The NN/LM SE/A has been very busy recently reading and reviewing award applications. As usual we received many more applications than we could fund, but we even with budget cuts, we did manage to fund quite a few projects. Some projects are still under review but here is a list of what has been funded through the middle of September.

Outreach Project Awards:

• University of Miami - Librarians and DOCS for Health Outreach
• Mountain AHEC – Health Information Prescriptions for Seniors outreach project
• University of South Carolina – Linking South Carolina Free Clinics to Quality Health Information
• Flager Hospital, St. Augustine, FL – Promoting Community Care through Access to Electronic Health information
• George Washington University – Health Information Partners 4
• Eastern Shore AHEC – Teen Health Initiative
• Johns Hopkins University - Current State of Access for Public Health Professionals
• University of Alabama Birmingham - Health Action Partnership

Technology Awareness Conferences:

• East Carolina University for an emerging technologies fair
• Mid-Atlantic Chapter/MLA for an electronic health record speaker/program at chapter meeting
• Southern Chapter/MLA for a technology speaker/program at chapter meeting

Exhibit Awards:

• University of South Carolina School of Medicine Library to exhibit at the “Making Connections for a Brighter Tomorrow” meeting, Greenwood, SC, August 13, 2008
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library to exhibit at the 2008 La Fiesta del Pueblo, Raleigh, NC, September 6-7, 2008
• Eastern Virginia Medical School Library to exhibit at the “Strong Roots for a Healthy Future Conference”, Newport News, VA, July 12, 2008
• University of South Carolina School of Medicine Library to exhibit at the South Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 2008 conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, October 8-10, 2008
• East Tennessee State University Medical Library to exhibit at the 2008 Tennessee Association of School Librarians, Cool Springs, TN, November 20-22, 2008
• Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine Library to exhibit at the 2008 Virginia Rural Health Association Meeting, Staunton, VA, November 5-7, 2008
• University of Alabama Birmingham Lister Hill Library to exhibit at the 2008 Fiesta fair, Birmingham, AL, October 18, 2008
• Mercer University Medical Library to exhibit at the 2008 Georgia Academy of Family Physicians 60th Annual Assembly, Atlanta, GA, November 6-7, 2008
• Three Rivers Regional Library System will exhibit at the 2008 Hispanic Festival & Health Fair, Mayo, FL, October 5, 2008
• NC State University Library of Veterinary Medicine to exhibit at the 2008 NC Veterinary Conference, Research Triangle Park, NC, , November 6-8, 2008

Training Awards:

• Dr. Cheryl Dee to provide an assessment of training needs in USVI, 2009
• Mercer University School of Medicine Library to train staff, consumers and health professionals in the Satilla Regional Library System service area, November, 2008

Express Library Technology Improvement Awards:

• Atlanta Medical Center
• Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, VA
• St Thomas Hospital, Nashville

Express Outreach Awards:

• University of Maryland Health Sciences & Human Services Library – Promoting Maryland Health Go Local and MedlinePlus to Maryland Residents
• Mercer University Medical Library – Strengthening Georgia Health-Go Local through Partnerships with Public Libraries
• Duke University Medical Center Library – The Kindle: A Novel Way to Increase Access to Medical Information in Community Clinics
• University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Preston Medical Library – Tennessee Consumer Health Information Outreach: A Simplified Plan Extended to Three Regions
• University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Preston Medical Library – Connecting Tennessee’s Lonesome Docs with Medical Libraries by Promoting Library Services and Loansome Doc
• East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine Library - Tennessee Consumer Health Information Outreach: A Simplified Plan Extended to Three Regions
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center – Promotion of Healthy Internet Searching in Schools
• University of South Carolina School of Medicine Library – Creating the InfoAble Portal
• Chesterfield County Public Library, VA – CCPL CHIP (Consumer health information project)
• Georgia Statewide AHEC Network – Finding Reliable health Information and Health Careers Sites on the Web: a High School Outreach Project

Library Improvement Project:

• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for Hughes Spalding Hospital

Welcome Award

• Greenwood LeFLore Hospital - Diabetes Library Learning Center

Express Planning and Assessment Awards:

• Tuscaloosa Public Library - Consumer Health Information Needs and Assessment Project
• United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham – Health Services Training for Individuals with Disabilities

Express Follow-up Award:

• MaFlo’s Health and Awareness Team- Community Training

Funding is still available for express disaster recovery, exhibit, and training awards as well as Go Local projects.  Applications for express library technology improvement awards will be accepted from hospital libraries through September 30. If funding remains, we will accept applications from other Network members after that date. For more funding information see http://nnlm.gov/sea/funding/.

The Maternal and Child Health Library has released three new resource briefs that provide information on electronic resources for public health professionals, health care providers, and families:

Genetics, http://www.mchlibrary.info/guides/genetics.html. Current resources on genetics and genomics, genetic testing, genetic counseling, genetic disorders, and newborn screening.

Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) and Families, http://www.mchlibrary.info/guides/ART.html. Psychological and social impacts of ART on children conceived via ART and on their families, as well as ethical and legal issues associated with ART.

Environmental Health, http://www.mchlibrary.info/guides/environmentalhealth.html. Environmental issues that affect the health of pregnant women and children.

Maternal and Child Health Library resources on other maternal and child health topics are available at http://www.mchlibrary.info/guides.html.

Hurricane Ike, South Central Region Medical Libraries, Hurricane Web Links, and a New Listserv.

As many of you are aware, the South Central RML is currently closed, and will remain closed until Thursday, September 18th, due to affects of Hurricane Ike. In accordance with the NN/LM National Emergency Preparedness & Response plan, South Central’s buddy RML, the Middle Atlantic Region (MAR), is backing up the office by taking calls and redirecting DOCLINE, when necessary. A special thanks to MAR staff for temporarily taking on this important responsibility.

For information on emergency preparedness planning for libraries as well as some post-disaster updates, see the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit at http://nnlm.gov/ep/. I am pleased to report that the toolkit received a lot of traffic the day before Hurricane Ike struck the Gulf Coast, which shows that libraries are using the toolkit as a preparedness resource. To see additional updates (or provide a status report), check the SCR blog, Blogadillo, at http://nnlm.gov/scr/blog/.

Also of note, the National Library of Medicine home page has added a news item on hurricane resources, “Online Resources for Hurricanes, Floods, and Disaster Preparedness and Recovery” at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/disaster_resources_online.html.

Finally, a new listserv, DISASTR-OUTREACH-LIB, is now available as a discussion forum for librarians, information specialists and others interested in disaster information outreach to their communities and responding to information needs for all-hazards preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery. It is also the primary source for information announcing the activities of the National Library of Medicine’s Disaster Information Specialist Pilot Project. List members may post comments and resources of interest to those involved in disaster information outreach as well as relevant announcements of meetings, training, conferences, job openings, etc. The listserv is provided by the National Library of Medicine’s Disaster Information Management Research Center. You can sign up for the list and view the archives at https://list.nih.gov/archives/disastr-outreach-lib.html.

Please contact Cindy Love, lovec@mail.nlm.nih.gov, if you have any questions or comments about the listserv.

The September 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/. In this issue of NIH News in Health:

Good Health to Go Eating
Smart at School
Even in the chaotic world of the school cafeteria, children can make smart food choices. You can play a key role in helping children learn the fundamentals of healthy living—eating well and staying active—whatever pressures they face outside home.

Back to School with Diabetes
Plan Ahead for a Smooth Start to School

Notebooks, erasers, pencil sets and backpacks are on most kids’ back-to-school lists. But if your child has diabetes, you should add a few extra tasks to the list. Planning ahead, and getting help from others, will help pave the way for a successful year.

Health Capsules:

• Children’s
  Physical Activity Drops
• Diabetes and a Healthy Pregnancy
• Featured Web Site: NIDA Goes Back to School

Click here to download a PDF version for printing.

Subscribe to receive email alerts when new issues of NIH News in Health are posted by going to https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nihnewsinhealth-l&A=1.

Please pass the word on to your colleagues about The NIH News in Health. We are happy to send a limited number of print copies free of charge for display in offices, libraries or clinics. Just contact us for more information.

If you’re an editor who wishes to reprint our stories, please see http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/about.htm for information.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so08/so08_training.html

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) National Training Center and Clearinghouse has scheduled classes in the NN/LM Southeastern/Atlantic Region.

For class details, dates, site and registration information, please use this link

http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Weather/Hurricane.shtml

Considering recent hurricane activity in the United States, our region’s gotten a first-hand reminder of how important it is to be prepared. Whether you’re getting ready for hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, floods, terrorist attacks, or other types of emergencies, there are steps you can take to stay safe.

Visit Ready.gov for detailed guidance on the four major aspects of good preparation:

• Get a Kit – Concentrate on the basics: water, food, clean air, and warmth.
• Make a Plan – Your family may not be together in an emergency, so discuss how you’ll contact each other in different situations.
• Be Informed – Know what types of emergencies could occur in your area, how to respond to them, and what plans have been established by local government.
• Get Involved – Help to prepare your community for possible disasters.

http://nnlm.gov/sea/services/emergency/disasterrelief.html
Is Hurricane Ready. Read All about It!

NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit

• NN/LM Emergency Preparedness and Response
  Toolkit - The primary mission for this toolkit is to promote disaster planning in health sciences library and to serve as a disaster planning resource for local communities and the nation.

Recommended Readings

• Building a Disaster Plan - Getty Publication, now out of print but pdf available for downloading. For cultural collections, but focus on the “exercising” section and ideas you can use for training, drills and testing your plans.
• Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery - Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems exacerbated the difficulties in carrying out response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. To assist government planning in this area, the Congress, in the E-government Act of 2002, directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to request the NRC to conduct a study on the application of IT to disaster management. This report characterizes disaster management providing a framework for considering the range and nature of information and communication needs; presents a vision of the potential for IT to improve disaster management; provides an analysis of structural, organizational, and other non-technical barriers to the acquisition, adoption, and effective use of IT in disaster; and offers an outline of a research program aimed at strengthening IT-enabled capabilities for disaster management.
• National Academic Press - Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public
  Health Systems: A Letter Report - Conclusions and recommendations from the IOM Committee on Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems.
• Pediatrics - Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics - Preparation for Emergencies
  in the Offices of Pediatricians and Pediatric Care Providers - Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems: A Letter
  Report - Conclusions and recommendations for the IOM Committee on Research Priorities in Emergency Preparedness and Response for Public Health Systems

Animal Health Resources

• American Veterinary Medical Association- The educational materials to assist veterinarians, animal owners, and others interested in the well-being of animals to prepare for animal safety in the event of a disaster.
• The Humane Society of the United States, Disaster Center- Resources for displaced pets and pet owners.

Additional Emergency Preparedness Materials

• Model Memorandum of Understanding for a Health Sciences, Hospital/System or Medical Library for Emergency Preparedness Support

http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/drillelements/

This series of evidence-based modules provide standardized checklists to document observations during a hospital disaster drill. Using the observations, hospitals can identify areas for improvement, make appropriate changes and set benchmarks to track those changes over time.

This report was prepared for AHRQ by the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center, Baltimore, MD. A full text PDF file of the tool is available at http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/drillelements/drillelements.pdf

http://www.hhs.gov/disasters/emergency/naturaldisasters/hurricanes/gustav/index.html

Learn what’s happening in your locale and how it might affect your institution and staff.

• Alabama- Emergency Management Agency
• District of Columbia - Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency
• Florida - Florida Division of Emergency Management
• Georgia - Georgia911.org
• Maryland - Maryland Emergency Management Agency
• Mississippi- Emergency Mangement Agency
• North Carolina - The Division of Emergency Management
• South Carolina - South Carolina Emergency Management Division
• Tennessee - Emergency Management Agency
• Virginia - Department of Emergency Management

Take a look at real time hurricane response, at tips and facts and what is in the pipeline.

Federal Hurricane Response

• How to Get Help
• Finding Friends and Family
• Health and Safety
• Donate and Volunteer
• Hurricane Tracking
• En espanol
• What Government is Doing

NOAA Information

• Hurricane Gustav
• Hurricane Hanna
• Tropical Storm Ike
• Tropical Storm Josephine
• Emergency Alert System (EAS)
• National Weather Service - Severe Weather Forecast
• NOAA Streaming Weather Radio - All Hazards
• NOAA Weather Radio Frequencies - All Hazards

Be sure to promote and display the sites of most use to your medical and allied health staff members.

For Practitioners, Clinicians and Responders

• Response, Cleanup & Safety Workers (CDC)
• Disaster Relief Volunteers (CDC)
• Hurricane-Related Information for Health Care Professionals (CDC)
• Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Community Assistance Providers (AHRQ)
• More information on Disasters and Emergencies for Practitioners, Clinicians and Responders
  

Recently there has been much e-mail traffic about how to activate a proposed routing table.  Here’s some clarification. To move a saved, proposed routing table to “current,” click “Request Approval.” The separate “Save” button allows you to make proposed changes to your Routing Table over time as you identify lenders, check policies, reciprocal agreements, etc.  This Proposed Routing Table provides a safe space for you to work on your Routing Table while your current Routing Table continues to work for you.

When you’ve attained a mix you like, you request approval. At that time, your RML will review the changes to ensure your Routing Table conforms to regional guidelines and utilizes the routing algorithm to its fullest potential. The Proposed Routing Table concept allows the RML to assist you with fine-tuning your Routing Table before DOCLINE begins to use it.

For more information, see the FAQ:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_routing_table_changes.html

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/arl_internship09.html

The National Library of Medicine will serve as one of nine host institutions for the 2009 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Career Enhancement Program. The program is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ARL member libraries, and “offers MLS graduate students from underrepresented groups an opportunity to jump-start their careers in research libraries by providing a robust fellowship experience in an ARL member library.”

The program includes a six to twelve week internship at one host research library, a mentoring relationship, leadership development, and career placement assistance. Participants are funded at over $10,000 in a package including stipend, academic expenses, housing, and travel and accommodations.

The deadline for 2009 program applications is October 1, 2008 and the complete application and information is available from ARL at http://www.arl.org/diversity/cep/.