The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has launched a Clearinghouse dedicated to the collection, evaluation and dissemination of public safety and healthcare communications information. http://www.fcc.gov/pshs/clearinghouse/index.html This site contains valuable information for healthcare providers. Topics include:

• Best Practices
• Case Studies/ Lessons Learned
• Communications Plans
• Continuity Plans
• Emergency Plans
• FAQs
• Federal Resources/ Grant Information
• Guidelines
• Handbooks
• Interoperability Plans
• Reference Materials

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New e-books have been added to the NN/LM MidContinental Region web page at: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/education/netlibrary.html

And this is one of them:   Change in Management in Academic Libraries.  It includes chapters on on: The right staff from X to Y: generational change and professional development in future academic libraries, treasuring our traditions and our people:  and riding the wave and making a difference over the next 25 years

No user name or password required when you access this collection of online books from the NN/LM MCR portal.  (mm)

NLM and the MidContinental Region offices will be closed Friday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day.

For an update on the reinstatement of EPA libraries click on the following link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/23673 (bbj)

The June 2008 issue of NIH News is Health is now online. In this issue learn how the arts can benefit your mental and physical health; how headaches can affect more than just your head; and, how the number of fat cells in your body stays constant from your teen years into adulthood. [da]

Have you seen the Calendar for training opportunities? It’s on our MidContinental Region web site at: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/education/calendar.html .

Or look on our homepage under News and Events for Calendar. See it in Weekly or Monthly view. Just click on an event to see location and registration details. Try it today! (mm)

Beginning April 8, 2008, the MCRML will be offering a free online class on using Routing Tables in DOCLINE.

This 60 minute online class will provide an in-depth look into DOCLINE Routing Tables.

Participants will learn about using their Borrowing Preferences, explanation of copyright compliance, editing Routing Tables, M/A/N Map, setting up Lending Options, and more!

The live class is taught the second Tuesday of each month starting at 10am (Mountain Time). This class is for beginning and intermediate level DOCLINE users but all DOCLINE users are welcome to attend!

Click for more information

Attention LINKOUT libraries!

The Library Submission Utility will be updated to a new version in the first week of April. There will be a shut down of the current utility the morning of April 1 (Tuesday) to convert all participants’ holdings information to the new utility. (This is NOT an April Fools event!)

If all goes according to plans, the new utility will be up and running on April 4 (Friday).

Important Note! The functioning of your library icons and links in PubMed will NOT be affected during this period!

The new version of the utility has an improved layout and offers new functions, including a management interface for Outside Tool and Document Delivery Service, in addition to LinkOut.

Click here for more information

Should you have any questions, please write to lib-linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

View the February Breezing Along with the RML recording.

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, Community Outreach Liaison, Dana Abbey, Consumer Health Liaison, and Mary Helms, Associate Professor and Associate Director, University of Nebraska Medical Center presented two topics: “Sharing What Works” and “Academy of Health Information Professionals - Just Do It!” Learn more about ways you can share the work you are doing, and earn AHIP points while you are doing it!

The release date has been announced for the upcoming PBS documentary “Unnatural Causes.” The four-part series will air on consecutive Thursdays this spring: March 27, April 3, 10, and 17, 2008. According to the website www.unnaturalcauses.org, the official website for the documentary will launch in March as well.

Please visit www.unnaturalcauses.org for more information on the documentary and on the issue of social determinants of health. (bbj)