Are you always forgetting things? Evernote can help you remember — it’s is a web-based service that allows you to capture information from websites, upload photos, write to-dos or other notes, and then organize and find that information from any computer. Besides a web version, you can also download a desktop client or client for a mobile device. See http://www.evernote.com for more information. If you try it, please add comments to the post to let us know what you think of it! [SD]

Why not check out the MLA CD’s from the NNLM/MidContinental Resources collection of Materials for Loan. See: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/education/ill/index.html

Did you know we have a Calendar of Events? Check it out …located on the home page of the NN/LM MidContinental Region web site under News & Announcements:

http://nnlm.gov/mcr/education/calendar.html

Perhaps there’s an event in your future….as this includes both online and in-person events!

Congratulations to Judith Bergjord, Outreach Librarian at Creighton University Health Sciences Library and to Armita Burdick, Clinical Medical Librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Health Sciences Library! Both librarians are being funded for outreach projects.

Ms. Bergjord is collaborating with a faith based organization to provide the health information support for their efforts on religious diversity and health care issues. Her project is entitled “Crossing the Religious Divide: Training Caregivers in Religious Diversity.”

Ms. Burdick is part of a multi-agency collaboration organizing community events for a traveling National Library of Medicine exhibit. Her project is entitled “Changing the Face of Medicine - A Kansas City Academic Medical Library/Community Celebration.” /ch

Dr. Michael DeBakey,
Medical Trailblazer And Longtime Friend Of National Library Of Medicine, Dies At 99

28 Jul 2008
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116311.php
DeBakey played a pivotal role in the creation of the Library in the 1950s and in the establishment of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine in the 1960s. A visionary member and chair of the NLM Board of Regents and several other NLM advisory panels, the surgeon, innovator, medical educator and medical statesman made countless contributions to the Library. [scb]

Beth Potier
603-862-1566
UNH Media Relations
July 16, 2008

A new report from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, based on a comprehensive survey of 8,000 Americans from 19 rural counties, identifies four distinct, often disparate, rural Americas. The data-rich report presents a complex picture of the economics, demographics, politics, and values of people in rural America. http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2008/July/bp16rural.cfm

To download the complete report, go to http://carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/Report_PlaceMatters.pdf To watch a video of Mil Duncan describing the “four rural Americas” concept, go to http://bbvideo.unh.edu/content/milduncan/lecture.wmv. [scb]

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja08/ja08_senior_health.html
NIHSeniorHealth http://nihseniorhealth.gov/, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consumer health Web site for older adults developed by the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine®, released its redesigned site on June 26, 2008. As NIHSeniorHealth grew from ten topics in 2003 to thirty-seven topics today and added features such as exercise stories and its more than ninety-five health videos, the site outgrew its original navigation structure. The homepage includes enhanced navigation for health topics by First letter and Categories in the middle of the page. Each month a new or updated topic is highlighted in the Featured Topic section. The sections on Exercise Stories, Health Videos, and the Trainer’s Toolkit http://nihseniorhealth.gov/toolkit/toolkit.html appear below the new navigation. The Toolkit includes nine modules with a complete lesson plan and handouts for students. [scb]

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

[posted on the Medical Reserve Corps listserv] scb

In the months since passage of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) mandatory public access policy in late December of 2007, the number of submissions to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) repository, where authors are now required to deposit their NIH-funded research papers, has risen significantly. http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6581624.html?nid=2673#news1 [posted on Library Journal Academic Newswire July 24, 2008] scb

I recently attended a webinar about online conferencing tools that covered a range of tools from freely available to subscription services. This article gives a run down of what was covered in the webinar.

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