http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja08/ja08_pm_training_updates.html

The June 2008 edition of the PubMed training workbook is now available for download from the NLM Web site. The current edition of the PubMed workbook has been reorganized to better emphasize search techniques, and reflects changes through June 2008 including the changes to Automatic Term Mapping and the new Citation Sensor. The manual is available for downloading in Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft® (MS) Word formats. Feel free to use any part of the workbook - you may customize parts for training programs, demonstrations, or workshops you conduct. The workbook is not copyrighted.

See also the Search Clinic

Search Clinic: PubMed® Update on Automatic Term Mapping, Citation Sensor, and Advanced Search (30 min. video, July 2008) https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p91519064/

or

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/clinics/pmupdate08.html

by Maria Collins, Collection Access Section, NLM - collinm@mail.nlm.nih.gov

The guideline for delivery method is that the lender should send via the borrower’s preferred delivery method indicated in the Ship to: area of the receipt.  If that method is unavailable to the lender, the lender may send by any of the listed alternate delivery methods shown in the body of the receipt.  If a technical problem temporarily prevents delivery by all of the requested methods, the lender should contact the borrower to ask permission to send via a method not listed, or reject the request.  If the borrower does not respond or says no, the request should be updated as Not Filled for reason of Other. The lender’s institution record should be updated to reflect their current delivery abilities.

Libraries may wish to take this opportunity to review their borrow preferences to ensure they reflect their actual delivery method requirements. NLM strongly recommends selecting your preferred delivery method as your Network Delivery Method, and selecting acceptable alternate delivery methods.

The DOCLINE will match your delivery method choices with lenders providing those delivery methods and that also report owning the title and requested volume OR year.  Using the comments field to indicate delivery preference may result in inaccurate routing, unnecessary work by lenders, and delays in filling the request.

To update your borrow preferences and lending delivery methods, go to Institutions, Update, then go to the DOCLINE Options page.

For more information on how routing works, see the FAQ at:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_new_routing.html

ToxMystery, the National Library of Medicine interactive learning site for kids, now has a home page in Spanish, http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov/espanol.html. The new home page allows users to start the game in Spanish, with Toxie the Cat helping them to explore the site’s “house of hazards.” Gamers can move between Spanish and English by selecting the language tab in the upper right of the page. An illustrated glossary of the words used in ToxMystery has also been added to the Teacher’s Resource page. The glossary is available in Spanish from the “Para maestros” section. The glossary can also be found at http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov/tmglosario.pdf (Spanish) and http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov/tmglossary_eng.pdf (English).

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce http://phpartners.org has released two new topic pages: Nutrition and Workforce Development.

• The Nutrition topic page includes links to government, professional and research organizations that focus nutrition issues; grants and funding opportunities; legislation and health policy issues related to nutrition; published literature and research reports; and nutrition promotion, education and information resources.
• The Workforce Development page provides links on public health workforce development activities and resources including education and training opportunities; legislative action; professional meetings, summits, councils, and conferences; new workers development programs; tools and resources on public health workforce issues; and workforce projects and research reports.

To keep up-to-date on new PHPartners resources, sign up for the weekly email update through https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=phpartners_link&A=1 or subscribe to the PHPartners RSS feed at http://phpartners.org/rss_information.html.

by Cheri Smith, Web Programs Coordinator, National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce on its newest website, AIDS Ephemera, based on an exhibit of that name at the NLM from November 2002 to June 2003.
AIDS was first identified in 1981 and the initial response to the disease generated ephemeral public health materials, such as buttons, posters, cards, comic books, and even lunch boxes.  Since AIDS was both incurable and invariably fatal, these messages of prevention were the only effective steps public health officials could take.

Produced by government health departments as well as private organizations, these ephemeral objects became an important medium for messages of awareness, prevention, compassion, and responsibility.  Buttons and posters provided information on disease symptoms and safe practices, while comic books spun tales of the consequences of risky sex and needle sharing.

The materials for this website are drawn from the NLM’s Prints & Photographs collection.  Many donors contributed these materials-we wish to take special note of the contributions of William H. Helfand, who, as a consultant to the Library, organized and carried out a project to secure AIDS posters from the many agencies and organizations that were producing and distributing them in the 1980s and ’90s.

Please visit the site at:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aidsephemera

Further information about many of these materials is available through:

• NLM’s image database, Images from the History of Medicine: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/gw_44_3/chameleon?skin=nlm&lng=en
• NLM’s on-line exhibit “Visual Culture and Health Posters,” which has a section on HIV/AIDS http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/VC/Views/Exhibit/narrative/hiv.html
• An on-line exhibit “Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera,” also with a section on AIDS. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/ephemera/aids.html

While the students relax by the sun and sand, brush up on your health literature search skills.

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine/Southeastern Atlantic Region is hosting a free webinar series titled “Summer Searching Sessions”.  Four experienced medical librarians will be demonstrating tips, techniques, new features and functions of four MEDLINE® interfaces.

MEDLINE® is the premier bibliographic database from the National Library of Medicine.  It is used by health care professionals and students worldwide.  Over 70 million searches are conducted every month.

Four one-hour sessions (description below) will be held over a two week period. The topics include new features on familiar interfaces, using the controlled vocabulary, MeSH®, review of the basics, finding full text and are you looking in the right place.

The sessions are open to all librarians in the Southeastern Atlantic Region but registration is required. To register, please contact Toni Yancey by email at tyancey@hshsl.umaryland.edu, or by telephone at 410.706.2855.

Session #1 - August 5, 2008 at 2:00 pm (EST) - Introductions

Search Scenario: The new and improved PubMed, Medline at Ovid, Ebscohost, and MDConsult Journals/Medline. Interactive questions and answers. What would you like to talk about searching.

Session #2 - August 7, 2008 at 2:00 pm (EST) - Quick and Dirty?

Search Scenario: A facility supervisor, is meeting with the administration next week to discuss ways for the hospital to go green. He needs to learn about reducing the amount of garage the hospital produces. He asks if you can help him. Between your regular work and preparing for a nursing symposium, you don’t have that much time to devote to Bill’s request.

Session #3 - August 12, 2008 at 2:00 pm (EST) - Not enough hours in the day

A famous athlete has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. The local ABC affiliate has asked the head of the oncology department to appear on the morning show tomorrow to discuss it. It’s already 4:30 and you have to leave at 5:00 for an appointment. You promise to have information to him (via email) by 8:00 so he can review it.

Session #4 - August 14, 2008 at 2:00 pm (EST) -The elephant in the room: Google Scholar and other challenges

Michaela, a second year student, tells you that she always uses Google to find articles and nothing you say can convince her that MEDLINE is better. You run a couple of searches in both MEDLINE and Google Scholar to see what all the fuss is about. What have you learned that you can use to teach students?

Join us at 10:00 AM ET, on July 25 for our region-wide web conference.

Nic Cecchino will be presenting on OpenURL. He will cover OpenURL in detail, discuss applications using open URLs, and manipulating open URLs.

Nic is a Reference and Technology Librarian in the George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library at Penn State Hershey in Pennsylvania. He brings to us 12 years experience in Health Sciences Librarianship.

Prior to moving to Pennsylvania, for 7 years he worked as an electronic resources Librarian at the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University. He recently published an article in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries titled “Full-Text Linking Demystified”.

Equipment needed to connect:

• A phone for the audio portion
• A computer for the video portion

How to get connected:

1. Put this URL in your browser: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/seaupdate/

2. Enter as a guest

3. Sign in with your first and last names

4. Follow the instructions in the meeting room to have Adobe Connect call you on your telephone.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a new online resource on animals in research for researchers and institutions. The Web site features links to policy and guidance information from the NIH Office of Laboratory Welfare; grant resources; crises preparedness strategies; funding opportunities; and training resources on animal care and use, research models, and science and ethics.

The site also chronicles advances in animal research as well as NIH media releases and fact sheets on the benefits of animals in research. The section for the General Public is under development http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/air/index.htm

LLIS.gov strives to develop original lessons learned and best practices that assist emergency response professionals and homeland security officials prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from all hazards, including natural disasters. Given the current flooding throughout the midwest, the following original research highlights some of the resources on LLIS.gov related to natural disasters.

• Best Practice: Shelter Operations: Pet-Friendly Shelters
• Good Story: Linn County, Iowa’s Program to Evacuate Individuals with Special Needs
• Lesson Learned: Hospital Emergency Planning: Ensuring Emergency Communications Capabilities
• Lesson Learned: Disaster Medical Assistance Teams: Carrying a Stock of Commonly Used Medications during Reconnaissance Rounds
• Practice Note: Mass Evacuation: Georgia Emergency Management Agency’s Evacuation and Reentry Branch

Additionally, members can access the full repository of natural disaster resources on LLIS.dhs.gov by visiting the INCIDENTS LIBRARY, located toward the bottom of the LLIS.dhs.gov homepage.

The July 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/. This issue of NIH News in Health contains:

• Medical Imaging: Changing Health Care, Saving Lives
  If you or someone you know has had a mammogram to check for breast cancer, an X-ray to detect a broken bone, or an ultrasound to examine an internal organ, then you’ve seen the benefits of medical imaging firsthand.

• Are Your Wrists at Risk?: Learn About Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  You’re working at your desk, but you’re distracted by a tingling or numbness in your hand and wrist. Then a sharp, piercing pain shoots from your palm through your arm. If you’ve had symptoms like these for several days-or worse, weeks-or if they keep you up at night, you may have carpal tunnel syndrome.

• Health Capsules:
  • Social Ties Affect Smoking Behavior
  • Eating Well as You Get Older
  • Featured Web Site: Time to Talk