By Ulrike Dieterle, MA, MLS
Distance Services & Outreach Coordinator
Ebling Library
Health Sciences Learning Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison

On September 3, 2008 the Wednesday Nite@the Lab  (WN@TL) program at UW-Madison featured BadgerBytes, an exploration of information resources found in BadgerLink.

BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI); Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning.  Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources  for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state’s public, school, academic, and special libraries and internet service providers.  It covers a wide spectrum of topics, formats and lots of full-text documents, e.g., periodical titles, 700 newspapers (including Wisconsin newspapers), children and adult literature, business information, medical databases and a bounty of education resources.  Its list of health and medical resources includes MEDLINE,  Lexi-PALS Drug Guide, a subset of CINAHL, Biomedical Reference Collection, Health Source-Nursing/Academic Edition and Health Source - Consumer Edition.

WN@TL takes place 50 Wednesdays a year and covers a full range of topics related to science, engineering and technology research at UW-Madison, from astronomy to zoology, and from bioethics to biomedical engineering. The program is sponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Association and is promoted to the general public.  Admission is free. Read the rest of this entry »

Please visit these GMR sponsored events and activities! Hope to see you all there, come by the booth and say hello and meet the staff of the GMR.

Exhibits – Salon F-H
Monday, October 20, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Welcome & Grand Opening of Exhibits
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Dessert Break with Exhibitors & Drawing for Prizes

MLA CE Classes
Saturday, October 18, 2008
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. #6 Patient Safety – Teacher: Holly Ann Burt

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon #7 PubMed: Keeping Your Search Vital
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon #9 Community Assessment – Taught by NLM’s OERC

Additional Events
Sunday, October 19, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. GMR and NLM Updates

Monday, October 20, 2008
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Poster: Expecting the Unexpected: National Emergency Preparedness & Response Plan for Libraries

1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Paper Presentation: Using Patient-Oriented Evidence to Reduce Health Disparities – Moderator: Holly Ann Burt

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Technology Forum: Wikis, Widgets & Whatchamacallits

Anna Ercoli Schnitzer
InfoPoint Librarian
Health Sciences Libraries
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

On Sunday afternoon, October 6th, 2008, after weeks of planning, the University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries hosted an event inspired by an NLM Exhibit called Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Surgeons. We had the Exhibit on display in our own Health Sciences Libraries for over a month and then it was moved to our main University Library. In conjunction with this outstanding opportunity, we invited one of the surgeons featured in the traveling exhibit, Dr. Alexa Canady-Davis to be our keynote speaker. Read the rest of this entry »

Cathy Eames, MA, MSLS, AHIP
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Detroit, MI 48201

Children’s Hospital of Michigan celebrated the American Nurses Credentialing Center award of Magnet designation this year. During the lengthy preparation process nurses at CHM increased their focus on developing an evidence based practice climate throughout the hospital.
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Martha Airth-Kindree
Hess Memorial Health Science Library
Mile Bluff Medical Center
Mauston, WI

Hess Memorial Health Science Library exhibited for the Greater Midwest Region National Network of Libraries of Medicine at Juneau County’s women’s event: Live, Love, Laugh and Learn with Enthusiasm! Over 522 women attended the September 30th, 2008, event. Exhibitors highlighted health and wellness products, services and information. The main objective of the event included education about issues affecting women’s health and well-being and motivating women to lead a full and joyful life through healthy attitudes and practices. The National Library Of Medicine’s booth fit right in. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are a few comments that have come through the GMR LISTSERV to help us all celebrate National Medical Librarians month.

I call this National Take a Medical Librarian to Lunch Month! Stay well everyone!
-Metta T. Lansdale, Jr.
Director
Royal Oak Public Library

Happy October to all the wonderful medical librarians who work so hard to make sure all have timely access to quality health information! Thanks for all you do!
-Celine Woznica
Heartland Alliance

by Denise Rumschlag MLS, AHIP
St. Vincent Hospital
Indianapolis, IN

Looking to raise awareness of the library by administration? Want you or your library to move up in the eyes of your institution? Try creating an elevator speech to boost the worth of your work!

This year for National Medical Librarians Month, the Advocacy Working Group of the Regional Advisory Council to the GMR discussed how to advocate our worth to our administrators.  In the past we have looked at ways to market the library to clinicians and consumers; this year we wanted to focus on reaching administration.  Time is in short supply for most of as we multi-task our way through our busy days. So how do we even reach administration when our paths cross only briefly through out the week?  One proven method is to be prepared with an elevator speech. Read the rest of this entry »

Anna Ercoli Schnitzer
InfoPoint Librarian
Health Sciences Libraries
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

We at the University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries have been engaging in outreach events practically nonstop since I last blogged. After the Ann Arbor Art Fair, there was a very short lull, and then we had a whole series of opportunities to do outreach. We distributed our pens, brochures, and information about MedlinePlus at an evening support group for amputees sponsored by the Orthotics and Prosthetics Division of the University of Michigan. A few days later, we gave a presentation to “train the trainer” at the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, using MedlinePlus “live” from its web site.
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Long time GMR member Jeanne Gittings passed away on Tuesday, September 30, 2008, at Trinity Medical Center in Moline, Illinois. She was a medical librarian for 39 years for Trinity Medical Center. Jeanne was a dedicated health sciences librarian and very active in the Medical Library Association and local library organizations and served as a mentor to many. She will be greatly missed.

Her obituary is posted at Quad-Cities Online: http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=407192. Memorial contributions in her honor may be sent to: First Covenant Church Piano Memorial Fund, 3303 41st Street Moline, IL 61265.

–Jason Young, Librarian, Genesis Medical Center, Davenport, IA

The Chicago Area Medical Archivists (CAMA) Seventh Annual Medical History Symposium will be held Friday, October 24, 2008, at the University of Illinois (UIC) Library of the Health Sciences Special Collections Department (Room 320) at 1750 W. Polk St,  Chicago,  IL.

Coffee will be available from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Program and presentations begin at 10:00 a.m. Kathryn Carpenter, Assistant University Librarian for the Health Sciences and RML Director will present the introduction.

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