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

Women’s Health and Fitness Day Event 2009

Sponsored by the University of Michigan (UM) Medical School, various University of Michigan Health System units, and even a few grocery stores, the 2009 Annual Women’s Health and Fitness Day Event took place at Ypsilanti High School in Michigan on Saturday, January 24th. The event had been organized and was facilitated by the UM Women Medical Students. (more…)

The Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University in collaboration with the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC) released a new edition of the knowledge path about oral health for infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women. Presented in time for Children’s Dental Health Month in February, this electronic guide points to resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at improving access to and the quality of oral health care. (more…)

Christopher Childs
Education & Outreach Librarian
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
University of Iowa

Since August of 2007, the staff at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa have been working on getting our Iowa Go Local project completed for the public unveiling at the Iowa State Fair on August 11th, 2008. I started working at Hardin at the end of February of 2008 and part of my responsibilities as the community outreach liaison, is to promote Iowa Go Local across the state. I wrote an article for the Fall 2008 issue of MIDLINE, the newsletter of the Midwest Chapter, Medical Library Association, to talk about my experiences working on this project. This article gives the reader a recap of the history of the project, including its challenges and an account of the promotional activities that continue today.

The link to MIDLINE is http://midwestmla.org/midline/

Visit Iowa Go Local at http://www.medlineplus.gov/iowa

Mary J Markland MA, AHIP
SE Clinical Campus Librarian
University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Fargo, ND

The Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota has been seeking new venues for consumer outreach. Traditionally we have focused our outreach program on health professionals with a few smaller health fairs or public library events thrown in. After teaching a continuing education session at the Fargo Public Library, I realized that we needed to get out and talk about MedlinePlus and the other NLM consumer resources. With our Go Local North Dakota project reaching completion, it seemed like the perfect time to try a bigger consumer event. The Women’s Showcase 2008 was a great opportunity that was geographically convenient and had a wide variety of exhibitors.
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Lisa Massengale, Assistant Information Services Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences (LHS), took her outreach to a new dimension as a presenter on WILL-AM 580, Public Media Broadcasting Service of the College of Media at the University of Illinois. The interview was broadcast on Focus 580 with David Inge, on October 20, 2008, but is available in podcast format from the Focus 580 website: http://will.illinois.edu/focus580/interview/focus081020b/.

Lisa is the librarian working with Heartland Health Outreach on the New American Health Information Portal, a project funded through the GMR. Listen to Lisa and Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Editorial, Pew Internet & American Life Project, on Health Information Online: Sorting Out the Good from the Bad, and Who Uses It.

The Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) is pleased to announce the launch of The New Americans Health Information Portal (NAHIP).

http://palantir.lib.uic.edu/nahip/

This portal is a collaboration with the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights. Our new portal links to a variety of quality multi-lingual health education documents. Languages include: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, French, Haitian Creole, Karen, Khmer, Lao, Russian, Somali, Swahili, Thai, Tigrina and Vietnamese.

We hope this site is useful and welcome feedback. For comments on website: lmassen1 at uic.edu

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Fellow Illinoisans and other GMR network members may be interested in the following combined online Web conference and in-person training on Health-E Illinois.

The Rolling Prairie Library System (RPLS), Alliance Library System, Lewis & Clark Library System and Shawnee Library System are offering a training session on Health-E Illinois, the GoLocal for Illinois, on Tuesday, November 11, 2008, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. This event is free and will be presented by Fran Kovach, Reference & Education Librarian, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. The in-person training will be held simultaneously at the RPLS training room.

For more information and to register, please go to the following URL:
http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=4645

MedlinePlus is celebrating 10 years of bringing trusted health information to people across the country and around the world. Read all about the decade of changes to this consumer-friendly database, which has grown from 22 to almost 800 health topics: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/mplus_turns_ten.html

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. (more…)

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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