts.uchc.edu/efts/Static/EFTS%20website/newsletter/EFTS_Summer_07.pdf

The EFTS-L Listserv is the primary mechanism for communication between participants and the EFTS office, as well as between participants. Participants can ask questions and share information with others. New participants and software improvements are announced on the list.

The EFTS staff does not maintain the Listserv and therefore cannot remove or add members. If you would like to have your name added or removed from that list, please follow the links and instruction from the EFTS site to execute your request (s):
https://efts.uchc.edu/efts/Static/EFTS%20website/listserv.html
Scroll to the bottom of the page for “subscribe” and “unsubscribe” instructions.

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.

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.

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

Skill Kit: Keeping Up with What’s New@NLM

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj07/mj07_keeping_up.html

Subscribe now to the NLM-Announces weekly list of new and updated pages on the NLM Web site, MedlinePlus, HSTAT, PubMed, and NLM Anonymous FTP server to keep up with what’s going on at NLM. The following information will assist you in discovering RSS feeds, listservs, and Web pages that will help you keep up with your favorite or often-used NLM resources. SpecialQuery

Veterinary Search Added to PubMed Special Queries

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj07/mj07_vet.html

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Special Queries page now includes a link to a new subject page for veterinary and animal health literature. The Special Queries directory provides links to either special search interfaces, or pre-sets the Limit function of the standard PubMed interface to the selected subject or journal subset. Areas of coverage for veterinary and animal health include:

• veterinary medicine
• animal models
• alternatives to animal testing
• laboratory animals
• animal welfare
• animal hospitals
• pets or companion animals
• domestic and farm animals
• wildlife
• exotic animals
• apiculture
• aquaculture
• general zoonoses
• animal behavior and psychology
• animal nutrition
• animal diseases
• animal toxicology and parasitology

The MEDLINE/PubMed Search and Veterinary Information Resources page offers a comprehensive PubMed search including subject terms and veterinary journal titles. The strategy uses MeSH headings to retrieve indexed citations, plus title words to obtain OLDMEDLINE and unindexed citations. Historical citations from PubMed Central may also be retrieved.

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When you are going to be away from your library, you take certain steps to assure that your users are aware of your absence. You update your voicemail message and hopefully, you update you status in your DOCLINE account. When you plan to be away three or more working days, use the electronic DOCLINE Hold Request form to allow DOCLINE to not route requests to you when you are not there to handle them. Please complete the form several days in advance so the regional staff can get it keyed into the DOCLINE system.

While on hold Loansome Doc libraries, will not accept requests from registered users. If patrons have a secondary serving library selected in their account, the system will automatically choose that active DOCLINE library for their Loansome Doc request, till you come off of ‘hold’ status.

Ada Seltzer, Director of the Rowland Medical Library at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, was awarded with the 2007 Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award for Outstanding Service to Rural or Underserved Communities. Ada was recognized for her dedication to ensure that all Health Professionals and Consumers in the State of Mississippi have access to necessary quality health information, The award is given by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine Board of Directors.

Ada has had a long and distinguished career in outreach. In the early 1990’s, she established a model network to deliver health information electronically to rural health care providers Building on the success of this pilot project, she was the principal investigator of an NLM grant in 1994 to expand the Mississippi Health Sciences Information Network (MisHIN.) In its inception, MisHIN services included Internet connections and Web delivery of all information sources such as a statewide health sciences online union catalog, online membership directory, citation and full text CD-ROM databases, specialty discussion groups, CE calendar, and numerous related Web links for its members. Today the Network serves as the “state’s infrastructure for access and delivery of health sciences information to health care practitioners.

MisHIN is comprised of health sciences and academic libraries and other health agency information providers. Through electronic information, MisHIN enables its members across the state to link the newest medical information with clinical practice and thus enhances both the quality and cost effectiveness of health care delivery in Mississippi.” (See http://mishin.library.umc.edu/ ) Even with the introduction of a fee schedule in 2000, the Network has grown to 69 members and seeks to add new members as outreach efforts continue.

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Mozilla has announced that it is ending support for Firefox 1.5 in mid-May. As a result, NLM will no longer support Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x for use with DOCLINE and Loansome Doc effective May 14, 2007.

Firefox 1.5.x users should upgrade to the latest Firefox 2 release as soon as possible, or switch to Internet Explorer version 6 or 7.

Effective May 14, 2007, NLM will no longer support the Netscape browser for use with DOCLINE and Loansome Doc. Libraries and patrons using Netscape to access DOCLINE and Loansome Doc should switch to Internet Explorer 6.x or 7.x, or Mozilla Firefox 2.x.

NLM is discontinuing Netscape support due to numerous issues and display problems with this browser. Users successfully using Netscape 7.1 with DOCLINE and Loansome Doc may continue, however, we cannot offer customer support for this browser.

Any users upgrading their browsers or using a new PC should verify that their browser settings are correct. See http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/system_requirements.html#browser for links to instructions for all supported browsers. The SE/A Network Access Coordinator can assist you if you have any questions about or need assistance with switching browsers.