The Medical Library Association (MLA), in partnership and with funding from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, undertook a Health Information Literacy Research Project to study, among other issues, the librarian’s role as a health literacy educator for both health care providers and consumers. Through the results of a survey of health care providers and hospital administrators, and the development, presentation, and evaluation of a health information literacy curriculum for health care providers based in part on the survey results, MLA concluded that librarians were perceived by hospital-based providers and administrators to play a critical role in the provision of health information literacy (HIL) education.

Also, the study demonstrated that HIL training increased health care providers’ knowledge of health literacy and its impact on patient care and made them more likely to seek assistance from their librarians and use librarian-supported health information literacy services.

Come hear more about the results of this important research project including reports from two of the nine pilot site librarians who helped to test the developed curriculum with health care providers. Panel speakers include:

• Jean P. Shipman, Co-principal investigator and Director, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
• Andrea Harrow, Good Samaritan Hospital Health Sciences Library
• Holly Kimborowicz, Lake Hospital System Medical Library

Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, May 19, 7:30 - 8:30 AM, Room 304AB, Convention Center

Questions, email Jean Shipman at jean.shipman@utah.ed

Oops, we forgot to let you know that the recorded version of the March Breezing Along with the RML is available. Two great topics were featured in this session: 1)” Highlighting Library and Archival information in the NLM MidContinental Region”, featured a panel of representatives from different library/archival collections in the region: Dawn McInnis - University of Kansas, Clendening History of Medicine Library; Marysue Schaffer, Becker Library at Washington University; Emily Epstein, University of Colorado; and John Schleicher, University of Nebraska - McGoogan Library of Medicine - Special Collections. 2) Barb Jones offered an update on major library advocacy programs going on in the region. Click here to watch the archived session: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p17552847/

The April 2009 edition of the Plains to Peaks Post Newsletter is now available at: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/services/comm/newsletter/PTPP_April_2009.pdf

In This Issue:
Three Projects Awarded!
Whooo Says
Orienting Nursing Students to the Medical Library
Easily Publish RSS News Feeds on Your Web Page with Grazr
NN/LM MCR at MLA
Offer a Health Information Literacy Session
Upcoming Online Events
Wyoming Symposium
Historical Collections

Check out the training and workshops by the The Homeland Defense Journal Training Workshops

For details on these and all training and workshops, visit www.HomelandDefenseJournal.net

Upcoming Emergency Management Workshops for June and July 2009

Incident Management for First Responders in Different Cultures - A two day workshop on implementing Cultural Competence in Dangerous Situations Jun 16-17, 2009 | Arlington, VA
Exercise Design and Evaluation Workshop Jun 17-18, 2009 Arlington, VA
Emergency Capability Analysis Workshop Jun 19, 2009 | Arlington, VA
Emergency Preparedness for Libraries Jun 18-19, 2009 | Arlington, VA
All-Hazards Regional Evacuation Plans - An Interactive Two-Day Workshop on Developing an All-Hazards Regional Evacuation Plan Jun 23-24, 2009 | Arlington, VA
How to Develop a Business Continuity Plan/Continuity of Operations Plan That Really Works Workshop Jul 14, 2009 | Arlington, VA
Best Practices for Disaster Communications Jul 15, 2009 | Arlington, VA
Search and Rescue Certification Standards Jul 16, 2009 | Arlington, VA

Join us for our next Breezing with the RML on Wednesday, April 15th at 10 am MT/11 am CT. Follow this URL to join the meeting: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr

This month’s presentations will focus on technology for libraries and librarians.

Sharon Dennis, Technology Coordinator, will give a presentation entitled “Surprised by Twitter: Using Twitter for Information Discovery.” She’ll give a brief introduction to Twitter, talk about Twitter as a means for libraries and librarians to share information with patrons and colleagues, and then discuss how Twitter can be used to find information through a series of new Twitter search tools. The search tools can be used without signing up for Twitter itself. She’ll give examples of how Twitter helped her with a recent project.

Rebecca Brown, Kansas and Technology Liaison, presents Screencasting: the what, why and how. Several freely available tools will be discussed as well.

See you there.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference is currently being held in Chicago, but even if you can’t attend, you can follow it online. Visit http://www.himssconference.org/ and click on “HIMSS09 Online Update.” You can visit the conference official Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/HIMSS. You can also follow comments about the conference using the #himss09 “Twitter hashtag” (a keyword that marks Twitter comments about a certain topic) - to see the updates, go to http://twitterfall.com/?trend=%23himss09!%23494234. Note that you don’t have to sign up for Twitter to view either for these since the updates are publicly published - [SD]

Are you going to Honolulu for MLA’s 2009 Annual Meeting? If so, then consider becoming an Official Blogger for the 2009 meeting. While we can’t offer an “Official Blogger” t-shirt, you will receive 3 AHIP points for officially blogging on the annual meeting.

Visit the official MLA 2009 web site for more information: http://npc.mlanet.org/mla09/

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Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming will come together to provide a regional conference on educational basics of sexually transmitted diseases June 10-12, 2009 at the Kansas City Airport Hilton. Key note speakers will include: Jeanne White-Ginder, mother of Ryan White; Kenya Masala, expert on kinesthetic learning modules; and Forrest L Alton, Executive Director at the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

ONLINE registration only.
For more information and registration go to http://www.ksde.org and scroll down the left side of the page to find the conference, or go directly to http://conferences.ksde.org/Default.aspx?alias=conferences.ksde.org/hiv

CEU’s will be available for nurses. For nurses: Please bring your nursing license.
CHES credits will be available.
Two hours of graduate credit through Baker University will be available on site, June 10, 2009 at an additional cost of $50 an hour.

Posted on Kansas Rural Health Information Service [scb]

This month’s Breezing Along with the RML includes almost the whole RML staff reprising the presentation we did for the NN/LM Site Visit Team. It was a good exercise for us to review what we’ve been doing through the first half of our five year contract—we think you’ll find it revealing too. You can give us your opinion on what we’ve accomplished and how to address the challenges we’ve identified. Join us on Wednesday Feb 18 at 10am MT, 11am CT at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcrupdate. All you’ll need is your Internet connect and your phone. Sign as a guest with your first and last names. /ch

Wondering about your different demographic groups? You might be interested in the upcoming College of DuPage offering, Targeting the Ages: Programming that Hits the Mark. It will be held on Feb. 13, from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Central Time, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m Mountain Time.

Free in Colorado through the Biographical Center for Research: http://www.bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html

Free in Missouri, from Missouri State Government at: http://www.sos.mo.gov/library/development/workshop/nolimitslearning/default.asp

Free in Nebraska, see Nebraska Library Commission at: http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/ and search on the Training Calendar by using DuPage.

Free in Utah, see University of Utah, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library: http://library.med.utah.edu/