The Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week grant will award $5,000 to a single U.S. library for the best public awareness campaign during American Library Association’s National Library Week 2008. All types of libraries and library organizations are welcome to apply.

This year’s grant focuses on the National Library Week theme, “Join the circle of knowledge @ your library®.” All proposals must use this theme.

Funds are to be used to support the winner’s National Library Week promotional activities as outlined in the application and cannot be used for capital expenses, such as books or equipment.

DEADLINE:
Applications must be postmarked by October 1, 2007

Application materials are available at ALA’s web site.

Now Available on MAR’s Training & Educational Opportunities Web Page: Full Text and PubMed Trifold

This handy new guide summarizes the different full text options available in PubMed, including PubMed Central, publisher links, Loansome Doc, and of course, your own library’s collections. NEW: You can customize the trifold brochure by adding own local library information in the space provided!

How to access the new trifold brochure:

1. Go to MAR’s Training & Educational Opportunities.

2. Go to the topic called Find NN/LM Produced Training Materials.

3. Select Full Text and PubMed. The document will open as an Adobe PDF.

4. Save the document to your computer.

5. Open the document in Adobe Reader. You will see a Typewriter tool that will let you add your own content within the blank space provided.

You can find other handy trifold brochures in Find NN/LM Produced Training Materials, including PubMed Basics and MedlinePlus Basics in English and in Spanish.

Search Clinic: Chemicals & Drugs in PubMed®

Learn how to find articles about a chemical or drug of interest. On August 23 the U.S. National Library of Medicine hosted a 45-minute online clinic on how the NLM MeSH vocabulary is used to describe substance concepts and how to search PubMed for relevant articles.

The search clinic recording is now available online:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/chem.html

You may view the clinic recording, read the transcript, view the slides, and evaluate the clinic.

A new version of TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov) was released August 7. This version includes:
More search options: Users can now search TOXMAP by Chemical Abstracts Service/Registry Number (CAS/RN), Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facility name/ID, release medium, release year ranges, release amount, Superfund (NPL) site name/ID, and Hazard Ranking System (HRS) score.

Geographic regions: Users can create their own geographic region, or select a pre-defined region from a menu. Setting a geographic region limits search results to those inside the specified region. Regions can be saved for future access.

Regional TRI summary tables: Users can view summary (aggregate) TRI release amounts for their geographic region.
Updated and expanded glossary and FAQs.

TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services (http://sis.nlm.nih.gov) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Toxics Release Inventory and Superfund Program.

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

The RML is pleased to announce the newest addition to our website: our new AV Lending Library.

You can now borrow from our collection of videos, DVDs, and CD-ROMs in order to keep up on everything from MLA’s last webcast or to learn more from “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians!”

Just follow this link to the online order form http://nnlm.gov/mar/services/lendrequest.html

We look forward to sharing these items with you!

Three New Sections Debut on MAR Website

Two new sections debuted on the Resource Sharing & Document Delivery section. Copyright and ILL (http://nnlm.gov/mar/rsdd/copyright.html) will help members navigate the ins and outs of copyright and ILL, including copyright guidelines, the Copyright Clearance Center, and general copyright information. DOCLINE Stats (http://nnlm.gov/mar/rsdd/docstats.html) provides some enlightening numbers for DOCLINE both nationally and regionally. Under About MAR, The Value of Libraries Planning Study page (http://nnlm.gov/mar/about/value.html) keeps members current on one of the exciting projects being conducted by the Regional Advisory Committee. An outline of the project, core group members, and reports from meetings are available. If you have comments or suggestions for improvements or new additions to our Website, please contact us at rml@library.med.nyu.edu.

New Course: PubMed MyNCBI

Arpita Bose and Miguel Figueroa introduced a new course for the Middle Atlantic Region, PubMed MyNCBI. Several attendees learned the unique features of MyNCBI that librarians can utilize for their own work or for enhancing their users’ experiences with PubMed. In addition to filters, saved searches, and automatic updates, attendees learned how to establish shared institutional filters and activate LinkOut holdings with MyNCBI.

RML Reaches out to HUD Neighborhood Networks

Arpita Bose taught a workshop on consumer health information and grant writing to eight members of the Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Networks group in New York City. She was joined by Ms. Fu Mei Yang, who works at the Health Information Center (http://www.nypl.org/health/) of the Mid-Manhattan branch of New York Public Library. Ms. Yang presented local health information web sites to the participants. The class participants, who work at senior centers in New York City, learned about MedlinePlus and NIH Senior Health as well as awards (http://nnlm.gov/mar/funding/) from the RML. Many participants had not heard of MedlinePlus before, and they were excited to learn about this authoritative, reliable consumer health resource.

The RML offers free training on NLM’s consumer health resources, including MedlinePlus, NIH Senior Health, and more. If you represent a community-based organization or faith-based organization in DE, NJ, NY, or PA, please contact Arpita Bose (arpita.bose@library.med.nyu.edu), Outreach and Communications Coordinator, for more information about our training opportunities.

Molloy College’s James E. Tobin Library (NYUCIK) is the newest participant in DOCLINE. Molloy College, located in Rockville Center, New York, supports a strong and growing nursing program as well as schools of social work and education. The Tobin Library is a member of Long Island Library Resource Council (LILRC), an established group in DOCLINE, and is a participant in EFTS. Please join us in welcoming Molloy College to DOCLINE.

The August issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now online at http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/. Please pass the word on to your colleagues about The NIH News in Health. We are happy to send a limited number of print copies free of charge to any library. In this issue:

Feature Stories:

• Dealing With Trauma — Frightening Events Can Have Lasting Effects
• Figuring Out Fibromyalgia — Perplexing Pain and Fatigue

Health Capsules:

• Brain Imaging Reveals Joys of Giving
• Alcoholism Subtypes Identified

Featured Web Site:

• Breath of Life — The medical and human history of asthma

NN/LM staff will be exhibiting at the American Podiatric Medical Association’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia. We welcome volunteers to help us staff the booth at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, located at 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

Volunteers are needed for:
Thursday, August 16, 4:30pm - 7:30pm

Friday, August 17, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Saturday, August 18, 9:00am - 12:00 pm
To volunteer send an email to: arpita.bose@library.med.nyu.edu

Learn more about the conference here:
http://www.apma.org/annualmeeting