Join us on Wednesday, April 15, at noon Pacific Time (11am Alaskan/1pm Mountain) for this month’s RML Rendezvous:  a Scholarly Communication Update. This is your chance to catch up on recent developments in the Open Access movement and to learn how PubMed Central and the NIH Public Access Policy fit into the larger picture.

This hour-long session will feature something for everyone whether you work in a hospital, at a university, or are a concerned citizen with questions about access to taxpayer-funded research.

Alison Aldrich, Technology Outreach Coordinator for the NN/LM PNR, will introduce the concept of open access, explain how it differs from public access, and discuss why both are important concerns for librarians.

Isaac Gilman from Pacific University’s Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon will talk about open access as it relates to evidence-based practice.

Chris Shaffer and Andrew Hamilton of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland will discuss strategies for raising awareness about author rights among university faculty.

Ann Marie Clark and Allysha Eiler from the Arnold Library at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will describe their roles in facilitating institutional compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.

For information about connecting to the Rendezvous, go to: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/training/RMLrendezvous.html#A3

We look forward to seeing you on the 15^th!

NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region is pleased to announce that Oregon Health Go Local is now live! This is the second live Go Local project in our region, following Montana which was released in January. Oregon Health Go Local is a project of Oregon Health and Science University Library (OHSU) with a host of community collaborators, linked from the “About” page on the site. The project team includes Todd Hannon, Emily Ford and Anne Hepburn, all at OHSU.

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Join your colleagues on Wednesday, March 25th from 11am-1pm at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library Teaching Lab (LTL) as NN/LM PNR hosts the Medical Library Association’s continuing education webcast, Finding Work-Life Balance: Strategies for You and Your Institution. If you will attend in Seattle, please register at http://tinyurl.com/PNRWebcastReg so we will have your materials and CE certificate ready. There is no cost for attendees!

The Idaho Health Sciences Library is also hosting the MLA webcast, which will be held at Room 266 in the Eli M. Oboler Library, 850 South 9th in Pocatello. Marcia Francis will have a copy of the webcast on DVD that you can contact her to borrow later.

In Oregon, the webcast will be held at Portland State University Library, Room 160, at 1875 SW Park Avenue.

PNR has also ordered a copy of the webcast DVD that will be available in our Lending Library later for you to check out. We look forward to seeing you there!

On February 18th, Dan Wilson (Coordinator of the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness Plan) gave an RML Rendezvous update about service continuity planning. You can listen to a recording of this Rendezvous at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p85862149 About 11 minutes and 10 seconds into the recording (you can skip to sections of the recording by dragging the vertical line in the timeline box at the bottom left of the screen) Dan introduced new scenario filters as a way to discuss library core values and services.

The following two screenshots of flood and power/Internet outage scenario filters from the presentation help to put service continuity planning in a clear, easy-to-understand visual exercise format that staff enjoy doing to identify priorities for their library.

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Join us next week on Wednesday, February 18th 2009 at 1pm Pacific time when Dan Wilson, Coordinator of the NN/LM National Emergency Preparedness Plan, discusses service continuity planning and emergency preparedness via RML Rendezvous. Do you know who your state’s emergency planning coordinator is to contact if disaster strikes your library? What is the toll-free NN/LM Emergency Assistance number? Come to the Rendezvous to learn more, and check out the PNR Emergency Preparedness and Response resource page to get a head start. Look forward to seeing you there!

Are you looking for ways to enhance the visual aids in your face-to-face and online presentations? Here are two great presentations about presentations.

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