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Archive for 2009
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Julie Kwan | Filed under General
As we close out Year 3 of our current contract with NLM, we are pleased to announce the new members who have joined the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region since September 2008. Please extend a welcome! More complete information about these members is available in the NN/LM Members Directory. (more…)
Posted on April 27th, 2009 by Alan Carr | Filed under Funding
On September 26, 2008, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced the suspension of two informatics grant programs, “Planning Grants for Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS)” and “Knowledge Management & Applied Informatics Grants.” The suspension notices also stated that in the future NLM would solicit applications for knowledge management planning projects by means of a Request for Application (RFA) funding announcement rather than a standing funding announcement. NLM has now released the complete program announcement and first RFA for knowledge management grants with the new funding program, NLM Applied Informatics Grants, The announcement includes complete eligibility information, key dates for submission deadlines, and application review criteria. (more…)
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Heidi Sandstrom | Filed under Technology
This one day symposium, held at the Cerritos Public Library on Friday, March 6, was an overwhelming success, thanks to the efforts of Co-Chairs Cheryl Bartel and Jeff Williams and of all their diligent and hardworking committee members! The Symposium focused on the application of innovative technologies that build a sense of community, connecting users both within the library and the greater organization. (more…)
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Heidi Sandstrom | Filed under Emergency Preparedness
Since the beginning of the year, new resources have been developed, training has been conducted, and planning has taken place to enhance emergency preparedness and response in the region. These have resulted in new features for the Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit (http://nnlm.gov/ep/), a session conducted at the meeting of the Hawaii-Pacific Chapter of the Medical Library Association (HPCMLA), and planning for a summit for hospital librarians in April. (more…)
Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Advocacy, Document Delivery, Technology
The NN/LM PSR E-Licensing Program is continuing to grow! Join us for an informal meeting at MLA ‘09 and read about our activities at SCELC’s Vendor Day and at the MLGSCA technology symposium, Technology in Libraries: Providing Access, Linking Communities. (more…)
Posted on March 16th, 2009 by Sharon Dennis | Filed under Technology
Have you wondered how you can dynamically publish an RSS news feed on your web page? Grazr is a free web service that lets you do this easily without any programming. After you’ve incorporated the Grazr code into your web page, the news feed will automatically update with any new headlines from that feed. Your web page will be refreshed with new content! (more…)
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Kelli Ham | Filed under Consumer Health, NLM Products, PubMed
MedlinePlus continues to improve! (more…)
Posted on January 31st, 2009 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Technology
The Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona (MLGSCA), with funding support from the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region, is planning a one day symposium that will focus on the application of innovative technologies that build a sense of community, connecting users both within the library and the greater organization. “Technology in Libraries: Providing Access, Linking Communities” will be held at the Cerritos Public Library in Cerritos, CA on Friday March 6, 2009. (more…)
Posted on January 31st, 2009 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Advocacy, Document Delivery, Technology
The NN/LM PSR E-Licensing Program is now a “go” with two STAT!Ref offers underway. (more…)
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Kay Deeney | Filed under PubMed
In late December and early January, I conducted two online sessions on recent PubMed changes for Network Members. I reviewed the Advanced Search page and showed how to cope with the Single Citation Matcher going away from the blue sidebar. We also discussed Limits, History, Preview/Index, and Details — features that are now on the Advanced Search page. (more…)
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